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I thought of tallying up how many words he gives to each team in his weekly top twenty, especially Hopkins, for whom he played (and was 2X goalie of the year good), then southern teams even if he is a Long Islander by birth. Then realized we're publicizing his ranking.

Kessenich was never easygoing and this Wiki entry suggests same: "On November 29, 2013, Kessenich made national headlines when he interviewed an indignant Bo Pelini at halftime of the Iowa-Nebraska football game telecast on ABC in which the Nebraska coach responded to the reporter's inquiry on a pair of Cornhusker turnovers with "What do you think? What kind of question is that?" The incident came one week after Michigan State Spartans football coach Mark Dantonio snapped at Kessenich during the halftime interview." OTOH coaches are godlike creatures who bristle are being asked tough questions. Woody Hayes nearly retired the trophy.

One hopes Princetonians who go into finance /invesment banking, or lesser puruits such as global hegemony, should remember not to energize one's opponent.

Saw a peppy and upbeat short video on the spring game. Even if there was reporting by a local newspaper, it would still be upbeat.

Give Cornell credit for giving it the Olde College Trye.

I continue to wonder if Cornell could create a sliver of a building backing up to Hoy Garage, to run the length of the field and run closer to the playing field (said field being moved 10, 15 yards closer to the Crescent) and the top of that building is covered stands for ~500. I believe that's about how many you get for a February / early March game against a non-top twenty team.

Quote from: LGR14 on March 21, 2026, 04:03:32 AMThey won't approve my registration, but someone should invite the Cornell wrestling forum posters here, as that site is closing imminently.  Perhaps this site could create a wrestling-specific space, instead of "Other Sports"?

eLynah could have separate space for wrestling. But why stop with a separate section for wrestlng. It would also make sense to have separate spaces for:

• Wrestling
• Football
• Basketball
• Women's hockey
• Women's sports apart from women's hockey
• Ivy League sports & Cornell-versus comparisons (includng discussions of the relative merits of teams, coaches, budgets. Daily Princetonian ~5 years back compared Ivy sports success over all sports over all years since the league went formal in 1956. IIRC, Princeton and Harvard were the leaders.
• Facilities

When a sport has its own section it may generate more readership, comments, and maybe impact on Cornell. Somebody may ask "Why under the banner of eLynah?" Anwer: "eLynah has the eyeballs already." Also, it's proactive.  At some point Cornell is going to think about its own Rah-Cornell.org forum, which would be the kiss of death (for fan interest) on par with a girls parochial school forum about boys and dating that is moderated by the good sisters.

As read it, money can flow to the players but Cornell does not control the flow or decide who gets how much. What Cornell wrote was a bit opaque and would benefit from an English-to-clear-English translation that is probably beyond Claude AI today.

Quote from: BearLover on April 20, 2026, 01:14:54 PMShe had Casey on the record. I was hopeful this would reveal more than we already knew, but it didn't. Not expecting her to grill Cournoyer, obviously. I think Jane is a promising journalist and the Sun's hockey coverage has been great, to be clear. But people wanted to know why he transferred and it's still extremely murky.

Give it a break, man. As players gain more on-the-ice / on-the-field skills, they also build more skills at deflecting questions or replying in words that sound good and say little. You're entitled to a desire to know, you're not entitled to a court-of-law inquiry. With everybody today able to be a reporter/analyst by connecting a keyboard to the internet, players realize there are lots of ways to get burned as well as praised. And how it's better to not burn bridges.
P.S. It's one thing to piss off a player with one's comments. It's another to piss off the parents or the girlfriend.

May 19, 1976, NCAA Quarterfinals
Cornell 14, Washington & Lee 0
Goaltender, Dan Mackesey '76

This was the first of Cornell's back to back championships. The title game is notable because the match versus Maryland ended a 12-12 tie, Cornell won 16-13 in overtime, and Maryland scored the first goal. At the time, the NCAA realized any one lacrosse goal can be fluky, so play 5 minutes.

[edit add:] As others have noted, overtime in 1976 was two 4-minute overtimes, not sudden death. Note also that Cornell was down 7-2 at the half, closed deficit to 9-8 after 3 periods.
Cornell (16–0)    1   1   6   4   4   16
Maryland (10–1)   1   6   2   3   1   13
Cornell scoring – Mike French 7, Jon Levine 4, Bill Marino 2, Steve Dybus, Gary Malm, Bob Henrickson
Maryland scoring – Frank Urso 2, John Lamon 2, Ed Mullen 2, Barry Mitchell, Lance Kohler, Bert Caswell, Bert Olsen, Jim Burnett, Greg Rumpf, Terry Kimball
Shots: Maryland 58, Cornell 43
Saves: Cornell Dan Mackesey 28, Maryland Jake Reed 15 - Andre Pantelides 0
Location: Providence, RI (Brown Stadium) - 5/29/1976
Attendance: 11,954

Also the weekend of 4/18, some close calls for the top teams:

• #1 Notre Dame beat #16 Duke 7-6.
• #2 Princeton beat #9 Harvard 15-14
• #3 North Carolina beat #11 Virginia 16-15 in OT
• #4 Richmond beat unranked St. Joseph's (Philadelphia) 13-11
• #5 Syracuse (which elected not to play Cornell in 2026) beat Colgate 14-7.

