Cornell lacrosse 2023

[mike1960]

Hey Bill Howard, I think it's time to start the new thread!

[billhoward]

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[b]2023 Cornell Lacrosse Schedule[/b]
Saturday unless noted
Feb 11      Colgate noon (2022 high: 48)
Feb 18      @ Albany (2022 high: 23)
Feb 25      Lehigh noon (2022 high: 32)
Feb 28 Tue  @ Hobart 5 pm (2022 high: 23)
Mar 04      @ Ohio State
Mar 11      Penn State noon
Mar 18      @ Yale
Mar 25      Penn noon
Apr 01      Dartmouth noon
Apr 08      @ Harvard
Apr 11 Tue  Marquette (what, no Syracuse?)
Apr 15      @ Army
Apr 22      @ Brown
Apr 29      Princeton 3 pm
May 5,7     Ivy Tournament TBD location

After April 1 – read: as the weather finally gets decent – only two home games: Marquette and Princeton.

Curious to know if it was Cornell or Syracuse that pulled the plug on their game and will there be some nicety about how it was difficult to find a workable midweek date.

Army on the schedule is good. No Binghamton but they haven't been competitive. Two Big Ten schools. No southern schools.


[earlier matter]
Thanks for starting. (I was waiting for the excitement to die down over UConn vs Cornell at MSG.) Always nice to put the 2023 schedule in that first post, then a link to the pre-season polls, pre-season All-Americas, yada yada. Stuff readers would like to see w/o scrolling. I think you know the trick for monospaced fonts that let the schedule line up easily type the word code inside brackets to start and /code inside brackets to end that block.

It never hurts to change the subject line to "Cornell lacrosse 2023 - Hobart 2/13" for ease of scrolling down and finding something. Yeah, I'm a Type-A, just no heart attack, yet.

I know if mine had a subject line, "Team of Destiny Part Deux," (tho not in caps), I'd be accused of woofing.

[Swampy]

Thanks for starting. (I was waiting for the excitement to die down over UConn vs Cornell at MSG.) Always nice to put the 2023 schedule in that first post, then a link to the pre-season polls, pre-season All-Americas, yada yada. Stuff readers would like to see w/o scrolling. I think you know the trick for monospaced fonts that let the schedule line up easily type the word code inside brackets to start and /code inside brackets to end that block.

It never hurts to change the subject line to "Cornell lacrosse 2023 - Hobart 2/13" for ease of scrolling down and finding something. Yeah, I'm a Type-A, just no heart attack, yet.

I know if mine had a subject line, "Team of Destiny Part Deux," (tho not in caps), I'd be accused of woofing.

I think given:

* the quality of the incoming class(es)
* the quality of the players returning (including Adler, Ierlan, etc.)
* the tremendous coaching by the Buczek/Stevens tag-team
* the showing against Maryland

A lot of us are silently thinking, "Team of Destiny (sooner rather than later)"

[mike1960]

I'm sorry, Bill. I meant to add that post to the old thread so you would be the thread creator, as is the tradition.

But yes I think we can already start talking about how good this team can be with a great group returning and lots of experience in playoff lacrosse.

[billhoward]

We've had so many good coaches who moved Cornell a couple rungs up the ladder then found greener pastures elsewhere. Conner Buczek could be the Mike Schafer of Cornell Lacrosse we've been hoping for since, ah, just about forever, since only Ben DeLuca '98 was also a Cornell alum.

Let's see how good the entering class is. A lot of first-years aren't quite as good as their HS stats. But: Did anybody expect Kirst to punch in 55 goals his first season?

[mike1960]

https://twitter.com/TheKyleDevitte/status/1539341821280673792?s=20&t=iPb7H8Q-XtXTxcg4QRwP6g

[CAS]

Ben Abladian was NEC rookie of the year as a frosh & scored 42 goals as a soph.

[George64]

https://twitter.com/TheKyleDevitte/status/1539341821280673792?s=20&t=iPb7H8Q-XtXTxcg4QRwP6g

Abladian sounds like the real deal.  LGR
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[billhoward]

Bryant, ex-Duke, lacrosse coach Mike Pressler retired this spring. https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/bryant-s-pressler-announces-retirement-after-16-season-brodersen-named-interim-coach/59825

Pressler was at Bryant 16 years (time flies), in 2014 got Bryant to the NCAA quarterfinals. Note from Bryan PR: Bryant named "associate head coach Casey Brodersen the interim head coach and a national search for the next head coach who will build on Coach Pressler's success and take Bulldog Lacrosse to the next level will begin immediately. Brodersen completed his 12th season as a member of Pressler's staff in 2022. He has spent the last eight years as the associate head coach." Not quite the rapid career trajectory of former Cornell interim coach Buczek.

[mike1960]

Not Cornell lacrosse 2023, but some Jeff Teat action.

https://twitter.com/Inside_Lacrosse/status/1547045002592882690?s=20&t=2NcLNOnCl6RIPdEWhUFR_w

[upprdeck]

so they have no faceoffs in this thing after goals.. more like bball just get it and go..

[Ken711]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXiayuqoz3k

[George64]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXiayuqoz3k

I see commit Matt Tully '27 is wearing a chest protector. Did lax players wear them when the late George Boiardi '04 was playing?  For those too young to remember, Boiardi was hit in the chest by a ball at the wrong instant, causing a fatal heart arrhythmia.
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[Swampy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXiayuqoz3k

I see commit Matt Tully '27 is wearing a chest protector. Did lax players wear them when the late George Boiardi '04 was playing?  For those too young to remember, Boiardi was hit in the chest by a ball at the wrong instant, causing a fatal heart arrhythmia.
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When I played club lacrosse during the early 70s, I never heard of such things, except for goalies. We routinely wore arm protectors and gloves, but not chest protectors. I believe the advent of synthetic heads on lacrosse sticks made shots & passes much faster, and therefore somewhat lethal (as in the tragic case of GB21). So, I would not be surprised if chest protectors have become more common.

But shoulder pads were also very uncommon, and now I notice many players wearing them. And I'm shocked at how few players wear arm protectors these days.

[dag14]

My kids played high school lacrosse from about 1996-2005 and only the goalies wore chest protectors.  I am pretty sure most guys wore shoulder pads but they were dinky compared to those used in hockey.