There were few men happier than Marty Long when Earnest Brown IV’s Letter of Intent came through.
Long, Northwestern’s defensive line coach, lost Dean Lowry and Deonte Gibson last offseason and Ifeadi Odenigbo and CJ Robbins in this one. But on National Signing Day, it’s not about who you’ve lost. It’s not even about who you have in Evanston. It’s about who you’re getting.
And Northwestern is getting a whole lot. There’s high three star early enrollee Sam Miller, brother of rising true sophomore Alex. The Millers hail from Houston. There’s four-star crown jewel Earnest Brown IV out of Denton, Texas, just a short trip up Interstate 35 from the Dallas/Fort Worth area.