Saturday was a beautiful day for football here in New York City and I made the trip to the Bronx to see Fordham take on Bucknell. The Rams did win the Patriot League contest, 21-7, as QB John Skelton threw for 305y but are stuck in a fifth place tie in the conference. With two winnable games on the schedule, Fordham has a good chance to be 6-5. That is okay I guess, but more was expected from the final season of Skelton, who led Fordham to the conference crown in 2007 and is on the radar of NFL scouts.
There will soon be pressure on the Fordham program to begin dominating their Patriot League rivals as the school has decided to begin awarding scholarships and to start scheduling FBS opponents. With Navy and Army, and possibly Connecticut, on future schedules, the Fordham program needs to become more competitive. As a member of the alumni, I am lukewarm about the prospects. It will be exciting to see Fordham tangle with bigger programs, but only if they will not be embarrassed. There have always been older donors who yearned for the days of playing the best teams in the nation, but that past can never be recovered. Money spent trying and failing to relive ancient days of football glory would be better spent on a basketball program that has fallen on hard times.
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