Jerry Kill made national headlines last year after suffering a seizure on the sidelines of Minnesota's Sept. 10 loss to New Mexico State, and after several other seizures he still hasn't completely recovered.

So Kill had to do something a little unorthodox while out recruiting his 2012 class — bring his wife just in case he had an episode while recruiting.

"My wife had to travel with me because of the situation I'm in," Kill said. "That's the deal. She came because of my health situation. We had to get it cleared with the NCAA. ... If I had a seizure, she knows what to do. She'd take care of it, and I'd go right back into recruiting. That's how that works."

The Big Ten welcome wagon has officially left Columbus and nearly ran over new Ohio State coach Urban Meyer on its way out.

Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio and Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema both publicly criticized Meyer's recruiting tactics after Meyer secured the nation's No. 4 class, according to Rivals, in just 65 days on the job. Bielema, especially, took issue with some of the tactics Meyer used to secure the class and called him on it.

"There are a few things that happened early on that I made people aware of that I didn't want to see in this league, that I had seen take place in other leagues," Bielema said during his media day. "Other recruiting tactics, other recruiting practices that are illegal. I was very up front and was very pointed to the fact, actually reached out to coach Meyer and shared my thoughts and concerns with him. The situation got rectified."

Apparently, recruiting is more civilized in the Big Ten than it is in the SEC. However, uncivilized recruiting seems to coincide with national championships. But I digress…

What's really important to a college football athlete when choosing the right school? Location, academics, the ability to start early?

How about a school's proximity to Chick-fil-A?

That's apparently what swayed Birmingham, Ala., linebacker Cassanova McKinzy from Clemson to Auburn. When McKinzy visited the Clemson campus, there was no Chick-fil-A in sight, and that just wasn't acceptable.

"[It was] kind of the environment and plus they had no Chick-fil-A on campus," McKinzy said when asked why he didn't choose Clemson (scroll ahead to the 1:30 mark in the video). "You had to go like, probably like 15 minutes off campus to go to like a real restaurant. Their café was kind of small."

New Missouri receiver Dorial Green-Beckham said Wednesday that his official visit to Missouri last weekend — where fans cheered his name and held up signs for him — was a key factor in him choosing the Tigers over Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

Apparently, that was just the beginning of DGB mania.

Shortly after Green-Beckham's announcement that he was indeed staying in-state and signing with Missouri, a billboard went up on Glenstone Ave., in his hometown of Springfield, Mo., welcoming his arrival to the Tigers.

Every National Signing Day, there's always one recruit who captures the "Awwwwww" moment.

Last year, Georgia running back Isaiah Crowell nailed it when he brought along a bulldog puppy wearing a Georgia sweater for his commitment to the Bulldogs. This year, Long Beach, Miss., linebacker Richie Brown took the honors by having his infant nephew announce his collegiate choice in full MSU regalia.

It wouldn't be a National Signing Day without a potential NCAA violation by Lane Kiffin.

Around 8:30 a.m. on the USC campus, ESPN reporter Shelley Smith recounted a text message she had received from Kiffin about three hours earlier on the air, and possibly walked the Trojans right into a secondary recruiting violation.

"I got a text from Lane Kiffin at 5:15 this morning telling me to wake up, it was a big day and then I got a second text saying, 'We need to get Nelson,'" Smith said live on ESPNU. "Now, I'm not sure what last name because he didn't tell me that, there are a lot of Nelson's out there, but I'm going to guess that it's Nelson Agholor, a very highly talented athlete out of Tampa, Florida. He is expected to sign either with Florida or with USC in the next 45 minutes."

Here the thing: Coaches aren't allowed to talk about any recruit that hasn't signed a national letter of intent and as Smith noted herself, Nelson wasn't set to make his announcement until at least 45 later.

Whoops.

Big East schools just can't seem to stay out of court.

The Pitt News reported Tuesday that the University of Pittsburgh filed a countersuit in October against former coach Mike Haywood for breach of contract. The university said Haywood violated the confidentiality clause in the agreement by talking about the terms of the deal. The university said Haywood's attorney released those details after he was terminated, but the clause extends beyond the life of the contract.

Haywood sued the school in September, nine months after Pitt fired him after he was arrested on charges of domestic abuse against his girlfriend at his home in South Bend, Ind. Haywood had only been Pitt's coach for 17 days.

While several people have done their best to remember and honor former Penn State coach Joe Paterno, who passed away Jan. 22 after a short battle with lung cancer, one young man has decided to honor Paterno by embodying the same philanthropic spirit that made Paterno the most beloved man on the Penn State campus.

Dylan Moser, a 12-year-old, who is currently in remission after first being diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia before his third birthday, decided to donate all of the money he received for his 12^th birthday to THON, a Penn State student-run dance marathon that raises funds and awareness to help fight pediatric cancer.

"JoePa was a really good guy and he really wanted to give money to help others so I thought I would just give my money away to do my part," Moser told The Daily Collegian.

Moser gave $95 to his mother, and his 16-year-old sister, Natasha, also chipped in, and the Moser children donated $185 to THON.

So, why THON? Because it helped provide emotional and financial assistance to the Moser Family while Moser was fighting cancer. Moser has participated in THON eight times and when THON weekend comes Feb. 17-19, he'll be in the talent show.

THON has always held a special place for the Paterno family. Paterno spoke at THON in 2009 (see video above) and told the group that he'd been at Penn State 58 years and had, "never been more proud than right now."