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Title: We will always be disappointed
Post by: Tcl123 on December 22, 2024, 08:39:07 PM
Argue amongst yourselves. Lacrosse, we had our window (it's closed). Hockey (it's wide open, but it appears mismanaged), soccer (draft picks are gone, we are done).
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: Tcl123 on December 22, 2024, 08:41:03 PM
Quote from: toddloseArgue amongst yourselves. Lacrosse, we had our window (it's closed). Hockey (it's wide open, but it appears mismanaged), soccer (draft picks are gone, we are done).

Our talent hockey wise, is insane. Hopefully we catch fire and move up in the pairwise
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: Trotsky on December 22, 2024, 08:47:33 PM
Whether we are disappointed depends entirely on us.
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: Tcl123 on December 23, 2024, 05:21:12 AM
Quote from: TrotskyWhether we are disappointed depends entirely on us.

Valid point.
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: LGR14 on December 23, 2024, 08:04:19 AM
I don't see how the lacrosse window is "closed," when most experts are picking us to be top 5 or even top 3 this year.  We are a clear national title contender.
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: Ken711 on December 23, 2024, 08:39:02 AM
Don't discount the recruiting tool Cornell will have with the Meinig Fieldhouse for all sports,
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: Jeff Hopkins '82 on December 23, 2024, 09:21:50 AM
Somebody's dealing with SAD.
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: Tcl123 on December 23, 2024, 10:14:23 AM
Actually had a few drinks and my frustrations got the best of me. Between the Covid shut down/running into a Maryland juggernaut in lacrosse/the loss in the frozen four/syracuses last second miracle (lacrosse again)/bemidji/etc.

So my apologies.
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: mike1960 on December 23, 2024, 11:28:37 AM
We should have a really good lacrosse team this year.
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: Jeff Hopkins '82 on December 23, 2024, 01:02:58 PM
Quote from: toddloseActually had a few drinks and my frustrations got the best of me. Between the Covid shut down/running into a Maryland juggernaut in lacrosse/the loss in the frozen four/syracuses last second miracle (lacrosse again)/bemidji/etc.

So my apologies.

Accepted.  We've all been there.
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: Swampy on December 23, 2024, 01:41:38 PM
Quote from: toddloseActually had a few drinks and my frustrations got the best of me. Between the Covid shut down/running into a Maryland juggernaut in lacrosse/the loss in the frozen four/syracuses last second miracle (lacrosse again)/bemidji/etc.

So my apologies.

Suggestion: Somewhere between now and January 5, 2025 substitute psychedelics for alcohol. Then visualize hockey, lacrosse, & wrestling all winning NC's in 2025, basketball winning the ILT and one round in the big dance, and football winning the IL under our new coach. For 2026, repeat for both men's and women's hockey, men's lacrosse, men's basketball, and football. With our new AD, also visualize similar improvement in women's team sports, although for various reasons this may take a few years longer.

The fact is these possibilities are not outrageous for 2025, which by itself is cause to rejoice. OTOH, other plausible predictions for 2025 (https://youtu.be/pKvOyGaXdNA?feature=shared) are not as uplifting. ::scared::
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: Tcl123 on December 23, 2024, 04:26:00 PM
Quote from: Swampy
Quote from: toddloseActually had a few drinks and my frustrations got the best of me. Between the Covid shut down/running into a Maryland juggernaut in lacrosse/the loss in the frozen four/syracuses last second miracle (lacrosse again)/bemidji/etc.

So my apologies.

Suggestion: Somewhere between now and January 5, 2025 substitute psychedelics for alcohol. Then visualize hockey, lacrosse, & wrestling all winning NC's in 2025, basketball winning the ILT and one round in the big dance, and football winning the IL under our new coach. For 2026, repeat for both men's and women's hockey, men's lacrosse, men's basketball, and football. With our new AD, also visualize similar improvement in women's team sports, although for various reasons this may take a few years longer.

The fact is these possibilities are not outrageous for 2025, which by itself is cause to rejoice. OTOH, other plausible predictions for 2025 (https://youtu.be/pKvOyGaXdNA?feature=shared) are not as uplifting. ::scared::

+1 lmao
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: ugarte on December 24, 2024, 12:43:25 AM
being disappointed is the nature of fandom
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: Tcl123 on January 12, 2025, 10:40:16 PM
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Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: billhoward on January 13, 2025, 03:41:24 PM
Right now it's Penn State fans I almost feel sorry for. Like S.A.D., it will pass.
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: Mr. Niss on January 20, 2025, 02:38:25 PM
Quote from: billhowardRight now it's Penn State fans I almost feel sorry for. Like S.A.D., it will pass.

