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Castagna is inclined to slap his blade on the ice to call for a pass; not something I remember another recent Cornell player doing regularly. You can hear it clearly on the break away play right before the pass.

Kudos to the ECAC for doing a very good job of putting together nice game highlight packages and getting them quickly posted to YouTube. The league has been doing that for a couple seasons now.

Quote from: stereax on January 03, 2026, 09:54:14 PMSpeaking of [Castagna], 14-5 on faceoffs today. Up to 64.5 fo%.

Jason called the last faceoff as being won by Castagna, and I do think Castagna got the result he wanted, which was to fire the puck forward rather than try to draw it back. That however has me wondering what is the criteria for deciding who won/lost a faceoff. Did Castagna technically win that faceoff for statistical purposes even though he/his team did not come away with control of the puck? Perhaps the scorekeepers are given a lot of latitude to decide who exerted their will more.

BearLover mentioned reversion to the mean for Dartmouth in another thread. If true, it sure is nice for the league they over-performed in their out-of-conference games. It would be highly entertaining if we have something like this at year end; fans of other conferences would lose their minds.

Union's team played a game against a bar league team, 3x5:

https://youtu.be/MMoN97_Y-pw?si=3ubaEa7pzRYnG1v9

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Quote from: BearLover on December 09, 2025, 01:13:50 PMI think maximizing revenue is at odds with maximizing atmosphere.

Ding ding ding.

I think this can be fixed. Cornell athletics isn't a for-profit company.

But it has expenses and has to do what it can to keep up with the Joneses (at least keep within earshot of the Joneses) if it wants any shot at competing for national championships. (Ben Robertson sure seemed smitten with Michigan's private jets for away games.) And I think none-to-very little money flows from the academic side/endowment of the university to athletics, but someone can correct me if I'm wrong about that.

I'm curious to see what sort of reception Casey receives. For me, I wouldn't be upset with a college coach leaving to go to his alma mater, although if the fans choose to boo him I wouldn't hold it against them, especially given he left them for a conference foe.

FYI, there were two CDs, Live at Lynah and the other was Voices of the Faithful (I think). I had them at one point (where they are now, not sure). The Live at Lynah CD has a fantastic rendition of Gary Glitter and the Fight Song with the radio broadcast overlayed with one of the best comebacks I have ever seen in person. It was against Brown and I was sitting in Section O, which at that time was where the opposing team's fans sat. My group had been getting an earful from the Brown fans in front of us when Brown was leading late; it was so delicious when they had to leave Lynah with their tails between their legs.

Quote from: VIEWfromK on November 23, 2025, 08:38:37 AM...RPI had such a tough time even gaining the offensive zone that they were hanging a guy out near their blue line and were content to let the game be played four on four in the defensive zone.  Wild. ...

I was struck by that, too. The hanger receiving the homerun pass created the breakaway in the first that gave RPI its one goal. In the second that's all RPI seemed to be trying (that, or I was paying attention more to it because I was in Section O watching our defensive zone that period) but Cornell's defense was wise to it and mostly not losing track of the hanger. 

On the positive side, I did like that they had the goalies take the honorary faceoff. Nice touch.

Quote from: scoop85Right after we beat Maryland someone posted here that they were happy to trade the success of their professional teams for a Cornell championship, and I wholeheartedly agreed with them. Well, with the Mets in freefall and the Giants looking miserable after one game, God is putting me to the test (but I still stand by my prior assertion).

That was me, and I still feel that way well after the immediate post-game euphoria has mellowed.

There's a YouTube Channel called Cuse Crease Highlights (I've mentioned it here before) that I think does the best game highlight packages that I've found on YouTube (high res, no watermark, solid editing choices). The channel over the last few days has put up videos for the NCAA tournament, so now highlights of all four games of Cornell's NCAA championship run are available for your enjoyment.

vs Albany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUJ4rx5rBeU
vs Richmond: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV0TnA7t4wA&pp=0gcJCckJAYcqIYzv
vs Penn State: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8psyygOR5Ro
vs Maryland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi5x9LJ614E

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Quote from: George64Rowyn Nurry scores 8 goals in OT win over IMG Nationals.

https://www.usalacrosse.com/magazine/national-teams/usa-men/fathers-homecoming-sons-dream-nurry-familys-journey-jeju

"...and led to his eventual commitment to Cornell, the defending national champions."

That's just a delight to read. Going to squeeze as much enjoyment out of that as I can until next Memorial Day.

Quote from: LGR14The College Lacrosse Show (Jonathan Danville is a co-host) - posted yesterday.

I second this one. I have been listening to this show all season and very much enjoyed the banter. Donville is a bit unpolished, but infectious and funny and, of course, loves Cornell so how could you not like him? :-)

Quote from: CU77Complete video of the final from NCAA championships, free of ESPN chyrons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HtuaXmovLE

And in full 1080 HD, nice. I think ESPN+ only keeps videos available on demand for a relatively short amount of time, hopefully this YouTube video stays up indefinitely.

I mentioned in one of the recent lacrosse threads that the most memorable CU lacrosse play for me was Max Seibald's trail check in OT vs Albany in the 2007 NCAA quarterfinal that lead to CU's winning goal, and that I had video of it from the broadcast. I finally uploaded that video plus another 2007 Seibald highlight I had. Sorry for the low resolution; the videos were captured using some basic-even-for-the-time video capture hardware from a standard definition source.

Albany highlight: https://youtu.be/8FUztXY6qiA

Syracuse highlight: https://youtu.be/lnYH2T39LYw

Quote from: mike1960I wonder when I'll take off my lucky Cornell hoodie. I'm still flying about the fact that we're the National Champions in lacrosse.

I'm still flying high as well. I've rewatched the full game twice and have watched no fewer than five different condensed versions of the game on YouTube.