CU on FBN
Patriots owner and Columbia donor extraordinaire Bob Kraft made an appearance on Fox Business Network on the channel's launch day. Kraft mentioned Diane Murphy, Norries Wilson and Bill Campbell. Who... Who I ask you at FBN could have green-lighted such an interview?
Enjoy.
posted by Jake @ 1:22:00 AM
23 comments
23 Comments:
Oh, go ahead, make yourself look good to your employer(s) and 'fess up.
It's always darkest right before dawn. Keep the faith. The New Athletics fund and general change in attitude towards sports at CU is a MAJOR CHANGE for the better. The interest shown in the program on this site is also a very positive sign that are many passionate fans that care and will support the team. Jake, keep up the good work. Fans, don't focus on the negative past, work towards building a positive future. "The only play that matters is the next play!"
Can the GW Bridge be seen from Wien?
Anyway, very good piece; and nice touch that the host also went to Columbia.
Great work Jake. I can't tell you how much I appreciate your work for Columbia. Keep the faith!
kudos to Kraft on his gift but his constant referral to playing football at CU is a bit much. The guy was a scrub on the 150 lb team. He might have been looking at the GW bridge cause he has playing intramurals in Riverside Park. No wonder he loves Belicheat---revisionist history at it's best.
Jake-
Great work in tee'ing up this interview.
Why doesn't Columbia have a Sprint (<150 lbs.) team anymore. Kraft should peel off some more cash to fund that team and I guess a new women's sport to make it fit into Title IX. Would be cool to see and would be another way to compete with the other ivies.
I played on the lightweight football team when Kraft was there. He was a year ahead of me but as I recall he wasn't any "scrub" as a previous poster mentioned -- he was one of the better players.
How about peeling off some $$ for a Varsity Squash team and a Varsity Men's Lax team--two true Ivy sports that frankly is quite embarrassing that we don't have already as the other 7 have had for decades....
Kraft played lightweight ball. OK, so he fudges things a bit by saying that he played football at Columbia. A few years ago he used to say that he played lightweight football, but with most of us our athletic achievements grow more profound the older we get. For $5 million he can say he was a finalist for the Heisman trophy as far as I'm concerned.
Looking at the team on Sat, it looked like we had several players who could jump on that 150 lb squad right now. That's not a shot at their talent but could we please get some size on a CU team for once. Have we ever been the "bigger" team? sorry- I missed the Marist game. Outfitting us in baby blue head 2 toe certainly doesn't help the cause. The light blue shirts with light blue pants isn't the best look.
Heisman poster--agreed-he can say whatever he wants but if you met him in person and he said he "played football" at Columbia, you'd be hard presed not to break out into laughter...
The guy gives $5Mill to the school - and you guys are quibbling about which kind of football he played?
Get real - we should be greatly relived and appreciative of his generosity, he has already endowed another building - this is only good for the athletic dept.
I say, thanks Robert Kraft!
regards,
Columbia Fan
Since Bob Kraft is an avid reader of Jake's blog, as are his sons and his entire extended family, I implore all of you: the guy is terrific! I know a lot of guys in their 60s who no longer look like they were once great athletes. My recollection is that Kraft was a tough lightweight player in a league with a lot of good players who were just not big enough to play varsity ball. I remember that a few lightweight players from some other Ivy teams were actually called up to the varsity. Bob Kraft, keep up the great work! And your Pats looked great last night.
The guys who played lightweight football are the pure football players if you ask me. Talk about playing for the love of the game. No support, attention, or reward other than playing football and earning their Varsity C.
I well remember the dedication of my friends who played on the lightweight team.
Hard to believe there are posters who would question the football bona fides of Bob Kraft in particular or anyone else who played lightweight ball in general. If Bob Kraft played lightweight for three years he has my admiration as well as thanks for his gift.
Before we add other varsity sports we need to focus on improving the ones we have. Plus, very few schools have 29 varsity sports as we do--we're in the top echelon for number of teams as it is, and if you look at student participation rates in varsity sports, we're at the very top for Division I schools. Yes, our Ivy peers also have many varsity teams, but our space and student body size constraints are signficant. Let's build winning programs with the teams we have.
Leonidas
I would like the thank Robert Kraft, and would like to see other big donors step up (I just gave a gift the day I read the annoucement). Perhaps we should dedicate a toilet in the new building as thanks to Sovern.
Echo these last few posts: CU football now needs the support of all who played then or whenever.
Columbia doesn't have a 150lb team because it can barely support the real team--and no, 150 lb football is not real football so cut the nonsense. It's great that the little guys have a love of the game etc but comeon---have you ever met a guy from Cornell, Army, Penn etc who played 150 lb ball? It's like they were cast from Gullivers Travels ands everyone one them-like Kraft-never admit they played 150 lb ball so if it was such a badge of honor, I would think they would come out and be proud of it. Do you think lightweight rowers introduce themselves as heavyweights? same concept so stop defending it... let's get new people behind the program instead of the 25-50 alumni who have kept this thing on life support the last twenty years.
OK; here is my plea for support. If you can give $1,000, please try to give $2,500. If you are already contributing to the college, please ask that your contribution be earmearked for football. If you can give $5,000, try to stretch to 10. While not everybody is an investment banker, entrepreneur, CEO or even a partner in a major law firm, each of us can give something. Believe me, it isn't just the size of the contribution, it is also the number of contributors. If you are reading Jake's blog, you love Columbia football or else you would be doing something else with your time. We really need money, and support. And make no mistake, we need to get out to all oof the home games, no matter what. Our guys are young; thye need and deserve our support!
Where is Masorti?
Just win, baby. For the love of God, forget the money, the blah-blah and just WIN!
--Lou Little quoting Al Davis
To the poster who requested varsity squash--voila!. Ask and ye shall receive. How timely to your posting.
I played lightweight football at Columbia, and I don't know whether this has any meaning other than as a non sequitur, but Donald Rumsfeld (yes, that real bad guy)played lightweight football at Princeton. Maybe we both played without helmets.
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