Cornell lacrosse 2022

[Ken711]

In OT: Princeton 21, Penn 20. Interesting stat from the game, more total shots (94) than ground balls (89).

[billhoward]

Does anyone understand the game well enough to explain why we are consistently below average to bad on face offs?

You're walking into this one:
It's the system.
Yes, the rules were tweaked to make it unlikely anyone again would approach TD Ierlan's Albany-Yale-Denver career average of 75%. Then Saturday the 2022 Bulldogs won 21 of 28: 75%.
The ultimate rule change may yet be: Other team gets the ball after a goal. It has been proposed, not sure how seriously.
Or face off as in women's lacrosse?

[CU77]

The ultimate rule change may yet be: Other team gets the ball after a goal. It has been proposed, not sure how seriously.

It was tried one year in the late 70s. I hope never to see it again.

[scoop85]

Our top FOGO, Petrakis, had been doing well, but was called for multiple violations in the PSU game. No video, so we didn't see what happened, but the sheer number of called violations was strongly indicative of a ref who was calling incidental movement as a violation, which should not be happening. (Inconsistency of ref calls on FO is a generally recognized issue in the sport.) This may have spooked Petrakis' timing. After him, Cornell's talent level at the position falls off.

I also agree with everything dag14 said (though I too am only a fan, never a player).

FWIW Petrakis was a top 15 recruit his senior year of HS, and I think the 2nd ranked HS FOGO that year. He also wrestled in HS, and I think may have been a NYS runner-up in wrestling. So it's not like we can't recruit blue chip FOGOs. Keep in mind the FOGO rules have changed the past couple of years, so someone who excelled under the old rules may not be as successful today.

That being said, like CU77 I surmise that Petrakis may have been thrown off by last week's multiple violation debacle at Penn State. He's proven he can go toe-to-toe with top guys like Sissleburger and Inacio, so we can hope he bounces back fast.

[CU77]

"Ierlan's 18 Saves, Adler's Lockdown D, Kirst's Four Goals Lead Big Red Past Yale"
https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/ierlan-s-18-saves-adler-s-lockdown-d-kirst-s-four-goals-lead-big-red-past-yale/59170

[George64]

The ultimate rule change may yet be: Other team gets the ball after a goal. It has been proposed, not sure how seriously.

It was tried one year in the late 70s. I hope never to see it again.

Why?
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[billhoward]

CU77's link to the Inside Lacrosse game story shows two Yale Men's Lacrosse tweets the and one from USA Lacrosse Mag, none from Cornell. If you search "Twitter cornell men's lacrosse" via Google, the first result is freaking Cornell College. That should not be. Maybe it's a one-day quirk, but still.

Twitter, Instagram and TikTok seem dumb to many but it's how a lot of people get their news and how HS/prep athletes track college sports programs.

Cornell's sports PR office is not overstaffed (well, nobody had to go to LP this weekend) but there are plenty of social-media savvy students who need internship credits and/or extra cash. Put them to work. They've got the bandwidth to process photos from the field or grab video clips (as Yale did).

[billhoward]

The ultimate rule change may yet be: Other team gets the ball after a goal. It has been proposed, not sure how seriously.

It was tried one year in the late 70s. I hope never to see it again.

Why?
.

And while we're at it, bring back the 1970s OT rule that it's the score after (?) 4 minutes of OT then sudden death.

[CU77]

The ultimate rule change may yet be: Other team gets the ball after a goal. It has been proposed, not sure how seriously.

It was tried one year in the late 70s. I hope never to see it again.

Why?

Because it's boring, and because the face-off is one of lax's distintive features. We don't need to make every game a basketball clone.

[CU77]

CU77's link to the Inside Lacrosse game story shows two Yale Men's Lacrosse tweets the and one from USA Lacrosse Mag, none from Cornell. If you search "Twitter cornell men's lacrosse" via Google, the first result is freaking Cornell College. That should not be.

Twitter, Instagram and TikTok seem dumb to many but it's how a lot of people get their news and how HS/prep athletes track college sports programs. Cornell College doesn't have a Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, we do. Make use of it.

