6-4, 235-pound TE/DE Santiago Hernandez from the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles has committed to Columbia.
He had a number of D-III offers and a preferred walk-on offer at Boston College.
Hernandez will be the sixth Harvard-Westlake grad to come to Columbia. Current sophomore WR Chase Harleston is a fellow Harvard-Westlake grad.
So our unofficial commit list is now up to 28 names:
1) Qwincy Amos DB 5"11 170 lbs. Warren HS San Antonio, TX
2) Terell Battle WR/DB 6"3 190 lbs. Mountain View HS, Lawrenceville, GA
3) Jalen Campbell DL/OL 6"4 295 lbs. Jackson-Reed HS Washington, DC
4) Jaylen Carter WR/DB 6"0 180 lbs. Taft School Watertown, CT
5) Christian Carti WR 6"1 190 lbs. Bergen Catholic HS Oradell, NJ
6) Colin Cook 6"3 185 lbs. Pope John Paul II Prep Hendersonville, TN
7) Braden Dougherty TE/DE 6"5 230 lbs. Dublin Coffman HS Dublin, OH
8) Titus Evans WR 6"1 170 lbs. Mansfield Timberview HS Arlington, TX
9) Ethan Fullerton WR/DB 5"11 170 lbs. Notre Dame HS Sherman Oaks, CA
10) Braylon Gardoni 6"0 180 lbs. Fort Bend Christian Academy Sugar Land, TX
11) AJ George LB/RB 6"2 190 lbs. Ottawa Hills HS Toledo, OH
12) Chase Goodwin QB 6"2 200 lbs. Memorial HS Houston, TX
13) Quinn Herlihy DL/LB 6"3 238 lbs. Cheshire Academy/Shrewsbury HS Worchester, MA
14) Santiago Hernandez DE/TE 6"4 235 lbs. Harvard-Westlake School Los Angeles, CA
15) Jaden Hinton OL/DL 6"3 300 lbs. Ames HS South Easton, MA
16) Griffin Johnson RB 5"11 190 lbs. Marysville HS Marysville, OH
17) Sean Kimani OL 6"5 290 lbs. Duluth HS Duluth, GA
18) Bailey Kornegay-Douhadji DE 6"3 230 lbs. East Caweta HS Sharpsburg, GA
19) Keelan Kornegay-Douhadji DE 6"3 230 lbs. East Caweta HS Shapsburg, GA
20) Xander Menapace QB 6"4 208 lbs. Hamburg Area HS Hamburg, PA
21) Malachi Mercer LB 6"1 225 lbs. Bergen Catholic Oradell, NJ
22) Hugo Merry P/K 6"3 210 lbs. Frederick HS Frederick, MD
23) Mikey Nabbout DE/TE 6"3 245 lbs. St. John's Prep Danvers, MA
24) Charlie Newton WR/DB 6"3 195 lbs. Walter Payton Prep Chicago, IL
25) Ahmari Owens 6"5 305 lbs. Springfield Central HS Springfield, MA
26) Levi Robins DB 5"11 175 lbs. Saguaro HS Scottsdale, AZ
27) Will Rubalcava DB 6"0 170 lbs. Rick Reedy HS Frisco, TX
28) Nik Winzer OL/DL 6"6 285 lbs. Matawan Regional HS Matawan, NJ
28 comments:
I'd be very surprised if Harvard-Westlake only has placed six players on Columbia's football team. They send players to the Ivy every year. Are you only counting Harvard-Westlake as an institution, and excluding its predecessor Harvard School?
It's not a great football feeder to the Ivies. This database is accurate. http://lionfeeders.blogspot.com/
Can't wait for football season.
Time to fire Engles!
As per the last comment, we were skunked on the all Ivy MBB team—not sure if this ever happened. Not even an HM. So that means the other coaches are telling us that we don’t have even a single player on our roster who can even make the third tier of all Ivy teams. In other words, we have the weakest roster in the IL and it isn’t even close. Yet the silence from Pilling, currently deflecting attention from this debacle by hamming it up with Meg and WBB, speaks volumes. Isn’t the message simple-both coaches have been here 7 years, one is a winner, and the other is…let’s just say, a disappointment.
Congratulations to WBB on a historic championship season, and an opportunity to gain an NCAA berth. which should help with recruiting going forward. The silence from MBB and/or the AD regarding yet another noncompetitive MBB season speaks volumes.
Lucky Jim can't seem to get himself fired. Meanwhile, the rest of the league laughs at us and prays for us to keep him so that everybody else has a few guaranteed wins.
