The Unofficial Holy Cross Commit List for the Class of 2017

High school players across the country right now are making decisions on their college futures, and some are making choices involving Patriot League schools.

The news trickles out slowly, from a variety of sources, and finally ends with the official announcement from the schools of the incoming football recruit class.

But with a little work (and a lot of help), it's possible to get a list together of verbal commits to the individual Patriot League schools.

Below the flip, get a sneak peek of Holy Cross's class of 2017, including links to some highlights, and also embedded video clips - and come back to this page often, as I'm going to be updating it frequently over the next few weeks.

DE Dean Doe (Lake Braddock HS, Burke, VA)
2012 Patriot District Champions
Twitter Commitment
Commitment on beRecruited Page

WR/S Luke Ford (Loyola Academy HS, Wilmette, IL)
Sports Illustrated article on Loyola Academy's game in Dublin, Ireland, w/ Ford

Commitment mentioned in Chicago Sun-Times Aritcle
Video available on Hudl Profile

RB/S Brendan Flaherty (Beverly HS, Beverly, MA)
3,503 rushing yards: 4,349 all-purpose offense: 57 all-purpose TDs
Northeastern Conference Player of the Year
ESPN Boston: Beverly's Flaherty Commits to Holy Cross

RB Gabe Guild (Shawnee Mission South HS, Overland Park, KS)
Topeka Capital Journal 1st Team All-State Running Back
2013 Kansas Shrine Bowl Invitee
Commitment mentioned on Kansas Pregame Facebook Post
Video available on Hudl Profile

OL Hunter Hudgins (Eastside Catholic HS, Bellvue, WA)
WIAA State Title finalist, 13-1 record senior year
Hudgins mentioned in Signing Day event on school website

DE/TE Mark McGuire (Boston College HS, Boston, MA)
Patriot Ledger: DT McGuire returns interception for TD against Marlboro
Twitter Commit

TE Lucas Nikolaisen (De Smet Jesuit HS, St. Louis, MO)
Dual Threat TE
STL Today: Article on Commitment

OL Nick Piker (Hinsdale Central HS, Hinsdale, IL)
Pioneer Press All-Area Team
Commitment Announced on Rivals

QB Peter Pujals (Loyola Academy HS, Chicago, IL)
Catholic Blue Offensive MVP
Teammate of commit WR Luke Ford
Chicago Tribune: Loyola Keeps Rolling With New Faces (Announces Commitment to Holy Cross)

P/K Zane Wasp (Chaminade HS, Mineola, NY)
Game-winning FG gave Chaminade first CHSFL title since 1998
Twitter Commit

RB Jake Wieczorek (West Forsythe HS, Cumming, GA)
Forsthy All-Region 6-AAAAAA Team
Twitpic showing Holy Cross commitment
Video Available on Hudl Profile

ATH Kyle Young (Roxbury HS, Succasunna, NJ)
QB and K for NJSIAA North 1, Group IV state champions
Commitment from school
Video Available on Hudl Profile

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

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.

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.

Lehigh Football Nation

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