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Re: Men’s soccer - Yesterday

upprdeck is there now playoff in ivy soccer? Yale announcers said "no."

Re: Men’s soccer - 6 days ago

George64 I watched a replay on ESPN+ of the first half of the match against Harvard this morning. The announcers noted that soccer and lax All-American, Bruce Arena ‘73, was present. He’s now GM or something for the New England Rebels, Revolution or whatever, and probably scouting our team. It’s a good sign. Arena is sporting director and head coach of the Revolution.

Re: Cornell Football 2021 - 10 days ago

Converting only two of twenty third and fourth down attempts makes it impossible to sustain drives.

Re: Men’s soccer - 10 days ago

Cornell 4, Harvard 0 after 30 minutes.

Re: Sprint Football 21 - 10 days ago

Wrong thread. Sorry.

Re: Cornell Football 2021 - 17 days ago

I think Cornell must practice illegal procedure. This silliness of lining up to run a play, then having everyone turn to the sideline to get a different play, then dancing around to move half the team to a new place on the field, and finally starting to move too soon (illegal procedure) or too late (delay of game) is just ridiculous. 40 yards of penalties in first quarter.

Re: Cornell Football 2021 - 24 days ago

Yale returned a late onside kick for a touchdown in 2019. You'd think we'd learn how to prevent that. There must be a freshman QB who can pass better than Kenney. Put him in. Give him experience. We lose anyway.

Re: Cornell Football 2021 - 24 days ago

We really do have a dreadful playbook. Execution is even worse. Yale is almost as screwed up, thankfully. So far, at least.

Re: Cornell Football 2021 - 28 days ago

upprdeck Scersk '97 From the Sun article: “I use an outside company that helps me with some analytics, and they tell me the odds on down and distance,” Archer said. “The odds were slightly in my favor and I was feeling pretty aggressive. I liked the defense and I liked the O-line, so we rolled the dice.” I guess everyone around me and I should start an "analytics" company. We all

Re: Cornell Football 2021 - 4 weeks ago

scoop85 Defense has been pretty good. We had a big run called back on a hold. Our punting looks high school level. Play-calling, too.

Re: Cornell in the Movies - 4 weeks ago

Check the items on top of the file cabinet to her left:

Re: RIP my season tickets - 7 weeks ago

Trotsky The fuck is "the dome"? Carrier

Re: Wrestling 21-22 - 2 months ago

Gene Nighman named EIWA executive director. EIWAs at Cornell in 2022.

Re: Wrestling 21-22 - 3 months ago

Ken711 Donnie Vinson will be joining the wrestling staff as Associate Head Coach. Vinson comes from the NC State University program. He formerly was an assistant at Cornell from 2014-17. Vinson is one of the few with a decision over Dake, 5-3 at 149 in 2011.

Re: New indoor campus recreation & sports center - 3 months ago

Jeff Hopkins '82 I guess I don't understand the big deal about moving the athletic facilities to Game Farm Rd. I look at Lehigh where all their sports facilities (Football, basketball, lacrosse, etc.) are on the other side of the mountain from the main campus. It's a distance of 3-4 miles and it works just fine. They have a bus service that runs several times per hour on weekdays and les fr

Re: First True American University? - 3 months ago

Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - 4 months ago

scoop85 ugarte billhoward Jim Boeheim's son did matriculate in Ithaca. And left early but not for the pros. Now he's back at Syracuse with dad and brother Buddy.did he leave early? i thought he graduated. he could have done the grad year at cornell but chose to go home after missing a year of basketball. He graduated and is playing his grad year for his father. Really difficult to question his

Re: Cornell lacrosse 2021 - 4 months ago

Should be a good read:

Re: Cornell lacrosse 2021 - NCAA tournament - 4 months ago

jtwcornell91 billhoward Sudden-death overtime still sucks. TV time is so tight you can't play a 4-minute period? It is a bit odd that they do sudden death in lax but not basketball. Of course if you did non-sudden-death OT in lax you'd need to impose an automatic stall warning or shot clock on any team that took the lead. Better to have two four-minute overtime periods...as it used to be. Lac

Re: Cornell lacrosse 2021 - 5 months ago

marty Al DeFlorio 1971 championship article: Was this Richie Moran's first year or was Ned the coach in 1970? Ned: 66-68 Richie: 69 and on 66, 68, 70 were unbeaten seasons.

Re: Cornell lacrosse 2021 - 5 months ago

1971 championship article:

Re: Recruits beyond 2020 - 7 months ago

Jeff Hopkins '82 Not to mention that these higher transmissibility variants means a higher percentage vaccinated required for herd immunity. IMO, I think we're going to be dealing with "boosters" for a while, too. Just read on a cruise forum that the UK is planning on doing annual shots a la the standard flu shot.

Re: Ann Bowers Hall > goodbye Hoy Field? - 7 months ago

ugarte Al DeFlorio Swampy Trotsky Jeff Hopkins '82 Trotsky I... guess? If I was interested in increasing diversity in CS enrollments I don't think Cornell would be among my targets. I suppose we will now admit applicants from Shandong and Pearl River. Well, they can't all be from Shanghai and Beijing, can they?Seoul says hi. Listen, in 2019 the incoming class in Engineering was 51% female

Re: Ann Bowers Hall > goodbye Hoy Field? - 7 months ago

Swampy Trotsky Jeff Hopkins '82 Trotsky I... guess? If I was interested in increasing diversity in CS enrollments I don't think Cornell would be among my targets. I suppose we will now admit applicants from Shandong and Pearl River. Well, they can't all be from Shanghai and Beijing, can they?Seoul says hi. Listen, in 2019 the incoming class in Engineering was 51% female. This is an incred

Re: NCAA Final Video - 7 months ago

George64 jkahn Link provided thanks to Garth Ryan, who emailed it to me after I sent him the link to the Sun article. Thank you, Jeff! Thank you, Garth! I was there, great to relive that game! The commentator, however, reminds me of the guy who narrated those health movies way back in junior high. The long periods of silence, however, were refreshing. He'd introduce a segment and then let y

Re: Ken Dryden's suggestion for making hockey better - 8 months ago

Don't know how to post this here as a photo so here's a link. Article that included above photo, worth a read.

Re: Ken Dryden's suggestion for making hockey better - 8 months ago

The Rancor i think a combo of 1) larger net 2) smaller pads 3) 200x100 rink would all be good for the game. Start with smaller pads. Easiest to implement and goalies won't look so ridiculous. Technology advances make pads much more protective than in Dryden's (and my) day.

Re: Cornell lacrosse 2021 - 8 months ago

abmarks jtwcornell91 abmarks Ivy rejected billionaires offer to spend $5MM+ on an ivy lacrosse bubble OMG, how bad would the optics of that have been? Serious question here- I don't see the optics problem. One of the western conferences played hockey in a "bubble" around christmas IIRC. What's the difference whether the institutions pay the bill or a wealthy alum does? What

Re: Ken Dryden's suggestion for making hockey better - 8 months ago

Dafatone On one hand, I don't disagree. But I don't think hockey is too low on goals, either. I sure do. Too easy for a team badly outplayed to hang within a goal and then tie or win on a fluke goal off a knee or skate or strange bounce off a board.

Re: Ken Dryden's suggestion for making hockey better - 8 months ago

dbilmes Schafer might disagree, but Ken Dryden has an interesting take on making hockey a more wide-open game. Dryden's nailed it. Just look at any photo of him in a Cornell uniform side by side with one of Leneveu or Galajda. Dryden had to flash a glove or kick out a pad or swing a stick to make a save. Today such a move earns oohs and aahs like it's some kind of miracle. Dryden in pads stil