Wednesday, January 17, 2024

... and another

 


6"4 225-pound TE/LB Blaize Cameron from Ontario's American football HS Clarkson Football North, with a PG year at Choate Rosemary Hall, has committed to Columbia. 

Cameron also had offers from Dartmouth, Yale, Maine, Bucknell, Louisiana Tech, and Stonehill.

Cameron will be the 13th Choate grad to come to Columbia, with his classmate Liam Donagher committing some weeks ago. Two other Choate PG year grads, Cobie Crews '26 and Mark Chapman '26 are on the Lions already.

No other Clarkson grads have come to CU so far.

So the list of known commits/transfers grows to 15:


1) Richard Bell Jr. DE/TE 6"5 250 lbs. Northview Academy Kodak, TN

2) Blaize Cameron TE 6"4 225 lbs. Clarkson Football North/Choate Rosemary Hall (PG year) Burlington, ON CANADA

3) Rodrigo Diaz-Martorella DE/TE 6"4 255 lbs. Miami Palmetto HS Miami, FL 

4) Liam Donagher DB 6"2 200 lbs. Grafton Memorial HS/Choate (PG Year) Grafton, MA

5) Jeremiah Douglas DB 6"2 185 lbs. IMG Academy/St. Paul's HS Brooklandville, MD 

*6) Cole Freeman QB 6"0 215 lbs. Delbarton School Morristown, NJ 

7) Christian Gonzalez LB 6"1 220-lbs. Bergen Catholic HS Oradell, NJ

8) Miron Magee DB 5"10 160 lbs. Lake Highlands HS Dallas, TX

9) Carter McCray DB 6"0 185 lbs Cornerstone Christian HS San Antonio, TX

10) Emanuel Nazy OL 6"4 280 lbs. Hackensack HS/Don Bosco Prep Hackensack, NJ

11) Casey O'Sullivan TE/DE 6"3 245 lbs. Seton Hall Prep West Orange, NJ

12)Sam Pearman K 6"0 180 lbs. Los Gatos HS Los Gatos, CA

13) Xavier Phipps WR 6"5 190 lbs. Dekaney HS Houston, TX

14) Benny Sasso OL 6"3 270 lbs. Wall Township HS, Wall, NJ

15) Caleb Solomon DB 6"1 180 lbs. Miramar HS Miramar, FL  

*transfer from Northwestern

14 comments:

ungvar said...

Coach Poppe announces the new tight ends coach: https://twitter.com/CULionsFB/status/1747754383398363186

Chris Batti
Former Defensive Quality Control Analyst at Northwestern

Anonymous said...

While this appears to be Batti's first stint as a tight end coach, he has already racked up plenty of experience as the wide receivers coach at Fordham and the running backs coach at Yale. Columbia has several very talented tight ends returning for the 2024 season as well as some outstanding freshmen so Batti has a key role to play.

Anonymous said...


My mistake--running backs coach at Harvard.

Anonymous said...

Why haven't they announced Seitu Smith as OC yet?

Anonymous said...

Don’t know but he’s at Baker. One of the players met with him. Could be they are trying to get all the offensive position coaches on board before announcing Seitz, ie: Batti.

Anonymous said...

Looks like we are quietly putting together a nice class despite the coaching transition. I just hope that the nonsense on campus with all of the protests doesn’t have too much of an adverse impact.

Anonymous said...

Keep beating that same tired drum friend

Anonymous said...

Beat! beat! drums!

Anonymous said...

We seem to be lagging behind on recruiting—Asia Sunset on voyforums is touting some huge “gets” including a Syracuse decommit. How do we think we are stacking up to date against the rest of the IL?

Anonymous said...

We are never going to out recruit HYP and probably not even Dartmouth and Penn. Those are just the facts.

Anonymous said...

Al’s first few recruiting classes were rated at or near the top of the league. As Al got older he was not the same draw that he was in his first few years. The team that went 8-2 had a sophomore recruiting class that was regarded at the time as the best in the league.

Anonymous said...

"Al’s first few recruiting classes were rated at or near the top of the league." Rated by who? Sorry, they never had a better recruiting class in terms of the number of 2 and 3 star rated recruits than HYP.

Anonymous said...

I think Doc Jock Recruiting Service rated them #1.

Anonymous said...

Dock Jock? LMAO

https://gocolumbialions.com/news/2024/1/25/football-finalizes-coaching-staff-with-three-more-hires.aspx