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Would love to see Mark Fabish on the show!
Sick to my stomach after watching our Men's Basketball Team get killed by Penn today in Philly. It's amazing that we have the very best woman's basketball coach in the Ivy League in Megan Griffith and the worst men's basketball coach in the Ivy League in Engles.
Please Peter Pilling, ask Engles to resign now. Today’s performance against Penn was embarrassing. No defense, no boxing out, leaving Penn with open 3s, not going with our best pure 3 point shooter,, turnovers galore. The man cannot coach; we have a clown car.
I really, really wish I hadn’t been right about Engles and how bad he is. I feel awful for our players. I don’t see how a mid-season termination is avoidable at this point. I’d predicted 4-10 before the IL campaign started, but now I’m thinking 2-12 or even 0-14. It’s hard to see exactly who we’ll beat. Engles is the worst basketball coach in the history of the Ivy League, and it’s not close.
Goof luck Jake!!! Just listened to the podcast and it was great!!!
As an aside, good win by WBB on Saturday over Penn on the back of a 24-2 second quarter.
It's going to be important to get the #1 seed, because #4 will be weak and the 2/3 game will be brutal.
This is not the NFL or the NBA. This is relatively small time college basketball. A mid-season termination is an absurd idea. He is a decent person. He's not abusing players. A mid-season termination could have negative longstanding effects on the students on the team. They players seem to actually like the coach.
I wish President Armstrong and AD Piling had been on campus when I was an undergraduate and Tom Penders' team led by Alton Byrd, Ricky Free, Juan Mitchell et al. filled Levien and galvanized a college just getting over the disruptions of the late '60's/early 70's. It amazes me that the football team, a far, far harder proposition to turnaround and nurture, starting with a stadium and practice facilities 5 miles from campus, and requiring 25 recruits a year and so much more, has found it's footing with a great young coach, terrific players from all over the country, and 12 thousand plus turning up for Homecoming, and the basketball team is in years' long disarray. I mean what's so hard about selling 4 or 5 good players a year on playing basketball and going to a great college in the Big Apple, over such hoops wastelands as Hanover NH, Ithaca and Providence? Seriously, why have we kept this incompetent clown of coach for years and seen our OCC schedule drop natural rivalries like Fordham, Rutgers, St. John's, Manhattan, to play no-name New England schools and the likes of the Merchant Marine Academy and Sarah Lawrence? Maybe our outstanding WBB coach should be promoted to coaching the men.
Hard to understand anyone who defends Engles, other than people related to him or vested in this decision. He obviously padded the non league schedule with mostly puff ball programs to inflate W-L record. Pilling must act, whether mid season or in April.
Here, here! I also loved those years at Levien. Remember the “horrible hankies” - Everyone had one and we waved those blue pieces of cloth. In a packed house. I also feel really bad for these hard-working great guys on the team. Columbia University in the City of New York should always have competitive men’s basketball teams. And Levien remains a great place to play - look at those great crowds for our women.
Sorry - “Hear, hear!”
As for longstanding effects on the players, losing every game in conference probably doesn’t make them feel warm and fuzzy. Especially getting pasted by teams that are 5-11. I agree with the other poster that a mid-season change is warranted. I don’t care if Engles is a nice guy. Every day that he’s coach is another day of damage done to the players, program, school, alumni, and fans.
The Rohan I years beginning with Jimmy Mac were the best! Phenomenal atmosphere and great players and coaching. There has to be a hidden reason why Engles is being kept as coach when he is obviously in over his head and looks it. Just look at the hangdog, defeated look on his face on the sideline. I’ll bet that Schiller knows the answer. Maybe putting his name on the court explains why Schiller is putting up with this clown show.
Schiller put his own name on the court.
EARTH TO PILLING. COME IN PILLING... Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz is that a reply? EARTH TO PILLING... " I still have the greatest confidence in the mission, Dave!" WE DON"T
And how could he tolerate these past seasons, these disappointments, with his investment and name emblazoned? Even the unheralded women’s performance does not compensate.
Where is the guy who promised to write that letter to the athletic director? Not that it will help but curious if there was any follow through.
Jonathan Schiller played for Jack Rohan one of the best Ivy League coaches ever, and therefore he certainly knows how to evaluate coaches. That's why it's inexplicable why Schiller would allow the Columbia Athletic Director, or whoever else might be calling the shots, to continue ad infinitum the disaster that the Columbia Men's Basketball Program has become. Incidentally, the poster who said that the Columbia players appear to like Coach Engles is living in an unreal world. Today, college athletes rarely criticize coaches
publicly. They just enter the transfer portal.
But none have entered the portal recently!!!
In contrast to our rivals who have lost many players to the portal.
The players like him.
Anyone know what happened to Fliss Henderson? She is not listed on the WBB roster anymore and is not on the bench. Very odd because she seemed all in and her sister is an All Ivy PG on the team. Losing Fliss is a big loss as she is tough inside, skilled around the basket, and a good passer and rebounder.
Obviously, they are staying at Columbia despite Engles, not because they like him.
Whether or not the players like Engles is irrelevant. What is relevant is his record as Columbia's coach and it stinks!
Can we start a fund to buy him out? Send him to Greenland? People are talking .I heard that he eats people's pets!
Maybe they haven’t entered the portal because they’re not attractive to other programs? Sad but possibly true. But is this really what we’re arguing about? Don’t fire a loser because the players might like him? Seriously? The players may like strawberry jam, but that doesn’t mean Smuckers should be the head coach.
