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Re: Basketball 2015-16 - 8 years ago
Voice of the Red Barry Leonard did a season preview for Ivy Hoops Online: 10-14 wins is probably a bit optimistic, but Harvard has already lost Siriyani Chambers to an ACL injury and Penn's leading returning scorer, Tony Hicks, has left the team.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 2015-16 - 8 years ago
No problem. We ILR grads have to stick together.by mountainred - Other Sports
Wrestling 2015-16 - 8 years ago
Chris's topic looked like it was focused on NCAA tix, so I thought a string dedicated to the season made sense. For a team that returns so much talent, there are a lot of changes. I think only one guy returns at his weight from last year. 125 This going to be Dalton Macri (Fr.). Dalton could be the next great CU lightweight, he's ranked and has yet to take the mat. 133 Three time All-Aby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2015-16 - 8 years ago
Ken Pomeroy is pretty down on the team too. He released his first set of 2015-16 ratings and has Cornell #311 overall, which is significantly behind 7th place Brown (#243). That rating, and Cornell's schedule, translates to a predicted 8 win season (4-10 in the league). The losses of Miller, Cherry and Cancer from what was a pretty poor offensive team last year result in a dreadful offensive raby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Cornell 9 @ Harvard 10 lax - 9 years ago
semsox MattShaf Coach Kerwick has to take some of the heat for this loss. At 9-9, when Massimillan wins the FO But is forced to come back to the Cornell side of the field he needs to use his TO (especially when he has two in his pocket). As a coach you must minimize the possibility of a transition turnover especially when, with less than 1 minute to play, the next goal will likely win the game.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
Willy '06 I wonder if Kevin App might make sense down the road? He's a former CU basketball captain ('07), and he just landed the Head Coach job at Williams last summer after Assistant positions at Cornell and Army (under Spiker). His first season went okay, going 15-10 overall and 5-5 and in conference. It's probably a little early, but if Courtney gets fired after next season and App has a goodby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: NCAA tournament - 9 years ago
Work found a particularly lousy weekend to heat up, but thank you everyone for the updates. Objectively very good results in St. Louis (one sophomore champ, one sophomore runner-up, two more all-americans, and a top 5 finish), but you can read a "what if" tone in Rob's post-NCAA wrap-up. I guess is says good things about the program when the team finishes 5th (and four points out of 3rby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
phillysportsfan http://cornellbball.proboards.com/post/22022/thread I believe it is neither. IMO, Andy extended Bill when the program appeared to be moving in the right direction, but now it is clear it is not. I don't have any details. I am just told that there is a very small inner circle that is involved. Bill will be back next year and from what I am told, next year is the last year absentby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
CAS And has our recruiting actually been good? Has Courtney recruited an all-Ivy player other than Miller? Courtney said Miller was his very first recruit, who committed in the wake of 3 consecutive Ivy titles and the Sweet Sixteen year under Donahue. To answer your first question, consider that in BC's first two years, using Steve's holdovers who were ill-suited to run Courtney's system, theby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
Chris '03 phillysportsfan Jim Hyla billhoward Chris '03 CAS Steve Donahue to be next Penn coach. Discuss amongst yourselves. Far from a shock. Where he wanted to be years ago. Exactly. He wanted Philadelphia (he grew up, went to Ursinus in the suburbs), he wanted a Catholic school. Penn is one out of two. He could finish his career there. Be nice to have another Ivy be competitive again. Donahueby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling (NCAA Selections) - 9 years ago
ugarte upprdeck so they question is how to overcome the 24 pts deficit from seeding. we need to outfall the top teams by 2 thats 4 pts we need every top seed to wrestle to potential of the 4 non seeded we need one to get to 8th which would mean at least 4-5 extra points. we need one 2 seed to spring an upset thats 9-12 pts if the right team gets beat thats only 21 pts. but its closeby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
CAS The author of the Cornell BB Blog wrote today, "Haven't felt this helpless despair following Cornell MBB since Al Walker era" - early-mid '90's. That's about right. But even Al didn't waste a talent like Shonn Miller.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
Chris '03 CAS Andy... I think I said roughly this last year too but Andy's eyes are on St. Louis at the moment. It was true then and it is true now. It should be noted that Shonn Miller was a unanimous first-team all-ivy selection. He is just the 5th Cornellian to make two first team all-ivy squads in basketball.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
phillysportsfan CAS Penn fired Jerome Allen with 2 years left on his contract, requiring a $650,000 buyout. They want to win. Hopefully Donahue doesnt end up there. Courtney has to go, someone new cant possibly do worse, should be able to get at least 1 over 0.500 season in 5 years Harvard must have made a deal with devil, Yale had the game to clinch the bid last night against Dartmouth lockby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
Not the best closing argument for Bill, as the team finishes on a 1-6 streak. Of course, the win was over Harvard. One bright note from the Penn game, Freshman Wil Bathurst had 20 points and 8 rebounds. Most of that production was after Penn took a 20 point lead, but someone will need to score on next year's team (whether the coach is Bill or someone else).by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: EIWA (Wrestling Regionals) - 9 years ago
