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Quote from: RichH on July 17, 2026, 07:49:21 PM

Quote from: stereax on July 17, 2026, 03:30:22 PMYou can only fly to IAD from Ithaca lol

But yeah I think if we start seriously planning this it'll be in the fall and I'll figure out my travel then

I just flew from IAD to ITH and can vouch that it's pretty sucky. Have you considered flying from Syracuse?

Fair enough. I keep losing track as to what airlines keep routes in and out of the tiny NY airports like Ithaca and Corning/Elmira. They keep tossing them around like a money-losing hot potato. For years it was either USAir or Continental only with one destination (like PIT or PHL or DTW), but now both United and Delta are competing in ITH, which is good news. I took the route to Pittsburgh from Ithaca that made a stop in Elmira - in the air for 12 minutes.

For an Albany flight, all 3 Washington airports have nonstop options.

 

Quote from: RichH on May 25, 2026, 02:06:09 AM"How Private Equity is Damaging Society"

Fixed your topic

Youth sports have become big business, but I'm not sure how much they depend on the private corporate form.

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Quote from: BearLover on May 25, 2026, 05:58:35 PMIt would be interesting to plot our InsideLacrosse recruiting ranking on a graph for each year of its existence.

give me a link to the recruiting rankings and i'll do it

Thanks! Here ya go: https://www.insidelacrosse.com/recruiting/m/2027/college

You can flip back to past years by clicking on the "2027" tab.

You want regular rank or points rank?

I'm not sure what the difference is, so I guess regular rank.

Click it so it looks better. The bright red is us, obviously.

There do seem to be at least 2 important trends. Since 2023 we've declined, while Princeton has moved towards the top in each of the last 3 years.

Quote from: CU77 on May 25, 2026, 12:30:52 PMAt least 90% of recruiting has to do with factors that the coach has no direct control over: academics, campus culture, weather, facilities, likelihood of a championship,  etc. There's not some magic knob that a coach can turn to improve recruiting.

Perhaps. But while Princeton and ND may have some advantages, I don't see enough difference in the five things you explicitly mention (academics, campus culture, weather, facilities, likelihood of a championship) to account for Princeton repeatedly recruiting the #1 class (several years in a row with 5x5*) while we recruit #20.

This is particularly vexing because until recently we have regularly recruited generational players like Kurst, Teat, Adler, etc.

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Quote from: CU77 on May 22, 2026, 01:08:35 PMVirginia fired their coach Lars Tiffany (two national championships in his ten years there) on Monday.    Rumor mill has four coaches interviewing, none named Buczek.

Does anyone have a handle on the rumors (I know that's a contradiction in terms) that the players (one player in particular) forced him out?  Or a link to a summary of such rumors?  I don't want to venture into the swamp that is FanLax Forum for this one. 

On another note, Princeton all the way this weekend, right?  No, I don't love it either but there's no way this Cornell lacrosse fan will root for Syracuse or Duke, and Notre Dame has won it all twice recently.  Plus back to back years of having an Ivy League team win it all would be good for the league.

Too bad about Tiffany. He is a great coach. He'll find a good gig elsewhere if he wants.

I have given up on lacrosse for this year after our losses. I'm still angry at how we played against Princeton and then Hopkins. There is just no excuse for how poorly we played.

How we played was so out of character that I have to presume some unknown factors (injuries?) were at work.

But I'll agree insofar as I think we need to modify our recruiting strategy with regard to a few things.

• I know star-rankings can be misleading, and we've done well with our coaches finding hidden talents. Nonetheless, we're getting far fewer 5 stars than some of our peers & main competitors (e.g. Pton, Scuse), and in some contexts the things that stand out to make a player get 5-star attention become important factors against certain defensive and offensive strategies, and the lack of 5-star depth can make a team vulnerable to injuries to key players. Even if we have some great under-the-radar players, top recruits need to be available to fill in.
• Size matters. Lacrosse is a great sport in part because smaller players can be superstars. (Think Jeff Teat, Ryan Goldstein, Rob Pannell. But often you need a Connor Buczek or Max Seibald who can bull & speed their way into scoring position. Our recruiting, training, and internal balance needs to put more emphasis on having several skilled, bigger players to complement the skilled, smaller, quick players. 
• Along with better recruiting of standout talent and paying more attention to size, should come more diverse offensive and defensive strategies. Of course, teams practice certain things, which then become their style. But in several games this year better fundamentals (namely, passing, catching, & ground balls) would have prevented turnovers. Hopefully, in future years having an indoor facility will allow more time for early season practices (including captains' practices) to rid the team of such unnecessary flaws.
  

Quote from: Chris H82 on May 03, 2026, 02:13:03 PMMaybe I missed this in an earlier post, but I'm not having any luck bringing up the streaming broadcast. I have an ESPN subscription (via Disney Plus), but does that not include ESPNU?  Anyone else having this issue, or figured out the workaround?

I have the same problem. Turns out that ESPN changed its configuration, removed ESPNU from the bundle, and moved it to a higher, more costly one. Apparently they sent a notice about this last August, but it was vague, legalese, and did not spell out what you would no longer be getting. To add injury to the insult, they just kept on charging me for something that had become useless to me.

Turns out my cable TV (Cox) was giving me a package with ESPNU, so I had the game and paid double for it.

Screw this. We really need reform in how cable & streaming sell their products.

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Quote from: billhoward on April 19, 2026, 08:09:31 PMMay 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.

Dan Mackesey Ithaca High '72

Mackesey was also the starting goalie for the men's soccer team. Those were the days when it was more common for star athletes to play two sports. Brock Tredway, for example, was a star hockey player for Cornell in the late '70s who also was on the soccer team.

