Two of Columbia’s first three opponents are ranked in the
Top 25 in the FCS Gameday Preseason Poll.
Week one foe Fordham is #16 and week three opponent
Princeton is #25.
Sporting News puts Fordham as high as #8 while Princeton is unranked in that poll.
Lindy’s also ranks the Rams at #8 and puts Princeton at #25.
Athlon ranks Fordham at #13.
Meanwhile, yet another Fordham player has been named to the CFPA
award watch list. He’s kick return specialist Jorge Solano.
A fair question right now for Head Coach Pete Mangurian and his staff is this: “What
are you SPECIFICALLY preparing to do to make sure the games against Fordham and
Princeton don’t get out of hand and leave our team hopelessly demoralized so
early in the season?”
14 comments:
Just a guess: Is he preparing nice Thanksgiving baskets
for the NHDC?
Just a guess: Is he preparing nice Thanksgiving baskets
for the NHDC?
Oops, I pump-faked. good tip for our QBs.
Way too few pump fakes in Ivy ball, I agree. We should teach it more.
It's going to be a blowout unless Fordham shows mercy. Problem is even their third stringers will excel. Early prediction 49-3.
at halftime?
Hey Jake, how do you think our players who are busting their gut like to read things like this? None of us like Pete, but for goodness sake let's show these kids that we are behind them. If I were a player or a parent I would be pretty steamed up right now.
Well said, oldlion.
I don't think this is supposed to be a "booster" blog. It's a site for people -- many of them former players -- who follow CU football and have a legitimate interest in sharing their thoughts, whatever those might be. We don't need to feel responsible for what someone might think if they read this. And we can't really know what someone might think anyway.
My own fairly severe experience with CU football -- on the freshman team, dropping out of school for a year because of depression at how terrible the football program was, and later getting two letters in lightweight -- was quite simply that nobody was paying the slightest bit of attention one way or the other. I really don't know how I would have felt if somehow a forum like this had existed. It might have at least shown that the whole thing wasn't taking place in an absolute vacuum.
Mitch S 68CC
I agree with oldlion.
Tod Howard Hawks CC 66
if i were a player i would try to prove the blog wrong. however, i played a long time ago and never got my panties in a bunch over what people said.
almost everything i read here is not a reflection on the players, but just how bad this imposter coaching is.
lets put it bluntly, these kids get into a great school that some people who die to attend. they are, for a large majority subpar relative to the rest of the league and our coach is subpar relative to any high school coach..so who is to blame for this debacle? yes, the administtration, but also all of the powder puffs that accepted this, meaning all of us.
These are men, not little boys. They will not cry about any of this, if anything they will use this as motivation.
I agree with Mr. Gelegenheit. If we don't have freedom of speech, on this blog or anywhere else, we are in worse shape than any football team.
Just off-hand, who is to blame if not the U's administration? Why doesn't this happen at Brown?
They're as nutty liberal as CU and the other Ivies. Is it just accidental they have a strong football program while Columbia has 70 years of failure? Fordham had Admins that didn't like football, once a national power at Fordham.
They shut it down for many years. Then someone changed the Admin.
Chick
You may have touched upon something.
Just a thought.
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