Osbourne ran at will
Albany 42 Columbia 7
Why Albany Won
The Great Danes offense did whatever it wanted, when it wanted. RB Omar Osbourne had 193 yards on just 15 carries and had TD runs of 57 and 45 yards. And despite not having much of a passing attack in its first three games, half of QB Will Fiacchi's six completions went for TD's.
Why Columbia Lost
The Lions committed five turnovers, couldn't stop the Albany offense, and allowed four sacks.
Key Turning Points
-After Albany took an early 7-0 lead, Columbia mounted a decent drive to answer that got as far as the Great Dane 37. But a Cameron Molina rush for negative-four yards and an 11-yard sack of Brett Nottingham two plays later killed the drive. Albany took the ensuing punt from CU and drove 89 yards in just over four minutes for another TD and a 14-0 lead.
-Columbia's Devin Williams fumbled the ensuing kickoff, and two plays later, Albany led 21-0.
Columbia Positives
-Molina ran better and did a good job with runs after catches on screen passes. But most of his yards came well after this game was decided.
Columbia Negatives
-The sloppier play that defined the 2013 season was much more evident in this game than the opener vs. Fordham. A fair catch was botched, the fumbled kickoff, and a bad snap to Nottingham were prime examples. There were also quite a few dropped passes once again.
-The pass rush that looked formidable against Fordham was a complete no-show at Bob Ford Field. If future opposing QB's like Princeton's Quinn Epperly get this kind of time, we could see scores in the 50's and 60's in the coming weeks.
-It looks like RB Chris Shroer badly twisted his ankle or worse on one play and he did not return. We'll probably get info on his injury sometime in early 2016.
Columbia MVP
-Cameron Molina still gets the nod, despite most of his production coming in garbage time.
Overall
There is just no joy in watching Columbia football right now. The fundamentals are so bad, you can't even laugh at them anymore.
10 comments:
Schroer was injured, haven't seen anything mentioned on it. Looked like an ankle maybe or knee. He was helped off the field and it looked pretty bad. He was in obvious pain.
And not to belabor the point, but regardless of the coaching, play, etc., these kids bust their ass for months to do this, and risk injury besides, so they all deserve our respect and appreciation.
Not only do they deserve our respect and appreciation - and they certainly have mine - but they deserve a program that will give them a successful experience at CU and great memories for the rest of their lives.
If they don't get that they're being hurt mentally and emotionally, and in many cases physically as well. Columbia needs to take responsibility for all that or else drop football entirely. Anything else is literally a form of abuse.
Mitch S, 68CC
There is a scene in the ESPN segment covering the famous losing streak where a former player (I forget who it was) where he says losing every game of his collegiate career sticks with him to this day. Heartbreaking.
The apologists who think this team has a shot at winning a single game this season are delusional. Every team on the schedule is set to destroy the current team. Stop mentioning Cornell as a possible victory and look at last year's game (which was without Mathews at QB) as a benchmark. It's not going to happen.
0-10 - again.
That was actually an NFL Films special Al, but your point is 100% right.
It is an outrage and a breach of faith by the current administration to let this continue past Homecoming if there is no sign of improvement. And this is totally on Dianne for hiring Mangurian.
I think this makes sense (from Spectator) Comments?...Allie
posted on Sep 29, 8:23am
Why do you think the administration doesn't care about football? They fired a well-liked but marginally successful coach because he hadn't turned in a winning season; hired a coach with with more experience than any other hire for the last 50 years; built a new building for the football program (primarily); and the coaches are given resources to recruit nationally. It hasn't worked out yet, and Mangurian may not be the guy to turn it around, but you really can't say it's for lack of trying.
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Anonymous posted on Sep 29, 12:20pm
The Spec comment is partly correct. Where it falls short is in execution of a strategy by the administration. NW was fired off a bad year, having close close a few years earlier. The stated reason was that he had regressed and that we couldn't get over the hump. But what was the back story.? Could it have been that an unemployed Mangurian started lobbying his old Cornell friend Murphy for the job before Norries was canned? In any event, it now seems apparent that NW should have been kept and his OC, who was a disaster, should have been canned.
But I thought Norries was loyal to his OC and would not let him go. I think it was time for Norries to go and we should have brought in a dynamic personality who had a reputation of good organizational and personal skills. For Diane to ever think that PM woudl survive here with his personality is mind boggling.
As for the person who made comments in the Spec and alwaicius, We never want to compare what we do against the successful programs in the league, instead we rate ourselves against what we did in the past. We do enough to claim that we are trying but we never strive for excellence or to be the best in the league.
We have never been on the same level as the top programs because the admin has never made the TOTAL COMMITMENT needed to turn it around.
Columbia has always had the resources to recruit nationally, this isnt something new.
I dont see how building a building so far away from campus means we are committing resources. there have been people that have offered other ideas to bring some of the facilities closer to campus which would make sense given our number 1 goal of education.
i also disagree with the concept that this coach has more experience than any in the last 50 years. that is like saying the guy who took 3 hours to do the job is better than the guy who took 1 hour even though they both got the work correct. if it takes longer for him to grasp then i would suggest he is not better or more experienced.
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