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Title: Cornell Basketball to Play Syracuse Again
Post by: CornellFan on May 04, 2007, 06:04:27 PM
Boheim hints about it in an ESPN.com article.  Would be great to see both Syracuse and Duke on the schedule.  I provide a link to the article on my blog.
Title: Re: Cornell Basketball to Play Syracuse Again
Post by: billhoward on May 05, 2007, 06:42:27 AM
These are natural pairings, Cornell and Syracuse. As long as we're gong to lose to a non-Ivy opponent, let's make it to a name school, and one that's a close bus ride. And don't we beat Syracuse every tenth try, or thereabouts?

It took Cornell forever to get Army on as a lacrosse opponent and that was a natural given the scarcity of good, non-Ivy northern teams other than Syracuse and UMass (who Cornell used to play a lot).
Title: Re: Cornell Basketball to Play Syracuse Again
Post by: nyc94 on May 05, 2007, 01:56:09 PM
[quote billhoward]And don't we beat Syracuse every tenth try, or thereabouts? [/quote]

I don't think so but every now and then this happens (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMoZjfJGyAc).
Title: Re: Cornell Basketball to Play Syracuse Again
Post by: billhoward on May 05, 2007, 03:03:32 PM
In 1987, those shorts looked normal. Now, compared to today's shorts, it looks as if Cornell and Syracuse were playing in hot pants.
Title: Re: Cornell Basketball to Play Syracuse Again
Post by: Rosey on May 05, 2007, 06:54:44 PM
[quote billhoward]In 1987, those shorts looked normal.[/quote]
Forget the shorts; look at that chick's hair!  My god... is that what women really looked like in the 80's?  Then my memories of Red Dawn weren't really a bit of undigested beef?

Kyle
Title: Re: Cornell Basketball to Play Syracuse Again
Post by: billhoward on May 05, 2007, 07:16:46 PM
The female announcer (you're thinking her hair, not his) had the 1980s update to the Farrah Fawcett blown-about hair of the late 1970s, popularized in Charlie's Angels and a couple Sports Illustrated swimsuit covers. It was more commonly referred to as the "just laid" form of hair styling. Variations on big hair live on in New Jersey and Texas. In Jersey, out; in Texas, up. Texans note, "The higher the hair, the closer to god." Amen.
Title: Re: Cornell Basketball to Play Syracuse Again
Post by: David Harding on May 13, 2007, 12:57:56 AM
Looking for something else, I stumbled on this 8 Nov 1954 editorial in the Sun archives regarding the Cornell-Syracuse rivalry http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/content.php?c=y19545&d=11.08.D30.4.2&pdflink=doc25.pdf&ispage= with a follow-up letter to the editor two days later http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/content.php?c=y19545&d=11.12.D35.4.4&ispage=&pdflink=doc27.pdf&thumblink=doc27.jpg&searchparams=xml%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fiarchives.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fiarchives.cgi%3Fa%3Dpdfh%26pdfxml%3D1%26qbare%3Djapes%26d%3DD35.4.4%26c%3Dy18801  .