Lafayette football team wants to get back to winning ways

http://www.mcall.com/sports/college/lafayette/mc-lafayette-college-football-preview-20120903,0,7573165.story FROM THE MORNING CALL Lafayette College football coach Frank Tavani really had his positive game face on on Feb. 4, 2009, when he said in a college news release that some extra hard work by his staff "helped us put together one of the best Lafayette football classes in recent history." That kind of rhetoric is not uncommon on National Letter of Intent Day. The problem was, and Tavani didn't make a big deal of it at the time, that the class consisted of only 17 players. That small class, and one the year before, were the products of drastic cutbacks in financial aid because of weakened economic conditions. "We lost the equivalent of 16 scholarships two classes in a row," Tavani said.