Is it possible that Dartmouth will be dealing with a more
significant slew of injuries than Columbia on Saturday?
The Dartmouth two-deep indicates that some key players are out.
The absence of WR Ryan McManus is not a surprise, but his
fellow WR Victor Williams is missing too.
I think there’s a good chance star LB Bronson Green will
play, but he’s not on the two-deep either. He has been banged up and he missed the
Bucknell game last week.
Finally, up and coming TE Cole Marcoux is also AWOL.
I’ll keep everyone updated with whatever I can report about
the Big Green injury situation.
Meanwhile, the spread for the game still favors Dartmouth by
17 ½ points.
Great photo!! (For those not familiar wih Hanover, that's Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital's main entrance). Keep it up, Jake!!
ReplyDeleteLet's see if Garrett can upstage the Dartmouth RB, referred to by Dartmouth in its game notes as the premier RB in the Ivies.
ReplyDelete"referred to accurately by Dartmouth in its game notes as the premier RB in the Ivies."
ReplyDeleteFTFY.
New recruit...Reid Stables, All-State OL, chooses Lions.
ReplyDeletehttp://hswashington.scout.com/a.z?s=230&p=8&c=1&nid=6922940
here is a question, how many times will CU cover the spread this year?
ReplyDeleteIf Reid Stables is #70, he looks like a load. We could use him right now.
ReplyDeleteYes, that's him, 1st-Team All Colorado, 6'3", 285 (and 4.4 GPA!). Amazing how we get these guys. My bet is Pete will work him into a starting role as a freshman.
ReplyDeleteAny idea of his quickness?
Delete20 yd. shuttle?
GP
I think Stables is our first confirmed recruit, good start. Now let's get some stud running backs and linebackers.
ReplyDeleteWe need a big back and a few LBs in the 235-240 range.
ReplyDeleteOlinger and Pugliese lead the league in tackles, and Garrett is our one bright spot on offense. Hopefully we can keep that going into next year with the current personnel.
ReplyDeleteStats say games played 1. Team played 8. ?
ReplyDeleteGP
I say this as a fan of the LBs mentioned above, but they lead the league in tackles because the D is constantly on the field. CU is going to have more tackles than any other Ivy team because the offense is only on the field for 50 plays a game. I'd be happier if our LBs led the league in tackles-for-loss, but they don't.
ReplyDeleteAlso because opposition gets to the second level.
ReplyDeleteVery true, but if you look at their overall stat lines, they defiantly top in the league.
ReplyDeleteRK NAME GP TKL AST TOT TKL/G SCK YDS TFL YDS FF FR YDS INT YDS BRUP BLK
1 Z Olinger Columbia 5 27 24 51 10.2 - - 1 3 - - - - - 2 -
2 V Pugliese Columbia 5 24 23 47 9.4 1 10 4 13 2 - - - - 1 -
Add in Washington and Padilla and they are really solid especially with Olinger being the only one lost to graduation this year.
ReplyDeleteOld Lion, I think you've mentioned this before about the weight of the LB's . What you still don't get is the entire team(including the linebackers) are at the weight the coach feels is best.
ReplyDeleteTake the Lions with the 17 pts....
ReplyDeleteHow about a couple LBs 6'4" and 235?
ReplyDeleteTEs that can't catch. Should be some of them around.
GP
Those guys you speak of are playing at FBS schools. It is rare for highly recruited guys like Hilinsky and Pace to go to the Ivy League and put education first. Dunn was offered a preferred walk on at Northwestern and chose us. Testament to Mangurian being able to recruit.
DeletePlenty of "sleepers" around. Just have to find them. Rating services are over rated. So are tapes sent in by parents. We need solders out in the trenches finding good prospects.
DeleteRating agencies are overrated and there are lots of "late bloomers" to be had but I like to focus on the offers and full rides a prospect has from other colleges. If you have no "looks" from or interest from other D1 programs especially in your home state then your probably not that good.
DeleteUrlacher was not recruited by any big schools. Lived in NM. Only offer was from state school. TT QB was a preferred walk on. 1,000s of kids with IVY talent are
Deleteout there right now waiting to be contacted.
GP
Exactly GP but most don't have IVY grades.
DeleteUntil he gets an OC that knows how to utilize talent, he's not going to win. Except for the horrible pass defense, with a decent OC, this team could be .500.
ReplyDeleteI agree withnAnonymous above about the OC . With the right one , I think our record might be a different story.
ReplyDeleteRe the OC: a QB has three seconds to get rid of the ball. Nottingham was throwing to our returning WRs over the summer and developing timing with them. We are playing two first year WRs and a first year QB. They don't know each other and don't have their timing down, so Hilinski can yet throw to spots. Not the fault of the OC, but growing pains. Of we had a more robust OL perhaps Hilinski could wait until a receiver breaks open before throwing to him.
