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Re: Cornell football 2023 - 5 months ago
Cornell's football PR staff doesn't have much to work with since they have to rely on Cornell's record under Archer when they publish the following highlights in the game notes for the Columbia game: * A win over Columbia would improve the conference mark to three wins for the first time since 2019...(never achieved 4 wins or more in ten years at the helm) * Be the 30th win for Archer.....(by Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football coach - 5 months ago
If the athletic administration retains a coach with a career to date record winning Ivy League of games won at .275 (29-50) over the past 10 years, regardless if they win the final game of the year, that illustrates a total lack of interest more than anything. It would be somewhat defensible if Archer was building toward a winning season 5-6 years ago that's one thing, but with the consistency oby Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football coach - 5 months ago
CAS Why are the other sports irrelevant? Lax plays in the same stadium as football. Lax is relevant nationally, not just in the Ivies. Lax played for the NCAA championship just two years ago. Does Day Hall bestow special gifts to lax? Do they care about lax & not football? I believe football (& Schoellkopf) should get more funding, but coaching is the most important determinant of proby Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football coach - 5 months ago
CAS We are nationally competitive in lax, hockey, wrestling, and certain other sports. There is no good reason why we can’t compete in the Ivies in football. All teams at Cornell share the same admissions financial aid, student academic requirements, senior administration, etc. The coaching staffs are different though… Very true. To go through the process of finding the right head coachingby Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football coach - 5 months ago
George64 Cornell football, under David Archer, is now assured of yet another losing season even if we beat Columbia (by no means a given). Archer should now do the right thing and resign. In PR-speak “to pursue other career options.” Exactly. Promote him to an "administrative position" if they don't want to fire him and he won't resign. But 10 straight years of losing seasons is enoby Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football coach - 5 months ago
nyc94 Surprised that as bad as Archer's record is Cornell has never finished in 8th place - alone, untied, dead last - during his tenure. And that's apparently all it takes to keep a his job with coaching record going on 10 straight losing seasons. Hopefully, the new AD finally cuts ties with Archer after this season is over.by Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - 5 months ago
Archer will keep his record of 10 straight years of losing seasons unblemished.by Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - 5 months ago
14-0 on another Dartmouth drive which included a 27 yard pass play.by Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - 5 months ago
7-0 Dartmouth on a drive which included surprise surprise another long pass (38 yards).by Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - a team we could beat - 5 months ago
Swampy billhoward We already had to wade through as many Fire-Archer messages as comments about the games themselves. I just created a separate thread about Archer's history at Cornell and how he stacks up against past Cornell coaches as well as against other Ivy coaches with at least 5 years of Ivy coaching experience. If we go by such past experience, he's liable to get fired and then go on tby Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football coach - 5 months ago
That record is truly abysmal...Fire Archer.by Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 5 months ago
Cornell with some good free throw shooting to secure the win down the stretch 84-78.by Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - 5 months ago
Chris '03 Local Motion Ken711.........look we can agree to disagree, but the reality in order for our new AD Nicki Moore to be successful she has to get support from the current administration. Andy Noel had been trying to get the new indoor practice facility built since former president Elizabeth Garrett gave it her blessing back in 2016. Andy wanted on campus and Pollack wanted two miles ofby Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - 5 months ago
Local Motion Ken711.........look we can agree to disagree, but the reality in order for our new AD Nicki Moore to be successful she has to get support from the current administration. Andy Noel had been trying to get the new indoor practice facility built since former president Elizabeth Garrett gave it her blessing back in 2016. Andy wanted on campus and Pollack wanted two miles off campus oby Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - 5 months ago
Local Motion I am confident our new AD Nicki Moore will address the football program at Cornell. She comes from Colgate where football has always be a priority in their athletic department, although they have also had issues with coaching turnover as of late. Again, one of the biggest challenges Nicki Moore will have at Cornell is dealing with Martha Pollack, who since her arrival has madeby Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - 5 months ago
