Offensive Coordinator Named: Trey Brown

Today, it was announced on LehighSports.com that our new Offensive Coordinator is another coach from Penn's coaching ranks.

Coach Trey Brown coached wide receivers at Penn, including two of the best wideouts the Quakers have ever known in Dan Castles (holds the career TD receptions total with 27) and Rob Milanese (holds the career receiving yardage lead with 3,407). Before that, he spent some time with Division I-A Stanford as an offensive assistant, and during his tenure Stanford captured their last Pac 10 title.

He's replacing Chris Rorke, who chose to return to Trinity College (D-III) in Connecticut. 48 hours after it was announced at the football awards dinner that he was leaving, coach Coen struck fast and got his man.

It's exciting that coach Coen is making Lehigh's staff with a guy with big-time experience like coach Brown, and who worked well with coach Coen at Penn. He seems like a great hire - a guy on the rise who was seen how things work at two other high-academic institutions, and brings a fresh new perspective on offense.

In the release, coach Coen had some intriguing quotes:

I am very excited to have Trey join our staff,” said Coen. “During our time together [at Penn], he has shown a clear understanding of not only the passing game, but the run package as well.”

LFN's take: "We are going to put emphasis on downfield blocking as well as pass receptions".

“Trey is a great teacher, and an excellent recruiter, who had a strong relationship with our student-athletes [at Penn],” Coen explained. “The Lehigh players will enjoy having Coach Brown as a part of our staff.”

LFN's take: "Coach Brown will be a real players' coach that connects with the offensive players." Such strong stuff certainly indicates that you've arrived!

But it's also going to be interesting who stays from Lembo's old staff and who goes. You've got to wonder if some of the other names on the staff, especially offensively, will be staying or going. Furthermore, it also remains to be seen if there will be significant changes on the defensive side of the coaching staff.

Still, as for me personally, I'm very encouraged that coach Coen appeared to pick a great qualified offensive coordinator so quickly - and fast. I openly wonder what the folks down at Penn are saying about losing such a huge chunk of their staff to Lehigh this offseason.

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By now you've seen the results. In 2018, the Ivy League has taken the FCS by storm. Perhaps it was Penn's 30-10 defeat of Lehigh a couple of weeks ago . Or maybe it was Princeton's 50-9 drubbing of another team that made the FCS Playoffs last year, Monmouth. Or maybe it was Yale's shockingly dominant 35-14 win over nationally-ranked Maine last weekend. The Ivy League has gone an astounding 12-4 so far in out-of-conference play, many of those wins coming against the Patriot League. But it's not just against the Patriot League where the Ivy League has excelled. Every Ivy League school has at least one out-of-conference victory, which is remarkable since it is only three games into their football season. The four losses - Rhode Island over Harvard, Holy Cross over Yale, Delaware over Cornell, and Cal Poly over Brown - were either close losses that could have gone either way or expected blowouts of teams picked to be at the bottom of the Ivy League. W

UMass 21, Lafayette 14, halftime

Are you watching this game? UMass had this game under control until about 3 minutes in the second quarter, and then got an interception, converted for a TD. Then the Leopards forced a fumble off the return, and then converted THAT for a TD, making this a game. It's on CN8. You really should be watching this.

Examining A Figure Skating Rivalry: Tonya and Nancy

It must be very hard for a millennial to understand the fuss around the Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding figure skating scandal in the run-up to the 1994 Olympics. If you're of a certain age, though - whether you're a figure skating fan or not, and I am decidedly no fan of figure skating - the Shakespearean story of Harding and Kerrigan still engages, and still grabs peoples' attention, twenty years later. Why, though? Why, twenty years later, in a sport I care little, does the story still grab me? Why did I spend time out of my life watching dueling NBC and ESPN documentaries on the subject, and Google multiple stories about Jeff Gilooly , idiot "bodyguards", and the whole sordid affair? I think it's because the story, even twenty years later, is like opium. The addictive story, even now, has everything. Everything. The woman that fought for everything, perhaps crossing over to the dark side to get her chance at Olypic Gold, vs. the woman who

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