Game Preview, Columbia at Lehigh, 10/6/2012

By Chuck Burton

Publisher/Managing Editor

College Sports Journal

 

BETHLEHEM, PA. – If Columbia head coach Pete Mangurian ever wants to take on another line of work, he'd be a great blogger.

Perhaps it's understandable that he hasn't done a lot of blogging in his first year as the Lion head coach – I can imagine he's, um, a bit busy –  but his blog makes for interesting reading when he does.

Last weekend, after a particularly tough 33-6 defeat to Princeton,  Mangurian made the game about something other than the lopsided score, or the turnovers – he made it about the fans.

It also highlights that Mangurian is in the middle of a rebuilding job at Columbia, and the fact that there will be growing pains as he crafts a winning football team in upper Manhattan.
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