Dartmouth senior Matt Kaskey has signed with Priority Sports & Entertainment, ranked as one of the top football agencies by ESPN in each of the Worldwide Leader's past five rankings.
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Draft Diamonds loses points for the ridiculous "UoD" reference but there's value in what it says about the 6-foot-7, 325-pound Kaskey in this capsule (LINK):
Matt Kaskey – University of Dartmouth – Offensive Tackle – Matt Kaskey is one of the meanest offensive lineman I have watched on film this year. Kaskey is a player who really dominated in the Ivy League. Many draftniks are not aware of him but Kaskey is a mauler in the trenches. The Winneka, Illinois native is a first team All-Ivy League player and a team captain. Kaskey maybe a later round pick or free agent but he could be a future All-Pro in the NFL.•
Former Dartmouth defensive line coach Kevin Lewis, most recently at William & Mary, has been hired to coach the defensive line at Army. Lewis spent the 2012 and 2013 seasons at Dartmouth.
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A local news website has a story with Super Bowl analysis from former Dartmouth linebacker Kevin Cooper '89, who has coached his Maine team to six high school state championships. (LINK)
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Craig Haley of STATS ranks the FCS football conferences coming out of the 2018 season (LINK):
1 Missouri Valley
2 Big Sky
3 CAA
4 Southern
5 Ivy league
6 Southland
7 Ohio Valley
8 Big South
9 Northeast
10 Mid-Eastern
11 Patriot
12 Independents
13 Southwestern
14 Pioneer
Haley, who had the Ivies ranked seventh in the preseason, writes this about how the season went:
Princeton (10-0) and Dartmouth (9-1) finished with top-20 rankings, while Harvard got back to a winning record. The league was 19-7 outside the Ancient Eight.•
It was 7.9 degree below zero here when I walked Griff the Wonder Dog this morning and compared to what the Midwest has been dealing with it is almost balmy. Be safe.
