Cornell Football 2019

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

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."

Reads like BS, and that he doesn't have a quarterback who can run a normal offense.

Reads like gibberish to me but I'm not sure I can delineate the difference between BS and double talk.  Not sure Archer can either.

Neither can Andy, apparently.

[Ken711]

In other words, teams could easily game plan for Cornell after watching a few games on film, and Cornell never had the coaching capability to install new schemes to match later season opponents. The Cornell Sun article to me reads as Archer trying anything new this season to save his job.

[billhoward]

"I have the best words ... the best people." Maybe we can be more quotable than Yale-Dartmouth-Princeton.

[ugarte]

i hate this thread so much. we haven't even played a game.

[billhoward]

i hate this thread so much. we haven't even played a game.

Whereas the scoreboard thread ...

[Swampy]

i hate this thread so much. we haven't even played a game.

Bitch, bitch, bitch. Always so negative. ::flipd:: Always pointing out the glass is half empty.

Look at the bright side. We haven't lost a game either. Two weeks into the college football season, and we're still undefeated. ::banana::::cheer::::drunk::

[ugarte]

Look at the bright side. We haven't lost a game either. Two weeks into the college football season, and we're still undefeated. ::banana::::cheer::::drunk::

that's the spirit

[Trotsky]

i hate this thread so much. we haven't even played a game.

Whereas the scoreboard thread ...

Nobody's saying the team sucks on the Scoreboard thread.

[ugarte]

i hate this thread so much. we haven't even played a game.

Whereas the scoreboard thread ...

i feel like my restraint on the scoreboard thread has been admirable

[CAS]

Would you be optimistic about the coming wrestling season if you had a head coach entering his 7th season with a 15-45 record (& no improvement in record from year 1 to year 6)?

[ugarte]

Would you be optimistic about the coming wrestling season if you had a head coach entering his 7th season with a 15-45 record (& no improvement in record from year 1 to year 6)?

i'm not optimistic about the football season but i it's exhausting to check in every day to see a new comment and every time it's the exact same complaints - the phrasing barely changes. there's never anything interesting like a roster analysis or thoughts about what could be improved. just a lot of "this should be better and yet it isn't and i'm mad" with bonus garment rending about how andy noel doesn't care about football, which is pretty unlikely.

[CAS]

That's the point.  It appears nothing is being done to improve results (re funding, staffing, facilities, player experience, game day atmosphere).  Dunno whether Andy cares, but it's indisputable that during his tenure as AD, Cornell football has turned from a winning program into an Ivy doormat.  Have you heard Andy's plan to turn things around?

[ugarte]

That's the point.  It appears nothing is being done to improve results (re funding, staffing, facilities, player experience, game day atmosphere).  Dunno whether Andy cares, but it's indisputable that during his tenure as AD, Cornell football has turned from a winning program into an Ivy doormat.  Have you heard Andy's plan to turn things around?

nope. but i've heard 400 times, like it was being submitted by a bot, that he lacks one. it's like i'm waiting for a trim in hell's barbershop.

[Ken711]

That's the point.  It appears nothing is being done to improve results (re funding, staffing, facilities, player experience, game day atmosphere).  Dunno whether Andy cares, but it's indisputable that during his tenure as AD, Cornell football has turned from a winning program into an Ivy doormat.  Have you heard Andy's plan to turn things around?

nope. but i've heard 400 times, like it was being submitted by a bot, that he lacks one. it's like i'm waiting for a trim in hell's barbershop.

Hey I predict an Ivy League Football Championship this season....10-0 Baby!!! How's that for optimistic. :-D

[Bahnstorm]

Anyone else notice that games will no longer be broadcast over the air or online with WHCU? WHCU is currently running a notice stating that despite having had the games for a decade or so they are no longer able to air them because of the ESPN contract. I wonder if this will impact hockey as well. I doubt the remaining local football supporters who rely on the radio broadcast are going to be running ESPN+ on their Zenith tv set. Quite disappointing if Cornell athletics will no longer have a free listening option.