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Re: Cornell lacrosse Princeton 4/29/23 noon - 1 year ago
George64 nyc94 Ivy League site No. 6 Cornell Outlasts No. 13 Princeton in Overtime to Claim 31st Ivy League Title PRINCETON, N.J. – Sixth-ranked Cornell's Aiden Blake netted the game-winner 1:37 into overtime to lift the Big Red to a 14-13 victory over 17th-ranked Princeton to claim it’s 31st-overall Ivy League Championship on Saturday at Schoellkopf Field. it’s? Apparently the League neby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - 1 year ago
mike1960 Chase Ierlan enters the portal for 2024. I hope this doesn't affect his play this month. But I don't understand why, if Ierlan was https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/sources-cornell-goalie-chayse-ierlan-enters-grad-transfer-portal-for-2024/61335 "Particularly excellent in 21-save outings in early season wins over Penn State and Yale, he was given third-team recognition iby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Polls - 1 year ago
Trotsky SwampyAnd to extrapolate Trotsky's statement about Duke and Stanford, anybody who's even sat it a classroom at a factory school that's not among the so-called "elite," like Duke or Stanford -- "weathervane schools," for example -- knows how laughable their claims are that even the majority of their ordinary students are serious students.OTOH, the most serious studentsby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Polls - 1 year ago
osorojo Numerous D-1 college athletic programs have ignored academic standards while enrolling athletes, yet their school's academic programs have survived. College athletes generate piles of cash to fund higher education, and seldom is there any mention of academic failure of students recruited for their physical rather than mental ability. I'm not sure how accurate this is. University of Florby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Winningest Ivy schools: Princeton, Harvard, Penn, Cornell - 1 year ago
billhoward Trotsky Cornell and Dartmouth didn't build 60k seat football stadiums because they are in located in Nunavut, not because of relative commitment. Was about to say, "Look at Yale Bowl and New Haven," but in the early 1900s when the Bowl was built, New Haven was America's 35th largest city (today: 208th) and population was 134,000; today's it's 135,000. There are handful ofby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Winningest Ivy schools: Princeton, Harvard, Penn, Cornell - 1 year ago
billhoward CU2007 Fair, but I’d rather win one Ivy football title than two polo championships… What the Daily Princetonian guy did is really good and it gives others a chance to kibbitz. What if: ... Quality of facilities. Yes, that's subjective. What else? Subtract credit for sports abandoned since 1973-1974 (when the survey began counting). But age of facility or years since last upgradeby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Cornell Lacrosse at Army 4/15/23 - 1 year ago
scoop85 woodpile I have not been able to find an attendance report for yesterday's game. That was quite a large crowd at Michie which remains one of the greatest sports venues in the world. Until the plug is pulled out on the electricity for the place The official attendance was just over 4,000, but I know several people whose digital tickets weren’t scanned. I’m guessing there were a good 6,0by Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Cornell Lacrosse at Army 4/15/23 - 1 year ago
mike1960 Here's a link to the Inside Lacrosse recap of the game. Some good quotes here. Coach Buczek called Blake's position next to the goal the "bagpipe." I've never heard that term before. Edit: Maybe Coach Buczek was saying "back pipe" and it was misheard. I think you're right. To put the term in context, the surrounding text from quoting Buczek is "and thenby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Cornell Lacrosse at Army 4/15/23 - 1 year ago
CU77 Big mistake by Army #33 who ran away from Blake after Blake fell down, then forgot all about him. Falling down was how Coach B drew up the play in practice this week.by Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - 1 year ago
scoop85 mike1960 Watched the replay. Nice win today. Yes, good ball movement overall and nice shooting. Great move by Coach Buczek to move CJ to the crease attack position. It's difficult to double team that position without leaving the defense vulnerable in other areas. CJ got some nice looks and drained most of them. I'm not sure how I feel about Mikey Long on the wing and Billy Coyle at X. Lonby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 2022-23 - 1 year ago
toddlose dbilmes Deadspin just published this long article about how Princeton is becoming a wrestling powerhouse, without a single mention of Cornell in the entire story. The article makes it sound like no Ivy team has ever become a national contender in wrestling. In any case, with an ambitious coach and big bucks backing from Wall Street, it sounds like Princeton will be our toughest rivals inby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Who deserves 2023 D1 championship - 1 year ago
BearLover Trotsky Let's take this table of ECAC points per year per season per team (using the 2-point system) and call an "extended period of dominance" a 3-year streak of 30+ points. If there is an interruption in the streak, but the number of points below 30 for the missed year(s) is less than the number of years of the net streak, I'll count those years inclusive (e.g., Cor 04 andby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 @ Harvard 4/8/23 - 1 year ago
semsox I will be at the game tomorrow and hoping to see a good effort from the team, though I admit, my recent track record with live Cornell sporting events has been less than stellar: vs. Princeton Men's Bball Ivy Semis (2022) - 73-77 L vs. Maryland Lax Championship (2022) - 7-9 L @BU Men's Hockey (2023) - 3-4 L vs. BU Men's Hockey NCAAs (2023) - 1-2 L Please stay home.by Swampy - Other Sports
Re: ECAC QF Game 1: Clarkson at Cornell - 1 year ago
marty Swampy Is anyone else trying to watch this on ESPN+? On my TV it seems the entire Hockey section is missing. I also tried search for "Cornell" and for "Clarkson," but found nothing. Do you have any idea what's going on? Do you see the white icons signifying the different sports? What brand of TV? Yes, I see white icons, but no hockey icon. It seems about half ofby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Harvard hockey in the news - 1 year ago
