More On Connecticut Tailback

The Greenwich Citizen has a follow story and picture of 5-foot-11, 200-pound tailback TJ Cameron "signing" with Dartmouth. Cameron told the paper:

"I liked the coaching staff there and I liked the player a lot. I really liked the environment up there, so it seemed like a good decision."

At Dartmouth Cameron will renew acquaintances with freshman fullback Tom Brown, also his teammate at Greenwich.

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Pennsylvania's Allentown Morning Call has a provocative column about the Patriot League's recent slide and the difficulty its schools have recruiting against Ivy schools because of the rising Academic Index in the Patriot.
The story headline: Patriot League's outsmarted itself
The drophead: It's on par with Ivies academically, but is falling behind athletically

A few outtakes from the story:

''The window of opportunity for us to recruit these student-athletes is very narrow and getting more narrow because here in the Patriot League our academic index is rising,'' said Frank Tavani, Lafayette football coach since 2000.

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(The Ivy League) also wants two home games for one road trip when scheduling Patriot League teams.

''That is their arrogance,'' Tavani said.

For what it's worth, Dartmouth has been playing Colgate annually since 1898 (sorry, it just seems like it's been that long, make it 1998) and the game has alternated every year.

The paper reports that the Patriot League record against the Ivy League was:

• 9-8 in 2003
• 9-6 in 2004
• 5-10 in 2005
• 4-14 in 2006

Patriot League co-champions Lehigh and Lafayette were a combined 0-7 against the Ivies.