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Cornell soccer takes a 1-0 loss to Vermont in the first game of the season. Cornell looked really good in the second half generating a lot of offensive chances but were shut down by the Vermont keeper. The only goal of the game was an unlucky deflection off of our defender but later in the game we had numerous dangerous tackles in our own box that easily could have been called. Definitely not the result you want to see but overall I would call it and encouraging performance. Next is New Hampshire on Monday, if we get a win there I would certainly be satisfied with this road trip, splitting against 2 ranked teams.

Quote from: upprdeckthats why i ask because you need to apply filler to maintain the fields. I dont know how you tell if its matted down.. I mean have you been on other well maintained turf fields to compare how much of the grass is above the fill line?

yes

Quote from: upprdeckthey just replaced the turf in 2016.  

How are you able to tell its a mess?  Maybe they just havent dont the maintenance lately on it to sweep in the materials?

nah it's just very matted down and when you look at any lacrosse or football highlights it is eye catchingly ugly with various dark and light patches

I was at schoellkopf today and the steps and structure of the stadium is literally falling apart all over the place and the turf is pretty terrible at this point. Does anyone know if there is a plan to fix up the stands or put in new turf any time soon?

Ryan Walsh to Boston with the 28th pick of the 6th round

Stanley to Ottawa with the 12th pick in the 4th round

Castagna taken by the coyotes with the 6th pick of the 3rd round

Adler first overall in PLL draft

Huge, I'll be there

Huge win. Thanks to everyone there who gave us updates!

Quote from: Anne 85This is Trotsky.  I cou"d be wrong but I do not  think we are in.  I think if St. Cloud loses we're out.  3 dark horses already in (AH, ECAC, CCHA).  CC wins and we're dead.  Prove me wrong.  Please.

Minn state won the CCHA and is ahead of us in the pairwise. We're in.

I want denver over mich. Go St. Cloud.

So we'll get Michigan first round, correct?

BU looking good, many more chances and has hit 2 posts.

Quote from: BearLoverIt's getting pretty tiring repeatedly going up against a far more talented Harvard team. Unless Cornell figures out a way to compete with Harvard in recruiting, Harvard beating Cornell and winning ECAC championships will continue to be the norm.

Looking at their roster, Harvard recruits heavily from Massachusetts prep schools. Cornell can't really compete with them there. Harvard also recruits a few players each year from the US National Team Development Program. Again, Cornell seems to be uncompetitive for these players. We have historically ended up with a few of these players, such as Bardreau, Bliss, Tschantz, and Fiegl, but these recruits were all basically depth guys on the Under 17/Under 18 teams and I don't think we've had a single recruit from the USNTDP since 2014.

It would be great if Cornell could shore up the above weaknesses by winning recruiting battles in upstate NY, and indeed we have gotten some good players from there and continue to (eg. Ryan Walsh, who is among the USHL scoring leaders and should be coming next year). But even still, a lot of those guys end up at schools like BU.

I'd be curious to know if the coaching staff has any sort of answer for Harvard's recruiting dominance. Our future recruiting looks good, but not Harvard levels of good. What's the plan?

Cornell doesn't want high nhl draft picks that leave after 2 years and force a constant cycle of recruiting. We want solid, 4-year players that can be a part of a cohesive team, not stars.