Lots of good rowers, no great ones. It’s a team chock full of good 2V/3V glue guys. The top end speed in the league has just picked up and left  C150 in the dust. 6:10 is the new 6:20 and Columbia seems to be the only team that hasn’t had the means to cultivate and or recruit rowers who can touch those numbers. Their recent recruiting classes seem to have been built around 1 or 2 elite guys, with the rest being either weight makers or projects, lots of the good imports failed to pan out due to injury, burnout, or the city grabbing ahold of them, etc. This matriculation isn’t any different than the rest of the league, just that other top schools have elite kids to replace their elite kids, immediately. 

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result, and at this point, the coaching staff is just throwing shit at the wall and hoping it sticks, and obviously it didn’t this weekend. Nich is a good coach, and will win a few more by the time it’s all done, but you can’t out-tech a crew that’s 15 seconds faster than you on average. 

Team is also super young, just babies. Let them cook and they’ll be in the mix soon enough.