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...Santa, even you can’t bring wins against Michigan, Purdue, Wisconsin, Ohio State and others every year. Especially not with the Hoosiers’ underwhelming football legacy. As you know, basketball coaches head to Bloomington seeking immortality. Football coaches who migrate there commit career suicide...
...he’d face on a weekly basis, it seems unlikely. Harvard may not be bowl-eligible or even playoff-eligible, but its program does, despite its faults, provide Murphy with a chance to win. Indiana simply doesn’t. What kind of a gift is that, Santa...
...Santa, when you are devouring the scrumptious cookies I’m sure Director of Athletics Bob Scalise leaves fireside each Christmas Eve, please remind him that Ivy League titles and 10-0 seasons aren’t delivered by flying reindeer. They’re provided by a coaching staff whose only fixture over a given three-year period is likely its head coach. And any coach who has delivered three conference crowns in eight seasons is certainly worth keeping, even if it involves upping a few of the numbers on his paycheck...
...Santa, I’m not the only one who will be happy if Murphy stays. With captain Ryan Fitzpatrick graduating, either Liam O’Hagan or Chris Pizzotti—both untested freshmen—will take the helm of the Harvard offense. And who better than Murphy, under whose tutelage Fitzpatrick, Neil Rose ’02-’03 and others bloomed into bona fide gunslingers, to teach the next generation of Crimson quarterbacks? Neither they nor any of the offense’s returning starters want to look under their tree Christmas morning...
Don’t forget Murphy himself, though, Santa. His position at Harvard is a high-end gift in itself, or so Murphy said when he referred to his post as a “lifetime job” in November. And the Crimson’s key departures combined with the parity of the Ivy League will leave him with several new challenges come next season...