As a lehigh fan was impressed by your team and stony brooks facilities . As far as the game goes I knew lehigh was in for an uphill battle . Lehigh held its own in the first half , I knew stony brooks depth would show up the longer the game went on . The patriot league does not have the depth of the caa . Kids can’t red shirt , can’t take transfers it effects the team you put on the field . I’ll be rooting for stony brook classy fans and a classy team !
I thought Priore pulled a very classy move when he had us take a knee with 2:38 left (on Lehigh's 15 yard line) -- four consecutive times. At that point Lehigh couldn't stop us and there was no need to go up 66-29. This meant, of course, we turned the ball over on downs and allowed Lehigh to run two plays (short screen and knee) to end the game.
The gap between CAA and PL has not narrowed since athletic scholarships came to the PL five years ago.
While non-medical redshirts and limited transfers (Fordham has done well with transfers so that is not an actual rule) has a big effect, the biggest is that 2 and 3 star recruits routinely show up to play CAA (and Ivy) but only rarely to PL. Since CAA has some excellent academic institutions and superior football it is nearly impossible for PL to out-recruit CAA. (And that is on top of the difficulty of out-recruiting the deep-pocketed and resurgent Harvard, Yale, and Princeton)
It was nice to see Lehigh's strong fan contingent show up at the stadium. I think it was the largest visiting crowd (minus Albany) I've seen in quite some time. The QB and receiving corps were as talented as advertised.