LOL, my oldest went to Penn State, and you couldn't be more correct.  We made a Sweet 16 in my lifetime.  I'm not nearly that disappointed.
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: Tcl123 on March 08, 2025, 08:55:12 PM
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Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: mike1960 on May 26, 2025, 04:19:42 PM
Not always.
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: Tcl123 on May 26, 2025, 04:31:38 PM
Quote from: mike1960Not always.

I was waiting for this!!! Maybe I should do it again, but in the hockey forum next time?
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: 617BigRed on May 26, 2025, 07:36:26 PM
Sometimes faith is indeed rewarded! See you all in Vegas in April!
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: semsox on May 26, 2025, 10:23:07 PM
I saw in the athletics notes before the game that this would not only be the first Lacrosse title since 77, but the first team championship in any sport for Cornell since then. Bask in it, because it doesn't come around often
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: Tcl123 on May 26, 2025, 10:32:24 PM
Quote from: semsoxI saw in the athletics notes before the game that this would not only be the first Lacrosse title since 77, but the first team championship in any sport for Cornell since then. Bask in it, because it doesn't come around often

That's insane. But hasn't polo won several times? They may be club team tho. Too lazy to check

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/01/trailblazing-polo-stars-odyssey-began-wrong-turn

Last for women was 2016 as of this article. Remember reading this a while back.
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: semsox on May 26, 2025, 11:07:56 PM
Quote from: toddlose
Quote from: semsoxI saw in the athletics notes before the game that this would not only be the first Lacrosse title since 77, but the first team championship in any sport for Cornell since then. Bask in it, because it doesn't come around often

That's insane. But hasn't polo won several times? They may be club team tho. Too lazy to check

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/01/trailblazing-polo-stars-odyssey-began-wrong-turn

Last for women was 2016 as of this article. Remember reading this a while back.

Maybe there's a semantic detail we're not appreciating here, but I'd take it up with the athletics team. The Cornell athletics article on the championship mentions the lack of titles in the first few bodies of the story: https://cornellbigred.com/news/2025/5/26/mens-lacrosse-maryland-recap.aspx.  Could be that Polo does not have wide enough adoption to meet whatever definition they're using, but I'd imagine there's some criteria they're using for this claim.
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: dag14 on May 26, 2025, 11:13:31 PM
Quote from: semsoxI saw in the athletics notes before the game that this would not only be the first Lacrosse title since 77, but the first team championship in any sport for Cornell since then. Bask in it, because it doesn't come around often

I am too lazy to look up the details but this is not entirely accurate unless you preface the statement with "NCAA" team championship.  We have at least one polo national championship since the 70's but polo is not an NCAA sport.
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: JasonN95 on May 26, 2025, 11:15:13 PM
Quote from: toddlose
Quote from: semsoxI saw in the athletics notes before the game that this would not only be the first Lacrosse title since 77, but the first team championship in any sport for Cornell since then. Bask in it, because it doesn't come around often

That's insane. But hasn't polo won several times? They may be club team tho. Too lazy to check

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/01/trailblazing-polo-stars-odyssey-began-wrong-turn

Last for women was 2016 as of this article. Remember reading this a while back.

Pretty sure the distinction is championships overseen by the NCAA.
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: Weder on May 26, 2025, 11:23:12 PM
Quote from: JasonN95
Quote from: toddlose
Quote from: semsoxI saw in the athletics notes before the game that this would not only be the first Lacrosse title since 77, but the first team championship in any sport for Cornell since then. Bask in it, because it doesn't come around often

That's insane. But hasn't polo won several times? They may be club team tho. Too lazy to check

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/01/trailblazing-polo-stars-odyssey-began-wrong-turn

Last for women was 2016 as of this article. Remember reading this a while back.

Pretty sure the distinction is championships overseen by the NCAA.

