Happy Tuesday everyone.
Also, the status of Offensive Coordinator Jamie Elizondo is also a bit unsettled. After some heated exchanges during the Monmouth game, he did not return with the team to NYC on the team bus.
UPDATE: Elizondo was at practice yesterday. He is still with the team.
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This is a sad state of affairs for the CU team. The starting QB and team captain might quit. The O coordinator is arguing with staff. The team is winless and not competetive at all. How can they ever get a decent recruit? I'm glad my kid dint pick CU. I hate to say it but the only thing a recruit could see positive about the football team is it gets him in the school. After that the kid might quit.
Bob, this stuff has been happening for too long, which is why us old timers are so angry and tired. It is groundhog day for us for 70 years...
Drama in Morningside Heights! Elizondo and Pete are roommates aren't they? It is too bad HBO's Hard Knocks wasn't on hand this season.
Why is the overall quality of fb recruits so low if so many other sports are thriving? A are Mango and staff that bad?
Is the Admin trying to abolish football? Something's badly amiss here, more than a couple of interceptions.
Oops, continuing, I wonder also what our student-athletes in other sports think about the football mess. They could have useful insights but I know the Admin won't ask them.
Their coaches can't talk for fear of reprisal. Maybe they could share here anonymously. And that goes for football players too. Whatever is going on with football, and whatever issues some players may have, I'm sure most are here to get an education and to play ball,
not to become enmeshed in a never-ending soap opera.
Yet the disconnect between the health of other sports and the decrepitude of football is obvious.
Columbia is wealthy. It wastes millions every year on trivia and all kinds of baloney. Why won't it spend a few hundred thousand dollars more, or a million or two more for a solid coach and assts who can bring life back to the signature sport, which will help all other
sports too. The beneficial effect will more than return the outlay.
Another classless interview from PM in the Spectator.
Just saw the Spectator post(and made a comment there as well). I thought Brett had taken it upon himself to leave the team as a result of the post-Monmouth drama. The article made it sound like Pete told him he wouldn't start against Penn so he quit. That would be a shame if that is true. He needs to sit a game anyway. Shake things up and let McDonagh get things going.
Regardless, this has become a debacle. It would not be surprising if national football media picks up on the story. The trail of events and shameful handling of the program on all fronts is an embarrassment.
It is, Al, and worst of all, it's just going to scare away more recruits and coaches.
Worst of all, this will just scare away more recruits and coaches.
I'm afraid d of being drummed out of the league.
I'm afraid of that too Old Lion. But that fear could lead to a salvation. I think it's very clear by now that our admin does not care what its own alumni and fans think. BUT these guys and gals have always been super sensitive about what the other Ivies say about us. Maybe if some prominent alums from the other schools say how CU is embarrassing the whole league and fostering an undisciplined team that threatebd the opposing teams' safety in addition to its own, maybe they be embarrassed enough to fix it.
This is looking like a train wreck in super slow motion, and the locomotive just jumped the tracks. This is not going to end well at all-especially if the rest of the team quits. Boys, please keep your heads up, as hard as that sounds and
stay with the program. Otherwise, people can get hurt.
Ladies and gents
As Chairman of CAEC, I want to announce some changes.
First, our website is now www.winlions.com It will be up and active in the next day or so.
Second, we now fully endorse an immediate expert search for a qualified AD, as well as a search for a new head football coach.
It is now apparent that the wheels have fully come off the bus re FB. CAEC calls for an immediate termination of PM's tenure, and a caretaker coach to be appointed in the interim.
At the same time, we still adhere to our underlying request for the in-depth analysis of CU historic failure re athletics. But given the collapse of FB and the resignation of the AD, we must now focus upon the immediacy of current problems.
Please provide your feedback to this.
Dawg, if Bollywood is saying anything about football, I'll. bet it's "What are they so excited about? We've only lost 15 in a row."
Bill Campbell owns a bar in Palo Alto that I am within walking distance to (The Old Pro). I am told he has a special table reserved for him but I have never seen it. They must rearrange the place when he comes in. Patrons are mostly college students and the like. It is not a fancy place at all. I have made efforts to try and get a meeting with him. I have even inquired at The Old Pro to no avail. I tried to get his phone or email from my network of SV contacts but to no avail. That guy is caged in to a much higher pay grade than I have access to.
All I want to do is talk Columbia football with him and get his feedback. Straight to the point, not why hasn't this been fixed, how can this be fixed right now? The guy has juice, why is this happening for decades on end? I am hoping he has more to say than what he would say to a room full of people to be sufficiently evasive and generic. Let's get it right already.
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