Seyi looks ready to play
Although his name does not appear on the Boston College football roster, I'm hearing reports that Seyi Adebayo '14 is using his final year of college football eligibility to walk on with the Eagles.
UPDATE: Boston College now confirms that Adebayo is a member of the 2014 Eagles.
We certainly wish Seyi the best of luck there after injuries shortened a promising career at Columbia. I suspect Adebayo's respect for former Columbia Defensive Coordinator Kevin Lempa, who is now at BC, may have played a role in this story.
I do not blame Head Coach Pete Mangurian and his regime for Adebayo's injury in the first game last year, as it appears he was just not fully recovered from his ACL tear in 2012. But that 2012 injury was gut-wrenching as Adebayo was being used on special teams at the time of his injury and he was not taken out of the game when he took a bad hit moments before he was slammed again.
Yet what what does it say about the CU program right now that Adebayo is indeed using that final year of eligibility to try to break onto an FBS team when he could have stayed at Columbia and potentially dominated at his DE position? With the loss of Chad Washington due to his leaving school, the CU defensive line looks painfully thin right now. Adebayo could have made a huge difference.
It's possible Adebayo is getting a waiver to play for BC that the Ivy League would not have granted him to keep playing for the Lions. But with Brett Nottingham getting the Ivy League's okay to proceed as if last year never happened, it seems plausible that Adebayo would also get a waiver after going down with less than one game played in 2013.
Somehow, it just seems like Adebayo's story is just another major missed opportunity for Columbia football.
We certainly wish Seyi the best of luck there after injuries shortened a promising career at Columbia. I suspect Adebayo's respect for former Columbia Defensive Coordinator Kevin Lempa, who is now at BC, may have played a role in this story.
I do not blame Head Coach Pete Mangurian and his regime for Adebayo's injury in the first game last year, as it appears he was just not fully recovered from his ACL tear in 2012. But that 2012 injury was gut-wrenching as Adebayo was being used on special teams at the time of his injury and he was not taken out of the game when he took a bad hit moments before he was slammed again.
Yet what what does it say about the CU program right now that Adebayo is indeed using that final year of eligibility to try to break onto an FBS team when he could have stayed at Columbia and potentially dominated at his DE position? With the loss of Chad Washington due to his leaving school, the CU defensive line looks painfully thin right now. Adebayo could have made a huge difference.
It's possible Adebayo is getting a waiver to play for BC that the Ivy League would not have granted him to keep playing for the Lions. But with Brett Nottingham getting the Ivy League's okay to proceed as if last year never happened, it seems plausible that Adebayo would also get a waiver after going down with less than one game played in 2013.
Somehow, it just seems like Adebayo's story is just another major missed opportunity for Columbia football.
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I don't think Nottingham is proceeding as if last year ever happened -- he had two years of eligibility left, now he has one. (He's listed on the roster as a senior, unless I'm missing something.)
Also, I believe Adebayo was already in his fifth year last year. I doubt they would have issued him another waiver for this year, especially as I am sure that he would have completed his eight semesters in school by then.
Nottingham is listed as a senior but he has been granted two years of eligibility again. I believe Adebayo would have been given the same courtesy, but Columbia and the League are always tight-lipped about eligibility stuff. They probably won't even confirm Nottingham's second year of eligibility until next year, but he has it.
Congrats to the University on this honor. If we knock what is wrong with the program(s), we should, in all fairness, acknowledge this honor. And thank you to the medical and training staff that keeps these kids on the field!
Columbia Named ECAC Division I Institution of the Year
http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9600&ATCLID=209608006
Meh.
Good luck to Adebayo. Stuff like that happens all the time. My best guess is that he figured if he could have 1 more year, he'd do it at a place with a more competitive team.
Re the article Greg mentions, I'll take any positive news I can about CU, and this is good stuff. It doesn't address the concerns here re football, or the overall performance problem. We wound up having a few more individual champs with a better GPA and that's how we won.
Good for us, but don't let this camouflage the ongoing issues.
Greg Abbruzzese is a fine football player and Columbian,
and I join him in congratulating the Columbia male and female athletes whose work on the field and in the classroom produced this award. The fact remains that the
athletic weight of this award was carried by the baseball,
tennis, swimming, cross country, basketball and other teams, golf too as I recall. The elephant in that room that Pollyanna Dianne Murphy ignored in her statement is football. And football, like it or not, but like the elephant, dwarfs all other critters in weight. She knows that, the alums know it and the public knows it.
Murphy will feast on this accolade all year. "Victory has a thousand fathers and defeat is an orphan." John F. Kennedy, circa 1961
Apparently Columbia has just dropped football, according to a statement by Athletic Director Dianne Murphy.
After sharing the ECAC "female athletics administrator of the year award" with the Associate AD of Adelphi and the AD of William Smith College, Murphy said she was tremendously excited also about the accolades for Columbia sports which earlier was chosen as the ECAC sports program of the year.
Since it's impossible for football to enlarge its achievement by being worse than last year, I wonder if Murphy is hinting that football has bowed out permanently while it was ahead, or behind, or something.
We are now right up there with Stevens institute of technology. Seriously, what if this is as good as it gets?
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