New Podcast! Poll Preparation!

 

The Ivy League Football preseason poll is coming out on August 4th (this coming Monday).

Are you ready to see the results?

Are you really ready? 

I delve into that in the latest Roar Lions Podcast here. 

Enjoy!

Patriot Games, 2025

 

***NOTE: The audio for this Podcast has been fixed and re-recorded***

In the final year before some BIG changes occur for the Patriot League, the conference's 2025 football media poll has been released. 

Thanks to the great Dartmouth football chronicler Bruce Wood at Big Green Alert for flagging that news for all of us. 

Remember, all of Columbia's out of conference opponents this year are Patriot League members. 

I have a quick analysis of that poll, and a little more in this short podcast free to all subscribers and non-subscribers alike. 

UPDATE: In my discussion of the Phil Steele preseason All Ivy Team, I forgot to mention that junior WR Titus Evans is also named to the 2nd at along with fellow WR Jordan Kelly.

How is Jon Poppe Doing it???

 

Jon Poppe

The title question of this post is something so many of us are asking each other regularly these days. The discussion usually begins after we learn of yet another very impressive recruit committing to Columbia Football.

It seems ridiculously early to start discussing next year's crop of incoming freshmen, the high quality of so many of the 2026 commits compels me to do so in this podcast I'm making available for paid subscribers to my Substack only. 

Enjoy. 

Roar Lions Podcast, New Episode! "Short, but Special"

 

Hugo Merry

No, Lion PK Hugo Merry is not short (he’s 6-2) but there isn’t too much to talk about when it comes to Special Teams personnel as we stand about a month away from training camp.

I’ll break down in this mini-podcast some of the key news for this unit, which actually doesn’t have an incoming freshman joining the kicking corps.

Players mentioned in this podcast:

Hugo Merry

Tommy Sleeman

Sam Pearman

Hutch Crow

Tight Ends on Tap

 

Braden Dougherty

Columbia’s existing tight end corps is talented, but not exactly deep.

Rising junior Braden Dougherty showed amazing talent as a clutch receiver last season, but his production slacked off after Chase Goodwin’s injury midseason.

I’ll look at this unit, including the one incoming freshman joining the crew at TE, in this podcast.

Players mentioned in this podcast:

Braden Dougherty

Matt Gallehdari

Santiago Hernandez

Braden James*

Blaize Cameron

Casey O’Sullivan

*BTW, as documented on my LionFeeders sit, Braden James is the second-ever commit from the Pembroke Hill School in Kansas City, Missouri, and the first from that school since Brandon Buckley '08.