Columbia Universitys football team hasn’t won a game in over two years. They've had just three winning seasons in the past five decades. Turning things around won't be easy,but this year, the university is redoubling its efforts to try."What we're trying to attain here is no different than a company that's been bankrupt and it's been bought by somebody and they're coming in here with a new management team, and " said Al Bagnoli,the team's new head coach. "How attain you catch that trade to be solvent, and how attain you catch it to be profitable?"For 23 years Bagnoli had been the coach at the University of Pennsylvania, and where he won nine Ivy League titles. Then he retired. And now, at the age of 62, he's come out of retirement to coach the Lions.
Columbia is pouring money and resources into the team. Players say they're more excited than they've ever been. This could be the year things finally change.But this isn't just a myth about football: It's about what it takes to turn around something that's gotten stuck, and that's hardly unique to sports.
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Source: wnyc.org