RPI for NCAA lacrosse purposes is based on the team's winning percentage (25% of the total), their opponents' winning percentage (50% of the total), and on their opponents' opponents' winning percentage (25% of the total). Margin of victory is not a factor. Published rankings also publish (informationally) a team's strength of schedule, and record versus teams ranked in bands of 1-5, 6-10, 11-20, and 21+.

After the Dartmouth game is 1-1 against the top 5 (beat Princeton, lost to Richmond), no results versus 6-10, 2-2 versus 11-20, 6-0 verus 21+.

Beat Harvard in Ithaca Saturday 4/25, Cornell hosts the Ivy League Tournament (again). Standings as of 4/25 and Saturday's opponents:

1. Princeton  4-1  Dartmouth (close to guaranteed win)
1. Cornell    4-1  Harvard
3. Harvard    3-2  @Cornell
3. Yale       3-2  @Brown
5. Penn       3-3  Ivy season finished (@Umass Friday)
6. Brown      1-4  Brown
7. Dartmouth  0-5  @Princeton (even closer to a guaranteed win)

Princeton's loss is to Cornell, Cornell's to Yale, Harvard's to Princeton & Yale, Yale's to Princeton & Penn, Penn to Harvard, Cornell & Princeton. Lose to Harvard, I believe we are the 3 or 4 seed, and Princeton is the 1-seed.

The video was excellent: good camera angles and the video director (if there is such in college lax) tellng the camera to zoom in, rather that going with a camera covering from the end line almost out to midfield. I watch on an 85" TV (hey, the one I have is $1000 now) and it's still not showing enough.

The announcers were okay to good. I really wish the announcers really were neutral even if they're linked to the home team.

Quote from: stereax on April 18, 2026, 05:37:54 PMAnd we thought Castagna was the best faceoff man at Cornell...

Not anymore. He's gone. Oh, wait, you said "was." It feels so good after struggling so many years going back a decade to be .500 on faceoffs.

I'm thinking of TD Ierlan of Albany 2017, 2018, then Yale 2019, 2020 (Covid shortened), then Denver 2021, college career FO% 75.1%, best season 2018 at Albany 79.1%, went 26x26 against Harvard. There was talk (hope?) that when Ierlan wanted out of Albany, he might come to Cornell, him being from nearby Victor, NY. Instead he choose the Bulldogs and we lost to Yale 16-11 during the season (Ierlan 24x30 FO for Yale) and then were ousted by Yale in the first round of the Ivy tournament 15-10 (Ierlan 21x27) and that ended our season.

Ierland was so dominant there was talk (some) of a quarter-opening faceoff and then after a goal, the ball goes to the team just scored on.

Quote from: rss77 on April 17, 2026, 06:07:41 PMThe NCAA covers travel costs for tournament games. Willing to bet that they traveled by bus for lacrosse.

Maybe High Point thought it could match Richmond's rise in lacrosse, so why not push some money at it under the heading "Raising High Point's Profile. US News has it ranked #1 in Regional Colleges (not universities) South and #1 in Most Innovative.

Quote from: BearLover on April 15, 2026, 01:17:02 AMBut in any case,
I think you were missing the bigger picture.

Why deflect the other person's points?
What did the coach say when you went out for Debate Club?

Per USCHO, Michigan's Yost Arena suffered damage to its roof this week on Tax Day 2026, rendering it unusable for a while.

The USCHO Staff report says, "Large metal pieces from the arena's roof were scattered around the building, according to reports, with debris lodged in nearby trees and blown into the backyards of nearby homes. The damage was the result of a severe, overnight storm that featured thunderstorms and strong winds <"featured"? hello, get me rewrite> across the region. Damage included toppled trees and power lines, and a vehicle flipped on its side, according to reports."

I was thinking the vehicle flipped could just as well have been in celebration of men's basketball winning the NCAA championship, that or #1 Michigan men's hockey was ousted in NCAA semifinals double overtime by Denver.

In  hopes of filling in more details that USCHO's first reporting, I looked up the arena:  Yost Ice Arena was originally the Fielding H. Yost Field House (as in for basketball) since the 1920s, an ice surface was laid down in 1973 and over the years capacity has jumped around:
Capacity:
8,100 (1973–1991)
7,235 (1991–1996)
6,343 (1996–2001)
6,637 (2001–2012)
5,800 (2012–present)
Yost has drawn as much as 8,411 for a single game, against Michigan State, in 1988, and 19,114 for a weekend series against Cornell, March 15-17, 1991.

[thread drift:] Note that as the number of seats have gone down, the number of premium seats at Yost has gone up by several hundred. It turns out that as sports fans age (or get richer), they tend to not want to have people in the bench seat row above sticking their knees in your backs. <cough cough> Lynah.