As noted in several other folks' posts, WBB is in a far better place (thank goodness). Congrats to the Lady Lions and Coach Griffith! My understanding is that before this year the women's team had never won an Ivy championship, so talk about a transformation! I'll be rooting for WBB to win the postseason league tournament.
I won't be following the men's team or giving that program any money until Engles is fired.
You've never given a penny to mens basketball
Anonymous, you are incorrect. But thanks for playing!
I sincerely hope our née University
President, a lady from England,, is an
improvement over Bollinger, a lifelong fanatic for “affirmative action” rather than the search for academic truth and
knowledge in an open atmosphere for all.
This seems extremely doubtful considering Bollinger’s appointment of Hillary Clinton—at the same time yet—
as a “university professor” of something
or other. I think it was “public affairs”.
At lest Bollinger is leaving us with a
big belly-laugh since Hillary, though
totally unfit for any job, is an expert
on her husband’s countless public
affairs.
That rumble you just heard was
Alexander Hamilton turning over in his grave.
The last comment by "anonymous" is inappropriate for this blog and should be removed.
doc/jock, u must be a Democrat as u promote censorship with such righteousness
Tough loss but the woman's BB team but they seemed to have lost thoer edge late in tue season. In recent weeks they werent the high octane fast-paced offensive team that fed off tenacious defense and rebounding. They are mediocre in the half-court game.
I am still bullish on the future because we have some excellent returning players and The incoming recruiting class is our best ever.
Baseball took 2 of 3 from #18 Alabama this weekend!
Thanks for the good news about the
Incoming class. CU Athletics Dept.
reports ignited whatever Harvard did
to hold Abby Hsu to four points.
It has been an outstanding season for WBB, and perhaps a strong run in the WNIT (but 64 teams?).
Didn't take promo by Athletics Dept. to influence coaching strategy. Harvard simply took Abby Hsu out of the game, and somewhat depleted, they nearly took Princeton out.
We could see cracks forming as the team folded under pressure in front of a packed house against Princeton. Under similar circumstances nearly lost it to a weak Cornell team that we crushed up in Ithaca.
Victory over Harvard at Ivy Madness would likely have secured the NCAA tourney birth.
I continue to be impressed with Ivy athletes who somehow juggle these demands coupled with the academic pressures.
Bonus item: For a good vibe, recall the men's CIT championship, and check out Maodo Lo's fade away to top Valparaiso. Maybe we'll see the same for WBB in the NIT.
Also, check out all the men's coaching vacancies. Army, American, NJIT, Holy Cross, Bucknell, more. Read the statement by Holy Cross AD, reported in the Worcester, MA paper. Reads almost like the Columbia men's situation, including seven years.
Jake- I'm surprised that you haven't said anything about the scholarship lawsuit. It's a potential seminal moment in Ivy football history.
We may have been overconfident and looking past Harvard. Plus Hsu could not hit water in the ocean. Great but streaky player who gets out of her zone. Book on her is pretty obvious.
Thanks for the info about Holy Cross. It looks like the leadership there wasn’t satisfied with failure. That’s in stark contrast to our AD, Peter Pilling, who has said nary a word and who seems content to let Lucky Jim try for his fourth straight cellar-dwelling finish. The inaction and the refusal to fire Lucky Jim send a clear message that failure is perfectly acceptable at Columbia.
Pilling needs to be forced to fire Engles, just like the administration was forced to fire Murphy (soft firing) and Mangurian (unceremonious firing). He will not do it because the power structure behind basketball apparently lacks the financial clout to force the change and Engles lacks the common sense to spare all of us further embarrassment by resigning.
What does "the power structure behind basketball apparently lacks the financial clout to force change" mean? Please explain. Thank you.
way too many comments by people who hide behind "anonymous"
"just say' in"
"the power structure behind basketball apparently lacks the financial clout to force the change". What does that mean?
Prayers for Buddy Teevens and the Dartmouth football team as a whole. One of their linemen passed yesterday as well.
St. John's, IONA & FDU have ALL moved swiftly to replace and fill the HC position. Yet Columbia's head BB coach, with one of the worst career W-L records in Division 1 BB, remains firmly in control of the program. Another miserable season ends and apparently, the nightmare that is the mens BB at Columbia will continue into the 2023/2024 season.
If I’m the coach of any other team at Columbia, I’m getting the message loud and clear that any potential failure I’m responsible for will have absolutely no consequences for me. Or does that apply only to Lucky Jim?
We don’t have the back story. Coaches with marginally better records have been fired for less. I am starting to believe the Sherwin rumor.
You people are tarnishing Jerry's name, based on a nonsensical story that a guy made up.
Doc Jock
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