Local Motion It's really too bad Jim Hofher left Cornell in 1998 because I think he could have enjoyed a long term successful coaching career at Cornell. I think Hofher was probably frustrated with the lack of support from admissions and financial aid at Cornell. I always liked the way Hofher coached the offense with a nice blend of running and passing the ball. HIe always had a strong runningby Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - 5 months ago
rss77 I think what has nagged Cornell over the years outside of the Musick and Baughn regimes is that CU can get talent to be competitive but not quite enough get to the top. Jim Hofher had a nice run as HC with success as well.by Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - 5 months ago
ugarte Jeff Hopkins '82 I caught the last 5 minutes of the game on TV. The Penn announcers actually had some good things to say about Cornell. I didn't see the first half, so by the time I started watching it was already 16-0, so I can't speak to how we got there and given that score, it may well be that Penn slacked off a bit which made our team look better than it would have if Penn kept up fby Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - 5 months ago
tycho I’d have to go back and look, but it seems like very nearly all of the TDs against Cornell over the past couple of weeks have been >50 yarders. Hard to watch. This goes way back to Archer's decision to hire Jared Bakus as his DC. Bakus was the Princeton DC before Cornell hired him, and Princeton was planning to fire him after Princeton went 1-9, 1-9 and 5-5 in his 3 seasons there. Thiby Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - 5 months ago
Want a logical replacement for Archer. Look no further that U. of Penn's Offensive Coordinator Dan Swanstrom. He was went 32-11 (.744) and his teams registered eight wins in all four seasons in which they took led Ithaca College as their head coach. Knows the Ivy League, was a former head coach, and has even lived in the Ithaca area.by Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - 5 months ago
1-3 Ivy finish coming up. That should be bye bye to Archer.by Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - 5 months ago
George64 Trotsky I think the Crescent is gorgeous, personally. While I don’t know if I’d call the historic Crescent “gorgeous,” I do find it unique, attractive and well-suited for our campus, with more than adequate capacity for most events. It could, however, use some additional amenities and undoubtedly some structural upgrades. The best way to deal with occasional capacity shortcomingsby Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - 5 months ago
RichH mike1960 Local Motion 2. It's ridiculous he traveled all the way from Chicago and we have no visitor section. Some of these big high school programs consistently draw 5-15K in some nice stadiums. Schoellkopf's current condition is not acceptable. Here's an idea: Sit Together. Thus, visitor section. The fact that West Stands haven't been rebuilt is pretty embarrassing. I felt they weby Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Indoor sports facility announced - 5 months ago
Local Motion The Syracuse indoor practice facility which is the exact same dimensions as their stadium field cost $14MM in 2015. OK add $5MM for inflation and construction costs and we are at $19MM. Meanwhile, I am on the board of a charter school that just built a beautiful new basketball arena with 800 seats, new men's and women's locker rooms, new fitness center, and three new science laboby Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Indoor sports facility announced - why $55MM? - 5 months ago
Local Motion I am very happy Cornell is finally getting a new indoor practice facility and it's something former AD Andy Noel had been working on for at least the last 15 years. It's also great that Cornell has some very generous donors. However, as someone who has spent his career in finance, I do not understand the $55MM price tag. For that price Cornell can build a new indoor practice facby Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - 5 months ago
marty mike1960 Ken711 Ten Year Record To Date Overall games record 29-68 = .299 winning percentage Ivy League games record 19-48 = .284 winning percentage Yikes. Look at the bright side. If he wins one of three he'll be batting 300. LOL. And that's how the Cornell athletic PR department would spin it. Seriously, there is not an active coach in all of FCS college football that has had sby Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - 5 months ago
Ten Year Record To Date Overall games record 29-68 = .299 winning percentage Ivy League games record 19-48 = .284 winning percentageby Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - 5 months ago
4-6 overall record and 3-4 in the Ivy League is the best Cornell can hope for, and that should get Archer fired.by Ken711 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - 5 months ago
Cornell's pass defense is atrocious.by Ken711 - Other Sports