Sean Bracket '13 has shown a commitment to the game of football that you rarely see from Ivy League grads.
After he graduated CU, he spent many years playing Arena (now indoor) Football.
He spent one year as the head coach of the Waltham, MA High School in 2021, before taking his current position as QB coach for the Massachusetts Pirates.
For a team like Columbia that's looking for a shot in the arm on offense, the Lions could do well to grab up Bracket as a coordinator or position coach in the new regime. While he is not a product of the Bagnoli regime, Brackett is still familiar with Columbia student life and the overall culture of the Ivy League.
Brackett has remained close to his teammates and other people in the Columbia athletics world over the years and clearly has ambitions to return to the Ivies with the combination of his college and pro knowledge.
Just a thought...
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I object to Bracket's past tweets re minorities at Columbia.
Without context that’s slander. He would be an EXCELLENT addition to the staff.
Bracket would be a terrific OC.
Why?
what? grow up!
yeah, he probably hasn't encoutered many minorities playing pro ball or coaching. he may have never seen a person from a vulnerable group before entering columbia's gates. also, the vulnerable groups at columbia are so vulnerable that they cannot possibly tolerate someone without the purest record on twitter.
I am a grad of Waltham High School and a former CU player. Until the mid 2010s Waltham had one of the outstanding all-time MA football W-L records in the top division. Demography changed Waltham to a lower division and to a minority city long before Sean's appointment as HC, primarily to a Spanish orientation. The football base changed dramatically as did Waltham's W-L record. Parental and Pop Warner involvement plummeted alongside the high school W-L record. Sean would had to have dealt with all that from a minority perspective.
The Arena League Pirates changed venues from Worcester to Lowell. Both cities are heavily minority oriented. Sean probably deals more closely with minority concerns than any other college coaches applying for CU's HC position. His community experience alone would be an asset for him as head coach - especially recruiting, let alone installing a relevant offense (think Kurt Warner in the Arena League) for CU in the 2020's with minority personnel.
Thanks, Jake, for a great suggestion.
Sean was a fantastic player for us. His career took a hit during the opening game at Fordham in his junior year, when our then OC called for Sean to push the ball over the goal line and he was absolutely hammered and badly injured; that play call was devastating, as he was never the same player.
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