I was just looking this up the other day. In terms of non-NCAA national titles for varsity teams, Cornell has won in polo, rowing and women's gymnastics since 1977.

https://cornellbigred.com/sports/2016/5/26/team-national-champions.aspx
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: Tcl123 on May 27, 2025, 07:57:25 AM
Quote from: Weder
Quote from: JasonN95
Quote from: toddlose
Quote from: semsoxI saw in the athletics notes before the game that this would not only be the first Lacrosse title since 77, but the first team championship in any sport for Cornell since then. Bask in it, because it doesn't come around often

That's insane. But hasn't polo won several times? They may be club team tho. Too lazy to check

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/01/trailblazing-polo-stars-odyssey-began-wrong-turn

Last for women was 2016 as of this article. Remember reading this a while back.

Pretty sure the distinction is championships overseen by the NCAA.

I was just looking this up the other day. In terms of non-NCAA national titles for varsity teams, Cornell has won in polo, rowing and women's gymnastics since 1977.

https://cornellbigred.com/sports/2016/5/26/team-national-champions.aspx

Wasn't aware they weren't overseen by ncaa. Learn something new everyday. Thanks for clarification.
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: ER on May 27, 2025, 09:19:37 AM
Quote from: toddlose
Quote from: Weder
Quote from: JasonN95
Quote from: toddlose
Quote from: semsoxI saw in the athletics notes before the game that this would not only be the first Lacrosse title since 77, but the first team championship in any sport for Cornell since then. Bask in it, because it doesn't come around often

That's insane. But hasn't polo won several times? They may be club team tho. Too lazy to check

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/01/trailblazing-polo-stars-odyssey-began-wrong-turn

Last for women was 2016 as of this article. Remember reading this a while back.

Pretty sure the distinction is championships overseen by the NCAA.

I was just looking this up the other day. In terms of non-NCAA national titles for varsity teams, Cornell has won in polo, rowing and women's gymnastics since 1977.

https://cornellbigred.com/sports/2016/5/26/team-national-champions.aspx

Wasn't aware they weren't overseen by ncaa. Learn something new everyday. Thanks for clarification.

Women's gymnastics has been an NCAA sport since 1982. But what we won was the Usag collegiate nationals. I think it's akin to an invitational.
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: RichH on May 27, 2025, 09:23:45 AM
Quote from: Weder
Quote from: JasonN95
Quote from: toddlose
Quote from: semsoxI saw in the athletics notes before the game that this would not only be the first Lacrosse title since 77, but the first team championship in any sport for Cornell since then. Bask in it, because it doesn't come around often

That's insane. But hasn't polo won several times? They may be club team tho. Too lazy to check

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/01/trailblazing-polo-stars-odyssey-began-wrong-turn

Last for women was 2016 as of this article. Remember reading this a while back.

Pretty sure the distinction is championships overseen by the NCAA.

I was just looking this up the other day. In terms of non-NCAA national titles for varsity teams, Cornell has won in polo, rowing and women's gymnastics since 1977.

https://cornellbigred.com/sports/2016/5/26/team-national-champions.aspx

Why are the polo teams now playing in something called Division 2? I thought there were only about 8 collegiate programs or so. Can we move up to D1?
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: marty on May 27, 2025, 09:25:06 AM
Quote from: ER
Quote from: toddlose
Quote from: Weder
Quote from: JasonN95
Quote from: toddlose
Quote from: semsoxI saw in the athletics notes before the game that this would not only be the first Lacrosse title since 77, but the first team championship in any sport for Cornell since then. Bask in it, because it doesn't come around often

That's insane. But hasn't polo won several times? They may be club team tho. Too lazy to check

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/01/trailblazing-polo-stars-odyssey-began-wrong-turn

Last for women was 2016 as of this article. Remember reading this a while back.

Pretty sure the distinction is championships overseen by the NCAA.

I was just looking this up the other day. In terms of non-NCAA national titles for varsity teams, Cornell has won in polo, rowing and women's gymnastics since 1977.

https://cornellbigred.com/sports/2016/5/26/team-national-champions.aspx

Wasn't aware they weren't overseen by ncaa. Learn something new everyday. Thanks for clarification.

Women's gymnastics has been an NCAA sport since 1982

Trivia - First NCAA Men's Lacrosse Champions - C Here! (https://www.ncaa.com/history/lacrosse-men/d1)
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: ER on May 27, 2025, 09:28:51 AM
Well yes of course we won the first one. They alluded to that about hundred times during yesterday's game. lol
Title: Re: We will always be disappointed
Post by: The Rancor on May 28, 2025, 12:06:02 AM
Horse sports are a whole different world... Cornell is a real player, but also schools like Sweet Briar, a powerhouse of Equestrians, and my partner's alma matter. NCAA Horsing isn't what they care about.