Cornell Football 2019

[George64]

Early regatta on Cayuga Lake and train loading in downtown Ithaca.

[TimV]

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[TimV]

there are not a ton of die hard football fans left

I have been wondering about this since, literally, the 80s.  I can absolutely understand a large and fervent football fanbase going all the way through the 1940s when we were still beating nationally ranked B10 teams.  So let's be generous and say people up to 1939 births have some business being Cornell football fans.

And obviously there are the players themselves and their families who continue to dredge the tradition along.  And since they disproportionately go into finance and other rapey-lucrative professions they are bound to have undue influence on the university through their glory days drooling donations.

But.  We are now to the point where the youngest not-literally-blood-related fan is 80.  Those people must have been dying off like literate Republicans for the last few decades.  How the fuck are there any left to (a) care and (b) give $$, which is the sole reason the university would care?

I've been expecting the university's gaping and imbecilic maw to pivot from football to hockey since the 1990s and it still hasn't happened.  Why?  Will the Ivies need to do the obvious and drop football to D3 before we (they) see it?

So...you don't feel this any more?::bolt::

[billhoward]

Looks like Slope Day, with Fish not Phish.

[CAS]

Marist football is no powerhouse - Cornell is a 14-point favorite.  The following Saturday vs Yale will be a truer test.

[Ken711]

Marist football is no powerhouse - Cornell is a 14-point favorite.  The following Saturday vs Yale will be a truer test.

I'm counting Marist as one a win in Cornell's 3 or 4 win season, they should win this easily.

[CU2007]

Early regatta on Cayuga Lake and train loading in downtown Ithaca.

. Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

[billhoward]

We may be picked for seventh. But savor our standing before the Marist 2019 opener when you search on "cornell football." Technically it's T-1.

[Trotsky]

We may be picked for seventh. But savor our standing before the Marist 2019 opener when you search on "cornell football." Technically it's T-1.

"Match score" only shown at "full time"?

The Ivies never did shake Transatlantic English.

[Al DeFlorio]

Barely five minutes in, Penn leads sprint football by two touchdowns.  Cornell just don't do football.

26-0 late first

[Al DeFlorio]

From a Sun season preview.

"[We're] really [reinventing] the way we're doing things: We're running a different scheme on offense, we're on a different defense. The theme is going to be like a hybrid warfare approach, right? So conventional methods mixed with unconventional methods ... attacking thought processes and beliefs, while you're also attacking the weaknesses where [opponents] line up."

"I felt like my approach was 'Hey, I'm going to recruit the best players, I'm gonna develop them, I'm gonna run really sound schemes, and we're gonna beat people. And looking back on it, I don't think I gave us a good enough of a chance, schematically. And so trying to really open up the bag of tricks, if you will, and be really creative with what we're doing."

"I don't think I had enough schematic answers for us late in the season. Right, we finished in 2017, 0-3, 2018 finished 0-4. I think once we put  too much stuff on film, I didn't give our team enough of a chance. I didn't have a good curveball ... off my fastball."

Here's a paragraph from a NY Times article about Ivy League week one.  Isn't Surace saying the complete opposite of Archer's comments above?

"Bob Surace, who is in his 10th season as Princeton's coach, said that in his early years he would use the extra time during the summer to devise intricate schemes, but instead ended up overwhelming his players, as intelligent as they might be. Now, the focus is on getting his players bigger, stronger and faster."

[Trotsky]

I guess we'll see.

If we're not competing physically we need to compensate with play design.

[ugarte]

BOOOOOOOOO Columbia kills their scramble band.

[Al DeFlorio]

First possession at Yale yields a false start, an illegal formation...and no first downs.

D does well inside the five, but finds themselves there too often. 3-0 Yale

[Al DeFlorio]

88-yard schematic pass puts Cornell ahead 10-3.  Can this last?

Not for long.  Bonehead play call and awful pass result in an INT and tie game.  Sigh.