Men's Soccer 2019

Over the weekend, the men knocked off Akron in OT. That's the second win this season over a national semi-finalist from last year, which sounds like justification for their own thread. Just don't look at Akron orMichigan State's record this year. I swear they met in the final four last year and that Akron is perennial power in the sport.

Still, for a program that has managed 4 Ivy wins just twice since 1999, including last year, it is nice to see.

Did something change? A new staff, a great recruiting class?

Watched four of their games (FDU, Canisius, Siena and Akron) and they do look for real. Actually fun to watch, and soccer is not high on my "fun-to-watch" list. Unseeded Akron beat unseeded MSU 5-1 in the 2018 semifinals and lost 1-0 to Maryland in the championship game.

Trotsky
Did something change? A new staff, a great recruiting class?

John Smith took over a floundering team 3 years ago after being the top assistant on Stanford’s NCAA championship team. He immediately changed the culture and brought in some talented kids. As in most sports we don’t get the 4 or 5 star recruits, but he’s recruited some 2 and 3 star guys who have really blossomed. The team plays an aggressive, pressing style and can dominate possession against many teams (see the 29-2 shot differential against Siena). The Ivies are always competitive, but we should be able to challenge for a title this year.

scoop85

Trotsky
Did something change? A new staff, a great recruiting class?

John Smith took over a floundering team 3 years ago after being the top assistant on Stanford’s NCAA championship team. He immediately changed the culture and brought in some talented kids. As in most sports we don’t get the 4 or 5 star recruits, but he’s recruited some 2 and 3 star guys who have really blossomed. The team plays an aggressive, pressing style and can dominate possession against many teams (see the 29-2 shot differential against Siena). The Ivies are always competitive, but we should be able to challenge for a title this year.

Outshot Syracuse 13-8 despite the OT loss. As I wrote: fun to watch.

Al DeFlorio

scoop85

Trotsky
Did something change? A new staff, a great recruiting class?

John Smith took over a floundering team 3 years ago after being the top assistant on Stanford’s NCAA championship team. He immediately changed the culture and brought in some talented kids. As in most sports we don’t get the 4 or 5 star recruits, but he’s recruited some 2 and 3 star guys who have really blossomed. The team plays an aggressive, pressing style and can dominate possession against many teams (see the 29-2 shot differential against Siena). The Ivies are always competitive, but we should be able to challenge for a title this year.

Outshot Syracuse 13-8 despite the OT loss. As I wrote: fun to watch.

Yes, Cornell plays a style that is quite fun to watch. I was a soccer agnostic most of my life, but with my son adopting soccer as his favorite participatory sport (he’s now a senior playing left wing on a high school team currently ranked #5 in Class A in New York State) I’ve come to really enjoy the nuances of the game.

Good to know. I was thinking about going down to the game at Penn. This makes it more worthwhile.

a lot of the scoring seems to be coming from underclassmen too. last year the team faded late and missed the tournament after a fast start but i'm hoping for better this year. this site tracks our RPI: [rpiupdatemenssoccer.blogspot.com]

scoop85
I was a soccer agnostic most of my life, but with my son adopting soccer as his favorite participatory sport (he’s now a senior playing left wing on a high school team currently ranked #5 in Class A in New York State) I’ve come to really enjoy the nuances of the game.

The more I watch it the more I like it, just like hockey and cricket.

Trotsky

scoop85
I was a soccer agnostic most of my life, but with my son adopting soccer as his favorite participatory sport (he’s now a senior playing left wing on a high school team currently ranked #5 in Class A in New York State) I’ve come to really enjoy the nuances of the game.

The more I watch it the more I like it, just like hockey and cricket.

Wow. Someone else who watches cricket!

We are a cosmopolitan bunch, aren't we?

Trotsky

scoop85
I was a soccer agnostic most of my life, but with my son adopting soccer as his favorite participatory sport (he’s now a senior playing left wing on a high school team currently ranked #5 in Class A in New York State) I’ve come to really enjoy the nuances of the game.

The more I watch it the more I like it, just like hockey and cricket.

Makes sense. All three are fast-moving, team sports.

Jeff Hopkins '82

Trotsky

scoop85
I was a soccer agnostic most of my life, but with my son adopting soccer as his favorite participatory sport (he’s now a senior playing left wing on a high school team currently ranked #5 in Class A in New York State) I’ve come to really enjoy the nuances of the game.

The more I watch it the more I like it, just like hockey and cricket.

Wow. Someone else who watches cricket!

We are a cosmopolitan bunch, aren't we?

Got into it because all our local Indian restaurants carry Willow.

Jeff Hopkins '82

Trotsky

scoop85
I was a soccer agnostic most of my life, but with my son adopting soccer as his favorite participatory sport (he’s now a senior playing left wing on a high school team currently ranked #5 in Class A in New York State) I’ve come to really enjoy the nuances of the game.

The more I watch it the more I like it, just like hockey and cricket.

Wow. Someone else who watches cricket!

We are a cosmopolitan bunch, aren't we?

