The tumultuous 2023 season and a rough news environment outside of football has left me behind he 8-ball on listing our committed recruits for next season.
But here are some updates:
6-0, 180-pound kicker Sam Pearman from Los Gatos HS in Californing committed to the Lions after de-committing from Union in October.
According to my LionFeeders database, Pearman will be the fourth Las Gatos grad to come to Columbia, but the first since Derek Smith and Scott Soucy (both class of 2005).
Of course, if current Union head coach Jon Poppe gets the Columbia head coaching job, Pearman will end up playing for him anyway.
6-3, 270-pound OL Benny Sasso from Wall Township HS announced his commitment to Columbia on November 5th. He also had an offer from Wagner.
Sasso will be just the second Wall Township grad to come to Columbia Football.
Next is 6-0 200-pound RB Brodey Berg from Anderson HS in Cincinnati. He also had offers from Brown, Dayton, Miami of Ohio, and others.
Berg will be the first Anderson grad to come to Columbia Football.
But the big GET so fat may be 6-2 185-pound DB Jeremiah Douglas announced his commitment to Columbia on Nov. 2nd. He is currently at IMG Academy in Florida for his senior season, but played three years at St. Paul's HS in Maryland.
Douglas also had offers from Penn, Navy, Army, Air Force, UNH, Stony Brook, Bryant, Bucknell, Sacred Heart, and Towson,
Douglas will be the third St. Paul's player to come to Columbia Football and the second from IMG Academy, (the first from IMG was Patrick Wade '25, who is now with the Columbia Baseball team).
So the list of known commits grows to 10:
1) Brodey Berg RB 6"0 200 lbs. Anderson HS Cincinnati, OH
2) Rodrigo Diaz-Martorella DE/TE 6"4 255 lbs. Miami Palmetto HS Miami, FL
3) Liam Donagher DB 6"2 200 lbs. Grafton Memorial HS/Choate (PG Year) Grafton, MA
4) Jeremiah Douglas DB 6"2 185 lbs. IMG Academy/St. Paul's HS Brooklandville, MD
5) Miron Magee DB 5"10 160 lbs. Lake Highlands HS Dallas, TX
6) Emanuel Nazy OL 6"4 280 lbs. Hackensack HS/Don Bosco Prep Hackensack, NJ
7) Casey O'Sullivan TE/DE 6"3 245 lbs. Seton Hall Prep West Orange, NJ
8)Sam Pearman K 6"0 180 lbs. Los Gatos HS Los Gatos, CA
9) Benny Sasso OL 6"3 270 lbs. Wall Township HS, Wall, NJ
10) Caleb Solomon DB 6"1 180 lbs. Miramar HS Miramar, FL
8 comments:
What is being done to hold these commits>
Granted, it is still early, but we need quarterbacks!
Curious what our recruit situation is compared to the other teams in the ivy. I’m sure we are behind.
In recent years, we've had much of our class committed before their senior seasons even started. To have 10 or so in hand at the end of November feels like yes, we are behind. I wonder if a new coach will get leeway to accept a couple of transfers to mitigate a light recruiting year.
Every year Dartmouth is way behind and every year they wind up with good classes and/or coach up average classes.
Dartmouth recruits a certain type and then coaches them up. Tough, hard nosed, non prep school kids. And they recruit the Southeast a lot better than Columbia
Our closest games since the Bagnoli era have been against Dartmouth—the games are usually pretty evenly matched, which makes our lack of success against certain other opponents even more disappointing.
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