Georgetown 24 Columbia 10
Why Georgetown Won
The Hoyas defensive line controlled the game for most of the day, never letting the Columbia running game get going and getting constant pressure on Lion QBs. Georgetown's defense also dodged several bullets with timely turnovers, mostly caused by that QB pressure.
Why Columbia Lost
The Lion offensive line was porous, allowing four sacks and shouldering the responsibility for a running attack that netted 0.9 yards per carry. The Columbia offense was especially ineffective during three key chances to tie the game after Georgetown turnovers or miscues in the second half.
Key Turning Points
-With the Lions leading 7-0 at just over 13 minutes left in the half and Columbia seemingly in control of the game, CU decided to go for the 1st down on a 4th and 1 from the Hoya 47. But Dante Miller's carry to the right side of the Georgetown line never had a chance and he lost a yard. From that point on, Columbia's grip on the game began to slip.
-With 2 minutes left in the half and the game now tied at 7, Columbia QB Josh Bean was strip sacked and Georgetown recovered at the Lion 30. A late hit penalty after the fumble recovery then gave the ball to the Hoyas at the Columbia 14. Nine plays, including a controversial late hit out of bounds penalty later, Georgetown had the lead it would never give up with the TD that made it 14-7.
-Columbia opened the 2nd half with a fumble recovery on the kickoff to take the ball at the Hoya 23. But the Lions moved the ball just one yard on three plays and K Alex Felkins' FG attempt went wide left.
-Now down 17-7, Columbia began the 4th quarter with an 18-yard run by Bean and then a 39-yard Bean pass to WR Josh Wainwright to set the Lions up with a 1st and 10 at the Georgetown 20. But that was followed by a sack and two incomplete passes and Columbia had to settle for a 28 yard Felkins FG to make it 17-10.
-On the ensuing possession, Georgetown fumbled the ball away on a multiple flea flicker play and the Lions took over at the Hoya 13. But two plays later, Bean was intercepted on a pass intended to WR Ronald Smith in the end zone.
-On the next possession, the Hoyas went three-and-out and a shanked punt gave the Lions the ball at the GU 41 to begin their drive. After a 20-yard TD pass to Wainwright was negated by a holding penalty, Bean was intercepted again two plays later on a tipped pass at the Hoya 20.
Columbia Positives
-For the most part, the defense held its ground. Almost all of Georgetown's points came courtesy of Lion turnovers.
Columbia Negatives
-The offensive line seemed listless at best, and the play of the unit affected the entire game adversely for the Lions.
-The inability to score more than 3 points off of the Georgetown turnovers and miscues in the 2nd half was more than distrubing.
Columbia MVP
-It's almost like a booby prize to be named the MVP of what was the worst game for the Lions in the Bagnoli era, but sophomore LB Cam Dillon had an excellent game with 10 tackles.
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Ouch.
https://nypost.com/2019/09/28/columbia-hires-high-school-marching-band-to-replace-its-own-at-football-game/
Free beer, which I missed, night have helped make the tedious-seeming sloggyg of this game bearable. At least for a while.
And to my syrprisem I missed the band. Their banning was a bad, arrogant move by AD Pilling et al, somg that Dianne Murphy (who endured much more public provocation from the band) would likely never have pulled. Students, I might add, are suooised to somewhat be assholes while students, and the band ably fulfilled that role from tny own ubdergraduate years on up. But I still think games were better off for the band's often chikdish presence. A Staten Island h.s.s band does not at all cut it as even a halfway adequate replacement. The band, for aall its faults (real or imagined) had its uses.
Besides, much of the band's digs required current undergraduate status to fully grasp. So I just blew off a lot of that "stuff."
Anyway, onward and, one hopes, upwRD.
