(Photo Credit: Steve Hockstein/NJ Advance Media) Yesterday, Lehigh announced the signing of 12 football student-athletes to National Letters of Intent, or NLI's. Nobody knew exactly what was going to happen in regards to student-athletes, whether they would sign national letters of intent, or not. What ended up happening was a floodgate of signings, not just at Lehigh but across college football. I entered Wednesday thinking that a good target for announced Lehigh football recruits was six, based on little other than my history of observing this stuff. As it stood, I saw schools like Delaware announcing six football recruits signed before breakfast, and Lehigh had inked their sixth recruit well before I had my leftover General Tso's chicken for lunch. It wasn't just amongst Patriot League or FCS schools, either. Penn State signed 21 recruits , including one of the top athletes of the Lehigh Valley, who flipped to the Nittany Lions from UCLA. Some esti...
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