Over the years, the Lehigh football program has always had very high expectations in every sense. The expectations at Lehigh, as I've observed it, are: * That Lehigh football teams always have top football students academically as a member of their classes. * That Lehigh football teams always compete for Patriot League Championships, every year. There is no such thing as a rebuilding year. Championship droughts, and losing records, are supposed to be aberrations. * That Lehigh football, in the preseason has, as their goal, to win the FCS National Championship. Are those goals unrealistic? At a point in time for this program, although the goals were lofty, they were not unrealistic. Patriot League schools in the past have made it to the FCS National Championship game, and won multiple rounds in the FCS Playoffs. Twice Lehigh had the ball with under two minutes to play against teams who would end up being FCS National Champions, with Lehigh...
Independent writing about Lehigh, the Patriot League, FCS football and whatever I damn well please since 2003