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Discussions about the Cornell men's and women's hockey teams
Re: New indoor campus recreation & sports center - 4 months ago
An indoor stadium for game play needs to have a tall roof. The Dallas Cowboys stadium center screen hangs 90 feet above the field. I don't know what height is required to not affect 90% or 95% of long soccer kicks or long lacrosse clearing passes. In football, it's a do-ever in Dallas. But you could also have game-tracker cameras tell you where the ball would come down if it hadn't hid the scorebby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - WSJ on Maryland men's women's lacrosse - 4 months ago
Column by Jason Gay in Friday's WSJ. Gay may the best newspaper sportswriter around. Despite or because he mentions alma mater Wisconsin at least once a month. Covers both men's and women's programs. Mentions men's coach John Tillman not as Cornell lax alum but coming over from 3 years at Harvard. Should be a free link, Don’t Mess With Maryland Lacrosse: An undefeated men’s team in Collegby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 NCAAs Ohio State 5/15/22 - 4 months ago
New thread is even better. Especially if Cornell makes a deep run. I think that means making the finals weekend, in a 16-team tournament. For basketball, maybe it means making it to round of 16. So I suppose deep run means you survive the first two games.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Opponents and Others, 2022-23 - 4 months ago
I suspect every Ivy, probably every ECAC team, has Cornell has one of its top three rivals. Cornell hates Harvard most, regardless of Harvard's competitiveness in the current year, because it's Harvard, some of us didn't get in, Love Story cemented the distate, etcetera. Quinnipiac is No. 2 currently because it's so good, the arena is gorgeous (my opinion) and we dislike fans who bail midwayby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 NCAAs Ohio State 5/15/22 - 4 months ago
NCAA first-round of 2022 tournament, #7 seed Cornell again hosts Ohio State. 2:30 pm Sunday 5/15, ESPNU. Use this (i.e. reply to this) post/subject line, it's easier to scroll down and find the TOSU pregame, game and post-game observations.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - 4 months ago
dbilmes Cornell Daily Sun names Piatelli the Male Senior Athlete of the Year. Runner-up, Matt Galajdaby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - 4 months ago
mike1960If we keep winning, we don't see Maryland until the last game. This is real opportunity. They don't come around that often. I hope the guys are fired up through the roof. Of the domed stadium Cornell does not, may never have.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - 4 months ago
The 1987 Cornell team was good, made the title game, lost to Hopkins by a goal, the 1988 team was unseeded, made the final (and lost to Syracuse), finished 9-6. So there is potential and there's history of an underdog Cornell team making it through to Memorial Day. Also, Rob Pannell '12 on Twitter, amazed that Notre Dame (and Duke) didn't make the show. Very happy for my Big Red and the Iviesby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - 4 months ago
djk26 This game has me concerned (like any game would.) Ohio State was all we could handle earlier in the season, and that was with Blake. Now no Blake and I am worried that will more than make up the difference. I don't know if Ohio State has suffered any serious injuries since then. There were hurt feelings because Cornell's story does not refer to them as The Ohio State University. So theyby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - 4 months ago
CU77 Now let's not have a repeat of 2008 ... 2009 and Syracuse is so burned into my brain, I kind of forget how we got laid low in 2008. Also in every year since 1977 and the last national title.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: New indoor campus recreation & sports center - 4 months ago
CAS Cornell has retained an architectural firm which is currently designing the building. Don’t know where the building will be located. This could be a transformational facility for Cornell athletics if the facility was covered and had enough room for 1,000-2,500 spectators. Princeton and Harvard have the money to do it Cornell needs it among the Ivies because it has the worst weather for sprinby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - NCAA tournament - 4 months ago
NCAA 2022 lacrosse tournament selection show: Sunday 5/8/22, 2:30PM hanged from 9 pm] EDT, ESPNU. 18 teams selected Wednesday 5/11 — 2 play-in games, winners meet the 1 (Maryland) and 2 seeds. First round — Saturday/Sunday 5/4-15 at home schools of higher seed Quarterfinal — Saturday 5/21 at Hofstra, Sunday 5/22 at Ohio Stadium (Columbus) Semifinal — Saturday 5/28, East Hartford (Rby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - 4 months ago
RichH Trotsky I have no idea whether Noel sucks but he has managed to keep Schafer at Cornell all these years. I'm sure there have been poachers. I think I’ve established my theory that the absolute last thing he likes to do is a coaching search. I can think of one time (Lax) where he’s actually fired any coach. Usually coaches leave on their own, and he just promotes from within. (This can beby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - 5 months ago
ugarte 14-11 Yale final. Cornell closed to 12-11 with about 5 minutes left but that was it. Was only following on livestats so I leave it to others to elaborate. You saw more of the game than people watching the live feed. Sunspots? Russia attack on ESPN satellites? Gad, that was a terrible video feed. Plus you lost the botto tenth of the screen to ESPN promos. Okay, Cornell played well enougby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - Ivy League tournament - 5 months ago
I hear there were 10 goals scored in the first quarter, 5-5 tie. I think I saw 5 of them. Hey, ESPN, bring a real satellite truck. Even the Hot Truck would handle the video feed better.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - 5 months ago
arugula The mystery to me is why Lacrosse missed essentially two seasons and bounces back better than before, while hockey, which missed really one season plus one post season, is dramatically worse. Man plans. God laughs. or Small sample size.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: New baseball field site approval received - 5 months ago
