Green Alert Take: I went to the final Montreal Expos game at Le Stade and when the game was over they played Canadian Sarah McLachlan's I Will Remember You. It was incredibly touching knowing the Expos were leaving. I guess it wouldn't work with a football highlight video but hey, it's Montreal where Ryder plays, he's Canadian like McLachlan, and we will remember him.
Green Alert Take II: You know what? Given the Canadian connections I just played I Will Remember You with Ryder's highlights and there's something poignant about it. Maybe it would work although I suppose the warning would be anyone under a certain age turn down the sound ;-)
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I've known STATS' FCS guru Craig Haley for a long time and am a fan of his work giving the subdivision solid publicity. Still, given the fortunes of the Patriot League these past few years I'd have to tease him a little about this lede to the latest in his series on FCS-FBS games:Since the addition of football scholarships across the Patriot League, its teams have had a better chance of knocking off FBS programs.It's tough to see the Patriot League having success against an FBS program given the conference's woeful performance outside the PL.
Over the last two years the only Patriot League school to finish a season with a winning record was Colgate, which was 7-4 in 2017 and 10-2 last fall. No one else was even .500.
Holy Cross and Georgetown tied for the second-best records last year with 5-6 marks, and Lehigh's 5-7 record in 2017 was second-best in the league that fall.
Factor out Colgate and the Patriot went 4-26 out-of-conference a year ago, and 6-25 two years ago. For those keeping score, that's 10-51 when you leave out 'Gate, a winning percentage of .164.
