Day-to-Day work and updates on the Ivy football season will continue on this blog. But to make sure the emergency situation Columbia football and Columbia athletics are under remains on the forefront, the following extremely common sense demands will be posted on top of every new post on this blog until changes are made:
We must:
1) Replace Dianne Murphy as Athletic Director right away
2) Replace Pete Mangurian as Head Football Coach the moment the season ends
3) Bring in an outside consulting/expert group to make the replacement hires and evaluate the positions and effectiveness of everyone in the athletic department.
4) Do NOT allow anyone who has had a leadership position or position of influence in any past hiring process to participate or interfere in any way with the overhaul process.
Please call President Bollinger at 212-854-1754 as soon as possible and asked to be connected to his office. Please respectfully ask that Murphy and Mangurian be let go as soon as possible.
You can also email: officeofthepresident@columbia.edu
MY EMAIL FOR ANY AND ALL QUESTIONS AND CONFIDENTIAL CORRESPONDENCE IS:
roarlions2012.gmail.com
Spec Staff Editorial
Less than a week after my letter to the editor calling for Dianne Murphy and Pete Mangurian to be fired, the Spec has published a staff editorial calling for Murphy's ouster.
I very much welcome this statement from at least one important section of the current student body. Neither Murphy or Mangurian can be allowed to continue in their positions. If they are allowed to stay here, it's a very clear message from the administration that they don't care about athletics, don't care about player safety and development, don't care about the scholar-athlete ideal, and REALLY don't care about the students and alumni fans want or think.
Cornell 24 Columbia 9
Why Cornell Won
Despite being without their #1 star player QB Jeff Mathews, the Big Red had no trouble moving the ball when they needed to. WR Grant Gellatly, playing in his last game at Schoelkopf Field, was all over the field with 136 yards receiving and another 38 on the ground. Meanwhile, the defense did not allow a TD.
Why Columbia Lost
The Lions let a close contest slip away as the inept offense continued to drop passes, turn the ball over and not score TD's in the red zone. They even allowed the worst rushing offense in the league to get 131 yards on the ground.
Key Turning Points
-Trailing 3-0 midway through the 1st quarter, Columbia had a 2nd down and one at the Big Red 14 and the Lions looked poised to score a TD. But they couldn't even get that one yard and had to settle for a tying FG.
-Early in the 2nd quarter, Cornell took over at their own 20 with the score tied at 3-3. The Big Red promptly began an incredible 19 play drive for a TD that was almost all running plays. Getting pushed around by the Cornell O-line is something no one else has had to worry about all season... until now.
-Early in the 4th quarter and with Columbia still behind by just 17-9, the Lions had the ball at their own 45 and were moving. But a Trevor McDonagh INT on 2nd and 10 from the 45 ended the drive and essentially ended the game.
Columbia Positives
I like the individual play of the following players:
-Luke Eddy was a perfect 3-3 on FG's.
-Cameron Molina looked good again on some runs and on one screen pass in particular.
-This was a breakout game for sophomore LB Mark Cieslak. He had 12 tackles, 2.5 tackles for a loss, including one sack.
Columbia Negatives
-Columbia made a Jeff Mathews-less Cornell offense look good, the inept Cornell defense look good, and themselves look bad most of the day. What else is there to say but that this appears to be the worst coached football team in America?
7 comments:
Could be an interesting off season. Some players feel betrayed by the coach and the Athletic Dept. They wanted the players to keep everything buttoned up and in house. They wanted no comments to family, media, this blog, friends. It was understandable.
But when the heat came who did the talking to the newspapers? The coach went to the newspapers about the suspensions when it could have been kept in house.
Tellier went all the way to their New York daily newspapers to get the heat off the Athletic department. He threw the junior and senior athletes to the wolves to save their own skin. The ones doing the talking were the ones asking to close ranks. These points were not lost on the junior and senior boys. The ones who should have helped and guided them threw them to the media wolves....
Exactly. Anyone who tells people to "keep in the family," or "keep in house," or is obsessed with what outside groups know something is almost always either 1) hiding something very bad 2) actually doing the snitching himself, (see Whitey Bulger). In this case, it may be BOTH.
Jake, who's the player of the game this week. You pointed out the game Mark Cieslak had, why not give him the honors.
I just don't think any CU player should be straddled with the embarrassment of being an "MVP" in any game this season.
Aw, Jake- c'mon. There were some decent individiual performances. McDonagh threw for nearly 300 yards. Eddy was perfect. It's not their fault that the year has been a disaster.
I have noticed Cieslak's play as well. The kid plays with heart. Great to see.
To be honest: I think the special teams coach has done a good job. The kickoff coverage team leads all of FCS and the punt coverage is 5th. There has to be credit for that. Interestingly, the kicker and punter are both seniors.
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