Josh Martin, your 2012 Columbia Football Player of the Year
I now have more names of the awardees from the football dinner:
*Sid Luckman MVP: Josh Martin*
Head Coach Career Achievment Award: Sean Brackett & Ryan Murphy
MVP Offense: Marcorus Garrett
MVP Defense: Zach Olinger
Phil Fusco Award: Mike Waller
Maniatty-Remmer Unsung Hero Ward: Will Patterson
Ken German Freshman Award: Travis Reim
Special teams Award: Paul Delaney
I should not have omitted Martin's name from my list of favorites to win the Luckman Award, but I fell into what can be called the "stats trap."
Sure, 50 total tackles for a D-lineman along with 6.5 sacks and 11.5 tackles for a loss are impressive. But Martin's presence on the field meant so much more for the rest of the defense. A lot of the other players' impressive stats were made possible by the double-teams Martin drew and all the attention he demanded.
His most dominant game this past season was against Cornell where he not only sacked Big Red QB Jeff Mathews multiple times, he really hurt him and knocked him out of the game.
I don't know yet if Martin will be taking a shot at making the NFL, but I'd love to see him try.
Speaking of the career achievement co-winner Sean Brackett, he's put together a nice highlight reel of his amazing Lion career. It's in three parts and you can find it by first watching the video below:
17 comments:
Where the heck is the Athletics Department update on this? WHY so slow???
Congratulations to all the award recipients, and to all those that were under consideration for the award. The O and D MVPs both return, as does Paul Delaney and Travis Reim. Two recruiting classes and these returnees bode well for the Lions next year. No prediction on record, but a better team (no direspect meant) thatn this year.
I'm sure details of the Awards Banquet will come out in the "Tuesday update".
Some very nice photos of the new Campbell Center on coach's Facebook page.
Going off topic for a moment, but Kyle Smith is now 12-24 in Ivy League play in 2.5 seasons. This team seems reasonably talented but rarely plays with poise for 40 minutes. Joe Jones was 19-23 in his last three years in Ivy play. Does it seem that MBB is headed in the wrong direction?
Yes.
They missed one highlight on Brackett - his run up the middle at the 3 yd line to score the winning TD on an obviously injured leg vs Cornell in 2011.
No Doc, they got that one. It was the very last highlight in the 3rd video
I have to agree with anon that bb is not getting any better
Further to MBB, our two big wins against Harvard and Villanova followed the same pattern of playing aggressively with a lead. In the Ivy games, this team has demonstrated that it can only win if it is hitting from three point range. What has been the hallmark of the Kyle Smith reign is that he loses every close game in the league. Until we mailed it in last Saturday against Yale, we had lost six games on the last or next to last possession. We followed the identical pattern last year, that is, we invariably over the last two years have been out coached by teams with equal or lesser talent in the last five minutes of almost every game we played. So what happened last Saturday against Yale? Did we just mail it in after yet another last second loss against a team we should have beaten by fifteen or twenty points? Smith seems like a nice guy, but he has regressed and should move on at the end of the season.
Right you are Jake. That's what I get for not watching the last video to the very end. A beautiful moment it was. We'll miss this guy.....
Is Adebayo coming back for a fifth year?
Yes he is and my sources say he us looking strong.
"Is" looking strong I meant to say.
If Adebayo comes back and can stay healthy he has all Ivy potential. He was primed for a great senior season last Fall and plays with a nasty streak.
How goes the search for a new defensive coordinator ??? .... any timeline for having him in place ???
The position of DC was recently listed as open.
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