Jake, since you mentioned "free beverages and beer" in your Sept 24 post, I wanted to comment on the elimination of the free soda, beer, and hot dogs for ticket holders we've enjoyed for years. I asked a CU staffer and she said it was gone, not moved to some other area. Then, insult to injury ... by half-time the concession counters were out of all cold beverages, including water. Frankly, I can understand not giving away hundreds of hot dogs and beer to everyone who is going to the game, but it kind of makes the one Roar-ee's Refreshments voucher we got in our season tickets packets seem kind of chintzy. With the savings from the elimination of the free pre-game food they could easily afford to give one food voucher for each game.
I'm focusing on this small part of the Baker Field 2019 Experience because what happened on Kraft Field was unspeakable. The silence of the huge opening day crowd in the 2nd half was genuinely heart-breaking because the Team has rekindled a spirit of optimism on campus and among the alumni that was crushed on that hot Saturday afternoon. Let's hope Coach Bagnoli can figure it out next week at Princeton.
At what point do we question the play calling and personnel choices of the OC? That 4th and 1, which I agree was the turning point, we had our small rb and non running qb in, and ran a play that wasn’t working in 6 qtrs save once. Then lots of low % passes in the 3rd and 4th that required time and our Ol isn’t good. Also, 13 and 24 are our two best weapons, but they get so few targets.
I would guess that Bagnoli is attached to his OC (going back to his player days at Penn), but needs to take a hard look.
Pilling: win an Ivy title before you start worrying about the band. I just got ribbed by a Penn alum that we lost this week because we had Staten Island high schoolers playing on the field instead of Columbia students.
Pilling: win an Ivy title before you start worrying about the band. I just got ribbed by a Penn alum that we lost this week because we had Staten Island high schoolers playing on the field instead of Columbia students.
The decision on the band came from Low Library, not the athletic dept. Read my comment at the end of Jake's Sept 25 post if you want to understand the facts and the law. The jerks on the band are grandstanding and love the national attention. Do you think they really care about our athletes? They care as much for Lion athletes as they do the students they disrupt in Butler during exam week.
Sports article from the hated CU Daily Spectator got it right when quoting a CU player who said " The loss didn't matter.".
It mattered to Georgetown!
We got caught by a Trap Game where we were looking ahead to the first Ivy game, Princeton and regarded GT as a weak opponent.
Coach Bags said " we had a bad week of practice."
Plus the QB could not hit the broad side of a barn with the f-cking ball!
Bollinger: if that was indeed you who brought in the Staten Island high school band, see note to Pilling just above.
SOMEONE WRITES above that happened on Jraft field yesterday was :unspeakable.: But it reakky wasn;t at all unspeakable if one simply recalls the glorious Mangurian years, let alone the notorious record=setting losing streak.
Stilll, things remain a hundred times better than those dark days, and yesterday's game was, I'm sure we can all hope, but a temporary setback. And a player in someone's post above was somewhat misquoted. The source Spectator story noted that the game didn't matter so much because it was a non-conference contest. Not that the loss yesterday simply didn't matter. I doubt very, very much any of Bagnoli's players or coaches feels yesterday's loss didn't matter at all, and to asert otherwise is very much alarmism of the worst kind.
As for the band, rgwt'ew clearly a scruffy, perhaps even manipulative bunch. But I have never doubted their own curious form of school spirit.. And I'm always willibg to cut student assholes some slack. They will grow out of it, honest. As for the decision to slam and ban them coming from Low Library rather than from the Athletics department, I have no doubt tgat it would never have occured without the acquiescence (however wearily given) of Pilling and his people.
For what it's worth, yes, I missed the band yesterday. I;ll also miss them at the Princeton game next Saturday, because that is an away game in both football and basketball they ALWAYS seemed to make.
Ferraro not Fabich… Thank God that we have such a good D Coordinator!O Coordinator? G Town Coach had a strong game plan which was executed perfectly... Two headed QB? I know Coach Bags loves it but?...No need to panic after tough loss but can we get more imaginative on offense and less predictable? For that individual who doesn't get it... THROW THE BALL DEEP.. every once in awhile and utilize the WR talent!
