Post Mortems

Mike McLeod runs into one of the few holes he saw all day (CREDIT: Yale Daily News)

There's a little more on the post-halftime, on-the-field bravado exhibited by both Columbia and Yale in this article from the Yale Daily News. One warning, it's a bit one-sided from the Yale perspective.

I'm not as up on the NCAA rule book as I'd like to be, and thus I am at a loss when it comes to the severity of the punishment for Lou Miller, who was ejected from the game Saturday for kneeing the Yale tight end on the sideline. Does anyone know if he has to sit out the next game as well? Obviously, it would be a shame if that's the case.

I have another question for the Columbia faithful: who would you pick as the Lions MVP of Saturday's game? Maybe Alex Gross for a series of great tackles? Owen Fraser for again plugging up the middle? Ray Rangel for a number of gutsy runs?

Later today, we'll get the updated stats from the Ivy League football office. I expect to see Columbia's overall defensive stats improve again and the offense may get a pop in the stats too. Of course, we all wish for more wins instead, but we have to wait until Saturday for that either way.

On a brighter note, there is now a good reason to get to the Harvard game very early. For the second time in three years, Columbia women's soccer could be playing for the championship at 11am Saturday just a little walk from Harvard Stadium. Columbia, Princeton, and Harvard are currently tied for first place. In 2006, the Lions beat Harvard at Harvard on the last day of the season to clinch the title.