BC's Newest Teammate Is Its Most Important Recruit

Jeff Hafley knows a little something about recruiting. The head coach of the Boston College Eagles spent the bulk of his early summer assembling one of the nation's top classes by reasoning and balancing off-field intelligence against on-field production. He developed and enhanced a strategy familiar to BC's community by finding the right athletes capable of lighting up the classroom and community as much as the gridiron.

That knowledge and ability placed BC atop the nation's rankings for most major services, but even Hafley knew Thursday's event at the Barber Family Auditorium gave him the team's most prized and valued recruit when the Eagles signed 14-year old, Hingham, Massachusetts…