ELynah Forum

From my vantage point at the game I want state the obvious-that Cornell was outclassed athletically. Harvard has the talent to compete in the lower reaches of Group of 6 FBS schools IMO. Cornell's top receivers Musungu and Kurtz were rarely open for example. Overall I like the coaching and the overall improvement of the team but like yesterday sometimes you face a team that is just better. 

Thought the defense played really well in the 2nd half and I liked the level of pursuit they showed after getting pushed around in the 1st half.  Cornell's offense struggled to get chunk plays outside of GSB's qb runs on the touchdown drive.  I attribute the lack of success of offense to the speed of the Colgate defense-the linebackers were really good.  As to Cornell's lack of success recently-Cornell's football budget in the Ivy League is in the lower half and that is even after they added funding to the budget with Swanstrom's hire.  Coach Swanstrom has openly admitted that they cannot out recruit HYP.  His role model is Dartmouth where they bring in talent and develop it. Let's give him a couple more seasons before we pass judgement.

I don't see Vinny Freeman on the Cornell wrestling roster-did he decommit?

Call me a little uneasy about the Out of Conference schedule.  Ivy teams have always swam across the tide in basketball given lack of athletic scholarships.  Now the gap is being widened by the NIL, transfer portal, and the 5 year rule.   On the plus side one could say that they are probably getting good guarantee checks from Syracuse, St. Bonaventure, Gonzaga, and Washington. I see the women are playing UConn and Syracuse-same reasoning I guess but taking a beating on the court. Will state that the Ivies have one positive to sell to recruits-no organized summer practices.

Note the crazy lawsuit by the former SU men's lacrosse players suing for an extra year of eligibilty.

Agreed and lines up with Richard Kent's (non de plume is Rutgers) comments on the Ivy Chat basketball message board.

Check out the interview with Coach Jaques on the ESPN Ithaca podcast page.  After getting past the Knicks he makes some comments on the recruits.

I know that CJ Kirst was granted a 9th semester in order to be eligible for 2025 but might received due to COVID.  Under Cornell regs an athlete can receive additional eligibilty (Imagine that they still get only 4 playing seasons?) if they start work on an additional Bachelor's program but they get no financial aid. How did Rob Panell do it?

For the same reason that the NFL Draft does not hold my interest I will wait until these gentlemen actually take the Court to see how they turn out.  If they turn out OK let us also hope they value the education and not be tempted by the portal.  Am a bit concerned that Jacques is not recruiting at the same level that his predecessor did-time will tell.

From listening to the Dixie & Fly Inside Lacrosse podcast some of the older UVA lacrosse alums did not like Tiffany. 

Just joking here but are we dealing with a Curse here as in the curse of Henry Ciciarone the late Hopkins coach? As in: "We are never losing to Cornell again." back in 1978.  All kidding aside was surprised to see CB's comments postgame in the IL article.

That is what I thought too but in the Cornellbigred.com account they said it was his last game.  As I recall both Horseman and Cascadden were not honored on Senior Day and assumed they will be back next season.

Agreed. Hopkins deserved to win. Tully kept us in the game. They got open looks and Cornell did not.  In some ways similar to last Sunday's game in not getting possesions in 2nd half. Maybe some one who is a better analyst than me can explain what Hopkins did to deny Cornell on offense.

Faulty memory on the 1987 game I will confess.  It was great team though with Goldstein, Jones, Angotti, Cummings, etc.

Also was at game back 1987 and will never forget Tim Goldstein's shot bouncing off the post in OT.  Game of inches indeed!