Iceberg dbilmes Now The Athletic has a long article (paywall) about problems in the Harvard women's hockey program. It will be interesting to see if Harvard continues to stand by the coach. This type of publicity won't hurt the overall image of Harvard, but it's going to make recruiting players for the women's hockey program more of a challenge. Here's an excerpt: Over the last month, The Athleby Swampy - Hockey
Re: ECAC QF Game 1: Clarkson at Cornell - 1 year ago
Is anyone else trying to watch this on ESPN+? On my TV it seems the entire Hockey section is missing. I also tried search for "Cornell" and for "Clarkson," but found nothing. Do you have any idea what's going on?by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Athletes sue Ivy League over its no-scholarship policy - 1 year ago
Cop at Lynah https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/35812605/athletes-sue-ivy-league-no-scholarship-policy Harvard, Yale, Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia and Penn don't offer merit scholarships of any kind, including athletic scholarships. The policy, which dates back to 1954 ... This is technically true but substantively untrue. When I attended Cornell in the 1960s, Nby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Overrated schools - 1 year ago
jtwcornell91 billhowardThe main criteria for being "borderline worthless" apparently was high tuition, low average starting salary (the first school cited was a college of art), or lengthy period for the average graduating salary to add up to more than the four-year cost to attend. The fact that the "worth" of an education is measured in terms of salary is much of what's wroby Swampy - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Bracketology 2023 - 1 year ago
BearLover Trotsky www.playoffstatus.com ECAC Tournament SF F Ch Qpc .99 .82 .51 Hvd .96 .61 .30 Cor .80 .32 .12 SLU .61 .13 .04 Field .64 .12 .03 I was actually about to post this, as I’d checked it this morning for a laugh. Imagine creating a predictive model this bad, and then having people around the internet cite to your model in earnest.by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - 1 year ago
abmarks Swampy After wasting my time on this trash, I wanted nothing more than for Notre Dame to lose. *That's* what it took for you to root against ND? No. They had me at Amy Coney Barrett.by Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - 1 year ago
mike1960 billhoward Al DeFlorio MD-ND in 3rd Ot Notre Dame, 13-12, in the third overtime. Not sure who I wanted to win. Other than the voters are probably dying for a reason to vote the Terps above Cornell. Announced attendance at Maryland, 6,001. All shall be resolved in May. There's a podcast called "The Crease Dive," Two guys perform on it. In their episode for last Thursday (I tby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: St. Lawrence at Cornell 2023-02-18 - 1 year ago
ursusminor billhoward Trotsky billhowardApropos of the NYT, the daily newsstand price is $4 as of this month. $120 a month to have your conscience assuaged for paying low taxes while people starve seems like an excellent deal. Styles of The Times would say staying thin. When I was in HS (1961-64), students could buy it for 15 cents per school week. Living in New England, we subscribe to delby Swampy - Hockey
Re: First True American University? - 1 year ago
Trotsky This author needs to be stabbed repeatedly in the face, but this piece, against all expectations, traces the death of the American university. TL;DR: It's the system (and class struggle) stupid. P.S. I've been thinking about these issues for some time. This is my first attempt at a first draft. Comments welcome. Thanks. This article is helpful and somewhat interesting, but its focby Swampy - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - Ohio State 3/4 - 1 year ago
mike1960 CU77 billhoward will Ohio State try a clampdown on CJ Kirst as others did to Jeff Teat his last 2 years CJ15 has 3 inches and 20 pounds on JT51 (if you believe the roster pages), and therefore is harder to shut off. CJ also has a better head coach than JT did. I also didn't like how Milliman handled the shut off. There were all kinds of ways to get the ball into Teat's stick -- offby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - Hobart - 1 year ago
Al DeFlorio billhoward After the third, Hobart game: You can always find a couple stats that look good when you lose. In this case, when you win big: Cornell is the blue-collar team of the Ivies (well, certainly not HYP). Ground balls are blue-collar. Versus Hobart, Cornell 44-20. CJ Kirst went 7G 4A 11 points. 7 goals on 9 shots. Good enough. Extrapolate that for the regular season (um, yby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: 2023 ECAC Post Season - 1 year ago
dbilmes Yale is 17-3 in its last 20 games against RPI. So, according to Garp's Law, the chances of RPI losing yet again are miniscule.by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - 1 year ago
mike1960 CU2007 Is the freshman (cascadden?) our best hope for faceoffs? The sample size is a little small right now, but he did well against one of the best. As others said, he has good physical size, and he clearly also has good skills (technique) and mental toughness to twitch on the whistle. I also like that he was called for a push in the back penalty. I know penalties are not good, but itby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: St. Lawrence at Cornell 2023-02-18 - 1 year ago
Am I the only one getting non-stop technical difficulties on ESPN+?by Swampy - Hockey
Re: St. Lawrence at Cornell 2023-02-18 - 1 year ago
Trotsky I'm pretty sure Brent Brekke just said you gotta lose to learn how to win. Tell that to the 1970 team.by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Union @ Cornell - 1 year ago
dag14 I agree wholeheartedly. My family watches a month's worth of Cornell athletic events for less than the price of one hockey ticket. Not to mention lacrosse & basketball. Whoops, I just did. And with the Dizzy Bundle, I can also watch Godfather of Harlem.by Swampy - Hockey