Cornell football 2017

[rss77]

Back to the Colgate game:

Colgate came in pretty banged up from their 1st 4 games playing without several starters and still beat CU.  I don't care whether you are playing Colgate or Little Sisters of the Poor-games are not won when you keep losing the turnover battle as in the 1st 3 games.  Watching from the start of the game Banks did not look crisp on his passes or handoffs.  The offensive line is not great but Banks has a tendency to hang onto to the ball rather than throw it away.  The penalties especially were absolute killers and the 15 yard sideline penalty in the 4th-that one is on the coaching staff.  Kudos to the defense though.  As for those calling for Archer's head-I think of John Fox, the former Sports Editor of the Binghamton Press, who termed the Cornell Football Head Coach position as a Coaches Graveyard.

[Johnny 5]

I was listening to the Colgate game on the radio.
Cornell's play was so disappointing/frustrating that I had to turn it off. Again.
My wife said that if it was my favorite NFL team that was losing I'd keep listening, regardless.
I said that was true. But, if it was my NFL team the difference is that they would at least try to identify the problem and do everything in their power to correct it.

::bang::

[billhoward]

Two useful posts on voy.com (the Cornell section should be oy.com):

Jeff Archer '05 - Doogie Howser, F.B. - was chosen because Cornell was tired of coaches here bailing for better jobs.

Others commenting about other Ivy programs (Columbia) say change happens when the alumni revolt. Apparently chirping on line here is not all-out revolution. It is surprising that Columbia actually has a winning team this year. It's also surprising that Cornell has manged six decades of football without a single unshared title.

Let's see what happens. Meanwhile, it is easy this year to find space to tailgate.

[Al DeFlorio]

I don't care whether you are playing Colgate or Little Sisters of the Poor...

How do we go about scheduling the Little Sisters of the Poor?

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I don't care whether you are playing Colgate or Little Sisters of the Poor...

How do we go about scheduling the Little Sisters of the Poor?

Contact the AD at Holy Cross.  He may have a contact email.

[Cop at Lynah]

The sad part of this whole saga is that the young men on the team deserve better.  They bust their asses out there but systematically they have no chance.  I have no direct affiliation with the football program, but I do remember the days when Cornell was competitive in the Ivy League.  It can be done, but it has to start at the top (AD)

[Ken711]

The sad part of this whole saga is that the young men on the team deserve better.  They bust their asses out there but systematically they have no chance.  I have no direct affiliation with the football program, but I do remember the days when Cornell was competitive in the Ivy League.  It can be done, but it has to start at the top (AD)

I agree, but it also needs buy-in above the AD as they did with Columbia's President and Trustees who control the money.

[Trotsky]

And so it begins....

http://www.voy.com/152805/163649.html

What in the actual fuck?

My money is withheld until there is a new staff in place. It doesn't matter who. They could hire an all woman staff with no experience playing football and I would donate, if that meant Archer and his group is gone.

Speaking as an old person I look forward to the day when we are all dead.

[Trotsky]

For DC viewers, the Harvard game is on at 1:30 on something called "11 Sports" (Fios 597).

[Trotsky]

According to the TV broadcasters, the Harvard QB "plays the game with his arm and legs."  That may catch on.

[Al DeFlorio]

Three false starts in first ten plays.  Another ball thrown up for grabs by Banks yields a pick.  Where's Harley Kirsch?

Add two pass interference penalties.  And a holding on a Harvard punt.  Six 1Q penalties.

First 2Q penalty:  personal foul after the play is dead.

Personal foul after play late first half negates 13-yard gain and first down at Harvard 30.  Shoot self in foot?

Two more false starts late 3Q.  Somehow 14-14 despite all this late 3Q.  Found a running game.

Now 11th penalty:  holding.  Too many men on top of that.  We can't count.

[Trotsky]

I'm sure Archer is a very nice man, but I'd never seen him in an interview before.  He IS Generic Coach Man.  His super power is jock platitudes.

[Trotsky]

Three false starts in first ten plays.  Another ball thrown up for grabs by Banks yields a pick.  Where's Harley Kirsch?

Add two pass interference penalties.  And a holding on a Harvard punt.  Six 1Q penalties.

First 2Q penalty:  personal foul after the play is dead.

Personal foul after play late first half negates 13-yard gain and first down at Harvard 30.  Shoot self in foot?

That last PF was painful. Great momentum coming off the score and stop and then to get the first down and... oofa.

[Al DeFlorio]

I'm sure Archer is a very nice man, but I'd never seen him in an interview before.  He IS Generic Coach Man.  His super power is jock platitudes.

My exact reaction.

[billhoward]

According to the TV broadcasters, the Harvard QB "plays the game with his arm and legs."  That may catch on.

I read that as a clearly phrased way of saying "dumb jock"?