How the nation’s top-rated football recruit decided to stay home:

Hillcrest High School, meanwhile, is the most small-town school in the district. Its enrollment is a modest 1,200; the school backs up to both a fairgrounds area and one of the city’s many – many – bible colleges. Its most famous alum: John Ashcroft, best known as George W. Bush’s first Attorney General (the one who covered up a partially nude justice statue), a Singing Senator, and “that Republican who lost to that dead guy in Missouri.”

In May, however, the list of famous alums will double when Dorial Green-Beckham crosses the stage. And for 10 minutes on the morning of February 1, 2012, Hillcrest is the only high school in the country.

Surma, those present recalled, surveyed the other trustees — there are 32 — for their opinions and emotions before asking one last question: “Does anyone have any objections? If you have an objection, we’re open to it.”

No one in the room spoke. There was silence from the phone speakers. Paterno’s 46-year tenure as head coach of one of the country’s storied college football programs was over, and the gravity of the action began to sink in.

On Kevin Wilson, the program’s latest could-be savior.

65. You still don’t know the divisions in the Big Ten, and never will because they are stupid. Feel under no obligation to learn them ever.

64. Michigan State will make Little Giants the base play in their offense. This will work a lot better than you think.

63. In place of Indiana/Purdue in Bloomington, the Big Ten Network instead shows a marathon of “Boy Meets World” episodes.

62. The Big Ten Network receives no complaints, and gets positive feedback on the decision from viewers.

Going fishing with the former Texas Tech head coach:

The oddest thing about Leach is not odd at all, really. He’s just curious in a way adults are not supposed to be as cynical, all-knowing adults, not just about football, or Neil Young, but about you, and the guy behind you, and about anything within arm’s reach, really. He peppers me with questions: Do you like Atlanta? Have you been deep-sea fishing before? How familiar are you with Key West? Do you like Hemingway? Have you visited the museum? There’s great stuff there really, you should come stay down here with your wife and go there if you’re into him.