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Biography
Matt Drinkall is an American football coach currently serving as the tight ends coach with the Army Black Knights of the United States Military Academy. He is currently in his second year on staff, having spent the 2019 season as an offensive quality control coach.
He previously served as the head football coach of Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina, Kansas, starting in January of 2014.He had worked previously as a football coach at the high school and college levels before being hired as head coach. In 2015, Drinkall was the second-youngest head college football coach in the country behind Cornell's David Archer and took the Coyotes to the 2015 playoffs.
On January 14, 2019, Matt Drinkall announced his resignation of the head coaching position at Kansas Wesleyan to join the staff of the Army Black Knights as an offensive quality control coach. He had compiled a 42–17 record as head coach.
Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | NAIA | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference) | |||||||||
| 2014 | Kansas Wesleyan | 2–9 | 2–7 | T–8th | |||||
| 2015 | Kansas Wesleyan | 10–2 | 8–1 | 2nd | L NAIA First Round | 14 | |||
| 2016 | Kansas Wesleyan | 9–2 | 7–2 | T–2nd | 17 | ||||
| 2017 | Kansas Wesleyan | 8–3 | 7–2 | 3rd | 21 | ||||
| 2018 | Kansas Wesleyan | 13–1 | 10–0 | 1st | L NAIA Semifinal | 6 | |||
| Kansas Wesleyan: | 42–17 | 34–12 | |||||||
| Total: | 42–17 | ||||||||