I don’t remember the number of times I’ve shared a CU hockey trip hotel with JTW and he had to wake up at 4:23 am to stream some cricket somesuch for old-ass ashes or whatever test trophy even though there were like 600 runs scored and still 3 days remaining.

To be completely honest, I want to like cricket. I even tried to learn about it my family’s 1974 World Book Encyclopedia. What I learned doesn’t jive at all with what I see when I try to watch it.

RichH
To be completely honest, I want to like cricket. I even tried to learn about it my family’s 1974 World Book Encyclopedia. What I learned doesn’t jive at all with what I see when I try to watch it.

My advice is put it on in the background and let it seep in. It's sports wallpaper. Little by little it will start to make some sense. Then it will become cool. Then it will become fascinating. As with any foreign language, just keep it running and let you head background process it.

Trotsky

Jeff Hopkins '82

Trotsky

scoop85
I was a soccer agnostic most of my life, but with my son adopting soccer as his favorite participatory sport (he’s now a senior playing left wing on a high school team currently ranked #5 in Class A in New York State) I’ve come to really enjoy the nuances of the game.

The more I watch it the more I like it, just like hockey and cricket.

Wow. Someone else who watches cricket!

We are a cosmopolitan bunch, aren't we?

Got into it because all our local Indian restaurants carry Willow.

I wish my cable did. I didn't even know about Willow until I was visiting my sister last month during The Ashes. She has it on her cable (although I'm pretty sure it was the first time anyone ever watched it on her TV). A couple years ago, Eleven Sports was carrying cricket, so I got to watch some, but it appears it's all moved to Willow. And all our local Indian restaurants have Bollywood movies running, not cricket.

I discovered cricket back in 1993. I was at a chemical plant start-up in Taiwan. Our hotel only had three channels in English: CNN, BBC World News, and Star Sports (from Hong Kong). You could only watch the first 2 for about 15 minutes before they started repeating, so that left the third. There was some test series happening at the time that was on Star Sports every night when we got back from work. I put it on as background noise, but eventually started paying attention. Fortunately, a British co-worker had explained the basics of scoring to me, so getting the rest of it came rather easy.

FWIW, I also like Rugby (Union) and Aussie Rules Footy.

Jeff Hopkins '82


FWIW, I also like Rugby (Union) and Aussie Rules Footy.

No love for hurling?

Jeff Hopkins '82

Trotsky

Jeff Hopkins '82

Trotsky

scoop85
I was a soccer agnostic most of my life, but with my son adopting soccer as his favorite participatory sport (he’s now a senior playing left wing on a high school team currently ranked #5 in Class A in New York State) I’ve come to really enjoy the nuances of the game.

The more I watch it the more I like it, just like hockey and cricket.

Wow. Someone else who watches cricket!

We are a cosmopolitan bunch, aren't we?

Got into it because all our local Indian restaurants carry Willow.

I wish my cable did. I didn't even know about Willow until I was visiting my sister last month during The Ashes. She has it on her cable (although I'm pretty sure it was the first time anyone ever watched it on her TV). A couple years ago, Eleven Sports was carrying cricket, so I got to watch some, but it appears it's all moved to Willow. And all our local Indian restaurants have Bollywood movies running, not cricket.

I discovered cricket back in 1993. I was at a chemical plant start-up in Taiwan. Our hotel only had three channels in English: CNN, BBC World News, and Star Sports (from Hong Kong). You could only watch the first 2 for about 15 minutes before they started repeating, so that left the third. There was some test series happening at the time that was on Star Sports every night when we got back from work. I put it on as background noise, but eventually started paying attention. Fortunately, a British co-worker had explained the basics of scoring to me, so getting the rest of it came rather easy.

FWIW, I also like Rugby (Union) and Aussie Rules Footy.

My mother took me to a cricket match at Hoy Field somewhere around 1960. Her father was from Australia and must have played, but he was long since dead by then. If I remember correctly, it was mostly graduate students from around the Commonwealth. We chatted with the a couple of the players on the batting team and got a feeling for the rules and the culture. It was very interesting at the time and provided context for decades of references, but it didn't inspire me to play or follow the sport. A distant cousin from Australia visiting last weekend with some friends found a Chicago bar where they could watch an Aussie rules football playoff game starting at midnight Chicago time.
My daughter's boyfriend is a hurling player.

My grad school softball team had an OF who played cricket in India. He played without a glove and way hilarious and amazing.

mountainred

Jeff Hopkins '82


FWIW, I also like Rugby (Union) and Aussie Rules Footy.

No love for hurling?

You mean "Micks with sticks?" Up Tipp!

David Harding
A distant cousin from Australia visiting last weekend with some friends found a Chicago bar where they could watch an Aussie rules football playoff game starting at midnight Chicago time.

That would have been the Grand Final - The Super Bowl of Footy. It was a blow-out. And my favorite team was eliminated in the semis.

I actually went to a game at the MCG in Melbourne about 20 years ago. It was a blast.

Trotsky

RichH
To be completely honest, I want to like cricket. I even tried to learn about it my family’s 1974 World Book Encyclopedia. What I learned doesn’t jive at all with what I see when I try to watch it.

