ot:al bagnoli

[tipphill]

came out of retirement to coach columbia which is now 5-0 in the ivy league. coached at upenn for years and won 9 ivy league championships. i went to penn games when my daughter was there. he ran a very innovative wide open offense, fun to watch. i was touting him to be hired as head coach at su when we decided to hire robinson.---very good story on him--and how he has done, and philosophy at columbia

 

[sutomcat]

came out of retirement to coach columbia which is now 5-0 in the ivy league. coached at upenn for years and won 9 ivy league championships. i went to penn games when my daughter was there. he ran a very innovative wide open offense, fun to watch. i was touting him to be hired as head coach at su when we decided to hire robinson.---very good story on him--and how he has done, and philosophy at columbia

Good read.

Columbia Gives Its Neighbors a Football Team Worth Cheering

 

[CuseLegacy]

came out of retirement to coach columbia which is now 5-0 in the ivy league. coached at upenn for years and won 9 ivy league championships. i went to penn games when my daughter was there. he ran a very innovative wide open offense, fun to watch. i was touting him to be hired as head coach at su when we decided to hire robinson.---very good story on him--and how he has done, and philosophy at columbia

I read the header and thought you were visiting Napoli.

 

[KaiserUEO]

I was worried this was going to say he had passed.

I remember him from Union back in the early 80s.

 

[Frozen]

i went to penn games when my daughter was there.

What position did she play?

 

[tipphill]

What position did she play?

good one.

 

[Cuseregular]

came out of retirement to coach columbia which is now 5-0 in the ivy league. coached at upenn for years and won 9 ivy league championships. i went to penn games when my daughter was there. he ran a very innovative wide open offense, fun to watch. i was touting him to be hired as head coach at su when we decided to hire robinson.---very good story on him--and how he has done, and philosophy at columbia

Know that name well.

He was coach at Union when we beat them at Hamilton when they came in 7-0 and #2 nation where no one gave us a chance, sound familiar? We were fighting for relevance to come back after a long stretch of struggle (3-20 in the years previous, 12 game losing streak in there). Again Might sound familiar. After knocking them off we finished the year with the first winning season in years and a one loss championship season.

This is why I can totally relate to Zaire when he says in that great article that it takes doing "everything " to get a program back. Everything from everybody involved at all times. And here's hoping that "everything" for the Cuse leads to a similar end result or close to it.

Bagnoli did it at Union and had an amazing run there, he's the epitome of what you want a college coach to be and I had a similar in game and then post game moment with him and his team as dabo had with us. The parallels with back then (both my team and my rooting team in the Cuse struggling for relevance then and again now), are staggering to me.

Beating Nebraska in '84 and hearing about it as my mother told me about it as we walked off the field beating a team we hadn't beaten since 1903 (Williams college that I'm seeing next weekend as they play Hamilton), and being more excited to hear about the Cuse than my own game (that's when I realized how deep my orange blood runs with that feeling).

And then getting geared up to play an al Bagnoli coached undefeated team who were on a 12 game winning streak where no one but ourselves believed we could do it. The parallels are spooky. According to my coach Bagnoli nearly single handedly got me national recognition that led to a pro tryout (never would've been noticed back then otherwise).

So I know him well, respect him and owe a debt of gratitude to. Gotta love this college game and some of those that populate it.

 

[SWC75]

Know that name well.

He was coach at Union when we beat them at Hamilton when they came in 7-0 and #2 nation where no one gave us a chance, sound familiar? We were fighting for relevance to come back after a long stretch of struggle (3-20 in the years previous, 12 game losing streak in there). Again Might sound familiar. After knocking them off we finished the year with the first winning season in years and a one loss championship season. This is why I can totally relate to Zaire when he says in that great article that it takes "everything " to get a program back. Everything from everybody involved at all times. And hoping that "everything" for the Cuse leads to a similar end result or close to it.

Bagnoli did it at Union and had an amazing run there, he's the epitome of what you want a college coach to be and I had a similar in game and then post game moment with him and his team as dabo had with us. The parallels with back then (both my team and my rooting team in the Cuse struggling for relevance then and again now), are staggering to me.

Beating Nebraska in '84 and hearing about it as my mother told me about it as we walked off the field beating a team I'm seeing next weekend we hadn't beaten since 1903 (Williams college as they play Hamilton), and being more excited to hear about the Cuse than my own game.

And then getting geared up to play an al Bagnoli coached undefeated team where on a 12 game winning streak where no one but ourselves believed we could do it. The parallels are spooky. According to my coach Bagnoli nearly single handedly got me national recognition that led to a pro tryout (never would've been noticed otherwise).

So I know him well, respect him and owe a debt of gratitude to. Gotta love this college game and some of those that populate it.

My brother went to Hamilton back in the 60's, when Don Jones was the coach. It's been a struggle most of the time since then, except when "The Steves" were coaching.
Hamilton Yearly Totals

Al Bagnoli's record: Al Bagnoli - Wikipedia
It's alot easier to win at places like Alabama or Ohio State than it is at the places Al has coached.

 

[Cuseregular]

My brother went to Hamilton back in the 60's, when Don Jones was the coach. It's been a struggle most of the time since then, except when "The Steves" were coaching.
Hamilton Yearly Totals

Al Bagnoli's record: Al Bagnoli - Wikipedia
It's alot easier to win at places like Alabama or Ohio State than it is at the places Al has coached.

Yep. And wow re your brother, very cool. Always heard of those Hamilton legends when we were there. With the old alums coming back with their tales of glory at a frat party and me thinking look at those old flucks. Now those old flucks doing the same are me and my guys, lol.

The "Steves" years correlated with the school somehow bringing in a lot of us borderline div. 1 kids in (check records as this era kids hold a disproportionate number still held to this day), but that stopped in the 90's and remains. The weird parallels with us here in terms of struggle continue. The college landscape has changed so much, however.

With UConn, Rutgers, USF, UCF, etc. I wasn't sure we'd even get back to where we even are today (on our way back and now need to keep it going - pay da man!), but for Hamilton I think the deck is too stacked against it. The concussion issue is too great and pervasive such that fewer and fewer "smart" kids will play as the years go on. Hamiltons and its league will be the first to go in about 10 years.

 

[SUfaninAZ]

Maybe Rutgers will hire him after the Ashes burn out.