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My Lehigh Football Head Coaching Shortlist of 15 Names

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My Lehigh Football Head Coaching Shortlist of 15 Names

We didn’t want to be here, but we’re here now once again.  Lehigh fans have entered this offseason wondering who might be on the Lehigh Athletic Department’s shortlist for the next head football coach of the Lehigh Mountain Hawks.I do not know who…

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My Lehigh Football Head Coaching Shortlist of 15 Names (and three more)

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My Lehigh Football Head Coaching Shortlist of 15 Names (and three more)

We didn’t want to be here, but we’re here now once again.  Lehigh fans have entered this offseason wondering who might be on the Lehigh Athletic Department’s shortlist for the next head football coach of the Lehigh Mountain Hawks.I do not know who…

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A Farewell to Brett Snyder, The Bravest Guy I’ve Ever Known

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A Farewell to Brett Snyder, The Bravest Guy I’ve Ever Known

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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Sunday Word: Gone

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Sunday Word: Gone

I don't know why, but there were an awful lot of echoes to me, for some inexplicable reason, of the Lehigh/Hofstra playoff encounter at Murray Goodman Stadium this weekend.Well before senior PK Jake Peery's walk-off 23 yard game-winning field g…

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