Well, I froze my toes and other body parts today rooting for the guys, to no avail. For a while, the 2 worst teams seemed like they were trying to give the game to each other, via picks and fumbles, but in the end Columbia won and gave it to Cornell. To sum it up, the last desperation play was thrown NOT to any receiver for a possible chance to catch it, but out of bounds. This would have been OK, except it was 4th down, so the ball went over to Cornell with 1:15 left. The game was full of questionable plays and missed opportunities. The only thing that actually made it exciting was playing a team almost as bad as us, which kept things closer than usual.
I haven't seen CU this yr. The wrs are horrible. Molina n Hill are foreal. Great effort by CU after going down 21. That being said they were playing Cornell. CU has talent. Coaching MUST be the problem. Don't think they will reach longest losing streak. Fire Mango and you guys will be competitive.
Mango-nomics is FINALLY working!!! It went from embarrassing last week (and every game this year thus far), to just downright ugly today against Cornell! What does that mean? Two words... Contract Extension!
Where oh where is Danny White now?
Let me see, Jake, who is no Nostradamus, knew that this was going to happen last year. He begged the administration to make a move, and now we are not only the laughing stock of the Ivy League, but of the entire FCS! Ask yourself, was it worth it? Thank you Diane! Thank you NHDC (Ted Gregory inclusive). Please look min the mirror and do what Diane did, resign!
That was a fantastically entertaining game, but as noted above largely because of an astonishing number of errors. At one point I think there was a fumble-interception-interception sequence within 3 minutes.
The crowd was into it, both sides roared right to the finish. Stomping the stands, lots of standing. Good energy. Speaking of, Columbia is dangerously close to making these Cornell games an away game. Cornell is by far the largest Ivy, has the medical campus here in NYC, and now the new tech campus, and their alumni were psyched. There were more people in the packed visitors stands than on the home side, no joke. Add in the 5:1 ratio of band size and it was quite the Cornell rooting section.
I'm sure someone will pull the stats but it seemed like 90% of the CU plays in the 4th quarter were to Molina. The ones that weren't were interceptions.
A hard-fought game, the players showed some promise and put a few good plays together, but at least Mangurian will not get his get-out-of-jail card now.
PS - the goat of the game was Columbia Athletics. They have to stop using so much canned music at such blaring volumes. You had two marching bands and lots of crowd noise -- the music ruined it again and again. Amateurs -- throw them out when you clean house on the coaching. Also, making the entire packed visitor stand use one staircase was beyond idiotic - they have to run operations differently when there are 3,000 on that side instead of 300.
Well, there you have it! Notice how a really bad team, like a really bad marriage, will always give you some hope that if you just stay with it -- if Hill plays! -- it will get better.
Actually, it might get better. There could somehow come a time when a PM coached team would win as many as three or four games. But NEVER more than that. Not in a million years.
More un-good news. I'm confident he'll be back next year. Because let's stay the corpse! Mitch S. 68C
The false starts are irritating more than anything else, even the thought of Pete not getting fired. False starts are the most consistent trait of this year's team and it is pathetic.
McDonagh has worn out his welcome as far as I am concerned. I gave him some slack but he's nowhere near an answer.
I wonder if Hill is running on his own or if that is a designed play. If by design, Pete owes Sean Brackett an apology.
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Twitter is blowing up over the game and the 538 article...
Seven-Hundred Thirty Two.....
Well, I froze my toes and other body parts today rooting for the guys, to no avail.
For a while, the 2 worst teams seemed like they were trying to give the game to each other, via picks and fumbles, but in the end Columbia won and gave it to Cornell.
To sum it up, the last desperation play was thrown NOT to any receiver for a possible chance to catch it, but out of bounds. This would have been OK, except it was 4th down, so the ball went over to Cornell with 1:15 left. The game was full of questionable plays and missed opportunities.
The only thing that actually made it exciting was playing a team almost as bad as us, which kept
things closer than usual.
We did beat the point spread.
I haven't seen CU this yr. The wrs are horrible. Molina n Hill are foreal. Great effort by CU after going down 21. That being said they were playing Cornell. CU has talent. Coaching MUST be the problem. Don't think they will reach longest losing streak. Fire Mango and you guys will be competitive.
Mango-nomics is FINALLY working!!! It went from embarrassing last week (and every game this year thus far), to just downright ugly today against Cornell! What does that mean? Two words... Contract Extension!
Where oh where is Danny White now?
Let me see, Jake, who is no Nostradamus, knew that this was going to happen last year. He begged the administration to make a move, and now we are not only the laughing stock of the Ivy League, but of the entire FCS! Ask yourself, was it worth it? Thank you Diane! Thank you NHDC (Ted Gregory inclusive). Please look min the mirror and do what Diane did, resign!
What a joke!
That was a fantastically entertaining game, but as noted above largely because of an astonishing number of errors. At one point I think there was a fumble-interception-interception sequence within 3 minutes.
The crowd was into it, both sides roared right to the finish. Stomping the stands, lots of standing. Good energy. Speaking of, Columbia is dangerously close to making these Cornell games an away game. Cornell is by far the largest Ivy, has the medical campus here in NYC, and now the new tech campus, and their alumni were psyched. There were more people in the packed visitors stands than on the home side, no joke. Add in the 5:1 ratio of band size and it was quite the Cornell rooting section.
I'm sure someone will pull the stats but it seemed like 90% of the CU plays in the 4th quarter were to Molina. The ones that weren't were interceptions.
A hard-fought game, the players showed some promise and put a few good plays together, but at least Mangurian will not get his get-out-of-jail card now.
PS - the goat of the game was Columbia Athletics. They have to stop using so much canned music at such blaring volumes. You had two marching bands and lots of crowd noise -- the music ruined it again and again. Amateurs -- throw them out when you clean house on the coaching. Also, making the entire packed visitor stand use one staircase was beyond idiotic - they have to run operations differently when there are 3,000 on that side instead of 300.
Well, there you have it! Notice how a really bad team, like a really bad marriage, will always give you some hope that if you just stay with it -- if Hill plays! -- it will get better.
Actually, it might get better. There could somehow come a time when a PM coached team would win as many as three or four games. But NEVER more than that. Not in a million years.
More un-good news. I'm confident he'll be back next year. Because let's stay the corpse!
Mitch S. 68C
The false starts are irritating more than anything else, even the thought of Pete not getting fired. False starts are the most consistent trait of this year's team and it is pathetic.
McDonagh has worn out his welcome as far as I am concerned. I gave him some slack but he's nowhere near an answer.
I wonder if Hill is running on his own or if that is a designed play. If by design, Pete owes Sean Brackett an apology.
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