Lax, football, & hoops

[CAS]

Lax is now 0-5, with 4 blowout losses.  Football went 2-5 in the Ivies, & has won a total of 6 league games in 4 years.  Basketball, trying to rebuild after Bill Courtney lost 2/3 of his games during his 6-year tenure, went 4-10 in the Ivies. Sad.  How did we get to this position?  Discuss amongst yourselves.

[Ken711]

Lax is now 0-5, with 4 blowout losses.  Football went 2-5 in the Ivies, & has won a total of 6 league games in 4 years.  Basketball, trying to rebuild after Bill Courtney lost 2/3 of his games during his 6-year tenure, went 4-10 in the Ivies. Sad.  How did we get to this position?  Discuss amongst yourselves.

Lack of commitment and support from the President to the Trustees is a good starting point.  Poor choices in head coaches is next. Let's see if they can build that indoor practice facility once the new President takes office.  That would go a long ways to showing whether they care about those varsity sports as it would be a huge step.

[Jim Hyla]

Lax is now 0-5, with 4 blowout losses.  Football went 2-5 in the Ivies, & has won a total of 6 league games in 4 years.  Basketball, trying to rebuild after Bill Courtney lost 2/3 of his games during his 6-year tenure, went 4-10 in the Ivies. Sad.  How did we get to this position?  Discuss amongst yourselves.

Lack of commitment and support from the President to the Trustees is a good starting point.  Poor choices in head coaches is next. Let's see if they can build that indoor practice facility once the new President takes office.  That would go a long ways to showing whether they care about those varsity sports as it would be a huge step.

Aside from the indoor facility, what is the lack of support that you see.

[Ken711]

Lax is now 0-5, with 4 blowoUp until this coming season, thanks to the Football Association, the players/families were charged for their Nike football gear package (socks, under pad gear, training gear, etc.), albeit at a reduced rate, but how many divsion 1 programs charge the players/families for their training gear?ut losses.  Football went 2-5 in the Ivies, & has won a total of 6 league games in 4 years.  Basketball, trying to rebuild after Bill Courtney lost 2/3 of his games during his 6-year tenure, went 4-10 in the Ivies. Sad.  How did we get to this position?  Discuss amongst yourselves.

Lack of commitment and support from the President to the Trustees is a good starting point.  Poor choices in head coaches is next. Let's see if they can build that indoor practice facility once the new President takes office.  That would go a long ways to showing whether they care about those varsity sports as it would be a huge step.

Aside from the indoor facility, what is the lack of support that you see.

Some examples of lack of funding:

Cornell has only been able to afford 8 assistant football coaches on their staff over the last 7 years, while every other Ivy school has 9 assistant coaches on their staffs.

Up until this coming season, thanks to the Football Association, the players/families were charged for their Nike football gear package (socks, under pad gear, training gear, etc.), albeit at a reduced rate, but how many divsion 1 programs charge the players/families for their training gear?

[CAS]

Archer has publicly complained about inadequate athletic department support.

[upprdeck]

We seemed to find the way to spend billions on a ny tech campus thats way over budget while poorly funding things on the main campus

[scoop85]

We seemed to find the way to spend billions on a ny tech campus thats way over budget while poorly funding things on the main campus

I wasn't aware that Tech was over budget.  Where is that information available?

[semsox]

We seemed to find the way to spend billions on a ny tech campus thats way over budget while poorly funding things on the main campus

I wasn't aware that Tech was over budget.  Where is that information available?

I would also like to know about this, granted, in the long list of things I would be upset about going over budget on, the Tech Campus would be dead last.

[CAS]

Lax has now lost 8 of its last 9 Ivy games.  Hard to believe

[upprdeck]

lax blows another late lead after playing pretty well for much of the game.

[CU77]

Dartmouth next for lax. If Cornell loses, Schoellkopf will collapse into a black hole of Red angst that swallows the earth.

[Chris '03]

Dartmouth next for lax. If Cornell loses, Schoellkopf will collapse into a black hole of Red angst that swallows the earth.

Curse of the West Stands.

[Johnny 5]

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t147/Coelacanth64/Cornell%20Athletics_4ELF.jpg

[djk26]

Johnny, while the sentiment of your post makes me sad, it's undoubtedly true, and the picture is well put together, nice work.

[Johnny 5]

Thank you a bunch.
From Ed Marinaro, Richie Moran's "dynasty", NCAA tournament b'ball to today's situation. Sad.
I understand that the primary function of an educational institution is to educate.
But, if other elite schools can be competitive athletically, I don't understand why Cornell, with such a rich athletic heritage, can't/won't.

Is it the "PRoI" effect?!

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t147/Coelacanth64/IMG_3121.jpg



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