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Quote from: big29red on October 10, 2026, 03:09:27 PMAlso, 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.

Agree.  What's especially disappointing is we've seen nothing of the quarterbacks Swanstrom has brought in these past two years.  That tells me none have shown he could lead Cornell out of this long-standing mediocrity.

Quote from: The Rancor on October 04, 2026, 02:40:29 PM

Quote from: BearLover on October 04, 2026, 01:09:37 AM

Quote from: Dafatone on October 03, 2026, 04:41:33 PM

Quote from: BearLover on October 03, 2026, 12:01:54 AMMSU has 17 draft picks including 9 first rounders. Don't know how we're supposed to compete with that. The best players commit/transfer to the top conferences to play against better talent, which creates a vicious cycle of the top conferences perpetually improving and the weaker conferences perpetually getting worse. The CHL opening up to college exacerbated this. We unfortunately need to root for other ECAC teams to improve so that the conference profile improves somewhat.

Let teams in other conferences take a lot of the blue chip prospects. We don't have to compete with MSU. We just have to win one game against them in the NCAAs if we run into them.

"MSU" is a stand-in for "blue blood who is recruiting ridiculous talent such that the gap between ours and theirs grows larger every year." MSU could just as easily be Denver, BC, BU, Michigan, etc.

Here are the teams who ended our season in the NCAAs the past six trips:
Denver
BU
Denver
BU
Providence
BU

We do have to beat these teams if we ever want to win a national championship.

We can cope all we want, but it's very clear at this point that blue-chip recruits are far more likely to win you a national title than B-level recruits. If B-level recruits were better, then MSU would recruit them instead.

Remarking on the growing talent disparity is not "shitting on my team," it's just being realistic about the state of college hockey. I've said many times that I am bullish on our chances this year if our goaltending works out. No need for everyone to freak out and start pretending we have a better team than the 18-draft-pick juggernauts lurking in the Big 10.

Completely nonsensical take. Our guys have been playing against their guys, in other leagues, and in our own, for years. They all made the cut, and are in the D1 dance.  They even scored goals, won games, and made highlight reels along the way. Our guys aren't scared, intimidated, or otherwise unprepared to face off against MSU, BU, Denver or any other team- and that's what you don't understand about sports, hockey or life.
Let's Go Red.

Right.  Shut out Denver in the NCAAs in 2023.  Beat Maine in 2024.  Beat vaunted MSU in 2025 (with one MSU goal scored after a bad bounce off the dasher and another when two Cornell guys skated over the puck and left it behind the net).

Yes, the drift of college sports toward professionalization over the past 60 years has made it more and more difficult for Ivies to compete with the big guys.  It's almost certainly going to get worse.

If Cornell has to professionalize like the biggies in order to compete I will no longer have interest.  When the athletes on the field or ice or court are playing only because they have the best financial deal, they are just hired hands, and I can't relate to them any more than I can relate to a baseball player playing for his third team in three years.

It's been a good ride for me the past 65 years, but if it ends, it ends.  It's pointless (and annoying to others) to whine about it constantly.

Quote from: Trotsky on October 04, 2026, 02:33:24 AM1-0 / 2-1.  Are we... good?

Likely find out next Saturday against Harvard.

Brutal early schedule: a ranked Colgate; both defending Ivy co-champs (Yale and Harvard); then top-five Lehigh.  Bit of a breather yesterday.

Quote from: BearLover on October 04, 2026, 01:09:37 AM

Quote from: Dafatone on October 03, 2026, 04:41:33 PM

Quote from: BearLover on October 03, 2026, 12:01:54 AMMSU has 17 draft picks including 9 first rounders. Don't know how we're supposed to compete with that. The best players commit/transfer to the top conferences to play against better talent, which creates a vicious cycle of the top conferences perpetually improving and the weaker conferences perpetually getting worse. The CHL opening up to college exacerbated this. We unfortunately need to root for other ECAC teams to improve so that the conference profile improves somewhat.

Let teams in other conferences take a lot of the blue chip prospects. We don't have to compete with MSU. We just have to win one game against them in the NCAAs if we run into them.

"MSU" is a stand-in for "blue blood who is recruiting ridiculous talent such that the gap between ours and theirs grows larger every year." MSU could just as easily be Denver, BC, BU, Michigan, etc.

Here are the teams who ended our season in the NCAAs the past six trips:
Denver
BU
Denver
BU
Providence
BU

We do have to beat these teams if we ever want to win a national championship.

We can cope all we want, but it's very clear at this point that blue-chip recruits are far more likely to win you a national title than B-level recruits. If B-level recruits were better, then MSU would recruit them instead.

Remarking on the growing talent disparity is not "shitting on my team," it's just being realistic about the state of college hockey. I've said many times that I am bullish on our chances this year if our goaltending works out. No need for everyone to freak out and start pretending we have a better team than the 18-draft-pick juggernauts lurking in the Big 10.

