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What It's Like To Be Disappointed

Being a college football fan sometimes means being disappointed.  It comes with the territory. Disappointment comes in many forms. In the Lehigh football world, there's the type of disappointment when a non-Lafayette game is lost, like when, say, the Mountain Hawks underperform in a loss to Yale .  While you can be upset that the Bulldogs push you around in your own house , the disappointment abates, eventually.  You get a bunch of really good wins, win the most important game on your schedule, and the disappointment fades away.  You move on, the Yale game an aberration in a mostly terrific year. But recently, a bunch of Lehigh football players disappointed for a different reason. What they did isn't exactly a secret, but I thought it worthwhile to say exactly what such news does to huge fans of the Lehigh football program, like myself, and how it affects many of the other passionate Lehigh fans that are a part of the great Lehigh football community.  It's not ple