LFN's Preseason Patriot League Team, 2010

Remember when there weren't any preseason teams for the Patriot League, and there was a dearth of coverage of I-AA and FCS football?

It seems hard to fathom now, with the Sports Network issuing a flurry of different columns on everything from the top FCS players at all positions (of which senior OL Will Rackley is listed) to a piece on the best matchups during the 2010 season (in which "The Rivalry" features, and a reminder that Lehigh won last year 27-21 in overtime). Add to that Phil Steele's 2010 All-Patriot League team, and you have plenty to chew on before the start of the football season.

Last year, I published my own All-Patriot League team for the first time - as I saw that the Patriot League themselves did not issue one. I decided to make it a yearly thing - so, below the flip, please enjoy my picks for the preseason all-Patriot League team, first and second team. (more)

First Team Offense
QB Greg Sullivan, Colgate, Sr.
RB Nate Eachus, Colgate, Jr.
RB Xavier Martin, Fordham, Sr.
WR Mark Layton, Lafayette, Sr.
WR Bill Edger, Holy Cross, Sr.
WR Luke Chmielenski, Holy Cross, Sr.
TE Stephen Skelton, Fordham, Sr.
OL William Rackley, Lehigh, Sr.
OL Robert Kubacki, Fordham, Jr.
OL Anthony Carter, Bucknell, Sr.
OL Ricky Clerge, Lehigh, Sr.
OL Mike McCabe, Holy Cross, Sr.

First Team Defense
DL Mude Ohimor, Holy Cross, Sr.
DL Jordan Bledsoe, Fordham, Sr.
DL Robert De La Rosa, Bucknell, Jr.
DL Andrew Schaetzke, Georgetown, Jr.
LB Michael Schmidlein, Lafayette, Sr
LB Nick Mageria, Fordham, Sr.
LB Troy Taylor, Lehigh, Sr.
LB Jimmy Thomas, Holy Cross, Jr.
DB Jarard Cribbs, Lehigh, Sr.
DB Brandon Ellis, Lafayette, Jr.
DB Akhiel White, Bucknell, Sr.
DB Anthony DiMichele, Holy Cross, Sr.

First Team Special Teams
PK Rob Dornfried, Holy Cross, Sr.
P Patrick Murray, Fordham, So.
RS John Kennedy, Lehigh, Sr.

Second Team Offense
QB J.B. Clark, Lehigh, Sr.
RB Jay Campbell, Lehigh, Sr.
RB Darryl Whiting, Fordham, Jr.
WR Jason Caldwell, Fordham, Sr.
WR Freddie Santana, Holy Cross, Sr.
WR Mitch Bennett, Lafayette, Jr.
TE Alex Schneider, Holy Cross, Jr.
OL Vittorio Ottanelli, Colgate, Jr.
OL Keith Schauder, Lehigh, Sr.
OL Anthony Buffolino, Lafayette, Jr.
OL Lloyd Morrison, Fordham, Sr.
OL Brian Merrifield, Colgate, Jr.

Second Team Defense
DL Andrew Knapp, Lehigh, Jr.
DL Cody Connare, Lehigh, Jr.
DL John von Paris, Bucknell, Sr.
DL Doug Gerowski, Lafayette, Sr.
LB Nick Parrish, Georgetown, Sr.
LB Al Pierce, Lehigh, Sr.
LB Travis Nissley, Bucknell, Sr.
LB Sean Lamkin, Holy Cross, Sr.
DB Demitri Diamond, Colgate, So.
DB Isa Abdul El-Quddus, Fordham, Sr.
DB John Venerio, Lehigh, Sr.
DB Coree Moses, Colgate, Sr.

Second Team Special Teams
PK Davis Rodrigues, Lafayette, Sr.
P Tom Kondash, Lafayette, Sr.
RS Jarard Cribbs, Lehigh, Sr.

How The Ivy League Is Able To Break the NCAA's Scholarship Limits and Still Consider Themselves FCS

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....

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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