Bronx, N.Y. (August 5, 2014) - In 2013, the Fordham University football team adopted the theme of 212 degrees, a theme which focused on what can happen when you give the extra effort. The 212 degrees theme was a reference to the fact that water at 211 degrees won't do much but when that one extra degree is added, its boils and the energy created can power locomotives.
 
After the success of last year, where the Rams came up three games short of the NCAA FCS Championship game, head coach Joe Moorhead has turned that three game shortfall into the theme for this year's team, namely taking a page from a book by Napoleon Hill that tells the story of prospector R. U. Harby who was doing well until his supply of gold seemed to stop. He decided to quit the gold mining business and sold all of his equipment to a junkman. The perceptive junkman hired a mining engineer who found a vein of gold just three feet under where Harby was mining and the junkman went on to make millions.
 
That moral of the story, to have persistence, is something Moorhead is trying to instill in his troops. And with a senior-heavy roster he's hoping that the Rams will take it upon themselves not to stop and be satisfied with coming up three games shy but to press on and get to the 2014 NCAA FCS Championship game.
 
On the field today, the Rams took a step forward as the player start to get acclimated to the fast-paced two hour practices.
 
"The pace and tempo was better today than yesterday," said Moorhead. "That resulted in better execution but we still have room to improve. Every day we step on the field we have a chance to improve and it's up to us to take advantage of that."