Lehigh Football Nation

Every day, I get many news alerts in my inbox. I like to think that I'm up on all the latest news about Patriot League football - I feel like I need to be ultra-informed about the goings-on all over the Patriot League, not just Lehigh, in order to do this Lehigh Football Nation blog thing right. Today, I get my normal news alerts, and I see a new AP story about Colgate RB Jordan Scott, courtesy of the International Herald Tribune . If you're a follower of the Patriot League and specifically of Colgate, you already know most of the story: in the offseason, he was arrested for burglary in an on-campus incident. He spent time in jail, served his suspension from the team (for one game), and as far as I was concerned, that was the end of it. Until I read this: Maybe Scott simply wanted to prove something because of that off-the-field mistake. He's had to deal with some of the content on the Lehigh Football Nation blog, where various entries said Scott was a stalker, that peo...

It's been a tumultuous offseason for Colgate fans who have been twisting in the wind regarding the situation involving star rising senior RB Jordan Scott (and WR David Morgan). After reporting that the players were suspended in December for a burglary charge , the state's and school's punishments for the two athlete's infractions were squeaked into a light July news cycle yesterday - and it's caused a firestorm of discussion amongst Colgate fans. Two Colgate football players are each serving 21 days in jail on charges of trespassing at a dorm room last December. Running back Jordan Scott and wide receiver David Morgan began serving the time at the Madison County jail last week after each agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor count of second-degree criminal trespass, said Hamilton village Justice Arnold Fisher. They will each serve a year of probation, too, Fisher said. Each student was originally charged with second-degree burglary, a felony. Looking over ...