Cornell football 2018

[ugarte]

Cornell 3, Delaware 0. Enjoy it while it lasts.

[Ken711]

Cornell 3, Delaware 0. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Now 24-3 Delaware. :-/

[billhoward]

Lots of pluses from the first game: Cornell is early on the scoreboard, finishes strong. Then there's the other 50 minutes. And the defense did keep Cornell in the game for three quarters.

There's also this news from the Cornell sports PR story:

Notes To Know
• Five Cornellians made their first career starts: LB Lance Blass, WR Garrett Cloer, TE John Fitzgerald, CB Phazione McClurge and WR Lars Pedersen.
• Seeing their first varsity action were: LB Lance Blass, OL Nick Busher, WR Devan Cross, RB Jake Derderian, DL Maxton Edgerly, LS Thomas Ferrara, RB Thomas Glover, RB Delonte Harrell, CB Michael Irons, QB Richie Kenney, S Logan Thut, DL Nathaniel Weber.
• Cornell fell to 0-2 all-time against Delaware with no future meetings on the schedule.
• The Big Red is 92-34-4 all-time on opening day, though just 6-5 in its last 11.

Are they any flagship campus football programs where we could be competitive? (What is the NYS flagship campus BTW?)

[RichH]

Well, now I know all sorts of facts about this game except one: the final score.

Our game reports sure are weird here.

Lots of pluses from the first game: Cornell is early on the scoreboard, finishes strong. Then there's the other 50 minutes. And the defense did keep Cornell in the game for three quarters.

There's also this news from the Cornell sports PR story:

Notes To Know
• Five Cornellians made their first career starts: LB Lance Blass, WR Garrett Cloer, TE John Fitzgerald, CB Phazione McClurge and WR Lars Pedersen.
• Seeing their first varsity action were: LB Lance Blass, OL Nick Busher, WR Devan Cross, RB Jake Derderian, DL Maxton Edgerly, LS Thomas Ferrara, RB Thomas Glover, RB Delonte Harrell, CB Michael Irons, QB Richie Kenney, S Logan Thut, DL Nathaniel Weber.
• Cornell fell to 0-2 all-time against Delaware with no future meetings on the schedule.
• The Big Red is 92-34-4 all-time on opening day, though just 6-5 in its last 11.

Are they any flagship campus football programs where we could be competitive? (What is the NYS flagship campus BTW?)

[Al DeFlorio]

Can't win without a quarterback who can throw downfield.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Can't win without a quarterback who can throw downfield.

On the quarterback issue, he (one of them, anyway) did throw downfield a couple times and in most cases he actually overthrew his receivers.  Tho in one case, the receiver turned around too soon, slowed down, and the ball went just beyond his fingertips.  
 
Our first drive was all tricks and screens. When Delaware caught on to that, it stalled the drive and then the rest of the offense until the last 5 minutes when the Hens had the back-ups in.  But we had a lot of passes that were not on target or were dropped.  Offensively, what I saw was a team that had two games under their belts (including an embarrassing first game loss that they wanted to "avenge" ) versus a team playing their first game who really seemed to not have their timing down.

IMO, the real weakness was our defense.  We couldn't stop the long sideline pass. That was the killer.  Delaware would just set up #7 wide left, throw the long bomb down the sideline, and we couldn't do anything to stop it.  Automatic 40 yard gain.  The defensive coaches never moved a safety over to give any support to the cornerback to prevent it.  And by the end of the game, our defense was so gassed that they started giving up the edges on the run.  Delaware could chew up yardage and run the clock and we couldn't stop them.  

I take one consolation:  last year we had five turnovers in the first half.  This year, none in the whole game.

But for me, I'm glad the series is over. I wonder who we replace them with.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

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[Swampy]

But for me, I'm glad the series is over. I wonder who we replace them with.

Probably Syracuse or Maryland. :-/

[billhoward]

Well, now I know all sorts of facts about this game except one: the final score.

I thought the subject line would be a handy place to post the final score.

[ugarte]

Well, now I know all sorts of facts about this game except one: the final score.

I thought the subject line would be a handy place to post the final score.

I don't think this is wrong exactly, but it would work better if it's a game thread rather than a branch of a season thread.

I also think Rich already knew the final score because of the Rest of the Internet.

[Trotsky]

Well, now I know all sorts of facts about this game except one: the final score.

The game score was we fucking lost.

This is going to be the game score a lot, so you may want to commit it to memory.

[RichH]

Well, now I know all sorts of facts about this game except one: the final score.

I thought the subject line would be a handy place to post the final score.

I don't think this is wrong exactly, but it would work better if it's a game thread rather than a branch of a season thread.

I also think Rich already knew the final score because of the Rest of the Internet.

2 things:

My apologies, Bill. I didn't see the score in the subject line because I don't normally ever read the subject line of every post in a thread. (Flat view forever!) Heck, I don't even read the author's name of each post because I can usually tell who wrote it based on how bad the jokes are.

Ugarte: I stand by my decision that Cornell football isn't worth opening any other site or app to deep-dive to where they buried the Ivy League scoreboard. It takes what, 30 seconds? Nah, I'm good.

[RichH]

Well, now I know all sorts of facts about this game except one: the final score.

The game score was we fucking lost.

This is going to be the game score a lot, so you may want to commit it to memory.

I just want to know how badly we lost is all.

[Trotsky]

Well, now I know all sorts of facts about this game except one: the final score.

The game score was we fucking lost.

This is going to be the game score a lot, so you may want to commit it to memory.

I just want to know how badly we lost is all.

Think of it this way.

We were embarrassed by a team that was embarrassed last year by Villanova which was embarrassed this year by Pitt which was embarrassed last year by Georgia Tech which was embarrassed last year by Duke.  And Duke sucks.

The FCS is bad.  The Ivies are bad for the FCS.  We are bad for the Ivies.

[CU2007]

Did anyone watch the game on ESPN+? Or has anyone watched any Ivy game on ESPN+ for that matter. Wondering if there was an improvement, regression, or "about the same" versus ILDN broadcasting a similar game last season.