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Saturday Night Lights
Published: June 2, 2009
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The Lions will take on the Leopards under the lights once again.
We now have the game times for all but one of our 10 games for 2009. You can see them here.
Some thoughts:
1) I’m sure all these times are subject to change, but you knew that already. I’m not sure yet whether the VERSUS or YES networks will change any of the listed start times for their coverage, but that can happen and we should find that out sometime before September.
2) After no night games last season, it looks like the Lions will have at least two in 2009. The road games against Fordham and Lafayette on the road are both slated for 6pm.
3) Just like it was in 2007 at this point in the offseason, we still don’t have a start time for the Week 3 Ivy League opener at Princeton Stadium. That game ended up being a 3pm start time. In the past, the Tigers have also made the Columbia game a nighttime contest as they did in 2001 and 2003.
The weird thing about the game this time is Princeton will be starting a short week that day as they play Colgate (also at home) the following Thursday on ESPNU at 7pm.
Will the Tigers try to make the Lions game an early start to maximize their already abbreviated time off?
Will they try a night game to get used to the lights before they make their 2009 national night time TV debut?
Will Ross and Rachel ever get married?
Will they ever explain what the Hell is going on on that show, “Lost?”
Stay tuned.
4) All in all, this seems like a pretty convenient schedule for the fans. The Fordham season opener (at Fordham) starts at 6pm, making it possible for a lot of people to observe the first day of Rosh Hashanah without missing the game.
5) The 12:30pm start times for four of the five home games and two other road games make it possible for people to see the game and then enjoy a nice free Saturday evening on the town or at home.
6) The 1:30pm start time for Homecoming will again allow people to enjoy the pre-game festivities and still catch the game.
I’ll keep an eye open for any time changes prompted by TV coverage.
Mark Sanchez Visits Columbia
Published: April 28, 2009
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This is not our new quarterback for 2009
OK, OK, USC star quarterback and New York Jet first pick Mark Sanchez was on the CU campus yesterday for a little workout for the news cameras. He was not here to transfer to Columbia. (But he does have another year of eligibility, no?).
Sanchez shouldn’t be too uncomfortable on Ivy campuses, his brother was a Yale quarterback and now serves as his agent. I wonder if visiting Columbia was his brother’s idea?
Scouting the Enemy, Part 1 of Many
The summary of Fordham’s annual spring game offers a few hints of what Columbia should expect to see when the teams square off in 144 days. It looks like we’ll see more of the same—a lot of quarterback John Skelton throwing short passes, and even more of Xavier Martin running the ball as fast as he can.
This figures to be an interesting year for the Rams as they reportedly are moving to a scholarship program for football beginning in 2010. That means all the non-seniors may be auditioning to keep their jobs all season long as they feel the cold stares of scholarship high school stars creeping up on them.
Fordham remains a very hard team to figure out. They stumbled out of the gate in 2006 under new head coach Tom Masella, turned into a power in their 2007 Patriot League championship season, and then fell apart in 2008 with the same players and without major injury issues.
Will the real Fordham Rams please stand up?
Perhaps former Fordham offensive coordinator and current Columbia offensive line coach Ed Argast will help the Lions figure the Rams out on the field where it counts on the field on Sept. 19.
Swine Flu Ground Zero?
Rising junior offensive lineman Carl Constant’s high school alma mater is at the center of the swine flu story here in New York.
St. Francis Prep was the first school to report cases of the flu, as it appears some of the students went on a spring break trip to Cancun.
It occurs to me that we are very fortunate that this outbreak is not taking place during football or basketball seasons. If so, some games could have been canceled, especially if there were any cases reported at Columbia or on any of the campuses where the Lions play.
With the hot summer months coming up, my medical sources tell me the chances this virus survives through June are minimal. We should be worrying about something else by the time September rolls around.
