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| Kevin Bracken Endicott College photo |
Bracken is a 2015 graduate of Moravian University, where he was an honorable-mention all-conference linebacker and served as a tri-captain as a senior. He comes to Dartmouth after serving for one season as defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Endicott College, a DIII school in Massachusetts.
In addition to making coaching stops at John Carroll and Franklin & Marshall, Bracken was a defensive assistant at Villanova in 2018 and served as run game coordinator and later linebacker coach during a four-year stint at Bucknell.
At Endicott last fall Bracken saw the Gulls led in the country in run defense (116.1 ypg) and finish third in the nation in scoring defense (11.3 ppg), fourth for fewest passing yards per game (134.8) and fourth in pass efficiency defense. He was selected 2024 Don Hansen Ratings All-Region I Defensive Coordinator of the Year. The Gulls finished 10-2 and advanced to the second round of the D-III playoffs before falling to Cortland State.
With Bracken's hiring Dartmouth's final opening is for a nickels coach to replace Joe Castellitto, now at UMass
Green Alert Take: If Bracken needed to know more about Dartmouth before accepting the position, or Big Green coach Sammy McCorkle needed to know a little more background on Bracken, they both could have gone to the same source. When Bracken was at Moravian the Greyhounds' strength and conditioning coach was none other than Spencer Brown, the highly respected S&C coach at Dartmouth before moving on to Rutgers this winter.
Green Alert Take II: This is a plea to sports information directors at Dartmouth and elsewhere after visiting the Big Green football web page. If you are not going to do media guides anymore, please understand that your web pages are now virtual documents of record.
When I checked the Dartmouth 2024 football roster HERE this morning, it listed Shane Montgomery as offensive coordinator. That's not correct. Kevin Daft was the OC in 2024 and Montgomery spent the fall at UMass. Likewise, Conor McNally is listed as director of football performance, and he was not here in 2024. Joe Castellitto, who played a critical role as special teams coordinator and nickels coach, and Aashon Larkins, who coached the secondary, are not listed among the 2024 Dartmouth coaches because they moved on after helping the Big Green win the Ivy League title.
Five or 10 years from now, someone researching the '24 team online will have no idea who was or wasn't on staff when additions and deletions like that are made. So please don't rewrite history. Start up a new page about the 2025 team, and leave the coaches who were on staff in 2024 on the 2024 roster.
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EXTRA POINT
It happened again last night. It's exam week in the spring semester of my senior year of college and I just realized I was signed up for a course that I had totally forgotten about. I hadn't been to a single class and I needed to pass it to graduate. I don't remember what the class was but I guess it turned out OK because somewhere on a shelf here in the BGA world headquarters I have a couple of college diplomas with my name on them. ;-)
