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. W

Made-Up Midseason Grades for Lehigh Football

We are now officially midway through the 2023 Lehigh football season. The Mountain Hawks sit at 1-5 overall, and 0-1 in the Patriot League. I thought I'd go ahead and make up some midseason grades, and set some "fan goals" for the second half. The 2023 Mountain Hawks were picked to finish fifth in the seven team Patriot League. In order to meet or exceed that expectation, they'll probably have to go at least 3-2 the rest of the way in conference play. Their remaining games are vs. Georgetown, at Bucknell, vs. Holy Cross, at Colgate, and vs. Lafayette in The Rivalry. Can they do it? Culture Changing: B+ . I was there in the Bronx last week after the tough 38-35 defeat to Fordham, and there wasn't a single player emerging from the locker room that looked like they didn't care. Every face was glum. They didn't even seem sad. More frustrated and angry. That may seem normal, considering the agonizing way the Mountain Hawks lost, but it was a marked chan

Fifteen Guys Who Might be Lehigh's Next Football Coach (and Five More)

If you've been following my Twitter account, you might have caught some "possibilities" as Lehigh's next head football coach like Lou Holtz, Brett Favre and Bo Pelini . The chance that any of those three guys actually are offered and accept the Lehigh head coaching position are somewhere between zero and zero. (The full list of my Twitter "possibilities" are all on this thread on the Lehigh Sports Forum .) 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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