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Press Links & Two Thoughts

The press links are below. Pretty they are not, but there they are if you're interested.

A couple thoughts for a Monday night, where I'm still a little stunned. The first is: college sports can never test your loyalties, since no matter what happens you're still always a fan of the school that is your alma mater. If the Eagles lose a heartbreaker to the Bears, I can always throw away my Donovan McNabb jersey and buy a Peyton Manning jersey and pretend I've been a "diehard" fan ever since the moving vans left Baltimore. But you don't throw away your Lehigh hat just because the team lays an egg. You're still Brown and White, and you still play every game in the season. And you always want to - maybe have to - beat Lafayette.

The other thought involves my players of the week, for which I'm still a bit stunned. I thought it would be fun to put up players of the week every week and have the fans vote on who should be the player of the week. Who could you possibly put up this week? The past three weeks I didn't put the poll up, since either the effort was so flat or there seemed to be too few people deserving of awards. And in the fourth week, I didn't put up any offensive players since the offense didn't score any touchdowns in the 20-13 win over Harvard.

No offensive players were deemed worthy of recognition for four straight weeks. That's unbelievable.

Morning Call: Holy Blowout!
Morning Call: Holy Cross' Emotion Burns Up Lehigh
Express-Times: Holy Cross Humiliates Lehigh
Worcester Telegram-Gazette: Harrison, Randolph Help HC Bury Lehigh

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