Blog Plastic Surgery

This is a very quick blog posting to let you know that the blog has undergone a major facelift. It's gone through a long-overdue template upgrade, reorganization of special features, and (the biggest job of all) undergone some "FCS Map Surgery" which involves my re-jiggering (a technical term) of the FCS Map to become a shareable map on Google MyMaps, which can then be ported to other websites. It will probably take some time to get all the data in there and make it look great.

Please leave comments on the new layout, the FCS Map, or anything else you'd like to see on this page.

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4:29 PM

Lehigh74 said…

Time to get rid of the picture of Eric Rath.

10:07 PM

The Last Engineer said…

Love the FCS map. Keep up the good work on that.

Agreed on the Rath picture. It is a good pic, but it is also an unpleasant reminder of a really bad loss. Blowing that 2TD lead... long drive home from Newark that night.

How about some pics of the better moments in LU football?

* Winning the D-II NCAA title in '77
* Klingerman catch against Lafayette in 1995
* Rabih Abdullah dropping that Bucknell DB in the open field with a stiff arm
* Anything from the playoff win at Western Illinois

7:59 AM

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However the actual Lehigh head football coaching search is well underway, with real names and real possibilities.

I've come up with a list of fifteen possible names, some which I've heard whispered as candidates, others which might be good fits at Lehigh for a variety of reasons.

UPDATE: I have found five more names of possible head coaches that I am adding to this list below.

Who are the twenty people? Here they are, in alphabetical order.

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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."

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You don't have to have attended more than twenty-five years of Lehigh football games to know it's a completely different world out there for your friendly neighborhood sports fan.

When Lehigh's Murray Goodman Stadium was opened in 1988, there were only about a dozen channels on the small, eighteen inch black and white TV we had in our dorm room. Only two channels might have had "major college football" games on at the same time a Lehigh football game was being played live over the mountain. (Notre Dame, the only school who had all their games televised, almost always played their games at 3:30 PM.)

Nowadays there's way more entertainment options on a typical college weekend than ever, and it's very logical to think that the increased amount of competition might not just keep students away from attending football games, but local fans as well.

It's not an issue confined to Lehigh - in 2014, home attendance at all FBS games dropped to their lowest le…

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