Bruce Cohen, lacrosse hall of famer, led the Ivy League in goals one year playing soccer.  Also, a starting guard on freshman basketball team.  Busy guy.  No NIL, either.

All-American hockey defenseman Harry Orr '67 played lacrosse when Ned Harkness was coach.  He had a wicked underhand shot.  According to legend, Ned said he couldn't play hockey if he didn't play lacrosse.  Ned's lax teams were 35 and 1.  No NCAA championship in that era.

This is not entirely true. Schools located within 100 miles of Baltimore were often (i.e., always) voted the national champion.

Quote from: CU77 on April 11, 2026, 07:39:47 PMMassey gives Dartmouth an under 10% chance of winning each of their two final games (against Cornell and Princeton) and Brown an under 30% chance of winning each of their two final games (against Penn and Yale). So assuming these four games go to the favorites, here are the remaining games and the resulting ILT seedings:

Pr>H C>H  C Pr Y H
Pr>H H>C  Pr Y H C
H>Pr C>H  C Y H Pr
H>Pr H>C  H Y C Pr

Pretty sure I got these right but please do double check ...

In short, assuming we beat Dartmouth, if we beat Harvard, we host!

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Quote from: Iceberg on April 05, 2026, 01:30:33 PMAnyone's guess with those people. Goldstein is from one of the main line suburbs (Radnor or Malvern I think), so the game at Penn is basically a homecoming for him and it wouldn't surprise me if his parents and others were in attendance. Maybe those fans were bitter he didn't stay closer to home? Who knows.

So his parents wanted him to go to Penn?

JK 

Maybe I'm missing sarcasm, but you do know both his parents are Cornell grads and former lacrosse AA's, don't you?

Quote from: Ken711 on March 02, 2026, 10:45:42 PMLatest NCAA top ten rankings USA Lacrosse magazine.

1. Notre Dame
2. Richmond
3. Princeton
4. Harvard
5. Duke
6. North Carolina
7. Ohio State
8. Cornell
9. Army
10.Syracuse

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Quote from: CU77 on March 02, 2026, 06:17:19 PMCoaches were already trying different combos of o mids during the Richmond game. This is not a coaching issue, this is a talent on the team issue. We've not seen effective o-mid replacements for last year's Kelleher, Dalton, Sheehan, Firth (who moved to attack).

Yes, but.  They lost by a goal to an excellent team, a team which they beat twice last year by one goal.  No shame there.  Let's see a good bounce back.  We have a sufficiently difficult schedule both OOC and league that we can survive a few losses. 

Also, consider this:

• We were playing what's now the #2 team in the country. As an Ivy, we've had substantially less time to practice so far this season.
• We lost one of the best classes in Cornell history from last year. Consequently, we are quite young as a team. Youth affects players individually and as a team. They have to learn to play together. This makes shorter practice even more significant.
• Lacrosse is a sport that is taught and learned. Individual players can improve tremendously during a season or over a four-year career. The good news is Coach Buczek is proven to be one of the best, if not the best, young coaches in the world. We did lose coach Stevens, but we have an excellent replacement in  Coach Ciferri, who I believe is taking Coach Stevens' place. But he too must grow into the job.

Quote from: arugula on 3/3/2026, 3:00:39 PMQuote from: CU77 on 3/2/2026, 6:17:19 PMCoaches were already trying different combos of o mids during the Richmond game. This is not a coaching issue, this is a talent on the team issue. We've not seen effective o-mid replacements for last year's Kelleher, Dalton, Sheehan, Firth (who moved to attack). Yes, but.  They lost by a goal to an excellent team, a team which they beat twice last year by one goal.  No shame there.  Let's see a good bounce back.  We have a sufficiently difficult schedule both OOC and league that we can survive a few losses.  We also should note three things:
• • We were playing what's now the #2 team in the country. As an Ivy, we've had substantially less time to practice so far this season.
  • We lost one of the best classes in Cornell history from last year. Consequently, we are quite young as a team. Youth affects players individually and as a team. They have to learn to play together. This makes shorter practice even more significant.
  • Lacrosse is a sport that is taught and learned. Individual players can improve tremendously during a season or over a four-year career. The good news is Coach Buczek is proven to be one of the best, if not the best, young coaches in the world. We did lose coach Stevens, but we have an excellent replacement in  Coach Ciferri, who I believe is taking Coach Stevens' place. But he too must grow into the job.

Quote from: jjanow99 on February 14, 2026, 03:39:13 PMCascadden 7-7 in 4th qtr faceoffs

Maybe he shouldn't be our only FOGO for the entire game.

Four 3-stars in the class. In this, football is beginning to resemble lacrosse. Now all we need is 1-2 five stars + 7-9 four-stars, and we can start thinking seriously about a NC. 

Quote from: dbilmes on January 31, 2026, 12:47:03 PM

Quote from: JasonN95 on January 31, 2026, 11:43:17 AMQuestion for someone that was there: About what percentage of the crowd would you guess were Cornell fans?

It seemed like there were more Cornell than Yale fans there. In any case, the Cornell fans definitely made more noise, especially since there was no Yale pep band present and the only Yale students in the rink appeared to be the ones on the ice.

I'd say the Cornell side was maybe 80% - 90% full; the Yale side was perhaps <50% full. As Sus says, end zones were barren.

OK. I'm sure this has been asked before. Friday, 19:00, Cornell plays Yale in New Haven. If I arrive in New Haven around 17:00, what's the best place for a pizza?