To be accurate, there are 29 recruits and six incoming freshmen who have expressed an interest in playing football.
Editor's Note: I've compiled the first list for the last eight incoming classes and each time coach Buddy Teevens has debated whether to include high school players who may – or may not – join the team as walk-ons. Because he usually has very little information on those potential players I frequently have to dig and dig to learn something/anything about the walk-ons for the bios I write. Each year, it seems, there are at least one or two who end up not playing but because they will be given a chance if they play, Teevens does not want to leave them out.
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One incoming freshman who will be joining the team just received some great news. Mike Langman, a 6-foot-4, 265-pound offensive lineman from Naperville, Ill., and Naperville North High School, is the winner of the Rob Koranda Scholarship that honors the memory of 2002 Princeton graduate Rob Koranda, who turned to rugby after an injury ended his football career. The scholarship is "awarded to a senior girl and senior boy who best exemplify Rob's spirit full of community, athleticism, leadership, academics, friendship and family."Rob Koranda's brother, John, came to Dartmouth as a football player and graduated in 2003.
Langman was selected for the Koranda Scholarship from a list of 150 Naperville North students nominated by teachers, coaches and administrators. The semifinalists and finalists each went through a battery of interviews before the winners were chosen.
More about the scholarship:
The purpose of this award is to perpetuate the goodness, leadership, and community spirit as exemplified daily by Rob Koranda and inspire positive social change through the attributes of the individual.From Langman's bio:
Unanimous DuPage Valley Conference 8A selection who was honored as the conference lineman of the year… Illinois High School Football Coaches Association and News-Gazette first-team all-state…North team captain as a senior…offered a scholarship by Syracuse…offered by Yale, North Dakota and South Dakota and was courted by Vanderbilt and Cincinnati.
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Speaking of recruits, Cornell is the latest Ivy League school to post information on its incoming class. link
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The Dartmouth has a story about the dual-sport participation of wide receiver/outfielder Bo Patterson. The sophomore offers this insight:“One sport is passive, the other I play is very aggressive, so it’s cool to get to interact with those two types of players and people."
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The Sports Network rates FCS conferences this way:1. Missouri Valley
2. Big Sky
3. Southern
4. CAA
5. Southland
6. Ohio Valley
7. Patriot
8. Ivy
9. Mid-Eastern
10. Big South
11. Northeast
12. Southwest
13. Pioneer
Of the Ivy League it has this to say:
It's still Penn and Harvard, Harvard and Penn, with a little Brown sprinkled into some title races. Princeton hopes to finally be putting it together, and Cornell has quarterback Jeff Mathews at the controls again. What can't be overlooked is a lot of players in this non-scholarship league could be playing elsewhere on scholarship. It's a quality league.
Editor's Note: Not to be picky, but it's interesting that Princeton and Cornell get a mention and Dartmouth doesn't. Princeton has gone 0-7, 1-6 and 4-3 in the Ivies the last three years, losing to the Big Green each time. Cornell has gone 1-6, 3-4 and 2-5, losing to Dartmouth each time. Dartmouth, meanwhile has gone 3-4, 4-3 and 4-3.
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A terrific honor for an Ivy Leaguer, the conference and a beleaguered sport: Cornell wrestler Kyle Dake has been named Sports Illustrated's male College Athlete of the Year. Dake, of course, won its fourth NCAA championship – at a fourth different weight class – this winter.
The Ivies (and Cornell) could be in line for another huge award with Princeton's Tom Schreiber and Cornell's Rob Pannell among the five finalists for the Tewaaraton Trophy as the outstanding player in men's college lacrosse. link
