“I made my official visit to Dartmouth a week ago, and they made the biggest push. It was a hard choice because I’ve been with Lucas all the way from elementary, middle school and high school,” said Moore. “It would’ve been nice to keep it going in college because we’ve been playing for so long we instinctively know where (the other) will be on the field.”Said his high school coach, echoing a familiar refrain:
He could play at a higher level, but it’s awfully hard to turn down the Wharton School of Business.
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Dartmouth currently has players from nearby Lebanon (sophomore running back Cody Patch) and Hanover (freshman wide receiver Daniel Gorman). The Big Green might have finished its set of three players from the three closest high schools but 6-foot-3, 270-pound offensive lineman Michael Dulac of Hartford High is going to Bryant. The Burlington Free Press has a story about the Vermont Gatorade Player of the Year who it reports also considered Albany, Holy Cross, Sacred Heart, Wagner, Stonehill and Assumption.
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A Sacramento Bee story includes this note:Jesuit High offensive lineman Garrett Strohmaier has verbally committed to Dartmouth of the Ivy League.
Strohmaier is an honors student who said he appreciated the academic and football tradition of Dartmouth, never mind all the snow in Hanover, N.H., at this time of year.Green Alert Take: Snow? You call that snow?
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According to FootballScoop, Virginia offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Bill Lazor is heading to the Philadelphia Eagles. Lazor, a former Cornell quarterback, might have been on the radar in Ithaca after coach Kent Austin left for the Canadian Football League. Although he would cost a pretty penny don't be surprised if an Ivy League team or two takes a run at him sometime in the future because he's got quite the resume and is only 40.
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The Harvard Crimson looks at what the draft experts are saying about Harvard tight end/H-back Kyle Juszczyk.
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It would be interesting to look at the draft boards – oops, recruiting boards – for the various Ivy League schools and see how much crossover there is with Patriot League schools. The always industrious Lehigh Football Nation website has been pulling together lists of anticipated recruits for the various PL schools and there aren't many (if any) names that had been tossed around on the Internet as potential Dartmouth targets.The Big Green will play two Patriot League teams next fall. Find the Holy Cross list here and the Bucknell list here. The lists are preliminary and incomplete, but it's still revealing.
As longtime followers of the BGA blog know, That Certain Dartmouth 14 very nearly ended up at Colgate. Her mom likes to tell the story about an icebreaking "red rover" game she heard about out in Hamilton where one of the "red rover, red rover let anyone who **** come over," commands was, "anyone who also applied to Dartmouth." Perhaps the story is apocryphal, but apparently that command moved more Colgate kids across to the other side than any other. That said, the Colgate list doesn't show any crossovers that we know of, either.
Time will tell if all that changes as the Patriot League football scholarships gain traction.
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The NCAA is employing a little common sense in changing recruiting rules. Check out the story.