Everyone here knows all of this.  You really don't have to keep repeating your Chicken Little act every three days.  You seem to think you're the only one who's figured this out.   Or, do you just want everyone else here to be as miserable over it as you are?

Your laments are not going to change things one bit.  So, either suck it up and figure out how to live with it or move on to some other interest.

Quote from: The Rancor on October 03, 2026, 10:05:46 AMShitting on the program before we even hit the ice for game one. SMH. We don't even play Michigan State this season.

How do we compete? We show up on the ice for 30 (hopefully more) games. That's the whole thing. Maybe you'd be happier rooting for another team?

It's his brand.

Never seen a fake field goal attempt run straight ahead into the line.

Would like to see an underclass QB given a chance.

Yuck.  Last minute goal gives Akron 3 - 2 lead.

Red 1, Zips zip at halftime

Quote from: BearLover on August 29, 2026, 12:05:40 PM

Quote from: TimV on August 27, 2026, 08:41:48 AMIt seems to me there is at least the possibility that the 5 for 5 won't be so bad for us. The roster spots on non ivy teams will fill. The talent is plentiful and  will distribute as it always has. 

Ivies need to promote the value of the degree and the network. Then treat the available 5th year as a bonus - an opportunity to get a different lacrosse experience. A choice of sorts, to play another year someplace new or move on to professional school or life in general.

NIL and other dollars is the bigger threat.

Unsurprisingly, I disagree with this take. At the moment, the money paid to college lacrosse players is almost nonexistent. It could become a bigger issue in the future, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.

On the other hand, fifth years won't really fill roster spots unless those players will add something very strong to that roster. For example, Duke will only take a few fifth years, to plug holes. But they'll take the best fifth years in the country. So let's say they need a goalie and a forward. They could bring in, say, Matt Tully and Willem Firth, or have their best senior forward stay a fifth season.  That's just a couple of roster spots, but they instantly add a couple of premier players at those positions. That's what Cornell is going to be up against now. The best teams will never have holes. They'll just pluck who they need from other programs, or ask their best existing players to stay an extra season.

Do you really think everyone else here doesn't understand all of this?  You unnecessarily write this same stuff every few days.  Does it make you feel less depressed by writing it?  What is it that you get out of writing gloom and doom every few days.  It's become clutter.

Quote from: George64 on August 25, 2026, 03:49:01 PMI don't see Meyer Shapiro listed on the 2026-27 roster.  What's up?

Portal to Nebraska

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on August 22, 2026, 05:16:57 PM

Quote from: stereax on August 22, 2026, 02:22:48 AM7 is a dman number which is why I'm annoyed a forward has it.

Two words:  Brock Tredway

Doug Ferguson

Quote from: Old Red on August 12, 2026, 05:58:24 AM

Quote from: marty on August 12, 2026, 03:51:05 AMI'm very confused.  How many coaches,  assistant coaches, associate coaches and ersatz coaches are there on Cornell's staff? Are any of the current staff unpaid?

There are no unpaid positions in D1 hockey, the volunteer coach was eliminated, I believe in 2024.

The NCAA allows four countable coaches:  a head coach (Casey Jones) and three (3) assistant coaches for D1 schools. 

Cornell has three assistant coaches:
Associate Head Coach Sean Flanagan (11th year) -- leads in face offs
Assistant Coach Chris Brown (2nd year) -- leads defense and penalty kill
Assistant Coach Cam Clarke (2nd year) -- leads power play

In addition there is a Director of Hockey Operations, as discussed above.  Lately this role has been goalie coach and is responsible for video including video replay decisions and editing.  I also assume this person is responsible general administrative paper work.

Cornell also has an equipment manager, Sean Schmidt in his 15th year.  The atheltic trainer, Kaitlyn Petryszen, and strength and conditioning coach, Mike Missen, support several programs.  Ms. Petryszen serves the Mens and Womens Polo teams and the Golf team.  Mr. Missen serves softball, golf and equestrian.

I remember when it was Ned and his father, Pop.  We won a lot.

Quote from: TimV on August 04, 2026, 07:11:16 AMAre we switching to UnderArmor this year? I like the real laces.

A better-looking "3"

Quote from: Trotsky on July 22, 2026, 02:42:48 AM2026 Schedule

@Colgate
9/19 10:00 am

Yale
9/26 10:00 am

@Georgetown
10/3 9:30 am

Harvard
10/10 10:00 am

Lehigh
10/17 11:00 am

@Brown
10/24 9:00 am

@Princeton
10/31 10:00 am

Penn
11/7 11:00 am

Dartmouth
11/14 11:00 am

@Columbia
11/21 10:00 am

Phoenix time😉