Great Brackett Article
Check out today's Hartford Courant for a great piece about Sean Brackett.
The article repeats a story I first wrote about more than two years ago that details just how Coach Norries Wilson first learned about Brackett as a recruit.
It also corrects some apparently incorrect info I received that led me to believe that Brackett and Penn QB Billy Ragone are friends.
Sorry about that!
posted by Jake @ 6:44:00 PM
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Great story, but what's a "lanyard"?
-Dr.V
Great sports column by Jeff Jacobs of the Hartford Courant. The Football Gods are definitely wearing Columbia Blue this season.
Also very nice story on Nick Gerst in yesterday's Columbia Daily Spectator. Columbia's Sports Information Department may wish to consider reprinting some of these newspaper articles on the Columbia Athletics website.
A lanyard is worn around the neck and holds a small placecard. You will see lanyards worn by the players' parents at all of our games. I met the pastor at the Towson game; great guy; he told me the whole story about Sean and Norries.
Great news!! Owen Fraser is back on the two deep! Hopefully he'll get 15 or 20 snaps and be ready for Penn!
Our defensive line has done extremely well this season, but having Owen Fraser back makes the defensive line significantly better and possibly the best in the Ivy League.
Like last year, expect Lafayette to throw the ball and hope the refs call the Lions for pass interference everytime the Lafayette receivers run into the Lion defenders. Lafayette has some speed at running back, but the running backs are not very big and are mostly inexperienced. Harvard's defense held the Lafayette running game in check last weekend and Columbia will try to emulate what Harvard did.
I am generally concerned with the poor level of Ivy officiating. There was a terrible call against either Moretto or Gross last Saturday after the game was out of hand.
My neighbor in Vermont went to Lafayette and we will be gathering to watch on web feed. I am tempting fate in that I plan to vandalize his home a bit with blue and white paper and pictures of dead leopards. Also coming is his Lafayette roommate who transferred to Columbia junior year.
We simply must win or I will never hear the end of it from this duo.
For the first time ever, I feel confident. Our D is consistently tough against both pass and run and I see our O as only getting better with game time.
We'll overcome some early miscues to win 28-13 Go Lions!!
Lanyards are originally military in nature, Dr. V. Think of those whistles non-coms and officers wear around their necks in WWI movies. Those hang by lanyards.
Officers' sidearms also used to sport lanyards.
(And now, of course, IT geeks at companies proudly do. Seemingly 24/7, in fact!)
Jake- it would be great if you could include links to the Spectator articles on your blog. Let's make this the one stop shop for everything Columbia Football.
lanyards, also seems nautical, or for press credentials. the boatswain probably wears one for his whistle.
If the officer is using his sidearm with the lanyard, things are not looking good!
they are prevalent at sporting events. I went to the Red Bulls opening day and they gave us lanyards with a game ticket on it. Columbia used to give them out to the Little Lions Club...
either way lanyard or not - I predict a Lions win this weekend, 8 years is too long by far. Can't believe it has been that long.
GO LIONS
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