Stuart Suss
PhD Student
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Loc: Chester County, Pennsylva...
Reg: 11-21-04
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01-21-22 06:30 PM - Post#333897
In response to Silver Maple
I have a different recollection of what happened in 2006.
Fran O'Hanlon was contacted regarding the Dunphy vacancy. As noted in the Feinstein story, Lafayette had just allowed athletic scholarships after years of making Lafayette compete without scholarships in a scholarship league. O'Hanlon supposedly said that Lafayette stood by him when his non-scholarships teams were getting beaten by other teams in the league and that he wanted to reciprocate the loyalty that Lafayette had shown to him.
There was even a story, perhaps apocryphal, that while visiting Philadelphia, either for the Penn job interview, or for some other reason, he had been caught in some awful traffic jam on the Schuylkill expressway and said, "I don't need this."
Those stories are consistent with O'Hanlon's quote in the Feinstein story:
<<When Lafayette was at the top of the Patriot League, he had numerous opportunities to leave, but turned them all down. “I decided to give up my shot at the Hall of Fame to be at a place where I’m completely happy,” he said. “Tough decision, huh?”>>
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