Sweet Tweets

... And now for the flip side.

Just a few days after using Twitter to point out that some Lions were allegedly not playing as a team, Head Coach Pete Mangurian had these things to say yesterday:

"Best practice of the spring. Now, can we do it again Friday? Have to be able to string them together, but it's a start."


And...


"Have a great feeling about this season, Go Lions!"


 Is the coach being a little mercurial here? I'd say no, because as everyone in sports knows, there are certain points when teams often just start to "get it," and things start to click in practice and hopefully in the real games too.

Perhaps that's what happened yesterday in the predawn workouts at Baker Field.

Just 8 days now until the spring exhibition!

Response to Pagels

Members of a group called the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee have written this response to Jim Pagels' misguided column calling for ending athletic recruitment at Columbia.

There are some good points, so please click on their piece and comment freely.

And in another good development, the campus blog, Bwog.com, has begun a series of short interviews with some of the top athletes on campus. It starts with star runner, Kyle Merber.

This kind of visibility is a key.