Cornell Football 2016

[KeithK]

Meant no offense Keith.  Was just showing how negative the media is re our football prospects this season, in year 4 of the Archer era (5-25 to date).

No offense taken and if I could actually type there would have been a smiley :-P at the end of my last post instead of a random trailing "P".

[billhoward]

Don't see any obvious W's among the four Cornell games that are televised. Although Brown without Dylan Molloy's supporting cast may not be very - um, wrong sport. http://www.cornellbigred.com/news/2016/8/11/football-to-play-four-nationally-televised-games-in-2016.aspx

Oct 8   At Harvard
Oct 22    At Brown
Oct 29   Princeton
Nov 19  Penn

[ugarte]

Don't see any obvious W's among the four Cornell games that are televised. Although Brown without Dylan Molloy's supporting cast may not be very - um, wrong sport. http://www.cornellbigred.com/news/2016/8/11/football-to-play-four-nationally-televised-games-in-2016.aspx

Oct 8   At Harvard
Oct 22    At Brown
Oct 29   Princeton
Nov 19  Penn

FYP

[billhoward]

Cynic. We have Columbia's number: the last 3, 4 of the last 5. Should have been 5 of 6 because how in 2010 could Cornell allow Columbia to score 17 unanswered fourth-quarter points and win by 3 (below). Not as sad as Syracuse lacrosse the year before.

[Ken711]

Cynic. We have Columbia's number: the last 3, 4 of the last 5. Should have been 5 of 6 because how in 2010 could Cornell allow Columbia to score 17 unanswered fourth-quarter points and win by 3 (below). Not as sad as Syracuse lacrosse the year before.

With Bagnoli as coach and with the transfers/recruits he's bringing in, those days of an automatic win for Cornell are I'm afraid going to be over. ::worry::

[CAS]

We had a total of 150 yards of total offense in our 3-0 win over Columbia last year, our lone victory of 2015. Agee with Ken - with Bagnoli & Columbia's recent institutional support for football, this too should be a difficult game for the Red.

[ugarte]

Cynic.

I'm just saying it isn't obvious.

[CAS]

Cornell football's last win over a team other than Columbia was Nov. 23, 2013.

[Ken711]

Cornell football's last win over a team other than Columbia was Nov. 23, 2013.

Yikes.

[CU2007]

http://cornellsun.com/2016/09/22/students-cornell-athletics-respond-to-culturally-insensitive-football-coach-tweet/

What planet am I on? How is this offensive to anyone? It's a hat.

[underskill]

BS complaints like that is why Trump is about to become president

[billhoward]

http://cornellsun.com/2016/09/22/students-cornell-athletics-respond-to-culturally-insensitive-football-coach-tweet/

What planet am I on? How is this offensive to anyone? It's a hat.

Easy. It's considered, by some, to be cultural appropriation, or one culture taking elements of another culture, especially from an emerging culture. So if you bring back a sombrero souvenir from Senor Frog, you might be criticized for wearing it when you return from Cancun. Wearing lederhosen might be appropriating from the German culture, although unless you are tall and not husky, looking silly is punishment enough.

You may think this is all BS and you would not be alone. But it's important to at least understand there can be this kind of conflict on campus that didn't exist a generation ago.

[KeithK]

http://cornellsun.com/2016/09/22/students-cornell-athletics-respond-to-culturally-insensitive-football-coach-tweet/

What planet am I on? How is this offensive to anyone? It's a hat.

Easy. It's considered, by some, to be cultural appropriation, or one culture taking elements of another culture, especially from an emerging culture. So if you bring back a sombrero souvenir from Senor Frog, you might be criticized for wearing it when you return from Cancun. Wearing lederhosen might be appropriating from the German culture, although unless you are tall and not husky, looking silly is punishment enough.

You may think this is all BS and you would not be alone. But it's important to at least understand there can be this kind of conflict on campus that didn't exist a generation ago.

You are right that this conflict didn't exist on campus a generation ago.  But that has nothing to do with whether ir is legitimate or not.

This whole "cultural appropriation" thing is ridiculous.  People that complain that a dining hall serves tacos or someone wears lederhosen or whatever should be ridiculed. The article paraphrases the MEChA rep syaing "continuous desensitization across college campus to different cultures".  That's a good thing.  People shouldn't be so goddamn sensitive about stupid things. This isn't a case of negative stereotyping. There are plenty of things in the world worth worrying about - we shouldn't be inventing new ones.

Just to go over the top here, complaining about cultural appropriation is un-American.  Our whole culture is based on appropriating things from other cultures.  The melting pot thing, you know?

[shasta1]

The athletic department was criticized a few years back regarding a Cinco de Mayo event.  I don't remember all the details but Jeff Hall took the blame instead of the Athletic Director who ultimately signs off on everything going on.

[shasta1]

Found it
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/10/08/cornell-called-racist-apologizes-for-tacos-and-sombreros-pep-rally-theme-84880