The latest edition of the Roar Lions 2025 podcast is up and it features a look at an exciting returning WR and perhaps Head Coach Jon Poppe's most impressive commitment for 2025, who also happens to be a WR.
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Players Mentioned in the podcast
Titus Evans (rising junior WR)
Caden Butler (incoming freshman WR 6'0" 175 lbs. Chapparal HS Temecula, CA)
Dylan Clifton, incoming freshman OL 6'3" 285, Choate, Wallingford, CT (also Henderson HS Buda)
Elliot Cooper, (incoming freshman WR 5'11" 180, Notre Dame HS, Sherman Oaks, CA)
Xander Eschelman, (incoming freshman QB 6'3" 195, Menlo-Atherton HS, Atherton, CA)
Wasn't there some issue about whether Titus Evans was still on the team or am I mid-remembering? If there was, has the matter been resolved. He certainly showed flashes of brilliance in the limited role he had last year. What a plus it will be if we have a threat who can immediately step into Canty's huge shoes. I'm reminded how difficult it was for the team to fill Josh Wainwright's when he went down for the season against CCS (I was there and it was painful to see) after his breakout sophomore campaign when he and Anders Hill shredded IL secondaries.
ReplyDeleteYou’re thinking about Edan Stagg. Evans is all-in for the Lions!
DeleteWhat does the RB situation look like?
ReplyDeleteLooks good.
DeleteI think offense will be solid 2 deep with perhaps some thinness on Oline. Hopefully starting Oline stays injury free, could be very good
ReplyDeleteMore questions on defense but one or two real talents on each level. As always it will come down to how many guys step up their games from last year. Sto has been pretty successful so far at replacing graduating talent
1 week until spring practice
ReplyDeleteLet’s go Lions !!
ReplyDeleteHow about our girls!!!! Historic win in Chapel Hill!!
ReplyDeleteWeiss! Phenomenal 4th quarter.
ReplyDeleteKitty Henderson has won 100 games as a Lion. It's an incredible achievement. No other Columbia woman has come close. On the men's side, it looks like the most wins over a career is around 75.
DeleteThat's more an achievement for Coach G and the program than for Kitty individually. It means we won 50 games over 4 years and Kitty is the only 4 year senior. 4+ great years at or near the top of the IL with deep runs in the NIT the 1st 2 years.
DeleteCorrection to the above: Abby Hsu won 93 games. She left school during g Covid and was able to play 4 season.
DeleteYou're repeating things we all know. NIT, Ivy Madness, good cast etc and obviously Meg has been the coach. It's still a testament to Kitty having an exceptional career.
DeleteRanking of top CU WBB from this era in my opinion:
ReplyDelete1. Kaitlyn Davis
2. Abby Hsu
3. CeCe Collins
4. Kitty Henderson
I would place Kitty ahead of CeCe.
ReplyDeleteIdiotic op ed by Jonathan Cole in today’s NY Times blasting Columbia for entering into an agreement with the feds. All that Columbia agreed to do was what it should have done on its own two years ago. Cole is the airhead who gave away part of Baker Field 30 or so years ago. The administration did us a favor by providing cover to do what needed to be done. How does it relate to football? Easy—we need a functioning university to recruit, to retain coaches and players, and to give our student athletics the education that they bargained for.
ReplyDeleteZip it. We want to talk about football here. Your "....functioning university" comment is nonsense. Take this commentary elsewhere, doofus.
Deletehttps://gocolumbialions.com/news/2025/3/24/kevin-hovde-named-head-mens-basketball-coach.aspx
DeleteGreat hire
Deleteyou're an angry bitch
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ReplyDeleteHey "Zippit," while I am not the anonymous poster who complained about the op-ed by Jonathan Cole in today's NY post you are wrong to criticize the post as having nothing to do with football. I guess you are not old enough to remember Cole who was named as Columbia's provost about thirty years ago. FYI, Zippit, Cole was the guy that not only convinced President Sovern to give away for practically nothing half of the football team's practice facility at Baker Field, but he was the mastermind of the Columbia Administration's plan to de-emphasize Columbia Football by reducing significantly the number
of recruits. Cole simply had no love for Columbia football whether it was the players, coaches or even dedicated fans like you, Zippit.
“Zippit” is obviously misinformed. Cole was part of the disastrous combo of Sovern and Cole, whose leadership set back Columbia athletics a generation or more not only by giving away part of Baker field for a pittance, but by not buying the parking lot across Broadway for a site for the Allen Paviliion. And they did nothing to improve campus athletic facilities. And so who is the “doofus” now zippit?
ReplyDeleteAll true, and Cole had been a varsity baseball player at CU, making his decisions even worse. The only good thing he ever did was commission a marketing study by then-marketing firm owner and assistant track coach Herman Kane 61C whether NYC was a plus or minus for Columbia College marketing purposes. The result: overwhelmingly a plus, and the college admissions office promptly chenged their marketing literature accordingly. the rest they say is history: the percentage of admits v. applicants started to significantly decrease in the early 1990s ultimately to the 2.6% (or so) is is today. Of course, the school also began to get hot at the same time as well for other reasons besides being in NYC but the shift in marketing emphasis cannot be over-emphasized.
ReplyDeleteCole's decisions and effect on the facilities at Baker Field not in dispute. BTW, he was a varsity baseball player as an undergrad. His comments in the NYT, however, are not without merit.
ReplyDeleteCole’s comments are a feeble effort to justify terrible faculty hiring decisions during his tenure.
ReplyDeleteIt would be great for Jake to create a sidebar for folks to discuss all things Columbia other than football. Our alma mater has been in the news for the past 2 years and it would be nice to have a forum to discuss such things, including MBB, WBB and of course matters happening on campus.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good idea but let's not put it on Jake. Jake wants to talk football and created this blog for football specifically. Maybe you can get something going?
DeleteIs the author of “doofus” and “angry bitch” one and the same? If so, I suggest that Jake ban him from this site. It is OK to disagree but not to engage in ad hominem attacks on fellow Columbia fans and supporters.
ReplyDelete"Zippit," "doofus" and "angry bitch" is probably one and the same person and his very early support of the Hamas Terrorists on this Board suggests that he has never been to American Football Game. Jake should dump him
ReplyDeleteAgreed!!!
ReplyDelete“Zippit doofus angry bitch” almost as annoying as “AntiUngvar” from Ivy League chat, but not quite.
ReplyDeleteI know that this is a football blog but let’s give kudos to AD Pilling for pulling the trigger on the hopeless Engels and hiring a great young coach in Hovde. Also, some kudos to baseball for obliterating Brown in a three game sweep in which we put up a total of 45 runs. Not sure about our pitching but we have some excellent position players who can hit.
ReplyDeleteThank goodness Engles is gone. We basically squandered a decade, so here’s to hoping Hovde can make up for lost time!
DeleteI know this is a football blog, but kudos to John Jay for winning the battle of the dining halls.
ReplyDeleteThe Columbia Softball Team swept Penn this past weekend. I watched all three games and was very impressed. The Lions are very talented and have an excellent coaching staff.
ReplyDeleteAny football updates.
ReplyDeleteFirst spring Practice tomorrow
ReplyDeleteBaseball put up 19 in the Manhattan. College win yesterday. Big test at Princeton this weekend.
ReplyDeleteClaire Shipman is now our acting president. ‘86C
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