Good morning Columbia fans, here are today's latest items to ponder in our overall athletic dysfunction:
1) In addition to the loss of Alex Rosenberg for the season, Meiko Lyles and Zach En'Wezoh are no longer on the basketball roster. This can't be good.
2) In today's Spectator, football Head Coach Pete Mangurian is now talking about "tackling the ball well." Hopefully that's a euphemism for "getting a Groupon for Big Apple Movers."
3) The newly redesigned athletic department website is a mishmash, and has been for days. I'm not talking about style points, I mean the thing is actually not working or centered correctly. Did we hire the guys who got fired for screwing up the Obamacare website last year? I guess Ted Gregory found these web designers via his executive search team.
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Oh wow, that's rich. The GoColumbiaLions site does work better under Internet Explorer (not perfectly but close), but that's just like CU Athletics to be a little behind the times and realize that not everyone is running IE on Win95. Chrome doesn't work with it at all.
Still, can't entirely blame CU for this. NeuLion is a leader in college athletics websites, very odd of them to mess this up.
http://www.neulion.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=30000&ATCLID=206115423
The Lyles / EnWezoh news came out several weeks ago. EnWezoh wasn't a big contributor and can be easily replaced; losing Lyles will hurt but Smith brought in two highly touted freshman 2-guards in Kyle Castlin and Nate Hickman. You still have Maodo Lo (second team all Ivy as a sophomore), Grant Mullins fully healthy, Cory Osetkowski who was playing great at the end of last year, the incredible Steve Frankoski, promising sophs Petrasek and Coby, etc. etc.
Not to mention the biggest factor of all -- Kyle Smith is actually a really good basketball coach and someone the players love to play for.
Let's hold this talk about "the wheels coming off" until the team has played at least one game.
As long as Lo and Mullins stay healthy and in school, this could actually be an "investment".
Rosenberg has a full year to heal, The other two are older and more experienced, and the frosh have a year under their belt.
We don't get exactly what we hoped for this season, but on paper we look to be even better next year.
And this year could be a nice surprise as well.
With design, it can be tricky depending on what software they used. Lots of factors to consider with how a page will display on monitors with varying resolution, etc. Doesn't look bad at all. What I find absolutely hilarious and stupid beyond compare is the "This is Columbia football" segment with the dramatic theme music.
Big question: is the expectation now that Ms. Murphy will fire Mangurian after the final game or is that just the hope? Is there a game plan if that does not happen? Marching with pitchforks into Moe or Curley's office?
I was kinda hoping to hire that clown they use at the Apollo to sweep the bad amateur acts off the stage.
Mango is the village idiot and should not be allowed to give interviews. Good to know that the team needs to tackle well against good teams and that Trevor threw four picks but is protecting the ball well. My favorite part of the interview is when he challenges Zack Hodges. I have a feeling that Mango's challenge is going to piss Hodges off more than it inspires our O-line. Bad things usually happen when child pokes a big mean dog with a stick.
To Bob: I heard these are the quotes from Mango that Spec didn't publish:
"Tim Murphy is a lousy coach, especially at home."
"I bet the CU Marching Band won't be able to do all the push-ups they'll need to do because we're going to rack up big points Saturday."
"They're running back doesn't spike the ball very well after he scores TD's. No style at all."
Was that misuse of "they're" an attempt at conveying your impression of Mangurian's intellect, Jake? I certainly hope it was either that or just a time issue.
(On the other hand, Penn likely did not hire Bagnoli because of his command of English prose.)
Jake, those unpublished quotes are at best potentially inflammatory and at worst delusional. Beginning to wonder if there's a loose screw somewhere...
so I listened to Pete on the firing lion and he said they shut down the Yale passing game. Uhm, they threw for 257 yards and who needs to throw when you give up 300 on the ground.
the best quotes, "each week we are getting better at the little things.." like 10-15 penalties a game and 4 picks last game.
"you don't expect to win until you win." Our own Coach Confucius
DOC: They are a joke.
I mean literally a joke
Some of your best stuff Jake!
Still laughing!
I posted this on the post game article but we are the ONLY team this season to hold Yale to under 30 points .... COLUMBIA held one of the best offenses to under 30 points .... theres definitely improvement and frankly your blind if you don't see that.
We "held" Yale under 30 points because it was the worst weather of the year by far and Yale pulled Varga for most of the 2nd half. That said, I did think some of the secondary play was better, but that's about it. Whatever improvement we're seeing is too little and it's coming against a lot of second teamers and with the games never in doubt. No decent program measures improvement based on how much better it's continuing to lose games.
No need to panic about basketball. This is a very deep group, and Castlin is going to be an excellent addition for us. Mullins is healthy, which means that we pick up 12-14 points of production. Lo is the best SG in the league, Petrasek is bigger and stronger, and Cory was playing great ball at the end of last season. Plus we have a very good coach.
Newlionontheblock - are you making a joke or are you a player's parent?
Bob
I think New Kid is a sincere poster who just got onto this blog.
Kid, Like Jake said, the last 3/4 games have been against 2nd/3rd stringers on the other teams, so that they could protect their starters.The scores are irrelevant, and none of them were close. Starters were pulled quickly or not even used.
The Washington Generals played pretty good defense too sometimes.
Makes me long for Nories Wilson. 4-6 would be awesome now
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