The Hard Truths

We don't have to imagine how he'd describe Columbia football anymore

When you see a team in a downward spiral, with bad management from top to bottom, it’s pretty obvious.

But in today’s world of timid beat reporters and organizations that can spell the message the way they like, falsehoods sometimes are given a lot more time and credence than ever before.

That’s what we’ve been experiencing as CU football fans as the obvious failures of a terrible 0-6 team with a 17 game active losing streak are still being defended by a powerful few.

There’s a team across the river from Wien Stadium that’s just about as bad. It’s called the NY Jets. And it’s leadership, namely GM John Idzik, did an eerie Pete Mangurian/Lee Bollinger/Dianne Murphy/Bill Campbell impersonation yesterday in a terribly rambling and falsehood-laced news conference.

Luckily, the major sports media in NYC is a little too savvy and strong to let something let that go when it comes to one of our NFL teams.

WFAN’s Mike Francessa just gave Idzik and the Jets all they deserved in this epic rant  on video. 

Please watch the whole thing and just substitute “Columbia” for every time he says the Jets and “Pete Mangurian,” “Dianne Murphy,” “Lee Bollinger,” or “Bill Campbell” every time he talks about the Jets organization.

Then you just might get what we’re going through here.

Now we don’t have to imagine what it would sound like Francessa or any of his peers saying the following:

“You guys are congratulating yourselves on improvement. WHAT improvement?!? You just lost on Homecoming by three scores to a second team quarterback!!”

“Mangurian says there’s ‘empirical evidence’ the team is getting better. What evidence is that? You’ve lost 17 straight games by at least two scores every time! What on Earth are you talking about?”

“Mangurian tells you he’s won before elsewhere. No he hasn’t! He had one winning season at Cornell with Jim Hofher’s recruits and then the kids he brought in stunk up the joint for three years after he left! He was FIRED from other NFL jobs for being a jerk! And NOW you’re surprised that he’s a jerk here? Where was the due diligence in vetting this guy? Where was the football committee? Where was Bill Campbell?“

"You have to hold Bill Campbell and the other decision makers ACCOUNTABLE!"

"You've got players jumping around and high-fiving after one good play when they're down by 30+ points! It's an embarrassment! The other teams find it so east, they think they're in a preseason scrimmage!"