As we await the official announcement of Columbia's incoming football freshman class, we can look at some of the other Ivy schools who have posted their incoming names and see if they include players Columbia also offered. I'll add some comments based on assessments I and some others made to me about the players at the time Columbia offered them.
DISCLAIMER: I base the info on Columbia "offers" on the social media accounts of the players who announce who has offered them and when. I have yet to find ONE kid posting news of what he termed as an official offer from an Ivy that didn't turn out to be true (sometimes in their bios there are embellishments about offers, but not so much on social media).
So far, we've had official incoming class announcements from Brown, Dartmouth, and Harvard...
Brown/Columbia Commit/offeree overlaps (6)
TE Pierce Leverett
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A true TE with good size.
RB/WR Michael McGhee
Hard to judge based on the competition
OL Charlie Pietrosante
Needs to get bigger to play
DB/WR Kalyl Lindsey
Definitely not 5"11, but could be dangerous
DL Karl Schmalz
Good-sized DE
QB Brady Dever
Great arm
Dartmouth/Columbia Commit/offeree overlaps (3)
OL Cam Davenport
Good size
DL Keoni Perkins
Good size, but untested vs. larger lines
QB Woods Ray
Great arm. Great runner. Great competitor.
Harvard/Columbia Commit/offeree overlaps (6)
OL Dominik Di Filippo
Very big dude
TE/DE Seamus Gilmartin
"3-star" recruit?
DB Austin-Jake Guillory
Good size at a position where most Ivy teams struggle to find taller players
WR Owen Johnson
Great player and great personal story
WR/DB Ryan Mooney
Super fast, decommitted from Notre Dame baseball
DE/TE Stephan Scourtis
Good speed and size
8 comments:
wow! very interesting. seems like a big effort to go thru the twitter accounts of all these incoming ivy players. thanks!
? thanks for your candid comments Mr. Anon.
Actually the more significant information is the verified offers from other Ivies which were given to our incoming class.
Hopefully this will be forthcoming
Since we are competing for the same pool of candidates we expect some of our offers to go elsewhere. You win some and you lose some. The question is:
will Columbia EVER be able to attract enough talent to win an Ivy League title
in football ? If so, in addition to the depth afforded by several consecutive great recruited classes, what will it take ?
This is a good question, I'd be curious what Jake and other long-time CU watchers would say. My two cents is that our y2y talent doesn't seem to be at the level of Princeton's, but neither is anyone else's. We are not that far off HY. More importantly, Dartmouth seemingly would have more recruiting disadvantages than CU, yet DC has won multiple championships under Buddy.
Buddy is a great coach but if DC can consistently compete for championships, Columbia should have the same ceiling.
PS - I am not sure CU has any recruiting disadvantages, but I can't see what our financial aid packages look like relative to other Ivy schools.
You hit partially on it H and Pr had a financial aid advantage … also we used to be hampered by the Academic Index which was designed to make each school’s recruiting class look like thei respective student bday …since we used to be rank #2 in selectivity, D could accept kids we couldn’t touch … not sure where the AI stands since CoVid …. Then there’s the city vs country issue for parents … that explains part of it but probably missed some issues .. maybe someone else will chime in
We have excellent skill players; championships are won in the trenches, however. This year we will go far if we can put together a good OL. Defense is going to be strong acrosss the board.
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