Cornell lacrosse 2018

[djk26]

Congrats to PM on a well-deserved appointment.

I agree, very happy to see this.

Item #1 of the off-season to-do list can be crossed off.

#1 Sign coach Milliman.

#2 Figure out how to combat SOT. ("Shut off Teat" )

I fear that #2 will prove significantly harder than #1.  ::help::

[ugarte]

Congrats to PM on a well-deserved appointment.

I agree, very happy to see this.

Item #1 of the off-season to-do list can be crossed off.

#1 Sign coach Milliman.

#2 Figure out how to combat SOT. ("Shut off Teat" )

I fear that #2 will prove significantly harder than #1.  ::help::

3. FOGO FOGO FOGO

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Congrats to PM on a well-deserved appointment.

I agree, very happy to see this.

Item #1 of the off-season to-do list can be crossed off.

#1 Sign coach Milliman.

#2 Figure out how to combat SOT. ("Shut off Teat" )

I fear that #2 will prove significantly harder than #1.  ::help::

3. FOGO FOGO FOGO

+1

[djk26]

I agree that FOGO is a huge need for this team, but I heard they have a good one coming next year and a REALLY good one coming the year after that.  Still, that's a freshman next year, so let's hope they can find/develop some face-off specialists who are already on the team.

[Swampy]

I agree that FOGO is a huge need for this team, but I heard they have a good one coming next year and a REALLY good one coming the year after that.  Still, that's a freshman next year, so let's hope they can find/develop some face-off specialists who are already on the team.

Ras will be a junior next year, and he was doing a good job (winning over 50%) until he was injured. Then Luca Tria filled in and was pretty decent for someone learning to faceoff at this level. So with the 3 of them we should be better next year.

[Iceberg]

Yale is making Albany look like a pee-wee team so far. Never any guarantees of anything apparently, even close games.

[billhoward]

Yale opens up with game's first 7 goals against 1st team AA goalie JD Colarusso (0 saves, then pulled, comes back later). They looked very solid. Final, 20-11.


Albany fans looked happy to be there. Several held nicely printed singns Now is Our Time but there was a credit line below, Campaign for University of Albany. I thought fundraising was supposed to be low-key.

[edit add] Duke builds up an early lead and then wins 13-8. Maryland usually saves this kind of fold-up for the final game. They didn't feel like a team-of-the-decade #1 seed last week against us.

I was rooting by a small margin for Yale over Albany. Now, for sure Yale over Duke.

[mike1960]

Go Ivy.

[djk26]

Ugh.  A Yale-Duke final.  Of course I will root against Duke, but it would not be much fun to have to see YALE go all the way in my two favorite college sports within the space of a few years.

[Trotsky]

Ugh.  A Yale-Duke final.  Of course I will root against Duke, but it would not be much fun to have to see YALE go all the way in my two favorite college sports within the space of a few years.

Better Yale than Harvard.  Better Harvard than nuclear annihilation.  Better nuclear annihilation than Duke.

[billhoward]

"The unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible."

[mike1960]

Dammit I wish it was Cornell playing those Yale bulldogs today.

[billhoward]

Good early lead for Yale, Duke never leads. Tight at the end.

Ivy NCAA titles:
6  Princeton
3  Cornell
1  Yale

Yale's only losses this year: to Villanova and Bucknell in OT, and to Cornell in the Ivy title game 14-8. The closest it came to losing otherwise was two-goal wins over Cornell and UMass.

Better anyone than Duke.

[billhoward]

Ben Reeves grew up in Greece NY, Rochester suburb, loved Syracuse, was planning to go Hobart. Hobart? And now he's headed to med school? How'd Cornell miss this guy? (He would have committed fall 2013 / spring 2014, or just after Ben DeLuca got the ax.)

[billhoward]

Cornell started the season unranked, unheralded and Jeff Teat's freshman season was honored less than that of Princeton attackman Michael Sowers (3rd team AA vs. 2nd team). Opening with a 14-11 loss to Colgate and that (or to Princeton late) probably cost us home-field advantage, a top-eight seed, and a different path through the playoffs. A solid 11-9 loss to Albany in the third game (that Cornell led in the fourth), and two games later an equally solid 13-11 loss to Yale. Then game six and a 20-13 romp over Penn, the first of three straight 20-goal games. Then wins over Harvard and Syracuse.

The amazing romp over Yale 14-18 in the Ivy tournament game, a squeaker over Syracuse in the NCAAs and a winnable game we lost to Maryland. Huge turnaround from 5-8 to 13-5 season. LGR!