My take is that he wasn't born here! As to a buy out? Mexico will pay for it!
We MUST get Engles out, plain and simple because the comments are getting ridiculous
The Peddie School in NJ is looking for a new basketball coach.
Imagine the lunchtime strategy sessions between Engles and Fabish if that happened! Some of the sharpest head coaching minds in their respective sports!
No colleges picked up Fabish after his CU departure? What does that tell you?
The Fabish obsession is disturbing. There are other blogs for this type of perversion, unrelated to football. Might work for you.
Agreed. Leave Fabish alone.
Bill Belichick didn't get an NFL job or any job for a while after he was let go. Does that make him a bad coach?
Fabish isn’t 72 like Belichick.
I love the post suggesting that de la Rosa, Brown, Noland, Thompson, Arop and others have not transferred yet because they like Coach Engles. Very funny
Yeah, that’s pretty ridiculous
Completely baffled that people support Fabish, don't knock 7 years of expensive mediocrity, and aren't thrilled that Poppe turned it around sooooo quickly. No wonder T Rump won the election
AGREED
The best women’s Ivy coach is clearly Berube. Griffith is excellent, but not better than Carla.
It’s pretty impressive (not in a good way) that we’ve had the worst MBB and football coaches in IL history at Columbia. If you guessed Lucky Jim Engles and the Mangurian candidate, you’d be correct.
Jan Molby
Heard Fabish voted for Kamabla
Pervert
Some clever comments here, though a bit malicious at times, especially toward certain CU coaches. The Fabish thing is looking like a cult, but not nearly as noxious as the one we have going on now all around us.
Are you referring to Trump? I get the impression that most people reading this love him, but perhaps you consider it a cult. Maybe it is cult-like, but he's a great president am I'm grateful for it.
Zip it, doofus. Nobody gives a crap about your political opinions.
Have to agree with Zip it. No one wants to hear about how you’ve been hoodwinked by the Grifter-in-Chief.
Re: MBB, Cornell hung 94 on us, Penn 93, and Yale 92. Is Harvard about to put up 95? And Dartmouth 96? Prediction: DLR doesn’t play on Friday night, and we lose by 7-10 to Harvard. Then Saturday night he comes back, but we get taken to the woodshed on the boards and lose to Dartmouth by 20. With Engles at the helm, we’re cooked.
DLR is out
Is Engles next?
The reason why everybody scores in the 90s is that we give up wide open 3s. I have never seen a team so incapable of defending the 3. We make every decent SG look like Steph Curry in his prime. Teaching defense is the way to keep every game close and to steal a few games. Engles gets an F here. The decent thing for him to do is to quietly work out a deal to resign and let one off the assistants finish out the season.
Agreed. He should bow out, but he won’t. The question is whether Pilling will fire him now or after we lose 8-10 more games.
Will we be dogs against Harvard and Dartmouth? I think so, especially without DLR. Hard to make a case we should be favored to win when 1) we’ve lost every IL game so far, 2) we’re missing our best player, and 3) Engles is our “coach.”
To my knowledge our Athletic Director has never offered any public explanation why he has never terminated Engles despite Engles horrible record of ineptitude. That reflect poorly on Pilling, the Interim President off the University and everyone who cares about Columbia sports. It is shameful that neither Engles not anyone else in the Columbia Administration has ever broached the subject. That silence sends an awful chilling message to Columbia students,
alumni and fans that nobody cares about the Men's Basketball Program. What is surprising is that the President and Board of Trustees is willing to risk the adverse publicity which will inevitably occur when some journalist gets around to writing the story.
Think you’re right. Unless and until we win a game, we may not be favored the rest of the way.
What story?
The story of the worst MBB coach in the history of the IL. The coach who was given free reign to destroy the program and who never had to account for any of his actions, decisions, or results. All, perhaps, because of an outlandish testamentary provision.
We all wish the athletic department would provide more details on many things. People wanted more details on the football coach search, injuries and all sorts of things. Never seems to happen though.
Are you referring to the much-discussed provision (supposedly guaranteeing Engles lifetime employment as CU MBB coach) in what has become known in some circles as the Sherwin codicil?
Serious question for the group: whom would you like to see as our next MBB coach? I assume that any association with Engles would merit an immediate DQ.
What does Engles have on Pilling? Only the Shadow knows.
CU -3.5 tonight
Let's consider RFK Jr as our next coach. Inept, ugly, loyal, and incompetent! Remind you of our current leader?
Lay off the Commander in Chief, he knows that the helicopter pilot was WOKE!
I thought that the war in the Ukraine would be over by lunchtime on day one!
I was wrong—I said Harvard would hang 95 on us. Only 90 this time. I now legitimately believe we are going to go 0-14 in conference. We definitely aren’t winning on the road. Maybe Penn at home to go 1-13? Anyway, one thing’s for sure: when it comes to losing, Engles is the most talented coach we’ve ever seen.
Literally anyone else. Or even just an empty chair. We’d still do better.
A ficus plant would be more successful.
Now 23-80 in conference. There’s no way around it: Engles is extraordinarily skilled at losing. Whatever obstacles are placed in his path, he still finds a way to pull out the L. That guy who said we wouldn’t win a game in January was right, sadly.
I think I’ll re-watch the Friday night win against Yale. Such a great victory—it basically saved the season, and the late TD pass to Canty was thrilling!
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