As noted here Monday, Matt Smiley is joining the Jacksonville Jaguars as an assistant special teams coach. Smiley was an original member of Buddy Teevens' staff when he returned to Hanover. The Jaguars' official announcement of his hiring is here.
Kevin Lempa, a Dartmouth assistant in the '90s and most recently defensive coordinator at Columbia, is the new secondary coach at Boston College. There are releases from Boston College and from Columbia. It will be Lempa's third stint at Chestnut Hill.
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The New Lenox Patch has a story and photo following "signing day," at Providence Catholic, the Illinois high school that is sending linebacker Brian Fordon to Dartmouth.
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Cornell lineman JC Tretter is the lone Ivy Leaguer to earn an invitation to the NFL Combine. He's mentioned in a Sports Network story about the 24 FCS invitees. The 6-foot-4, 300-pound Tretter is doing an occasional "draft journal" for the Cornell Football Association and in this entry writes about breaking his nose in Senior Bowl practice.
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The anticipated snow total from winter storm Nemo in our area has been downgraded from "up to two feet," to 8-14 inches. That's a little disappointing after getting our hopes up but more importantly, it's too late for Winter Carnival. Dartmouth Now reports on events canceled or moved elsewhere because of the lack of snow before today.For those of you from *away* who don't understand what this weekend is all about, here's the Winter Carnival schedule. That Certain Dartmouth '14 is taking advantage of a snow day at the high school in the southern part of the state where she is interning to enjoy a special 99-cent lift ticket today at the Dartmouth Skiway.
