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Finally- a defensive back makes a play and we get a signature win!!

You have got to be kidding me – what in God's name are those defensive backs doing?

Just brutal Defense

Well – What started out as a great game for Cornell, reverted back to their normal selves. Just like last weekend, wide open receivers now on back-to-back touchdowns for Lehigh. They are now back in the game. They did have a great first half but now falling apart defensively. This goes back to what I've been saying, not enough size or talent on the D line especially.

Watching the Cornell Harvard football game. This is a complete embarrassment, as usual when playing Harvard. Open receivers all over the field, no defensive back within 5 yards of them. The play calling is horrific, we are down 28 points and he's throwing to the sideline. Not sure this is gonna work out with Swanstrom either. The problem is we just don't have the players, especially upfront on the O or D line. Not enough strength or size, especially on the D line. really need to step up the recruiting if they want to stay competitive. Also, we need a quarterback who can throw the ball down the field, #8 isn't the answer. He certainly can run, but that's about it.

Big Red getting jobbed here, that was a clear fumble, could've been seven more points going the other way. The Refs didn't even look at it another time. This is pure bullshit.

Offensively, this team is poorly prepared, poorly coached, and certainly lacking the personnel they need to even stay on the field. That last set of downs, the quarterback, missed a wide open receiver for an easy touchdown while he had his head down. I don't know what they need to do, in order to attract better players, but something needs to change or they might as well just dump this program.
Defensively, receivers are wide open. They're given so much cushion, and we're putting no pressure on the quarterback with rushing only three people. This coaching staff has some issues, I do realize, however, that this defensive line is so small. Again, not sure where this program is headed.

Yes- quite true. We lack size and speed in the midfield (both Offensive and Defensive Middies), that will come back to bite us in the future. Princeton and Harvard's middies are bigger and faster on both sides of the field, they are young and also have recruited quite well in the next few upcoming classes, as has Dartmouth and Brown. Once the current senior class leaves, we do not have much size backing them up on Attack and in the Midfield. The game has changed- you need big, athletic middies to get up and down the field who possess hard accurate shots. Looking at our roster, we don't have a lot of that, other than AJ, who is out this year w/ an ACL- don't know what he'll be able to do next year. We really need to step up the '27 recruiting!

The recruiting has not ben stellar for the '26 class, when compared to our Ivy brethren.  I am assuming it's a combination of NIL (financial aid packages), sub par facilities, and the type of kids CB wants in terms of culture and team first attitude. However, I'm quite concerned going forward without having a couple of "5*" caliber kids in the class, while losing so much talent in the next 2 years. Hopefully, the new indoor facility will help! I've ben harping on this in the other fanlax forum, but have been told repeatedly, to not be concerned- we have enough talent. I'm not so sure about that, even Dartmouth has out recruited us in the '26 class!

As for Kelleher, it's not just the scoring, but the attention he attracts as soon as he steps on the field. Everyone else gets open space, and the team flourishes!

Agreed: let them score as much as they can. They need the confidence. I've been down on this team, but this was a signature win. Great for Swanstrom!

That's not my take away – I am making an observation from this particular game with 3 to 4 different defensive alignments that are just not right.

Once again- Cornell shoots itself in the foot. Lost a touchdown on one drive with a holding penalty on the Oline, now holding on the defensive back, gave Yale another shot at a touchdown from 4 yards as opposed to a third and like 20, after a sack. Not sure what's gonna change for this team, the coaching staff is new, maybe it's just the lack of talent. Unfortunately, there is also not help much by the coaching staff. I've seen at least 3 to 4 defense alignments that are terrible, wide openings for Yale, who of course, recognizes these openings and takes advantage of them. If it wasn't for this quarterback, this team would have no points.

Well, we picked up one more recruit! A midfielder out of the Syracuse area. One poster on the fan lax forum says he has a lot of potential and speed! Hopefully we add a bunch more, 3 total recruits isn't going to cut it. Almost the entire top 100 recruits are already committed, none to the Red! As I've stated before, we are going to have a rough few years in '26-'28, unless we can pick this up or get some impact transfers. We lose a ton of talent in the next 2 years.

There is no doubt the system has something to do with it. However, all I am saying is that we don't have the number of recruits that we've had in the past years, in this particular recruiting cycle. At least they have not put it out there yet. For some reason, they haven't even announced the entering freshman class, that's usually done by now, on the Cornell athletic website, even on Instagram there's usually a picture of the incoming class. Nothing, crickets.  As I stated previously I'm not railing against our lack of higher star recruits (although that will come to bite us in the butt in a few years). I'm just stating, we have a lower number of actual recruits in this cycle than we usually have by now, and the other IVY's, our peers, have all seemingly out recruited us at this point.

Agree- let's hope it turns our way soon!