With the NFL Draft kicking off tonight, STATS' list of FCS players chosen by conference in the 2010s is timely:
22 - CAA Football and Southern Conference
20 - Big Sky Conference
18 - Missouri Valley Football Conference
12 - Ohio Valley Conference
11 - Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and Southland Conference
8 - Ivy League
6 - Big South Conference
5 - Southwestern Athletic Conference
3 - Patriot League and Pioneer Football League
2 - Great West Conference and FCS Independent
0 - Northeast Conference
Here are the eight Ivy League players chosen with school, team and round/pick number:
2010 Draft
DT David Howard (Brown), Tennessee 7/241
2011 Draft
FB Shane Bannon (Yale) Kansas City, 7/223
2012 Draft
None
2013 Draft
OL JC Tretter (Cornell), Green Bay 4/122
FB Kyle Juszczyk (Harvard), Baltimore 4/130
Mike Catapano (Princeton), Kansas City 7/207
2014 Draft
DE Caraun Reid (Princeton), Detroit 5/158
2015 Draft
None
2016 Draft
WR Seth DeValve (Princeton), Cleveland 4/138
OT Cole Toner (Harvard), Arizona, 5/170
2017 Draft
None
Day by day the talk has been growing that record-setting Penn wide receiver Justin Watson would hear his name called at some point during this year's draft. The Boston Globe has a lengthy story about Watson and what it takes for an Ivy Leaguer to be picked HERE. The Daily Pennsylvanian has a story under the headline, Why Justin Watson will and won't get drafted by each of the NFL's 32 teams and a site that covers Baltimore sports has a piece about Watson being a "good fit" for the Ravens. (LINK)
A STATS story lists Watson as one of the FCS players attracting growing interest as the draft neared. (LINK)
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Does playing at home help the Dartmouth football team? Statistics pulled together for a story in The Dartmouth show no difference where the Big Green has played over the past six years. (LINK)
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In a story about former Dartmouth assistant Joe Moglia, the Virginian-Pilot details the medical condition that forced the former CEO of TD Ameritrade to take a year off from his responsibilities as head coach at Coastal Carolina.
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Questions have started to trickle in for the upcoming Q&A with Dartmouth head football coach Buddy Teevens. To submit a question to BGA via email CLICK HERE. That will address an email with the subject line, QuestionsForCoach. A selection of questions will be chosen for Saturday's BGA story. If you are not a subscriber, don't worry. The Q&A will be available to everyone next week, so be sure to send your question along.