My advice is put it on in the background and let it seep in. It's sports wallpaper. Little by little it will start to make some sense. Then it will become cool. Then it will become fascinating. As with any foreign language, just keep it running and let you head background process it.

I played cricket once. Best part was taking a break for tea at halftime. (Do they call it halftime?) Great tea and chocolate cake. Yum! -- Not at all like those shitty oranges they gave us at halftime when I played lacrosse.

Swampy
Not at all like those shitty oranges they gave us at halftime when I played lacrosse.

They were out of passed out underage coeds?

Trotsky

Swampy
Not at all like those shitty oranges they gave us at halftime when I played lacrosse.

They were out of passed out underage coeds?

That was a different sport.

really hoping the soccer team plays another game soon

Swampy

Trotsky

Swampy
Not at all like those shitty oranges they gave us at halftime when I played lacrosse.

They were out of passed out underage coeds?

That was a different sport.

I'll say.

ugarte
really hoping the soccer team plays another game soon

I was thinking that, too.

Just discovered the CU - Penn soccer Match on CSN Philly. Currently 2-1 Penn with 15 mins left in the 1St half.

Jeff Hopkins '82
Just discovered the CU - Penn soccer Match on CSN Philly. Currently 2-1 Penn with 15 mins left in the 1St half.

Puzzled by the call giving Penn a penalty kick...and the lead.

Al DeFlorio

Jeff Hopkins '82
Just discovered the CU - Penn soccer Match on CSN Philly. Currently 2-1 Penn with 15 mins left in the 1St half.

Puzzled by the call giving Penn a penalty kick...and the lead.

clear handball in the box. not exactly intentional but very clear.

ugarte

Al DeFlorio

Jeff Hopkins '82
Just discovered the CU - Penn soccer Match on CSN Philly. Currently 2-1 Penn with 15 mins left in the 1St half.

Puzzled by the call giving Penn a penalty kick...and the lead.

clear handball in the box. not exactly intentional but very clear.

Got it. Thanks. Had audio turned off.

Cornell beat Colgate 1-0. whew.

As I reported on the football thread, Cornell soccer all over Harvard 4-0 with a bit over 20 minutes left in the 2nd half. Cornell is getting into the box at-will against an awful Harvard defense. Looks like the Harvard soccer coach doesn’t get the same preference in admissions as some of the other sports.

scoop85
As I reported on the football thread, Cornell soccer all over Harvard 4-0 with a bit over 20 minutes left in the 2nd half. Cornell is getting into the box at-will against an awful Harvard defense. Looks like the Harvard soccer coach doesn’t get the same preference in admissions as some of the other sports.

You can't play defense with nothing but A's.

Trotsky

scoop85
As I reported on the football thread, Cornell soccer all over Harvard 4-0 with a bit over 20 minutes left in the 2nd half. Cornell is getting into the box at-will against an awful Harvard defense. Looks like the Harvard soccer coach doesn’t get the same preference in admissions as some of the other sports.

You can't play defense with nothing but A's.

There's a play on words in there along the lines of "There's no I in TEAM."

billhoward

Trotsky

scoop85
As I reported on the football thread, Cornell soccer all over Harvard 4-0 with a bit over 20 minutes left in the 2nd half. Cornell is getting into the box at-will against an awful Harvard defense. Looks like the Harvard soccer coach doesn’t get the same preference in admissions as some of the other sports.

You can't play defense with nothing but A's.

There's a play on words in there along the lines of "There's no I in TEAM."

My usual response to that saying is "There's no U either!"

Jeff Hopkins '82

billhoward

Trotsky

scoop85
As I reported on the football thread, Cornell soccer all over Harvard 4-0 with a bit over 20 minutes left in the 2nd half. Cornell is getting into the box at-will against an awful Harvard defense. Looks like the Harvard soccer coach doesn’t get the same preference in admissions as some of the other sports.

You can't play defense with nothing but A's.

There's a play on words in there along the lines of "There's no I in TEAM."

My usual response to that saying is "There's no U either!"

Trotsky

Jeff Hopkins '82

billhoward

Trotsky

scoop85
As I reported on the football thread, Cornell soccer all over Harvard 4-0 with a bit over 20 minutes left in the 2nd half. Cornell is getting into the box at-will against an awful Harvard defense. Looks like the Harvard soccer coach doesn’t get the same preference in admissions as some of the other sports.

You can't play defense with nothing but A's.

There's a play on words in there along the lines of "There's no I in TEAM."

My usual response to that saying is "There's no U either!"

i_in_team_there_it_is_hidden_in_the_a_hole_tshirt-r0aff1796c915419aaa4c3f9c73794dcf_f0yq2_1024.jpg

Nicely done.

Is there some news about when the season re-open? because FIFA talk about july to return some teams at the field but dex2-thumb portal said this could be wrong if coronavirus keep going on. And that's true, it seems this won't stop at least until october. What do you think about it?

So far I think everyone is talking about reactivating activities for the coming year, at least in the VelocidadPunta news portal they always mount the articles of the Formula 1 news.

I know when I want Formula 1 news I go to the Cornell men's soccer thread for last year.