Cornell football 2018

[scoop85]

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.

It was an away non-league game, and was not on ESPN+.  I watched some of it on Delaware's Youtube channel

[Ken711]

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.

It was an away non-league game, and was not on ESPN+.  I watched some of it on Delaware's Youtube channel

Yep, I also watched it on the YouTube channel.

[billhoward]

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.

None needed. Just bank it for when I say something dumb. I could also have just appended "Delaware" so people knew this was the first game of the year and not about Cornell's prospects or reminiscing how good it was when Kevin Boothe anchored the offensive line.

[billhoward]

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

Others say we're not so bad.

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2018/8/7/17298832/ivy-league-fcs-playoffs

The Massey Composite compiles computer ratings for both the FBS and FCS levels. In 2015, the Ivy League, powered by No. 5 Harvard and No. 6 Dartmouth, graded out as the second-best FCS conference, behind only North Dakota State's Missouri Valley. In 2017, it ranked fourth.

The league has fielded at least one top-15 team in six of the last eight years, and the depth appears to be increasing quickly, too.

That trend should only continue. Per HERO Sports, Princeton signed 2018's No. 1 FCS recruiting class, and three other Ivy schools (No. 2 Yale, No. 6 Harvard, No. 14 Columbia*) ranked in the top 15. Harvard and Yale ranked in the top eight in each of the last two years, too.

Maybe you've noticed. Maybe you flipped over to NBC Sports on a Friday night to watch part of an Ivy League game or turned on the annual Harvard-Yale battle and caught yourself getting sucked in. Maybe you saw two Ivy Leaguers get selected in April's NFL draft. Or maybe you noticed Princeton beating out Alabama for a four-star quarterback. But perhaps you didn't notice. You could be forgiven.

* If true and the Lions are really big, the #1 train will be safe when players commute to practice.

[Trotsky]

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

Others say we're not so bad.

That's interesting, Bill!  I will admit it's not at all the impression I had.

I have always assumed if the Ivies ever dropped their monocle and joined the FCS playoffs our one auto bid would lose in the first round by 73 to Inbred Red State Pentecostal A&I (the Fightin' Glossolalists).

[billhoward]

I have always assumed if the Ivies ever dropped their monocle and joined the FCS playoffs our one auto bid would lose in the first round by 73 to Inbred Red State Pentecostal A&I (the Fightin' Glossolalists).

At first I was thinking of Red State as Native American. Now I got it. And in its entirety the name was pretty funny.

I was browsing small colleges recently and saw one that calls itself "selective" but the online guides note it has a 94 percent acceptance rate. The other six probably can afford but can't figure how to pull the ring on a Pabst Blue Ribbon.

[rss77]

That's why I couldn't understand all the hand wringing on this board about playing Delaware.  I daresay Colgate is pretty much on the same level as the Hens.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

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

Others say we're not so bad.

That's interesting, Bill!  I will admit it's not at all the impression I had.

I have always assumed if the Ivies ever dropped their monocle and joined the FCS playoffs our one auto bid would lose in the first round by 73 to Inbred Red State Pentecostal A&I (the Fightin' Glossolalists).

The NCAA forced them to change their name from The Racist White Mysogynists.  ::banana::

[Ken711]

Another 0-2 start to the season,  We've seen this show before.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Another 0-2 start to the season,  We've seen this show before.

At least it was competitive (unlike last week).  And Yale was the preseason #1 Ivy pick.

[scoop85]

Another 0-2 start to the season,  We've seen this show before.

At least it was competitive (unlike last week).  And Yale was the preseason #1 Ivy pick.

Some curious play calling.  And the roughing the passer call that set up Yale's clinching TD on 3rd and long was awfully shaky.

[rss77]

My observation

Cornell's defensive scheme with a lot of blitzing leaves the corners and safeties on 1 on 1 coverages and vulnerable on the pass plays.  Credit to Yale's o-line for picking up the blitzes.

[ugarte]

The roughing call is the only thing I didn't like in this game. We were supposed to get rolled and didn't. We've played two games that were supposed to be blowouts and have looked credible, even in losses. It's an improvement. I have low expectations for football so this is good to me. A win here would have been amazing, and it hurts that we came close and failed, but I'm still happy with the season so far.

Also, I think Dalton Banks is not a very good passer.

[Ken711]

The roughing call is the only thing I didn't like in this game. We were supposed to get rolled and didn't. We've played two games that were supposed to be blowouts and have looked credible, even in losses. It's an improvement. I have low expectations for football so this is good to me. A win here would have been amazing, and it hurts that we came close and failed, but I'm still happy with the season so far.

Also, I think Dalton Banks is not a very good passer.

All our QBs have regressed or made no development progress under Archer's QB position coach during his tenure.

[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.

For anyone wondering, the broadcast quality on ESPN+ was about the same as the ILDN (with maybe a few more replays?). Anyways, don't expect a significant improvement for hockey.