Archive For The “Football” Category
I’ve written a lot about Lehigh/Lafayette history so much over the years. I’ve written a book about the early Rivalry between Lehigh and Lafayette, and I’ve blogged and recapped many Le/Laf games over the course of my life. Lehigh and Lafayette h…
I am an outlier. I’m a fan of a 1-6 college football team, and I’m headed out to Bucknell next weekend, rain or shine, to watch two Patriot League squads with losing records face off against one another.I realize somewhere in my head t…
I am an outlier. I’m a fan of a 1-6 college football team, and I’m headed out to Bucknell next weekend, rain or shine, to watch two Patriot League squads with losing records face off against one another.I realize somewhere in my head t…
We are now officially midway through the 2023 Lehigh football season. The Mountain Hawks sit at 1-5 overall, and 0-1 in the Patriot League.I thought I’d go ahead and make up some midseason grades, and set some “fan goals” for the second hal…
I really wanted the Tom Gilmore Era to work.I did not first meet Tom Gilmore when he was a fiery defensive coordinator for some of the best Lehigh teams in history, but I thoroughly enjoyed what he created. His defense was the final pi…
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I really wanted the Tom Gilmore Era to work.I did not first meet Tom Gilmore when he was a fiery defensive coordinator for some of the best Lehigh teams in history, but I thoroughly enjoyed what he created. His defense was the final pi…
Bryce Harper took control of the city of Philadelphia on a 1-2 pitch.He fouled off two 99 mph fastballs, took a changeup just low, and then crushed Daniel Suarez’s 98.9 mph sinker into the left-center stands.At that moment, so many people in the Philad…
Over the years, the Lehigh football program has always had very high expectations in every sense. The expectations at Lehigh, as I’ve observed it, are:* That Lehigh football teams always have top football students academically as a member of…
The Patriot League could very well be in a huge bind assuming the Ivy League goes forward with their college football restart plans.
According to Mark Blaudschun of TMG Sports, the Ivy League is considering two plans for their 2020 college football season – neither of which allow for any out of conference games.
13 out-of-conference games involving Patriot League teams would be on the chopping block, and when you add to it the Patriot League presidents’ guidance to not fly to games, every single member of the Patriot League is affected. If you add to that the fact that the opening of the college football season is going to at best start in late September (yes, you read that correctly), the Patriot League would count as one of the most deeply affected by Covid-19-influenced delays and decisions in the entire college football landscape.
It is a bind to be sure – but not one that should see the Patriot League cancel the 2020 football season.
If we start with the assumption that the season will start late at best, and we assume that the TMG Sports report is accurate (and nobody has come forward to deny the basic thrust of the report), it should be possible to craft a nine-week Patriot League football season with seven league games and two out-of-conference games. There are a lot of moving parts, and the Patriot League would need some partners. But it should be possible.
Late last week I caught up with Lehigh head football coach Tom Gilmore to ask him some questions about the incoming class and the recruiting season in general. Here’s what he told me.
