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Football coach Pete Mangurian resigns
Columbia’s head F-ball coach Pete Mangurian has resigned, according to a press release from President Bollinger which stated:
“I have accepted Pete Mangurian’s resignation because we have all come to the conclusion that it would be in the best interests of Columbia Athletics. Under Dianne Murphy, Columbia teams have built a new winning tradition across our men’s and women’s sports and we expect no less of our football program. We are committed to providing our dedicated student athletes with the best possible opportunities to succeed both on and off the field. So we will now look forward to completing consultant Rick Taylor’s expert review of our football operations that will help us chart a new direction under a new coach.”
The resignation follows a recent letter, written by 25 F-ball players (and since withdrawn), that laid out several flaws of Mangurian’s coaching. Among the accusation were forcing players to play with concussions, imposing intense weight regimens, and pitting players against one another.
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@Alma Mater This news makes ESPN and has less than 10 comments over 24 hours later? Gotta love the spirited sports following… I mean, what does it say about your “marquee” sports when the band headlines more events in a year than any team? They probably get a larger turnout, too.
@Anonymous Look, I like a good sportsball game like everyone else, but it’s not like they’re owed anything.
“Privilege” gets tossed around too casually sometimes, but at heart the team is just another form of entertainment. It’s pretty privileged thinking to assume that if they’ve been really awful at their form of entetainment, have been for a while and the ‘backstage’ culture’s toxic… that it’s the audience’s fault.
@In another day In another day, this might have gotten lots of attention. But we lost a peer yesterday. The campus is grieving, and more focused on that than a sports game.
Have some respect. You’re not entitled to attention over the death of a student.
@CC16 Can we please cut it with the “F-ball” stuff. It’s just disrespectful and unproductive.
@Anonymous But they did!
Usual joke’s F***ball. This is F- Ball.
There you go- glad to help!
@Anonymous Finally, some good news!
@In retrospect These tweets are hilarious:
https://twitter.com/PeteMangurian/status/261208661186207744
@Anonymous Wait pitting people on the same team against each other doesn’t foster a winning program?
No wonder Columbia had such a hard time understanding why this coach wasn’t working out…
@Anonymous remember when all the football team had to worry about was hate crimes? those were the glory days for columbia
@tearz rip in pieces pete ;___;
@Great first step Now all we need is for the entire football team to resign
@anon can’t wait for the band to tell an orgo night joke about this
@Poor Vaughn Meader I don’t really intend to do the Orgo thing, but I really feel for anyone trying to crack jokes about this year. One depressing thing after another.
@Dead link The link to the letter in the first sentence of the last paragraph doesn’t link to anything