Tuesday, October 16, 2007

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.

23 Comments:

At Tue Oct 16, 01:27:00 AM GMT+7, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh, go ahead, make yourself look good to your employer(s) and 'fess up.

 
At Tue Oct 16, 01:31:00 AM GMT+7, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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!"

 
At Tue Oct 16, 02:43:00 AM GMT+7, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can the GW Bridge be seen from Wien?
Anyway, very good piece; and nice touch that the host also went to Columbia.

 
At Tue Oct 16, 02:57:00 AM GMT+7, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great work Jake. I can't tell you how much I appreciate your work for Columbia. Keep the faith!

 
At Tue Oct 16, 02:57:00 AM GMT+7, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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.

 
At Tue Oct 16, 03:32:00 AM GMT+7, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jake-
Great work in tee'ing up this interview.

 
At Tue Oct 16, 03:42:00 AM GMT+7, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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.

 
At Tue Oct 16, 03:54:00 AM GMT+7, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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.

 
At Tue Oct 16, 04:46:00 AM GMT+7, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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....

 
At Tue Oct 16, 04:48:00 AM GMT+7, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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.

 
At Tue Oct 16, 04:51:00 AM GMT+7, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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.

 
At Tue Oct 16, 04:55:00 AM GMT+7, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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...

 
At Tue Oct 16, 05:31:00 AM GMT+7, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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

 
At Tue Oct 16, 05:56:00 AM GMT+7, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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.

 
At Tue Oct 16, 07:18:00 AM GMT+7, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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

 
At Tue Oct 16, 07:29:00 AM GMT+7, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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.

 
At Tue Oct 16, 11:12:00 AM GMT+7, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Echo these last few posts: CU football now needs the support of all who played then or whenever.

 
At Tue Oct 16, 06:07:00 PM GMT+7, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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.

 
At Tue Oct 16, 08:04:00 PM GMT+7, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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!

 
At Tue Oct 16, 08:05:00 PM GMT+7, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Where is Masorti?

 
At Tue Oct 16, 10:59:00 PM GMT+7, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just win, baby. For the love of God, forget the money, the blah-blah and just WIN!
--Lou Little quoting Al Davis

 
At Wed Oct 17, 06:32:00 AM GMT+7, Blogger dabull said...

To the poster who requested varsity squash--voila!. Ask and ye shall receive. How timely to your posting.

 
At Wed Oct 17, 06:58:00 AM GMT+7, Blogger Dr. J said...

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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