Tough times for Cornell athletics

[CAS]

Football 1-9. Only win over Columbia. Columbia recently hired Al Bagnoli, winner of 9 Ivy titles at Penn.
Basketball 5-9 in Ivies w/senior dominated team. Winner of one third of its games in 5 years under Bill Courtney. Steve Donahue, who won 3 consecutive Ivy titles preceding Courtney's hiring, is now coaching Penn.  
Hockey 11-14.  7th in ECAC.  Bounced in 1st round of ECAC playoffs.
Lacrosse 3-2 in Ivies w/senior dominated team. On NCAA bubble.
Andy, are you out there somewhere???

[Ken711]

Don't forget the condemned West Stands at Schoellkopf Field.

[Towerroad]

Football 1-9. Only win over Columbia. Columbia recently hired Al Bagnoli, winner of 9 Ivy titles at Penn.
Basketball 5-9 in Ivies w/senior dominated team. Winner of one third of its games in 5 years under Bill Courtney. Steve Donahue, who won 3 consecutive Ivy titles preceding Courtney's hiring, is now coaching Penn.  
Hockey 11-14.  7th in ECAC.  Bounced in 1st round of ECAC playoffs.
Lacrosse 3-2 in Ivies w/senior dominated team. On NCAA bubble.
Andy, are you out there somewhere???

Yes doing self promoting puff pieces in the Cornell fund raising magazine and videos. Too busy to do that other stuff.

[CAS]

Are the West Stands really condemned?

[Ken711]

Are the West Stands really condemned?

The areas on either end are.

[CAS]

I guess Schoellkopf unfortunately is not a beneficiary of the capital campaign which has raised over $5.8 billion to date.

[CAS]

9 years since a winning season in football.  5 years since a winning season (and the Sweet Sixteen) in basketball.

[Chris '03]

9 years since a winning season in football.  5 years since a winning season (and the Sweet Sixteen) in basketball.

Sounds normal to above average in Cornell history.

[CAS]

Not always true Chris.  Jim Hofher went 33-23 in the Ivies, never finishing below 4th, coaching football from '90-'97.  Donahue's last 6 Cornell teams all had winning Ivy records.  If you accept losing, you will.

[Scersk '97]

Just to add "focus" to this discussion, I've created the chart below. (I left out basketball because it just doesn't matter.)

[Ken711]

Just to add "focus" to this discussion, I've created the chart below. (I left out basketball because it just doesn't matter.)

We are probably going to be the new Columbia after Bagnoli gets that program righted.

[Scersk '97]

Just to add "focus" to this discussion, I've created the chart below. (I left out basketball because it just doesn't matter.)

We are probably going to be the new Columbia after Bagnoli gets that program righted.

No argument here. Why did [we let?] Jim Hofher leave, again?

[Ken711]

Just to add "focus" to this discussion, I've created the chart below. (I left out basketball because it just doesn't matter.)

We are probably going to be the new Columbia after Bagnoli gets that program righted.

No argument here. Why did [we let?] Jim Hofher leave, again?

 
It was his choice.  He wanted to return to coaching at the D1 level, hoping to advance his coaching career at a higher level program.

[upprdeck]

baseball has done Ok and they are self funded

the AD has even let them run the golf course into the ground.

the question really is does the BoT care enough to ask the AD to do a good job or is it like so many other decision on the campus money driven and who cares about the service/product that results.

[CAS]

Sounds right upprdeck.  Unless the BoT and the senior Administation care, little is likely to change.