Cornell lacrosse 2018

[CU2007]

Soccer team practices way out behind East Hill Plaza now. Why not build something way out there? Cheap land and kinda hidden if it's appearance is an issue for some.

[Swampy]

Soccer team practices way out behind East Hill Plaza now. Why not build something way out there? Cheap land and kinda hidden if it's appearance is an issue for some.

If Cornell owns the land already, there's zero marginal cost to acquire the land. But you're probably right, there's a shadow price reflecting the accessibility and usefulness of a spot for various uses, such as classes, libraries, etc.

The only downside I can think of for having a facility distant from the existing athletic complex has to do with the team also needing to practice outdoors. One might commit any fall practice and February to an indoor facility, but by March there will be some days to stay inside and others to go outside. Even in the fall and March, there will be a need to be outside, e.g. to prepare for upcoming outdoor games. In such situations one would like the team to have permanent lockers near wherever it's practicing and to allow the coaches to decide on the spur of the moment, depending on weather, to go indoors or outside.

[dbilmes]

Teat, Pulver and Dowiak earn first-team All-Ivy League selections.

[mike1960]

I HATE this strategy of having Teat off to the side and playing five on five. Teat should work and get the ball and score. He should rise the to the challenge.

[Al DeFlorio]

I HATE this strategy of having Teat off to the side and playing five on five. Teat should work and get the ball and score. He should rise the to the challenge.

We just look impotent with Teat sealed off.  With a week to prepare, we look completely unprepared.

[mike1960]

I HATE this strategy of having Teat off to the side and playing five on five. Teat should work and get the ball and score. He should rise the to the challenge.

We just look impotent with Teat sealed off.  With a week to prepare, we look completely unprepared.

Good heavens, have our great middies drive the alley and make Teat's man slide.

[Al DeFlorio]

Cornell tentative, unsettled on the clear.  Not playing with confidence at all.  Playing scared.

[mike1960]

Kevin Reisman seems to have helped Luca Tria at face off. Christian has been really good. Overall the defense has played mistake-free, aggressive defense. FINALLY, Teat gets the ball, is immediately doubled, so someone is wide open. That's a recipe for goals, esp. with Teat's passing skills.

[Al DeFlorio]

Kevin Reisman seems to have helped Luca Tria at face off. Christian has been really good. Overall the defense has played mistake-free, aggressive defense. FINALLY, Teat gets the ball, is immediately doubled, so someone is wide open. That's a recipe for goals, esp. with Teat's passing skills.

But if he gets the ball only twice a half...

[mike1960]

Kevin Reisman seems to have helped Luca Tria at face off. Christian has been really good. Overall the defense has played mistake-free, aggressive defense. FINALLY, Teat gets the ball, is immediately doubled, so someone is wide open. That's a recipe for goals, esp. with Teat's passing skills.

But if he gets the ball only twice a half...

Let him pick up the ball off the end lines. Set hard off-ball picks for him. A face guard can't see the off-ball picks. As I typed before, have big Connor Fletcher drive the alley in his direction and force his man to slide. There are many ways. Most important, in my view, challenge him to be the best player on the field.

[Al DeFlorio]

Clearing mistake again, 5-2.

[djk26]

Congratulations to Yale, your 2018 Ivy League men's lacrosse tournament champions.

[billhoward]

Fabulous neutral location. Nice all-Cornell pre-game $10 tailgate (not announced until midday Thursday - we knew we were playing at Columbia in 8:30 game 10 days earlier). Great weather around 80 at gametime.

As for the game: Teat was faceguarded all game by Brown's #91, Michael Brown (like Teat a sophomore, so this could be repeated). Nobody in the stands could figure out why Teat didn't just break free, or at least be the guy inbounding the ball, or something. Maybe Cornell figure its offense could beat brown 5x5 as opposed to 6x6.

Brown outshot Cornell 42-32. Christian Knight was really good in goal, 19 saves (82%). Not on the scoresheet is how many loose ball pushes were called against Cornell and how many other close calls went Brown's way including penalties against Cornell. Brown was 2x3 on EMO, Cornell 0x1.

The score should have been 9-3, or 9-2 if you believe one of the penalties against Cornell was bogus. Brown scored an essentially empty-net goal when Knight, away from the cage, made a bad clearing pass. Cornell missed a Q4 point blank shot on a nice feed from Teat which if went would have given him 1G, 3A. The score also could have been Brown 8, Cornell 7 if Knight didn't come through.

If Belichick was coaching (the game was a Robert Kraft Stadium), there would have been more significant halftime adjustments.

Yale blew out Penn 21-6 in the first game, allowing only two second half goals. Cornell has its work cut out.

[mike1960]

Brown outshot Cornell 42-32. Christian Knight was really good in goal, 19 saves (82%). Not on the scoresheet is how many loose ball pushes were called against Cornell and how many other close calls went Brown's way including penalties against Cornell. Brown was 2x3 on EMO, Cornell 0x1.

Watching the tv broadcast, I saw a few close/questionable calls on out-of-bounds plays (one closer to the line/out of bounds call was very questionable) and maybe a couple of calls/non-calls during loose ball scrums. But the egregious call was the personal foul, illegal body check, 1 minute non-releasable against Cornell. That was not an illegal body check.

Speaking of out of bounds, that reminds me of those two hustle plays by Bobby Knight getting to the end line for possession. Great great plays.

[RichH]

After I read the nine in-game posts from May 4 in this thread, I assumed we lost.