Cornell's sports PR office is not overstaffed (well, nobody had to go to LP this weekend) but there are plenty of social-media savvy students who need internship credits and/or extra cash. Put them to work. They've got the bandwidth to process photos from the field or grab video clips (as Yale did).

Lots of schools post in-game twitter updates, Cornell does not. Not the first thing I would spend money on (where is that indoor facility???), but it does kinda suck.

[Weder]

CU77's link to the Inside Lacrosse game story shows two Yale Men's Lacrosse tweets the and one from USA Lacrosse Mag, none from Cornell. If you search "Twitter cornell men's lacrosse" via Google, the first result is freaking Cornell College. That should not be.

Twitter, Instagram and TikTok seem dumb to many but it's how a lot of people get their news and how HS/prep athletes track college sports programs. Cornell College doesn't have a Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, we do. Make use of it.

Cornell's sports PR office is not overstaffed (well, nobody had to go to LP this weekend) but there are plenty of social-media savvy students who need internship credits and/or extra cash. Put them to work. They've got the bandwidth to process photos from the field or grab video clips (as Yale did).

Lots of schools post in-game twitter updates, Cornell does not. Not the first thing I would spend money on (where is that indoor facility???), but it does kinda suck.

Cornell tweets in-game updates for all sports from one account. This is todays MLAX thread, though it's a bit sparse. (Some teams also do updates from the main accounts.) https://twitter.com/cubigredgameday/status/1505170977314902020?s=21

[Ken711]

CU77's link to the Inside Lacrosse game story shows two Yale Men's Lacrosse tweets the and one from USA Lacrosse Mag, none from Cornell. If you search "Twitter cornell men's lacrosse" via Google, the first result is freaking Cornell College. That should not be.

Twitter, Instagram and TikTok seem dumb to many but it's how a lot of people get their news and how HS/prep athletes track college sports programs. Cornell College doesn't have a Bill & Melinda Gates Hall, we do. Make use of it.

Cornell's sports PR office is not overstaffed (well, nobody had to go to LP this weekend) but there are plenty of social-media savvy students who need internship credits and/or extra cash. Put them to work. They've got the bandwidth to process photos from the field or grab video clips (as Yale did).

Lots of schools post in-game twitter updates, Cornell does not. Not the first thing I would spend money on (where is that indoor facility???), but it does kinda suck.

A sentence from the Cornell athletic statement on Andy Noel's retirement and accomplishments.

In the past quarter century, Noel has successfully upgraded a number of department facilities including the renovations of Schoellkopf Hall, Lynah Rink, the Cornell Rowing Center, Hoy Field, Niemand*Robison Field and the Friedman Wrestling Center. He led the charge to build the Merrill Family Sailing Center, Marsha Dodson Field and the Noyes Fitness Center, and he was at the helm as Outdoor Education completed a massive transformation of the Lindseth Climbing Wall, a signature achievement for the entire campus. Noel has recently closed in on finishing a fundraising campaign toward a field house to be constructed on the university's central campus. Many other transformative projects took flight under his leadership – included among them the creation of McGovern Fields, installation of synthetic fields at Schoellkopf and Hoy Fields, scores of office and locker room enhancements, and the resurfacing of the Barton Hall track and scoreboard.

Interesting tidbit from that sentence is the site location..."constructed on the university's central campus".  I assume that means it won't be built at the Game Farm Rd complex where the new baseball field is going.

[billhoward]

closed in on finishing a fundraising campaign toward a field house...

That sounds good. Better if you don't count the qualifiers. I'm sure it will  happen (the fundraising part), but when? And how big -- will it be big enough for a full-field scrimmage, which means ~130 yards long? And high enough to allow for the occasional snowy February game? Let's hope this isn't an 85% solution.

[CU77]

Cornell tweets in-game updates for all sports from one account.

Never heard of it. It's never been re-tweeted by the lax team account AFAIK. And it had exactly one in-game update today, with nothing more than a score; no video clips (which is what tweets are good for, scores we get from Live Stats).

As Donald Trump would say: Sad!

[upprdeck]

bball had a jump ball after every score for 50 years.. that doesnt seem to have hurt the sport to get rid of it..