Pre-Game Tweets plus some Big Recruiting News

Time for some pre-game tweets to give you readers some insight into whats going on around the Big Ten...

Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema: " Here at the team hotel and the guys were focused in our team meetings. We are excited to be the first Big Ten game in the new stadium...."

Penn State assistant Jay Paterno: "Red Grange scored 6TDs-5 TD runs & 1 TD pass in Oct 1924 at Illinois' Memorial Stadium-In '05 M Rob matched it with 4 TD passes & 2 TD runs

Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald: "Just wrapped up our pre-game walk-thru. Getting a quick lunch and then heading to West Lafayette to take on the Boilermakers! GO CATS!"

In other news, the Iowa Hawkeyes landed one of the top recruits in the country today.

A.J. Derby (below) of Iowa City High School in Iowa City, IA verbally committed to the Hawkeyes today.

The 6-4, 218-pound QB received offers from Alabama, Florida, Florida State, and Michigan, among others.

According to Rivals.com, Derby is rated as the 16th best QB in the country and the 174th best overall player in the U.S.

Photo Credit: Rivals.com

Post-Game and Monday Morning Tweets

Sorry for not posting much over the past couple days, it is going to be a really busy week for me. But I will do my best to post as much as possible this week.

So here's another exciting installment of TWEETS AROUND THE BIG TEN!

Penn State Assistant Coach Tom Bradley (@TomBradleyGOPSF): "Big Ten opener ...Iowa is one tough,physical group"

Penn State Assistant Coach Jay Paterno (@JayPaterno): "@cbfowler says that ESPN Gameday is definitely coming to Penn State for this week. Big Game...everyone wear White for the Whitehouse Game!"

Northwestern Head Coach Pat Fitzgerald (@CoachFitz51): "Congrats to QB Mike Kafka for being Big Ten Co-Player of the Week! He completed 35 of 42 passes for 390 Yards. Way to go! GO CATS!"

Wisconsin Head Coach Bret Bielema (@BretBielema): "Sunday was a good work day. We were able to get through the game health and get our d-lineman back for Big 10 play as well. Good week ahead."

My Sports reporting and Writing professor Dave Schwartz posted this link on his twitter page, its from BigElevenfootball.com. It's what they think Big Ten Coaches are tweeting about
http://www.bigelevenfootball.com/archives/297

That's all for now. It's off to class, and off to the library for some much needed studying...

The Second Installment of Tweets around the Big Ten

It's time for the more SWEEEET TWEEEETS. Our second installment is the postgame tweets from a couple of coaches and players...enjoy

Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald (@coachfitz51): "CATS WIN! Glad to be 2-0!"

Penn State assistant coach Tom Bradley (@TomBradleyGOPSF): "Good win today.Sean Lee had another great game.Start on Temple tomorrow very early in am"

Indiana RB Bryan Payton (@bdpayton): "we earned an AWESOME WIN today! This win will make us even closer and pay off as the season goes on."

Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema (@BretBielema): "Was a great enviroment in the Camp today. Was very proud of the way our guys battled through a tough week... Like the attitude of this team"

Penn State assistant Jay Paterno (@JayPaterno): "Happy to be 2-0...but not satisfied. Still some things to tighten up before next week"