Cornell football 2018

[Ken711]

From the Cornell Sun article:

As the interview drew to a close, The Sun brought up how the Ivy League is the only Football Championship Subdivision Division I conference in which there is no postseason play and whose champion must decline its automatic bid into the NCAA playoffs. The feeling among Ivy league head coaches like Cornell's David Archer '05 is that the annual push from the coaches to permit the champion to accept the bid is "dead on arrival" when it reaches the presidents' desks.

Pollack said that she has never been presented with the proposition, but she was worried that it would mean Cornell would have to play against No.1 ranked Alabama. (A hypothetical change would have the Ivy champion competing with the FCS' best, the likes of North Dakota State. Alabama, who competes in the Southeastern Conference, is the current No. 1 ranked team in the Football Bowl Subdivision.)

"I watch our Cornell team, and I think they're great fun to watch, but then I think of Alabama and I'm worried what playing them will mean for our players' mental health," she quipped.

If that quote doesn't tell you how little the administration knows and cares about Cornell football, nothing will.

"Mental health of playing Alabama?"  ::screwy::  

How about Cornell first hires a new football coach that can actually win more than 1/3rd of its games (head coach David Archer overall record .254 in 6 years). Then we can worry about post-season play, lol.  Cornell last had a winning record in 2005, and a share of an Ivy Championship in 1990!

FYP

That's true.  Cornell has NEVER won the Ivy Championship outright, only shared it in 1971, 1988 and 1990.

[CAS]

In the words of Jim Mora - Playoffs!  Don't talk about playoffs!  You kidding me?

[CAS]

Cornell is a a 5-pt underdog at Columbia this Saturday.  If Cornell loses, we would have the same record in Dave Archer's 6th yr as we had in his 1st - 3-7 overall & 2-5 in the Ivies, for a 7th place Ivy finish.

[Scersk '97]

Cornell is a a 5-pt underdog at Columbia this Saturday.  If Cornell loses, we would have the same record in Dave Archer's 6th yr as we had in his 1st - 3-7 overall & 2-5 in the Ivies, for a 7th place Ivy finish.

Well, you can't fault Archer's consistency!

[Trotsky]

Cornell is a a 5-pt underdog at Columbia this Saturday.  If Cornell loses, we would have the same record in Dave Archer's 6th yr as we had in his 1st - 3-7 overall & 2-5 in the Ivies, for a 7th place Ivy finish.

Well, you can't fault Archer's consistency!

[arugula]

Vis a vis the potential trauma to the player's psyches (not to mention bodies) of an Alabama game, I was lucky enough to attend the big game in 1991 between Cornell and Stanford at Stanford Stadium.  The Presidents had the idea of a game to celebrate the schools' concurrent 125th and 100th anniversaries, if memory serves.  No concern of the mental health damage that future NFL'ers Bob Whitfield, Touchdown Tommy Vardell, and Glyn Milburn would do on the Red.  Final score: 56-6 bad guys.  Most memorable moments: Cornell setting up in touch football formations at the end of the game in a successful attempt at scoring and Cornell fans carrying around a bed sheet which read:  "OK, now let's try hockey" or some such.

[ugarte]

Vis a vis the potential trauma to the player's psyches (not to mention bodies) of an Alabama game, I was lucky enough to attend the big game in 1991 between Cornell and Stanford at Stanford Stadium.  The Presidents had the idea of a game to celebrate the schools' concurrent 125th and 100th anniversaries, if memory serves.  No concern of the mental health damage that future NFL'ers Bob Whitfield, Touchdown Tommy Vardell, and Glyn Milburn would do on the Red.  Final score: 56-6 bad guys.  Most memorable moments: Cornell setting up in touch football formations at the end of the game in a successful attempt at scoring and Cornell fans carrying around a bed sheet which read:  "OK, now let's try hockey" or some such.

Stanford put the starters back in for a goal-line stand but failed. SUCK IT STANFORD

SI covered the game but doesn't have this anecdote and my minimal searching is done.

[billhoward]

Cornell is #1 in strength of schedule among FCS schools.

Would fall considerably if, like the other Ivies, it played against Cornell.

[Scersk '97]

Indeed, Archer's never seemed to be able to get the team to come together. And after this many years at it, I'm just exhausted.

[Ken711]

Indeed, Archer's never seemed to be able to get the team to come together. And after this many years at it, I'm just exhausted.

Exactly, he's got a team with a lot of seniors playing which should have developed and produced by now,  It's time to move on for sure. How can you recruit for players by them selling a head coach with a .254 winning percentage after 6 years.  Andy needs to let Archer go after Saturday's game.

[Trotsky]

Hire the best assistant coach on the most successful Ivy team.

[Chris H82]

I went to that Stanford game - we all went nuts when we got a first down.  But my best memory is when the Stanford Tree (mascot) came out on the field, the Cornell crowd (not a small group) stood up and, in the best Lynah tradition, started pointing and chanting "What the F#$% is that? What the F#$% is that?...".  Made me proud to be a Cornell grad.

[Trotsky]

Cornell at Columbia is on SNY today.

[CAS]

Painful to watch so far

[scoop85]

And, we miss a 23 yd fg after having another blocked.