dbilmesThese attendance figures are sad. On the podcast recalling Richie Moran, Mike French mentioned a specific game during the mid-70s where 17,000 fans were in the stands. For the big games back then, like Hopkins or Hobart (another big rivalry in the day), we would routinely get 15,000-20,000 fans. Cornell at Princeton is played not at the football stadium but at Sherrerd Field (Class of 195by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: New baseball field site approval received - 5 months ago
On the legacy athletic fields-buildings site (Hoy, Schoellkopf, Teagle, Lynah, Friedman and the decreasing # of Upper Alumni fields), there remains a small patch of land where the West Stands stood at Schoellkopf and a new(ish) press box now stands. Could Cornell find room enough to wedge a building in there? One interesting feature of the new (1998) Princeton Stadium is part of the facility is fby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - All-Ivy - 5 months ago
dbilmes Connor Buczek Ivy League Coach of the Year, and C.J. Kirst Rookie of the Year, Piatelli and Adler both named All-Ivy first team, with Adler an unanimous pick. Complete list here. If players on the All-Ivy second team and honorable mention speak to team depth, Cornell has a challenge in the tournament (and NCAAs) against Brown or Penn if we make it to Sunday, but not against Yale. We haby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - 5 months ago
upprdeck there will be parking there.. Its also a short walk from east hill office building parking to get there.I would not be surprised if a better walk way gets created when more things take place out there. Or a connector from the recreation way walk way gets added too. East hill plaza has not much going on for cars to be parked there as well. they can probably figure out a way to let some cby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Stanford 1, Cornell 0 - 5 months ago
Scersk '97 John Doerr has absolutely no connection to Cornell that I can ascertain, just in case anyone was wondering. Nor with Stanford: Rice bachlors (ca. '73) and masters in engineering, Harvard MBA. His entire adult life has been in Silicon Valley, though. This is the second biggest university donation: Michael Bloomberg, Hopkins, $1.8B; Doerr, Stanford, $1.1B; .... Cornell, Chuck Feeney '56,by billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Stanford 1, Cornell 0 - 5 months ago
One as in $1 billion from VC John Doerr to fund a new climate school. It's about 10% of his net worth. From the NY Times (paywall). This should be a working free link: David Gelles, NYT John Doerr, one of the most successful venture capitalists in the history of Silicon Valley, is giving $1.1 billion to Stanford University to fund a school focused on climate change and sustainability.by billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - 5 months ago
SwampyBeware: the parking lot there is not nearly big enough for a capacity crowd. On-street parking nearby is free, if you can find a spot. I worry that Cornell's new athletic facilities (non-hockey/football/basketball) out Game Farm Road / Pine Tree Road way will have limited parking capacity so as to encourage parents and fans to park remotely (as if Pine Tree Road is not) then take a slow shuby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - Ivy League tournament - 5 months ago
Ivy League 2022 Lacrosse Tournament #2 (seed) Cornell vs. #3 Yale 6 pm EDT Friday 5/6 #1 Brown vs. #4 Penn 8:30 Championship, Sunday 12 noon (no consolation game) At Brown, Stevenson-Pincince Field (Erickson Athletic Complex, 235 Hope St, Providence, RI 02906), capacity 3,500 ESPN-U and apparently ESPN+. Predictions: Michael Tenant, Lax All Stars Ivy League Winner: Cornell The Ivyby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - 5 months ago
Artificial turf for the lax tournament. Also: Seats 3,500 -- could that be a problem? Although Cornell at Princeton only drew 2,011 fans Saturday at a 4,000-seat stadium that has been filled in earlier years. Brown PR Stevenson-Pincince Field, named after longtime men's soccer and men's lacrosse coach Cliff Stevenson and longtime women's soccer and softball coach Phil Pincince, is home to theby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - polls 5/2 Cornell 8th - 5 months ago
Cornell back in the top ten in the final poll before league playoffs begin. Media Poll 5/2/22 1. Maryland (#1 every week except pre-season) 2. Georgetown 3. Virginia 4. Rutgers 5. Brown unchanged 6. Yale +3 positions 7. Notre Dame 8. Cornell +6 9. Princeton -2 9. Jacksonville (tie) 11. TOSU 12. Duke 13. Penn unchanged 14. Army 15. Harvard -3 16. BU 17. Ricby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - Richie Moran - 5 months ago
Richie Moran was amazing. (Probably the only time anyone used Richard was his christening, wedding and now.) A Maryland grad, he turned the tables on southern lacrosse supremacy with that 1971 championship (over Maryland) and two more in the next six years (1976 over Maryland with a 16-13 OT victory (see why first-goal wins in OT isn't such a good idea?)). He also made the title game three moby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - polls 4/25/22 vs. RPI - 5 months ago
nshapiro I don't have any fond recollections of Cornell benefiting from the 'smoke filled room' methodology before PWR Touché. Lacrosse had amazing success on the field but not among the lacrosse title voters in the late 1960s. Year Cornell (notes) College champion Chosen 1966 12-0 Harkness' 1st year Navy Poll 1967 11-1by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - polls 4/25/22 vs. RPI - 5 months ago
arugula PWR killed hockey, but its sort of equivalent is helping lacrosse. Winning four of four one-goal games was helping us a lot, too. I had to go back to the season's-game page to recall how many it was. What also jumped out at me was: Cornell 17, Harvard 9. Harvard two weeks later beats Princeton by 3, and now we play Princeton.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - polls 4/25/22 vs. RPI - 5 months ago
Week 11 of polls: Cornell falls six spots from #8 to #14 after loss to Brown. Six Ivies in the top 15. Only Dartmouth on the outside. Media poll 4/25/22 1. Maryland 12-0 only unbeaten team 2. Georgetown 3. Rutgers +2 positions (beat PSU 15-14) 4. Virginia 5. Brown +9 positions 6. Notre Dame 7. Princeton -3 lost to Harvard 8. Jacksonville 9. Yale +1 10. Ohio Sby billhoward - Other Sports