Lehigh Football Nation

(Photo Credit: Dan Gleiter/PennLive) Head coach Andy Coen came into the conference room at Taylor Gym with a broad smile on his face - the type of face that comes from winning a Patriot League Championship last year, of course, but also the type of face that comes from a man quite happy with his incoming recruiting class. The fifteen names in the incoming class, "with four extra guys to announce later [on]", Coen said, seemed to fill Lehigh's needs, the fifth consecutive year that Lehigh has been recruiting with the same type of  scholarships as the rest of FCS. "We had to shore up some depth, we really had to get a little bit of everything," he said.  "We graduated a lot of guys in the secondary, so it was important to get a good group there this year, and I think we did that." Four defensive backs were announced today as being a part of the incoming class, DB Divine Buckrham, DB Tre Cundiff, DB Tre Neal , and DB Jaylen Floyd . "The ...

In the run-up to signing day, I caught up with a few of the new recruits to ask them about their recruiting stories and their high school football career. Today our subject is DB Divine Buckrham , who competed at The Kiski School, which is based just outside of Pittsburgh, PA. The Kiski School is an all boys, small, private school with an enrollment of 210 students. Despite its small size, it has a long, storied history of football, too. "From the early 1950's to the present, it is well documented that Kiski has fielded teams deep in football lore and history," Kiski's team website says . "Many of the country's greatest football players of the time started their careers at Kiski." Situated not far from State College, PA, Kiski graduates include QB Darryl Clark and RB Curtis Enis , two names which should be well known to Nittany Lions fans.