I can't remember who contributed the Bucknell "needs." I do remember that AGS went into shutdown mode as we were trying to collect this information and things got short circuited. At that time I had, I believe, at least one response from each school and had to go with it.

Frankly, this class looks a lot like same old, same old from Landis. It appears that Susan is going to have to content himself with changing attitudes and will this year as well as installing his systems. The beginning of the great leap forward is probably a year away, but I think we all knew that given the timing.

I can't imagine that Susan took the job without some guarantees of support, but on the other hand, he is in his mid 50s and may have been running out of head coaching opportunities. My comments about the recruiting geography are serious and a bit troubling. The new administration is a wild card in all of this, but the basics of finance and institutional attitudes have not changed. The Class of 2015 (the recruiting class of 2011) will be, in my opinion, make or break for Bucknell football.