Brown may be Pat Fitzgerald's biggest coup yet. But he's not just that. He and Kent are part of Northwestern's rising recruiting tide.
My Twitter feed was filled with Northwestern football news; my phone was blowing up with exclamatory four-letter texts. First it was four-star defensive end Earnest Brown IV who announced his commitment to Northwestern on Tuesday night, then it was three-star tight end/defensive end Trevor Kent who announced Wednesday afternoon.
Okay, so maybe it didn't unfold that dramatically, but it's difficult to overstate just how important the respective commitments of Brown and Kent are to Northwestern football.