Okay, just to post an update, last night I went ahead and re-configured the template to remove any manual settings we had put in place regarding SNAT pools, etc. To my surprise this morning when I came in connectivity through the director and FE's were working as they should. Scratching my head on this because initially when we tested yesterday before making any changes to the template this was not working. Going to do some more testing of features today and tomorrow and will report back.
EDIT:
I am noticing that the lync_consolidated_edge_external_ip_http_monitor monitor that was created from the template has all of my nodes marked offline. From what I am reading on other forums this monitor may never work and I might need to just use a TCP monitor. I wanted to run this past the forum as if this was the case I would assume someone would have reported it by now. I am trying to search through the forums but I seem to always return ZERO results. Must be doing something wrong....