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This middle graf was painful:

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Prior to that, Rassey was an assistant at Harvard for Ted Donato, who recently resigned after 22 years as the Crimson's head coach.
Despite CHN learning of the agreement Wednesday, Harvard has yet to make an official announcement as of this weekend.
The other finalists for the job were Dartmouth assistant Jason Tapp, and Niagara head coach Jason Lammers.

Which as an editor I'm reading this as, "Hey, we broke the story, why don't you acknowlege it? We're not Sports Illustrated [neither is SI this decade] but still, give us some credit ... " Sometimes breaking a story comes easy: Cornell had a major-sports hire coming [like decades back], I had an idea who it was, I called the house on behalf of the Rochester paper, the babysitter answered and said, "They're out the evening, he wants you to know he's very much interested and if he can talk tomorrow, great." Coaching is one more profession where everybody leaks like a sieve.

Quote from: Weder on June 11, 2026, 02:29:12 PMIn ancient times, the ECAC scheduled women's conference games on Saturdays and Sundays, so a very, very small handful of people could opt to spend the whole weekend at Lynah a few times a season.

Opponent's women play Sunday in Ithaca, that can be a long bus ride home (Dartmouth, Harvard, Brown). OTOH, the team doesn't miss many Friday classes. I am having a hard time remembering how many Friday classes I had, but it may be remembering how many Friday pm classes I got to. Back in the day, the Cornell Sun played some touch football games at the Yale Princeton Dartmouth etcetera papers Saturday morning and I thought that took priority.

Quote from: Iceberg on May 21, 2026, 12:35:04 PMI would think UMass will have a return visit to Lynah but maybe not this coming season since Cornell had two OOC home series last season and so I'd think they would go on the road for another OOC series to a team other than Omaha.

Trying to think of how many times a Home & Home stretches beyond back to back years to H&H over three years and, if ever, over 4 years. There has to be an agreement at least between coaches / athletic directors that the teams play at both schools.

In favor of there being a 2026 Frozen Apple (ie even-year) MSG game: There is nothing else scheduled at MSG for Thanksgiving Saturday (if you see the Rockettes, unclick all the MSG properties until you only have the MSG main arena). Google says the Cornell-Quinnipiac 3-3 tie drew 16,593, the largest attendence for 2024-25 college hockey.

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.