The big question regarding Fordham going into last year: What on Earth was happening with all of those scholarships? With a two-year headstart on everyone else, many folks thought that the Lombardis would be stomping on the rest of the Patriot League by the 2012 season - if merit aid would indeed result in FCS championship-caliber teams. In 2013, head coach Joe Moorhead finally delivered one of those types of teams , delivering an 11-1 regular season record, Fordham's second-ever playoff victory, and a signal to the rest of the FCS of what regular scholarship Patriot League teams might look like in the future. Yet the success, too, was not completely as it seemed. Had Fordham been eligible for the Patriot League championship, they would have been no more than co-champions - with their loss to Lafayette, they would have lost the autobid to the Leopards anyway. And the way they've built their team - as you will see - has not been so much built on Patsy Points, but ha...
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