Quote Originally Posted by Pards Rule View Post
I live year round on Long Beach Island (LBI) NJ, the island thats 18 miles long - hence the name - thats directly north of Atlantic City. Anyways its quiet off season but today saw a guy come into Wawa at 630AM in Spray Beach, NJ with Missouri State jacket on and I chatted him up. His name was Doug too. Anyways he played for Villanova on OL for a couple seasons before they killed football after 1980 season. He was recruited by Lafayette DC Joe Sarra (later Penn St DC) but I guess it was a matter of economics as he was in family of 6 with single mom (way back then no schollies for Patriot, and NO NIL). So he was recruited by the Lions as they were at that time he said D2 moving to 1AA. I learned MSU is in Springfield. Good visit with a Lion! Hey it is early March right?
Unless you were talking to Jared Goff or someone at SELA, you were talking to a Tiger, not a Lion. That's a cool thing to happen, though.

In 1980 Villanova was full scholarship (and still I-A, I believe), while Lafayette would have been, I think, early in their D-I existence (along with Lehigh, Bucknell, Delaware and a bunch of ECC team) as Eastern independents. I think Lafayette and Lehigh were recruiting off of some combination of non-scholarship and grants-in-aid at that time? Point being Sarra could have been approaching him with some grant money, sorta like a scholarship. But maybe not. I think in spirit during that time Lehigh and Lafayette were attempting to implement some type of Ivy model. At least Lehigh was.