How do you pronounce Columbia receiver Jarel Cockburns last name? CO-burn.
What about the kicking game? Ah yes. Junior placekicker Anders Blewitt made yet another field goal last week, perhaps signaling the end of what had been a sore spot for the Crimson since last year. Yet in the second quarter, the Crimson opted to go for it on fourth-and-1 at the 20.
When asked about this, an almost serenely confident Murphy said that no kicking problem exists.
“If it takes a field goal the last play of the game to beat Penn, we’ll knock it through,” he said.
And I believe him. I really do. But Murphy’s words haunt me for one reason. I thought back to the press conference after last year’s Columbia game—another blowout, this time at home. Robbie Wright had nailed a field goal.
Here was Murphy then: “If we need to win a game with a field goal, whether
it’s at Pennsylvania or at Yale, he’ll do it.”
He didn’t.
But then again, its hard to picture this year’s Crimson losing a close game in the fourth quarter. That’s so 2000.