ReplyDeleteMeant t say Hilinski cannot yet throw to spots where he expects the WRs to be.
ReplyDeletekids getting offered scholarships but coming to an Ivy is much more common than mentioned here. Look at Yale/Princeton and Dartmouth.
ReplyDeletepreferred walk on at Northwestern coming to CU is a testament to Pete's ability to recruit? really, i read that as a kid who wouldnt play and wants to POTENTIALLY" be a big fish in a small pond, not recruiting prowess.
Preferred walk-ons play in many instances and earn scholarships. Preferred means we want you and don't have a scholarship available. Walk on is what your referring to. And we know its not rare. Google Hilinsky, Hill, Pace, Bonadies etc and they turned down many D1 full rides to play for this coach. That's recruiting don't you think?
DeleteAs the great Mike Tyson once said, "Everyone has a plan until they get hit (by me)". Columbia's plan will go out the window as soon as Dartmouth puts the wood to them in Q1 tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteYou sound like you've taken a few of Mike's punches.
ReplyDeleteNO WINS ON THE ROAD since 2009!
ReplyDeleteIt must be the new coach's fault!
Hilinski is expected to be raw and make freshman mistakes. He needs to bulk up as well.
ReplyDeleteDartmouth got trashed by a freshman QB in Hanover a few weeks ago. Could happen again.
ReplyDeleteHow stupid are you people? This kid Reid Stables looks like Oglethorpe from the Bad News Bears! Look a this HUDL video... He's fat, not big boned and and runs like a sloth!
ReplyDeletewww.hudl.com/athlete/o/441069/reid-stable
Here is is bio... If he was any good, why wouldn't Air Force be recruiting this kid? Think about it??? Pete is once again recruiting mediocre athletes. Yes, by this measure, this kid may start next year. Look what our glorious freshmen are doing on. The line this year!
hswashington.scout.com/a.zs=230&p=8&c=1&nid=6922940
And who said that this kid was 1st team All-State? Do you guys just make this stuff up? See below:
http://www.maxpreps.com/news/LWLT8yeknkKhWYsPWHpVcQ/2012-colorado-all-state-football-team-by-classification.htm
To the above about preferred walk ons and I mean walk on...NO, a preferred walk on is one step higher than a walk on, they may, and I say may, earn a scholarship, if they are deemed worthy.
ReplyDeleteThe schools I mentioned have kids who were offered scholarships, like yale/princeton/dartmouth. These aren't preferred, they are scholarship kids.
Whatever pete is doing isn't recruiting and every week and his history suggest that he has zero, read ZERO, ability to recruit. See above anonymous about ogelthorpe, which after watching the videos from the links is a pretty good description.
Maybe the kids he likes all like hotdogs. I think half of the comments here are really looking a vision that doesn't exist...a mirage, like the concept of winning at columbia under this coach and admin.
The frosh, if you are referring to pujols from holy cross, that shredded dartmouth is from my high school and he could have gone pretty much anywhere. He also was on one of the best teams in a dominant football conference...of course I am biased it is the chicago catholic league and the best football.
ReplyDeleteWe don't have a player like him. He can run the spread, pass, and most importantly he makes good decisions. Comparing our qb to him is very, very unfair.
Des
Des, WHY don'yt ther recruit your school? What does your HS coach say? They could have recruited this kid as an athlete, or based on his weight (I assume 190-200 lbs), an O-Lineman.
ReplyDeleteIvy's including Columbia do a good job of recruiting the top conferences in the nation. Look at their rosters and all the kids know each other because of the small fraternity of players from power conferences. Everybody's roster has players from the MIAA (Baltimore Catholic league) WCAC (DC MD VA) Catholic league) jersey league with Bergen, St Anthony NY league, Chicago Catholic league, So Cal, TX etc etc etc. there are about 1000 eligible players per year for the Ivy League to recruit that meet banding and ability.
ReplyDeleteI assume they do recruit my high school, but 2 kids went to holy cross a few others got sprinkled around the ivies. There is a dlineman this year who heard from yale and dartmouth and chose dartmouth for next years. Never heard of, but cannot say they didn't, that columbia wasn't in to recruit. That being said, I speak to some of the coaches and they haven't mentioned columbia.
ReplyDeleteDes
The "Ivy grades" argument isn't as legit as people think. There are guys hovering at 3.3 and less on Ivy rosters, SAT of 1050. Look no further than Harvard basketball for that. The talent pool is deeper than many think or want to believe.
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