2008 lacrosse season

[Al DeFlorio]

Inside Lacrosse's preview of the 2008 Cornell team is here: http://www.insidelacrosse.com/page.cfm?pagerid=2&news=fdetail&storyid=179337

Videos include snippets from last fall's scrimmages and Seibald's stick-check leading to the winning goal against Albany.  Pretty good stuff.

Don't forget next week's scrimmage against Hopkins at Schoellkopf next Saturday at 1pm.  Anyone see or read anything about yesterday's scrimmage at Loyola?

[RichH]

Great preview in the sense that it really got that part of my brain activated, and now I'm all fired up for that season as well.

My heart did skip a beat when I saw the caption that calls Max Seibald a Senior.  Checked the CU roster to be sure...he's a Junior, folks.  And the fact that Seibald, Glynn, and Romero are all returning just gives me a very warm feeling.  And I like what Max said about Kyle Doctor.  The "Scouting Report" section is also a great read.

I think the healing is complete from last May for me.  I anxiously await Hillel's usual preview.  This may have made my decision to take the boat ride to Long Island in 2 weeks.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote RichH]This may have made my decision to take the boat ride to Long Island in 2 weeks.[/quote]
That'll be a tough opener.  Not only is Navy usually very competitive, but they'll have had two games under their belt--a 10-2 win over a [weak] VMI team yesterday followed by Ohio State next Saturday.

[billhoward]

I talked with Hillel Hoffman Saturday and he mentioned the scrimmage briefly, but he was tied up in setting up the Cornell Club of Philadelphia 100th annviversary party. We spent more time talking about how impressive is Phil's new mayor, Michael Nutter, a Penn guy with 3 Cornellians on staff, who spoke at the CC Philadelphia event. The city has come a long way from Frank Rizzo.

Hillel, we need your insights.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote billhoward]We spent more time talking about how impressive is Phil's new mayor, Michael Nutter, a Penn guy with 3 Cornellians on staff, who spoke at the CC Philadelphia event. The city has come a long way from Frank Rizzo. [/quote]
And the guy who had the police drop a bomb on a house somewhere in the city.::doh::  Nutter won 86% of the vote to become mayor.

[Al DeFlorio]

More from Inside Lacrosse:

http://www.insidelacrosse.com/page.cfm?pagerid=65840&cat=67360&hidecontent=yes&id=179618

http://insidelacrosse.com/page.cfm?pagerid=2&news=fdetail&storyid=179620

http://www.insidelacrosse.com/page.cfm?pagerid=2&news=fdetail&storyid=178928

http://www.insidelacrosse.com/page.cfm?pagerid=2&news=fdetail&storyid=178480

Note that the preseason scrimmage schedule listed here ( http://insidelacrosse.com/page.cfm?pagerid=2&news=fdetail&storyid=177660 ) has Cornell scrimmaging at Hopkins next Saturday, whereas the cornellbigred.com schedule shows the game being at Schoellkopf.

[Luke 05]

Anybody know any of the details about the game in Dallas? Some places say SMU(t) while others have Highland Park HS.

[MOBalum]

Are those scrimmages or actual games?  I ask because baseball games are not allowed to start yet - seems like weather rules should be applied to all outdoor spring sports, no?

[Al DeFlorio]

I think they've clearly been called "scrimmages" in every posting.  Scrimmages are sometimes played in "game" format and sometimes not.  I suspect the one with Hopkins will look in most ways like a "game," but it will not count in the season's record.

[KeithK]

Presumably the coaches will play the scrimmage differently than they would a game that counts (more playing time to underclassmen or marginal guys, for instance) even if they don't do something goofy like alternating man up opportunities.

For a few years the Ivies played scrimmages in hockey.  Wonder why that ended.

[MOBalum]

Thanks very much.

[Al DeFlorio]

I hope this doesn't mean goofy-looking uniforms: http://www.insidelacrosse.com/page.cfm?pagerid=2&news=fdetail&storyid=179740

[Chris '03]

[quote KeithK]

For a few years the Ivies played scrimmages in hockey.  Wonder why that ended.[/quote]

I think the New England schools still do.

[billhoward]

I'm still not a fan of the black shadow around the white uniform lettering. How the jerseys look is probably more important to the players and the undergraduate fans. Don't see how STX could mess that up.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote billhoward]I'm still not a fan of the black shadow around the white uniform lettering. How the jerseys look is probably more important to the players and the undergraduate fans. Don't see how STX could mess that up.[/quote]
Wouldn't be hard, Bill.  Weird fonts.  Slanted numbers a la many Hockey East unis.  Even the Celtics have screwed their unis up.

I still don't see why we can't wear red and white, without black or navy trim.  Hockey does it.  What's the problem?