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Happy holidays and hope everyone has a merry 2020 and beyond. Here at LFN, we wanted to compile a post listing the best and most memorable victories in the 2010 decade as voted on by one superfan who’s been doing this for a very long time.As the …
Happy holidays and hope everyone has a merry 2020 and beyond. Here at LFN, we wanted to compile a post listing the best and most memorable victories in the 2010 decade as voted on by one superfan who’s been doing this for a very long time.As the …
One of the nice things about having done this for long is that at my fingertips I can summon up the definitive account of the last five meetings of The Rivalry through my game recaps of the time. Here’s a quick summary of the last five times Lehigh faced off against Lafayette in the most important game of the season. And heck – it’s Throwback Thursday somewhere, right?
Too often, we define football players by statistics.
As sports obsessives, we try to come up with figures and metrics to measure people, their contributions and their relative worth. QB rating, yards per carry, tackles for loss – all numbers of measurement.
Fans forget that there are human beings behind all of those numbers. They don’t encapsulate what it is to be a football player, teammate, person, fighter, boyfriend, husband, and father.
Brett Snyder, who passed away this past Sunday at the age of 41, spent his entire life proving, successfully, that numbers don’t matter.
He spent a lifetime going beyond mere numbers and showing that heart, fight, perseverance, and touching as many lives as possible in a positive way is much more important.
It is the toughness you bring to life, the faith you show, and celebrating life’s blessings that mean everything.
I learned this through Brett’s extraordinary life.
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I read the announcement that head coach Andy Coen was stepping down as head football coach late Friday evening.
It was an announcement that I was expecting, to some degree.
Those of use who have been following the program closely knew that something was amiss with Andy.
And yet, the reason for him needing to step down was devastating.
“Life has thrown me a curveball,” Coen said in the press release on Friday, December 7th, 2018. “I am in the early stages [of early onset Alzheimer’s disease] and it is best for me to eliminate stress and concentrate on my health and well-being. My wife, Laura, and my children, Molly, Nolan and Finn have supported me throughout my career and are my biggest fans. This is a very difficult decision for all of us, but it is what is best at this time.”
It was the gutting, pit-in-the-stomach diagnosis nobody wanted to be true. Just like that, a bigger challenge than simply winning football games faces the man who has been heading the program for the last thirteen years.
As the reality of the diagnosis sunk in over the weekend, the players who played for him and the people he touched poured out their gratitude on Twitter and Facebook. I did too, feeling a jumble of emotions and memories that have been difficult to process.
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There aren’t any books detailing the 4-7 2009 Lehigh football season, nor is it likely that the exploits of that season will be etched in stone at the base of a statue for head football coach Andy Coen.
Yet it’s a time and place which I return to often when I think back on Lehigh seasons past, and it’s where I find myself today as well.
The 2009 season felt like an inflection point for Coen’s coaching tenure. His first three seasons, 6-5, 5-6 and 5-6, boasted one Patriot League co-championship, but had fallen short of the lofty expectations that had been set during the Kevin Higgins and Pete Lembo eras of undefeated seasons, playoff wins, and basically scaring the pants off of Lehigh football opponents up and down the East Coast.
And when the Mountain Hawks limped to a 1-5 start, the fifth being an awful 7-0 loss to Yale whose only points resulted from a fake punt, it felt like Andy’s time at Lehigh was nearing an end. Nobody actually said officially that Andy’s job was in jeopardy, but you felt like the season was on the brink of falling completely off the rails, especially if the team truly had lost their will to play football.
But then, after bottoming out against Yale, something clicked against Bucknell.
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There really aren’t any other words to use. The season is currently broken.Anyone who bravely worked their way to the game last weekend in rainy, windy Worcester, Mass had to have come to the same conclusion.The only thing keeping 2-6 Holy C…
Can you tell that I haven’t really wanted to finish this report card for last week’s game?
Like a teacher a hour before pacing break, I didn’t want to go through the film, the grades, and the play-by-play of the Penn game, but eventually, I did, even though it wasn’t exactly pretty.
The true hope with this report card, more than usual weeks, is that it’s seen as a springboard to getting to the season that all folks associated with Lehigh will want. With nationally-ranked Princeton looming ahead this week, it takes on added importance.
The Lehigh coaching staff took a page from Ole Miss’ spring game in their annual Brown/White scrimmage at Murray Goodman stadium.
The scoring system Ole Miss used was to spot their defense a 23-0 lead, and the scrimmage’s goal was to have the offense drive on the defense just like a regular football game.
It is the hope of every Lehigh football fan in every game in the upcoming 2018 season that the offense scores more than 23 points a game. Last year, the Lehigh offense averaged for than 35 points per contest.
But the Brown defense this Saturday was up to the challenge of containing the White offense.
Twelve times, the offense lined up with a potential drive to score points, and nine of those times, the defense forced the offense to punt or stuffed a 4th down conversion.
It’s true that the offense scored three touchdowns, one from rising senior QB Brad Mayes, one from junior QB Tyler Monaco, and one from sophomore QB Addison Shoup. It is also true that the offense had some really good moments. But on Saturday the main story was the defense, who looked really good in holding the offense to only those three scores – almost getting two pick sixes, and getting a blocked field goal attempt in another drill to boot.
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The Lehigh coaching staff took a page from Ole Miss’ spring game in their annual Brown/White scrimmage at Murray Goodman stadium.
The scoring system Ole Miss used was to spot their defense a 23-0 lead, and the scrimmage’s goal was to have the offense drive on the defense just like a regular football game.
It is the hope of every Lehigh football fan in every game in the upcoming 2018 season that the offense scores more than 23 points a game. Last year, the Lehigh offense averaged for than 35 points per contest.
But the Brown defense this Saturday was up to the challenge of containing the White offense.
Twelve times, the offense lined up with a potential drive to score points, and nine of those times, the defense forced the offense to punt or stuffed a 4th down conversion.
It’s true that the offense scored three touchdowns, one from rising senior QB Brad Mayes, one from junior QB Tyler Monaco, and one from sophomore QB Addison Shoup. It is also true that the offense had some really good moments. But on Saturday the main story was the defense, who looked really good in holding the offense to only those three scores – almost getting two pick sixes, and getting a blocked field goal attempt in another drill to boot.
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