Springfield, Mo., wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham, the nation's No. 1 recruit, is set to announce his collegiate destination Wednesday, and Missouri made its best effort this weekend to keep the 6-foot-6, 220-pound gem in his home state.

Green-Beckham made his final official visit to Columbia to meet with coaches, players and fellow recruits, check out the campus and take in the Tigers' basketball game against Texas Tech. And during each step, Missouri fans were nipping at his heels with signs, cheering and a lot of begging.

It was the crest of a fever-pitched recruiting effort for Green-Beckham that even included head coach Gary Pinkel dropping in on DGB's high school in a helicopter. Missouri still has to outdo Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma for Green-Beckham, but many believe the Tigers are the favorites.

Brock Berglund is finally free to get back to football.

For the past nine months, he had been fighting third-degree assault charges in his home state of Colorado and on Wednesday, the charges were dropped without prejudice.

For the first time since the incident occurred on April 9, 2011, Berglund spoke to Dr. Saturday about the events of that night that caused him to miss his first collegiate season at Kansas.

According to the police report, Berglund was charged with second-degree assault — assault resulting in a serious injury — after he punched another man in the side of the head while defending his girlfriend, who was being harassed.

But Berglund, who hadn't been able to speak because the case was still ongoing, cleared up some misconceptions about the story.

Quarterback recruit Chad Kelly wants to make sure everyone knows - especially backup quarterback Cole Stoudt - that he's not coming to Clemson this fall to sit on the bench.

Kelly, a four-star dual-threat from St. Joseph's in Buffalo, N.Y., and nephew of Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly, has been committed to Clemson since last June and is visiting campus this weekend. In preparation for his visit and likely run-in with Stoudt, Kelly tweeted Wednesday, "Your on the bench for a reason. And i come soon! Just letting you know."

While the taunt was explicitly directed at Stoudt, Stoudt decided to respond anyway, "I hate those that talk like their the [expletive] when they haven't done anything yet."

Aside from both players needing rudimentary grammar lessons, I can't imagine this is a good way for Kelly to make friends at a new school. But this isn't the first time Kelly has challenged Stoudt, who completed 12 of 21 passes for 115 yards in backup time behind incumbent starter Tajh Boyd last season. In an interview with TigerIllustrated.com earlier this month, Kelly said he should be the one to push Boyd come fall camp in August.

"I know [offensive coordinator Chad] Morris likes me because I'm really their only dual-threat guy, so I can come in for certain packages to run since that's the best thing I do, really," Kelly said. "Plus Cole doesn't have that oomph right now and Tajh needs that every day ... for someone to push him and keep him working so he gets better."

On Tuesday, Penn State faithful were up in arms after some "fans" decided to make a profit on Joe Paterno's memorial service by selling the free tickets they received from the athletic department on eBay.

As despicable as that was, one Alabama "fan" has taken profiting on late great coaches to a new level.

This said fan took a classified ad out in the Birmingham News selling five burial plots near former Tide coaching great Bear Bryant at $2,200 a piece.

Yeah, really.

Mark Richt is praying for Georgia's next commitment — literally.

On Wednesday, Richt is attending a Baptist church in Clyattville, Ga., with five-star linebacker Josh Harvey-Clemons and his family. Harvey-Clemons says Georgia is in a three-way tie for his services with Florida and Florida State and will make his final decision next week on signing day, Feb. 1.

In the meantime, those three head coaches have done their best to win the affections of the Peach State's best player, who has drawn explicit comparisons to DeMarcus Ware. Richt's recruiting tactic is exactly original: According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Florida coach Will Muschamp attended services with Harvey-Clemons in an attempt to with both his — and we figure God's — favor.

"We gave everybody a heads up, and they were surprised to see [Muschamp]," Josh's grandfather, Woodrow Clemons, told the AJC. "And the collection plate was equally surprised."

Is the field at Penn State's Beaver Stadium headed for a name change?

That's what several people are hoping by signing a petition to have the field named for late famous coach Joe Paterno, who passed away Sunday from lung cancer.

The petition, which was started by Blake Tobias at Change.org, has nearly 9,000 signatures in less than a day online. The petition is calling for 107,282 signatures, which is the capacity of the stadium.

Joe Paterno's Casket (Gene J. Puskar/AP)

Thousands waited up to three hours Tuesday to offer one final goodbye to former Penn State coach Joe Paterno. His closed casket was put on display in the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center on the Penn State campus and mourners were allowed to walk by it and offer their condolences and say prayers for the Penn State legend, who died of lung cancer Sunday at the age of 85.

Several former players, including LaVar Arrington, Kerry Collins, Jack Ham, Blair Thomas, Stefen Wisniewski, Kyle Brady, Larry Johnson, Bryant Johnson, Daryll Clark and Franco Harris were in attendance while current players rode three blue team buses to the viewing.

Line for Joe Paterno viewing (Alex Brandon/AP)Tuesday marked the first of three days people will get a chance to say goodbye to Paterno. The family will hold another viewing Wednesday and a public memorial service will be held Thursday in the Bryce Jordan Center, the school's basketball arena.

The university offered about 10,000 free tickets for Thursday's memorial service through the athletic department site and they were sold out in seven minutes. The demand was so high that some tickets even found their way to eBay, but were pulled down because eBay does not allow the sale of tickets to free events. The basketball arena holds 16,000.

In anticipation of demand to watch Thursday's memorial service — either in person or on the Big Ten Network, which is carrying it live — several professors have canceled their Thursday classes.

Rich Rodriguez picked up what could be his most impressive commitment Monday when wide receiver Trey Griffey, son of baseball great Ken Griffey Jr., made a verbal pledge to Arizona.

"My parents said, 'It's up to you, you got to do what you want to do ... what you feel is right,' " Griffey told the Orlando Sentinel. "I'm going to the University of Arizona. It doesn't get any better than that."

Griffey, a 6-foot-2, 190-pound wide receiver from Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, Fla., is more than just a famous name. In the past year his stock as a top high school receiver has risen thanks to a stellar senior season that saw him catch 72 passes for 970 yards, breaking records set by Florida State's Kenny Shaw.