It’s 3:00 am in the Bronx in 1996 and a couple of 20-something young men are meeting up with duffle bags in their hands.
It’s not a nefarious as it may seem.
Dan Mullen is 24 and coaching wide receivers at Columbia. Geoff Collins is 25 and coaching linebackers at Fordham. As the young coaches on staff they were tabbed to take VHS tapes to exchange game film for the week ahead. Columbia won that game 17-10, by the way.
“That was what you do, yeah. You drive halfway, or you know, sometimes you’ll be at the airport and the overnight carrier package if it was too far drive.