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Quote from: dbilmes on October 12, 2026, 05:45:55 PMCornell picked to finish fifth in Ivy League. Penn is the heavy favorite, while Yale is only predicted to finish third In any case, it's never too early to start booking hotel rooms in Allentown!
Interesting, also, that Princeton is the only team in the country to return all of its players from last season.

Penn has really used the transfer portal to rise to the top of the Ivy League quickly.

Quote from: Local Motion on October 10, 2026, 10:01:37 PMThe biggest difference between Harvard and Cornell football, is the Crimson runs their program more like a big time D1 program.  If Cornell athletics treated football like we do ice hockey and lacrosse we would have a much better team.   

And what would that look like? 

Nice road win, I'm glad they committed to the running attack gaining 181 yards. Great receiving game with Sam Musungu and Brendan Lee both making big plays.

Not Cornell directly related, but some sad news. Tony Reno former Yale head football coach for 14 years, passed away today. His son Dante Reno QB on current Yale team was injured and did not play last's weeks game against Cornell.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd-LXqapABc/

Quote from: ugarte on September 28, 2026, 05:22:30 PMNext opponent is Georgetown, who Columbia beat in OT this past weekend.

My questions:
Will Cornell still be overhyped on their win over Yale and overlook an 0-3 Georgetown team
Can Garrett Bass-Sulpizio run the offense without interceptions like he did against Yale
Can they maintain focus when playing away games
Will they commit to the running game a good part of their offense

Quote from: scoop85 on September 28, 2026, 01:29:22 PM

Quote from: ugarte on September 28, 2026, 12:14:52 PMI wish that CU Athletics would put together a good highlight reel for football. They used to do it but it's gotten spotty. They didn't cut packages for a few of the (home) soccer games either.

The SID office must have seen some budget cuts, as the amount of information being posted this year seems reduced from the past few years.

Agreed.  They never did a news release on the 2026 football recruiting class.  First time that's ever happened.

Quote from: ugarte on September 28, 2026, 12:14:52 PMI wish that CU Athletics would put together a good highlight reel for football. They used to do it but it's gotten spotty. They didn't cut packages for a few of the (home) soccer games either.

Found this.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6c8jcxJAKk

Can Cornell win games on the road, that has been an issue for years.

Quote from: scoop85 on September 26, 2026, 04:55:41 PM

Quote from: Ken711 on September 26, 2026, 04:26:23 PMYale without starting QB Dante Reno falls to the Big Red 38-25.  Nice home win Cornell.  Better balanced offense with an improved running attack.

Nice win for sure. Not sold on our QB, but he did enough today.

As long as they don't throw interceptions, the QB should be good enough to make this offense work.

Yale without starting QB Dante Reno falls to the Big Red 38-25.  Nice home win Cornell.  Better balanced offense with an improved running attack.

Quote from: Local Motion on September 21, 2026, 05:49:07 PMIt's both a Cornell and a coaching problem.   I went to the game on Saturday and we barely in our seats and Cornell was down 14-0 in the first quarter.   Agreed Colgate is a better team and they were on their fourth game, but I thought we would at least be somewhat competitive.   As per my prior post, Cornell is very competitive in both ice hockey and lacrosse, meanwhile we alums are giving money to football year after year with literally no progress.   In the second half Colgate was trying not to run up the score, as they played very conservatively running the ball to eat up the clock.  Agreed our other football coaches have not been very good either, but look at Colgate as their coach is in his second season and they are 4-0.   Why didn't Cornell hire that coach???

Colgate is the 2nd best team and possibly the best in the Patriot League.  Colgate can offer scholarships, and has less restrictive admission requirements. BTW, Colgate is 3-1 and that coach wasn't left with the mess of a program that Archer made in 12 years heading the football program.  I get it you are frustrated, but your expectations of being in the top tier in the Ivy League in year 3 at Cornell is not realistic. The bigger question is why the athletic department and the administration stuck with Archer for 12 years. Not the hiring of coach Swanstrom.

Quote from: Local Motion on September 20, 2026, 09:46:21 PMI am beginning to think Dan Swanstrom was a terrible hire for Cornell.   He was a good DIII coach at Ithaca College but the Ivy League is a huge step up from that level.   He's now in his third year and nearly all the starters are Archer recruits.   Look at Harvard and Yale as those two schools recruit football players who are Division I caliber and Cornell continues under perform in recruiting.   We certainly don't recruit that way in ice hockey or lacrosse, but year after year football remains in the bottom half of the Ivy League standings.   We have not posted a winning record in 21 years and our last Ivy League title was in 1990.  As a local alum who has donated to this program for many years its very frustrating.

Sure Colgate was on their fourth game, but Harvard blew out UNH 31-7 and Yale beat Holy Cross 38-28.  Those two teams showed up ready to play!

Silly post. You want a team to start all freshman and sophomores (Swanstrom's recruits)?  In what world will Cornell out recruit Harvard and Yale in football. You can add Princeton into the name recognition schools as well that will ALWAYS be attractive to football recruits. The program suffered under Archer for over a decade, it takes time to dig out of that mess.

Defense playing calling is better with the new DC.  I really think they need to run the ball more to open up the passing game more.

Quote from: ugarte on September 19, 2026, 11:04:15 AMHow bad could it be? Musungu back. Bass-Salpezio named starting QB. Into the breach.

It could be bad.  Colgate is playing their 4 game and Cornell will likely have 1st game miscues.  Colgate nearly beat a FBS school in Central Michigan.  Colgate has an outstanding running attack and a big DL on defense.  I hope it will be competitive and Cornell escapes with no major injuries.