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One of my guilty pleasures last fall during the Lehigh football season was watching the FX show “Welcome to Wrexham”. It was a surprising balm on a tough 2-9 year.It only came about – surprisingly – at the insistence of my wife.She had just…
One of my guilty pleasures last fall during the Lehigh football season was watching the FX show “Welcome to Wrexham”. It was a surprising balm on a tough 2-9 year.It only came about – surprisingly – at the insistence of my wife.She had just…
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…
Lehigh’s First True Spring Game In The Last Four Years Builds Off of Positive Momentum Last November
BETHLEHEM, PA – It’s amazing to contemplate that only two players on Lehigh’s spring roster, both fifth-year seniors, experienced anything resembling a regular, fifteen practice, spring season.LB Nate Norris had played in 2017 as a freshman in he…
I was trying to figure out the worst Lehigh/Colgate game I have ever witnessed.My history goes way back with Lehigh, of course, and I really had to rack my brain. What loss to Colgate that I had witnessed was worse than this one? I was…
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.
