Varsity Insider

Good morning, football fans. I know it’s been a long winter for you, but today the blog will do its best later today juggling the ongoing basketball season with the excitement of National Signing Day.

I plan to make at least two stops later today and will gather some pictures from at least a couple others. We’ll include a bunch of that in a story for tomorrow’s paper and here online.

However, there’s one developing item to cover before the day gets started…

As a few of you noticed on the scheduled of signing ceremonies, the three Yale commits from the area — Bronxville twins Christian and Jackson Conway and Stepinac’s Caleb Gilligan-Evans — were not listed. Here’s the deal: Yale has hired a new coach in Harvard assistant Tony Reno and has started to bring sweeping change to the Bulldogs. From what I can gather, the new Yale coaching staff hasn’t shared the same enthusiasm for its recruits as the previous regime, although the program is bound to honor previous commitments.

Stepinac coach Mike O’Donnell said Gilligan-Evans is awaiting proper documents from Yale, which has kept its offer to the senior running back. Bronxville coach Jeff Napolitano told me the Conways will at least explore other options. They have looked at Duke, Cornell and Dartmouth, among others. They hope to make a second visit to Duke this month.

When I find out more about them, I’ll let everyone know.

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