Cornell worst game of the decade

[RichH]

My worst experience watching us get defeated by Penn was in 2007, because the game was a blowout, it was freezing cold, and I had dragged someone there (a fellow Ivy alum) who didn't think much of Ivy football and spent much of the game complaining how awful it was.

Why would you DO that to someone?  :-O

You realize who you're talking to, right?

[Hillel Hoffmann]

Here's my take: I was pissed after the OSU loss, but devastated after SU.

I hear you. But for some reason I got over the SU loss pretty quickly. Maybe it was Seibald's statement at the press conference (mensch moment of the decade?). Whereas the OSU loss still pisses me off a year and a half later.

[Hillel Hoffmann]

So I vote for the 2008 Ohio State loss. It had all the ingredients to be the worst of any decade. A monster blowout. To an underdog team. At home. In the NCAA playoffs. Shit, it even had a painful signature play -- the coast-to-coast goal by their goalie -- that people still talk about and keeps getting replayed. That's hard to top.

Was that also the year that we hosted a regional at Schoellkopf and all the infrastructure broke down?

No, that was much earlier... pretty sure it was 2004.

Fred's right. The year the foodfrastructure kacked was 2004, when Cornell hosted the quarterfinals (including the Navy-Cornell game). That's a good example of a tough loss that wasn't that traumatic. Kept it close against a superior team.