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...easy to forget while Tellier was getting peppered with questions about how Harvard could rack up over 200 passing yards in the first half that at 42-96-2, he was the Lions’ most successful coach in ages. Columbia’s 5-4-1 season in 1994 was its first winning campaign since the early 70s, and in 1996, Tellier garnered Division I-AA National Coach of the Year honors...
...Tellier would enter the room and make a brief statement about the game. There was never much to say—the Lions usually got flat-out killed, and there’s only so much you can explain about a thrashing except to say that it happened...
...then, in a display reminiscent of the interrogation scenes in so many movies, the Columbia Daily Spectator writers would grill Tellier on every aspect of the Lions’ failure. The 2000 game was the worst. Tellier seemed a very likeable guy—in a Peter-Falk-as-Columbo kind of way—and the Spec raked him over the coals for some 15 minutes, asking question after question to which there really was no answer...
...Tellier looked pained, and I felt bad for him. But he also looked dignified—depressing, yes, but dignified—under the assault, and you almost had to exhale involuntarily on his behalf when he was finally able to leave...
...exhale voluntarily when he left for good. Whether or not Tellier was a good coach, drawing up plays for the Light Blue must have been like running the point for the Washington Generals or serving drinks on the Hindenberg. This was a program that hasn’t won a league championship since the 60s, that endured a 44-game losing streak in the late 80s. These things are tough to escape, no matter who your new coach...