25 CommentsA well-deserved congratulations to all the members of Columbia’s Football team as they avoided their first winless season since 1987 yesterday by beating Brown 35-28. Read about the monumental 2OT victory in more detail later in Bwog Sports Sunday.
Yesterday’s celebration probably went a little like this:
UPDATE: Spec reports that the Football team’s head coach, Norries Wilson, will not be retained. Wilson is 17-43 for his career as head coach at Columbia.
Head Coach Norries Wilson Will Not Be Retained
NEW YORK – Dr. M. Dianne Murphy, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics and Physical Education at Columbia University, announced today that head football coach Norries Wilson has been relieved of his responsibilities, effective immediately.
“We are appreciative of the effort and hard work that Coach Wilson has contributed to the Columbia University football program over the past six years,” said Murphy. “Norries has dedicated himself tremendously to the University and our football players. Norries is a great leader of men. He did so much for the young men on our football team. His leadership is second to none.”
“Norries has accomplished a great deal in helping us rebuild a stronger foundation for Columbia Football. We thank him for his tremendous service and wish him the very best in the future. ”
Arriving on Morningside Heights in December 2005, Wilson led Columbia to a 5-5 record in the 2006 football season, the winningest season of any first-year coach in school history since the start of Ivy League play in 1956. In 2009, Wilson’s fourth season at Columbia, the Lions finished tied for fourth place in The Ivy League, their best finish since 2001. He is the only head football coach in school history to lead Columbia to victories over Princeton in consecutive seasons. Overall at Columbia, Wilson finishes with a won-loss record of 17-43, with an Ivy League record of 10-32.
Added Murphy, “Making a decision of this nature is always difficult. That said, in order to achieve the goals that we have set for the Columbia football program, we believe that it is necessary and appropriate to make a change in leadership at this time.”
Columbia will launch a national search for a new head football coach immediately.
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@ANONYMOOSE best part about all of this is CU athletes are often to most successful of all alums – SORRY NERDS, POSTING ON A BLOG DONT HURT US
Billy Campbell & Robert Kraft just to name a few
S–ck it dorks
@Anonymous Because we ALL want to become disgustingly rich CEOs, right?
Please.
Tools will always be tools will always be tools.
@recruiting i can’t believe these recuited athletes take the spots of well deserving applicants every year
@Hey We need to protect the feelings of our sensitive jocks.
@Anonymous I agree partially. If we continue to lose then yes it is a waste, why can’t we just lower the academic standards and get better players who will atleast add to campus life as we will be good in sports and people will go to the games and have fun
@Anonymous because this is an academic, not athletic, institution
@you do realize the reason *you* didnt get into Harvard or Yale is probably because an unqualified Jock took your vaunted academic spot…
@.... and you assume we wanted to go to Harvard or Yale why?
@because.. because their rankings are higher than ours!
@well... this is the deadspin writer who broke the band story last week:
“The Game is, after all, an inclusive affair. For all the hemming and hawing about some Harvard types’ dumb “We are the six percent” mesh pinnies, I got into the student tailgate. (Not so long ago, I was rejected from both Yale and Harvard.)”
http://deadspin.com/5861426/a-day-at-harvard+yale-and-its-tragic-tailgate
@Anonymous football’s roster is rather high, perhaps the recruited football players should be limited to only two or three times what they are for other sports, given the repeated failures of the program?
@columbia football is pathetic. 1 season win since 1987… really?
@what? last *winless* season was ’87, learn2read
sick of people who either can’t read or don’t understand sports enough to figure out what the fuck is going on, but want to complain anyways
@:) So happy that Norries won’t be coming back. the football team deserves better leadership than that.
And I totally agree with the Paterno suggestion!
@Anonymous so is this what we are reduced to? celebrating the fact that we didn’t have a completely WINLESS season???!
it’s times like these that i have to wonder why my tuition goes toward such a useless and pathetic part of columbia.
@First she bans CUMB from the field... …and then she bans Norries Wilson. M. Dianne Murphy is insane!
@Ummm... You’re kidding me, right? This team needs new leadership. We have access to the same group of athletes as every other school in the Ivy League. There is no reason he should be 10-32 for that division.
@Anonymous She is insane, but the Wilson thing was sarcasm.
@Anonymous JOE PATERNO FOR HEAD COACH = IVY LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 2013
@Anonymous Joe Paterno hired as new Columbia head football coach.
@What is the most common job interview question asked of potential Columbia football coaches?
What are your field goals?
@Anonymous they got a trophy after winning just one game?
@durr that video’s from ’09 win over Fordham
@Anonymous WE DID A THING!
@Anonymous How nice that they had a marching band there to play Roar Lion Roar!