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Quote from: The RancorBring back the leaning bear logo!

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You can still find some gear at the Cornell store with the angry bear logo

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Quote from: upprdeckSo if rooms were $150 a night people would be fine with the cost but $300 is too much?

I get a 7 day vacation it adding up but to quibble about $150 for 2 day thing?

Staying in Toledo was about $250 for the hockey NCAA.

$300 per night for 2 nights is basically the rest of my current bank account, lmfao...

. I personally don't think it's worth it to travel to NYC thanksgiving day weekend just to see a regular season hockey game, but that's just me

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Quote from: Ken711Last week, Walker Wallace, a first-team All-Ivy League long stick midfielder, helped the Cornell men's lacrosse team win the national title. Now, the Richmond native is transferring to #UVa to play football. He will be a tight end for the Cavaliers.

To play football??

Yes, for football. Several lacrosse players have made the switch, most famously Chris Hogan, a Penn State midfielder who did a grad year playing football at Monmouth and then went on to have a decent pro career as a wide receiver.

We had a wrestler, Ben Honis, who played linebacker (well, special teams) at Syracuse for his grad school year.

Wow. The more you know. Didn't Wallace also switch positions in lacrosse at some point? Feels like I recall that.

I mean it's probably difficult to go play lacrosse somewhere else after winning the NC, so probably best to play a different sport entirely. Guess he doesn't play hockey like his brother?

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Quote from: ugarteCornella won his best of three final in back to back matches, 16-5 tech fall and a first period pin. He will represent Team USA at the world championships in Novi Sad, Siberia this October.

Ruiz made it to the third place match and honked away a 9-1 lead in the final minute to lose 9-9 on criteria. Strategically ridiculous.

Fernandez lost his first consolation match and didn't place.

Novi Sad is in Serbia, not Siberia.  Auto-corrupt?

yeah lol i hate swype and i will never stop using it

In other news, Vince Cornella went tech, tech, tech, tech, tech, tech, pin and was awarded Outstanding Wrestler of the tournament.

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How has no one commented that his name is Cornell-a

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Quote from: jjanow99I'm looking forward to next year, finally not having to think we have to win  a NC. Much less anxiety.
Also looking forward to seeing some new faces on the field and seeing how they stack up again the rest of the Ivy League.

Me too!  We're not likely going to see a team like this 2025 team anytime soon. It's as close to a team with graduate students that we'll have unless the Ivy League changes its rules. To me, our team this year resembles the 2022 Maryland team in a lot of ways. I'm happy we were able to rectify that loss. Maybe Syracuse will be next.

I've been thinking this too. When the 2021 season was canceled, most (or maybe all?) of the freshmen + Michael Long took off spring semester. Four years later, we had a team loaded with fifth-years (and Long, who was technically a sixth-year). This counts their freshman season of no games as equivalent to a year of experience, so this is perhaps an exaggeration. And, of course, most other programs had the same opportunity (via COVID year or redshirting)—it is only Ivies who do not typically allow fifth year players. But the end result was a Cornell team filled with big, strong, experienced players. How large a factor this was, I don't know.

Still, I think the future is bright. We are returning Goldstein, Firth, and others who played big roles this year. We still have a great coach. And this championship should bolster recruiting. But I really do not like this trend of a mass exodus of graduating Ivy League stars using their final year of eligibility at Big 10 and ACC schools. See, for example, Maryland next year—they are again loading up on transfers, including three top players from Yale.

I agree with the notion that this championship win alleviates a ton of anxiety. This season was one of the most anxious years of Cornell sports fandom in my life. Between Schafer's last season and the impending graduation of 16 seniors (including Kirst) in men's lacrosse, it felt like this was the do-or-die year to finally win a championship. And, of course, every year it didn't happen—15 since I've been a fan, and 47 for those doing this longer than I—added to the pressure.

I am looking forward to enjoying Cornell sports in a more relaxed manner next season with this championship in our pocket. There is still the long championship drought in hockey, and though hockey is my and many other's biggest focus, lacrosse is second, and I can't deny that Cornell lacrosse was due for a title more than any other program at Cornell, and also more than any other lacrosse program in NCAA Division 1.

I think we can rightly say we are a lacrosse school now.

Well yes of course we won the first one. They alluded to that about hundred times during yesterday's game. lol

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Quote from: semsoxI saw in the athletics notes before the game that this would not only be the first Lacrosse title since 77, but the first team championship in any sport for Cornell since then. Bask in it, because it doesn't come around often

That's insane. But hasn't polo won several times? They may be club team tho. Too lazy to check

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/01/trailblazing-polo-stars-odyssey-began-wrong-turn

Last for women was 2016 as of this article. Remember reading this a while back.

Pretty sure the distinction is championships overseen by the NCAA.

I was just looking this up the other day. In terms of non-NCAA national titles for varsity teams, Cornell has won in polo, rowing and women's gymnastics since 1977.

https://cornellbigred.com/sports/2016/5/26/team-national-champions.aspx

Wasn't aware they weren't overseen by ncaa. Learn something new everyday. Thanks for clarification.

Women's gymnastics has been an NCAA sport since 1982. But what we won was the Usag collegiate nationals. I think it's akin to an invitational.

CORNELL WINS THE NATTY!!

The fact that people would speculate that he's injured only because he didn't get a single point yet played the entire game, just goes to show you how good he is. Most players don't score points every game and no one assumes they are injured.

Congrats to all the seniors who graduated during the game yesterday. I am glad they didn't miss out on that experience only to lose.

Well he was the coach when Boiardi died. You don't forget something like that.

Yeah and it seems Harvard is hosting since their logo was all over the field. I think they would have had enough space.

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Quote from: Jim HylaI'd love to see (hear) someone do a Post report. It seemed like half of Richmond's goals were hitting the post and in.

The goalie is not supposed to save those.

A silly mm off and those bounce out.

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This isn't really true. A guy can shoot from 30 yards out and even if it goes in off the post, it should have been be stopped. Or, like we saw, a guy can shoot from a horrible angle off the post and in and that too should have been saved.

So basically you're saying that every shot should be stopped.

Then the logical extension of that is every goal against is the goalies fault.

I just don't buy that.

In lacrosse and hockey a very well placed shot goes in. If it's stopped, we bow to the goalie.

The goalie can't physically cover 100% of the goal 100% of the time. You just can't do that.

You play your angles and your percentages. If the shooter is able to pick that small spot that you can't cover, then it's a great shot.

You forget about it. Go on to the next play, realizing that if you play things correctly, you'll save X% of the shots.

But you can't save all of them.



And not everything is your fault.

"It's all your fault"

Why are the games always 2.5 hours apart when that is never enough time?

Georgetown has turned over the ball with poor passes way too many times. Both goalies are actually pretty decent. Maryland is the way better team but I'm not too impressed with them should we have to face them. #10 is a force to be reckoned with. He seems to be involved in every goal today