They Got 'Em (Penn and Princeton Editions)

Penn and Princeton finally just added their incoming freshmen to their rosters (but still no write up or press releases to be found) in the last week or so. Here are the eight players that we know Columbia offered that ended up in Philly:

DB Darius Beauvoir

LB Zach Darche

DB Kayleb Ervin

DL Mike Fernicola 

DB Josh Narcisse

LB Cole Olsztyn

QB Devin Page

OL Michael Zack

... and here are the 11 guys we offered (that we know about) who chose Princeton:

WR Aidan Besselman (perhaps the best recruit of the bunch. Super fast)

TE Jack Comeau 

OL Barrett Eddelmon

OL Phil Eichelzer 

OL Connor McAllen

DB Kavon Miller 

LB Tyler Morris 

DL Ral Nwogbu

OL Tare Porbeni

OL Barry Richardson 

DL London Robinson

There's a good news/bad news story here. First off, we're going to have a lot of overlap offers with all the Ivy schools, but especially with the schools in our general proximity like Princeton, Penn, and Yale. Sure enough, those three schools are the ones that got the most commits from players we also offered. 

The good news is Columbia is clearly in the recruiting mix for these great players and the Lions are winning some of the battles they wouldn't have even been able to enter a few years ago. 

The bad news is there are some talented players on that list above that Columbia doesn't just lose out on getting, but will now be facing the Lions for the next four years.