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...really? After next weekend, the six Ivy teams besides Penn and Princeton will likely have combined for just four winning league records in the last four years. And, at last count, none of the those non-Killer P’s had secured any more NCAA tourney bids than Hill??€”that is to say, any at all. Yet, besides Hill, only one of those teams’ coaches has been rumored...
Everyone knew a rebuilding year was in store for Columbia, but now that it’s headed for a winless season, people want blood. Losing, it would appear, is not Hill??€™s sin. The magnitude of it is. A fifth-place finish, as Hill posted last year, doesn’t offend Columbia’s sensibilities. A last-place finish apparently does...
...Hill??€™s team’s struggles come on the heels of the Columbia football team’s 0-7 showing in league play last fall, a debacle that claimed Lions coach Ray Tellier. Does the rest of the league care that Columbia’s coaches may soon be falling left and right? It should. The recent push to de-emphasize Ivy athletics hurts the league’s top programs a lot more than it does a Columbia, which has competitiveness issues beyond its head coaches and which, should it decide to fire Hill, will...
...Hill??€™s team this year is God-awful, but then, that’s not the point. There are other Ivy teams that, at one point or another, haven’t been much better...
...lesson in all this appears to be that every coach is permitted a down year or two or four—just not one as bad as Hill??€™s. It’s OK to stink, just not this much...