No editorializing today, but I have to pass along two great stories.
First up is this piece from MLB.com acknowledging Columbia baseball's dominance under Coach Brett Boretti.
The second article is nothing short of a shocker.
Yale forward Brandon Sherrod, is taking next season off so he can travel the world with the famed Yale a cappella group the Whiffenpoofs!
This is not a joke.
Enjoy!
24 comments:
Being a poof is all the rage these days for athletes.
LOL, Wingman, ROTF. And don't forget, you have to
"openly" be a poof. What's more open than traveling the world as a singing poof?
Why is the Sherrod story shocking? It seems like a great opportunity and he still has another year to play basketball.
I believe a couple of Harvard football players have become opera singers. Those who choose to mock should wait til we win some games. Or win one game.
Mitch S 68CC
Dear Mr. Gesundheit,
We have won a lot of basketball games and we're going to win a lot of football games. No one is mocking, we're just having a little innocent fun even though that has been banned except for the government elite in this great progressive age. I wonder if Jim Jones is happy or angry.
I saw a TV piece this past Sunday. He plays about 20 minutes a game. 6'4". The kid is very well spoken and this is a great oppt'y for him. He gets to travel/tour all over the world and then come back and play his final year. What a great experience. I hope he has a terrific time, comes back and has a great year except for losing to us at least twice..
Amen to that, Dawg. I love college singing groups. Some are better than the pros. He will have a fine time except when he returns to the basketball court and loses to us, as I hope everyone will. Basketball needs to gin it up too.
Smith is not yet Boretti. And Glance was no Kay Yow in her first season with the Lady Lions though it is the next few seasons that will tell how well she can recruit and coach. The Lady Lions deserve respect and a team that can compete with the best.
Amen to that, Dawg. I love college singing groups. Some are better than the pros. He will have a fine time except when he returns to the basketball court and loses to us, as I hope everyone will. Basketball needs to gin it up too.
Smith is not yet Boretti. And Glance was no Kay Yow in her first season with the Lady Lions though it is the next few seasons that will tell how well she can recruit and coach. The Lady Lions deserve respect and a team that can compete with the best.
Jake, did we get the wrong Hilinski? Just noticed his
brother Tyler, a 6-4 QB, has committed to Washington State.
He was always a bit more highly-rated. And after the way the Mangurian staff treated Kelly last year, I'm surprised he hasn't transferred.
Tyler reportedly turned down Vanderbilt, maybe Kelly has a shot there. Right now, I'm just hoping Nottingham can
play.
I'll be happy if we can keep Nottingham alive for at least five weeks with our offensive line.
I think there is an even younger Hilinski in the DI pipline.
Kelly was set up to fail last season. Way to soon to throw him to the wolves and the deficiencies with the OL and offensive game preparation have already been well documented. Kelly can still play but we don't have the coaching staff to make him successful in The current system. It is all riding on Nottingham's natural ability and personnel improvements to give him some help.
In Mangurian's video we kept hearing about how some guys were going to "develop" and other guys could play a lot of positions, etc. But exactly how and when are we going to figure this out without a JV? We saw what throwing these guys on the varsity field untested led to last season. Frankly, our varsity was the JV and I'm not looking forward to another year of witnessing the carnage.
Jake,
I am not familiar enough with college JV programs to provide any worthwhile comments, however I do not see any reasonable advantages in playing Sophomores and Juniors on a JV squad. I can see having a Freshman team to give the new guys some playing time, but if a kid isn't playing much by his junior year having him on a JV team seems like an unproductive waste of time and money. Maybe some of you "old timers" that recall JV teams of the past have stories of late bloomers that contributed to the varsity after extended JV duty.
Pat
JV was a traditional way to give actual competitive game-condition playing time to guys who would normally warm the bench during varsity games. So that many junior/seniors who never really played much varsity would have had a couple of years of near-varsity experience when their turn came. Sometimes you have very talented starters who occupy their position for years and so the guys behind them don't get much play until garbage time, even if they're decent. It was a legit concept.
I just don't really know what the situation is currently. Is it a coaching shortage, or can it be that the staff doesn't believe there is enough varsity talent available to waste time with a JV squad, because they want to have everyone around if needed?
Pat,
Freshman team is gone ever since the Ivy League made
freshmen eligible for the varsity. That's why JV was formed. It's good for CU which has few freshmen capable of full-time varsity play each year. How can they "develop" just sitting on the bench? Dropping JV was a dumb move.
JV also served to keep backup QBs and others sharp, Their games were weekdays, if memory serves, so they could suit up for varsity too on weekends.
I don't think the JV had a lot of juniors and even fewerseniors, it was mostly frosh and sophs but I can recall some upperclassmen who contributed on the varsity. You also needed some to fill out the JV roster.
It ought to come back unless we do some powerhouse recruiting of frosh every year, which would be even better.
Do any of the major programs have a JV squad? No one likes to ride the bench in any sport, but football with 60+ guys makes it hard to find playing time for even guys like "Rudy".
Not much incentive for a non-scholarship guy to hang around.
Plenty of programs have JV teams. It is useful for players who either have no shot on varsity or just not ready to compete for spot. In some cases it is valuable but for Columbia, a development team won't do any good right now. They need immediate help. Hilinski was forced into PT when he was not ready and did poorly as a result. BUT, was the right measure to put him a JV team in year 1? What would be the benefit to have him on JV team racking up passing yards? Would that really have made him a better player as a sophomore? Not in my view. Bad idea to throw him out there so soon as a Fr but I blame it on the overall preparation of the program, of which too much has been said already.
Wouldn't make a difference if the same staff is coaching or developing players, regardless of what year they are in.
I don't think I read you on this one, Wingman. As it turned out, Nottingham went down in the first game and I think Hilinski played in the second after the backup was ineffective. JV skeds were short so there probably wouldn't have been a JV game that early, but I don't see why it wouldn't have helped Hilinski to have had some game action first.
Anyway, that's the least of our problems.
The backup to Nottingham is Trevor McDonagh and if I recall correctly, McDonagh is a Pete recruit who was enticed to play at CU because Ben McDaniels was OC. It is a big drop from McDaniels to Jamie Eilzondo and with the OL issues, no QB would be effective. So point is, Kelly Hilinski was set up to fail (all of the QBs were set up to fail but we were taking about Hilinski because he was a Fr). So would it have made it a difference if he played on a JV team?
I know I stay on this point but why would any player want to play JV unless they knew there was no chance for them on varsity or there was so much depth on varsity JV was the only chance they would get PT? It's an embarrassment. You have JV when your varsity is strong enough to enjoy having a feeder system.
All QBs must throw in practice to the same receivers that they would be throwing to in a game, should they be forced into action due to injuries.
Otherwise their timing will be off. Every receiver has different speed and
different moves on the same routes.
If we can not rely on the O line to protect the QBs, we must have a mobile kid who can move around and knows how and when to dump the ball
3 rows into the stands.
Pat
The term "set up to fail" implies an intentional scheme. Even Pete's legion of detractors presumably are not suggesting that any of our players were set up to fall on their faces.
Being set up to fail is brought on by any combination of dysfunction, poor policies, poor strategy, poor oversight.
Old Lion, you know "set up to fail" is a figure of speech, not a literal statement. I'd agree however that some figures of speech seem to be taken more literally than others. I don't think there's an "intentional scheme" but as AW said, poor policies or management can foster failure.
Nor am I a Pete detractor, but a realist. I look at the results on the field, how the team competes plus if it wins.
I think his grade last season was F, even on a curve. We'll
find out about this season beginning just four months from now.
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