Nice Tambroni article from Baltimore Sun

[TimV]

Here

[ugarte]

Here

A nice Tambroni article? Why do I want to read a nice Tambroni article!? [/fake rage]

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

While the picture of him in a Cornell jacket and hat is nice, he's not ours anymore.

[phillysportsfan]

Yeah while I appreciate everything he did here, I cant root for Penn State to do well at anything. He could compete for national championships here and did, I accepted Donahue leaving because he left for a program where he could have a reasonable shot at national championships

[TimV]

I have all the same feelings and I don't want to admit it. In the darkest corners of my heart I hope he sinks like a stone.  In spite of the talk about blue collar grinders, hard hat/lunchbox/family blah blah blah the tone is still that he'll create another Syracuse or UVa loaded with blue-chip Baltimore area recruits. He never did that well with Central NY recruits, but maybe the lower academic threshold in Happy Valley will change that. There's a lot of enthusiasm on the Penn State Laxpowerthread, but regardless, I find it hard to believe he'll have the same alumni, university (other than financial ) and "Family" support he had for his program here.  It's still all about the Benjamins.  Not you, Coach DeLuca.

Hillel-  what do you think?

[phillysportsfan]

http://bwi.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1189418
All Penn State cares about is football, nothing else. The above link proves it, they kicked their basketball team out of their gym and practice facility to let Bon Jovi practice there. The basketball team then had to go to a volleyball court which they converted to use for basketball by putting up some crooked rims

Yeah I agree it is just another case of the big time school throwing money at sports, Penn State also got that $100 million donation earlier this year to start a DI hockey program, I hope they fail.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

As the son and nephew of Penn State alumni, and a 46 year resident of PA (all but the 4 years spent in Ithaca), I do like to see their teams succeed.  

But I do not want to see their teams become better than, or God forbid beat, Cornell.  My loyalty only goes so far.

[srg1]

Penn State made a big time hire with their wrestling coach and they did the same for men's lacrosse.  They have yet to ante up for a top men's basketball coach.  Football is in a period of transition with Paterno on his way out combined with them jacking up the cost to subscribe to football season tickets.

As for hockey, I think they were short sighted when they built that arena in the 90s without the ability to host a hockey team.  They needed the donation to make up for that decision.

Tambroni has to do what is best for him and his family.  I wish him the best of luck.

[Redscore]

We all have to do what's best for our family and for ourselves. That goes without saying.  Its the way we do it that determines how we are thought of by others and how we think of ourselves. If Tambroni can look in the mirror and feel that he did the right thing, nothing else should matter.   However, we are also all within our rights to have an opinion on his decision to leave and to state that opinion.  We will never know all the reasons or facts behind the decision, which is the case in most such cases, but we are still entitled to our opinion given the facts as we know them. I readily accept the fact that I don't have all the facts but I also know that given what I know, I won't root for Penn State lacrosse and don't care for Cornell to schedule them or go out of our way to play them. I thought he was a terrific coach and I was proud to have him at Cornell but that's all in the past.

[ugarte]

Penn State made a big time hire with their wrestling coach and they did the same for men's lacrosse.  They have yet to ante up for a top men's basketball coach.  Football is in a period of transition with Paterno on his way out combined with them jacking up the cost to subscribe to football season tickets.

As for hockey, I think they were short sighted when they built that arena in the 90s without the ability to host a hockey team.  They needed the donation to make up for that decision.

Tambroni has to do what is best for him and his family.  I wish him the best of luck.

I don't want to give the impression that I wish Tambroni ill (except to the extent that he beats/does better than Cornell). I just don't much care about him either way any more. It's not like the guy is an alum. He came to Cornell, coached, left. I feel differently about Donahue for the same reason philly does; ACC basketball is a step up from the Ivy League. Going from Cornell to Penn State in lax is a raise not a promotion. More power to him - I'd probably make the same decision - but that doesn't mean I'm going to follow his career.

As for Penn State hiring a big time basketball coach... I'd bet they couldn't hire a big-time basketball coach's top assistant for what they are paying Sanderson or Tambroni. The pay scale is much different. Boston College got Donahue for just shy of a million and he wasn't a "big-time" hire.

[Redscore]

A lot of the points mentioned in the article and attributed to Tambroni were actually Cornell Lacrosse differentiators even before Tambroni got here. That whole family atmosphere at games existed in spades under Richie and excuse me, Cornell did not become a power UNDER Tambroni. While it is absolutely true that we reemerged under Tambroni, Coaches such as, do I really need to name them? created a tradition abd culture that was unbelievably powerful.  Tambroni was an all star coach, the greatest possible, during the Boiardi tragedy but the roots for the reaction to that tragedy  were sowed over many many years. Tambroni, an admittedly terrific coach, was matched up with players, families and a support system that had been carefully nurtured by many terrific people associated with Cornell Lacrosse over the years.   I think that's the crap part of the article. It can't be assumed that Tambroni did everything to bring Cornell to the top and can just do it again at Penn State, and that is what the article is all about.  Oh well, time for me to move on...

[TimV]

Very well said.::rock::