Updates?

Well as they say, "the devil finds work for idle hands to do"... so, without much official news from the athletic department about the football team to work with, I'll just report here on some interesting developments that are as-yet not 100% confirmed but seem likely.

Nationally Televised Game

Based on some nice research from Dartmouth football journalist and blogger Bruce Wood, it appears Columbia's home game against Yale this fall will be the ESPNU Friday night national broadcast game. That would mean the game would be on October 28th, probably with a 7pm start time. 

Columbia last hosted a Friday night home game vs. Yale in 2016, which ended in a narrow loss and the debut of eventual Eli star QB Kurt Rawlings. 

Elias Barrett

New Local Player?

Elias Barrett is a promising D-lineman about to graduate from nearby Half Hollow Hills East High School in Western Suffolk County. He had publicly stated that he took a PWO offer from West Virginia a while back, but now he has CU Football in his Twitter bio... and I believe he will be a part of our incoming freshman class. (Plus, WVU has published its list of incoming freshmen, transfers, and PWOs and Barrett's name is not there).

Barrett checks off a lot of the boxes for players who eventually make a big impact in the Ivies. It appears he's a bit of a late bloomer, at least at his position, (think Josh Martin) which is why the bigger schools didn't show requisite interest. He's also someone who could get bigger rather quickly if need be. I think he could also turn out to be a Lou Miller/Daniel DeLorenzi type performer for us. 

But the added plus is that like DeLorenzi, Barrett is from the NYC area and could help rekindle interest in Columbia on Long Island especially. 

The last H,H,H, East grad we had at Columbia Football was a promising RB named Alexander Filacouris '21, but he never broke into the lineup.