ugarte What a great night. It really was. Everyone wrestled to seed except Duke, and he didn't miss by much.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
Final at Penn 79-72. We finish 13-17, 5-9 (t-5th).by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: EIWA (Wrestling Regionals) - 9 years ago
Great summary ugarte. I've been too busy watching and ignoring work. (And if you missed Palacio's win over Gobbo because of lunch, I'm really sorry. It was insane and represented everything we love and hate about watching him wrestle.) Other than Brian Relabuto's first win being a little too close for comfort, that was just about as good a first day as could be hoped.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
Weder mountainred Weder Tommy Amaker and Bill Courtney both say he could play for a major. There's not much question he could play for a big time program; he's really that good. But it's not as unusual as you seem to think. Nolan Cressler transferred to Vandy. Errick Peck played 15 minutes a game in a post graduate year at Purdue. Dwight Tarwater has earned a starting gig in a post-graduateby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
Weder Tommy Amaker and Bill Courtney both say he could play for a major. There's not much question he could play for a big time program; he's really that good. But it's not as unusual as you seem to think. Nolan Cressler transferred to Vandy. Errick Peck played 15 minutes a game in a post graduate year at Purdue. Dwight Tarwater has earned a starting gig in a post-graduate year at Cal (whicby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: EIWA (Wrestling Regionals) - 9 years ago
RichH mountainred ugarte Grey and Pickett are both good candidates for an at-large bid for NCAAs unless they wash out very early. Our other 6 expected qualifiers would almost certainly get at-large bids, regardless of their EIWA performance. 141 and Heavyweight are the only real questions. I'd love to see li'l Buto join his brother. We really are capable of 7 champs and have an outside shot atby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: EIWA (Wrestling Regionals) - 9 years ago
ugarte Grey and Pickett are both good candidates for an at-large bid for NCAAs unless they wash out very early. Our other 6 expected qualifiers would almost certainly get at-large bids, regardless of their EIWA performance. 141 and Heavyweight are the only real questions. I'd love to see li'l Buto join his brother. We really are capable of 7 champs and have an outside shot at 10 qualifiers. Buby mountainred - Other Sports
Baseball? - 9 years ago
Not much call for baseball talk in these parts, but a shout out to the Big Red for taking a 2-0 lead into the bottom of the 8th against #1 UVA. The bullpen couldn't hold it, but a heck of a starting job by McAfee.by mountainred - Other Sports
EIWA (Wrestling Regionals) - 9 years ago
The Big Red will shoot for a Ninth straight EIWA title this Friday/Saturday but will have to do it in the belly of the beast (or at Lehigh if you want to be specific). Ugarte, please feel to correct my mistakes, but here is where the team stands. 125 -- Nahshon Garrett remains one of the nation's best. He'll be the top seed and a heavy favorite. 133 -- It's been a rough season for Mark Grby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - can't win close games? - 9 years ago
Ken711 mountainred Comparing Bill's record to Steve's is a bit unfair to both. Bill took over a program in much better shape than Steve did. On the other hand, the Ivy League is much better and deeper now than it was at any point in Steve's tenure. The case for keeping Bill: He is all by all accounts a very good person whom the players like and respect. They played harder than many teams wby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - can't win close games? - 9 years ago
Comparing Bill's record to Steve's is a bit unfair to both. Bill took over a program in much better shape than Steve did. On the other hand, the Ivy League is much better and deeper now than it was at any point in Steve's tenure. The case for keeping Bill: He is all by all accounts a very good person whom the players like and respect. They played harder than many teams would have down theby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
This team's personality is pretty clear. They don't give up good looks at the basket; they are #18 in the nation in defending the two point shot. They rebound fairly well so they don't give up a ton of second shots. And they need every bit of that defense, because statistically the offense is worse than last year. My worry is that this is the high-water mark under Courtney. 55% of our minuby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: 2014-15 Wrestling thread - 9 years ago
Cornell won Ivy dual #66 in a row yesterday against Penn, setting up today's EIWA showdown with Lehigh. Overall a good day for the Big Red against Penn. NG was back in form, Duke Pickett came back and won in sudden victory, and Dean won in SV over a top ten guy (and really looked the better wrestler).by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Cornell splits BB games with Columbia - 9 years ago
ugarte HeafDog I also can't help but second-guess Coach Courtney's leaving Shonn Miller in the game during garbage time, in which he got hurt. I mean, he eventually left the court under his own steam, but I don't know if he will miss some playing time. Is it really the case that there was no one on the bench who could have gotten a few minutes' playing time without blowing a double-digit lead?by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
semsox I will be pretty surprised if we only manage 5 league wins. We'd be favored in all 4 games against Penn/Dartmouth. Call me crazy, but if everything breaks right, I could honestly see us competing for 2nd in the league. You're crazy, unless "everything breaking right" includes Justin Sears and Javier Duren quitting basketball to become Whiffenpoofs. Yale is a very solid team.by mountainred - Other Sports