Mr. Pelletreau puts it very nicely. Enough with the Mickey Mouse offense for crissakes!
I did not get to see the game. Did either of our WRs get deep, even if the ball wasn't thrown to them? Were they beating the coverage? Genuinely curious.
Did the WRs get open? Were they beating coverage? I wasn't at game. Truly curious.
Teams RARELY win games with 5 turnovers and a -3 turnover differential. It’s as simple as that. Since Coach Bagnoli took over, we have been a team that has generally taken good care of the football and usually wins the turnover battle. Games like this happen, even to good teams. Let’s hope it was a one-off occurrence and next week vs Princeton marks a return to the sound fundamental football we’ve become accustomed to seeing under Coach B.
As they say: " From your lips to God's ears."
You cant throw the ball deep when your pocket is pushed in your face and the DE knows what brand of aftershave your QB uses !
We tried rolling out but even that didnt work. Quick slants over the middle were finally productive - but it took midway in the fourth quarter
to figure that out.Wanna get the ball to #13 and #24 ? Run an End around or two like they did.
Our offensive playbook so far assumes a capable offensive line that can protect the qb and open holes for our running backs. As per Doc, all expectations for this year hang upon much improvement in offensive line play.
Leonlion
Thanks DOC. The highlights I've seen show some terrific catches but in tight coverage. Realizing the QB can't throw long with everybody backing into his face (wonder if kids even use after shave, let alone shave on game day!) was just curious if and when the O line settles down, these guys are breaking free as advertised (WRs).
Alawicius and I are on the same page! All you nay sayers who say that you can't throw deep miss the point that the box is stacked with 8 or 9 ...short routes are impossible and that's why the run gets stuffed too... Last week's Pitt/Delaware game, second play from scrimmage by Pitt... deep in their own territory...as in inside the 10, BACK UP QB who had to start because of injury to Pickett, throws a 40 yarder complete... KEY? SURPRISE … Not deep every play but wake up... Bagnoli is a great coach for sure but too conservative at times.. Fabish? We win despite the play calling
Has anyone read the NYT ( more hated than the Columbia Spectator)article about the goings on regarding the scramble band?
Talk amongst yourselves...
@doc/jock
We even made today's NYT Quotation of the Day!
“The band doesn’t fit with the 2019 image of the administration. It thinks of Columbia as an esteemed and serious institution that has no time for irreverence.”
MATTHEW COULSON, the spirit manager for Columbia University’s now-deactivated marching band.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/todayspaper/quotation-of-the-day-columbia-fires-irreverent-band.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FQuotation%20of%20the%20Day&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection
I'll say it again. Maybe this time Jake will print it:
BEAN IS NOT COLUMBIA'S MAN AT QB!
If Bean plays against Princeton, Columbia will lose not by a ton, but by TONS.
If Ty or some other QB plays against Princeton, Columbia has a shot at an upset.
We are wasting giant WR talent in Wainright and Smith who have no realistic chance of catching the ball deep with Bean throwing, or trying to throw, a ball deep.
Meanwhile, the OL and DL need to find themselves.
If any of the above DO NOT APPEAR Saturday, Columbia will be slaughtered by Princeton.
The Band. Let's hope a chastened bunch is given better musical direction, better playing skills, and more bottom in the sound, but please, please, no high stepping, precision marching kids in bellboy outfits. Don't take away the irreverence; that's part of the Ivy League. The halftime scripts are submitted to the AD for approval as it is. The band is a bunch of geeks and nerds, they are the ones who get in after all the set asides for jocks, legacies and minorities. They got to be a pretty smart bunch. "They" are our geeks and nerds, they are us. Free the band!
With you! Let the nerds be themselves....there is no law against poor taste or edginess...
But if I see a Cornell style band emerge, I will suspend my annual donation in a NY minute
@Chen1982: Hear, hear! Amen brother! Now, let's hope the Lions have their act together vs the Tigers. Go Lions!
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