Cornell lacrosse 2023

[TimV]

Is the freshman (cascadden?) our best hope for faceoffs?

Faceoff today was not so bad.  The Lehigh FOGO, one of the best in the nation, gets 60-65% routinely. Today he had 66%, so average. Petrakis has problems with violations, which he should be able to overcome, But he was OK against UAlbany's guy, and so was Psyllos.  Cascadden matched up way better with Lehigh because of his size, was 5 wins and 6 losses against the guy. He should be a good one even now as a freshman.  Overall, I think our situation at the dot is much better than last year.

[scoop85]

Is the freshman (cascadden?) our best hope for faceoffs?

Faceoff today was not so bad.  The Lehigh FOGO, one of the best in the nation, gets 60-65% routinely. Today he had 66%, so average. Petrakis has problems with violations, which he should be able to overcome, But he was OK against UAlbany's guy, and so was Psyllos.  Cascadden matched up way better with Lehigh because of his size, was 5 wins and 6 losses against the guy. He should be a good one even now as a freshman.  Overall, I think our situation at the dot is much better than last year.

Having Cascadden gives us a much better chance to match up against physically dominant FOGOs like Sisselberg, while Petrakis will have better days against different guys. Psyllos was smartly put on the wing and did a nice job there.

[mike1960]

Is the freshman (cascadden?) our best hope for faceoffs?

The sample size is a little small right now, but he did well against one of the best. As others said, he has good physical size, and he clearly also has good skills (technique) and mental toughness to twitch on the whistle. I also like that he was called for a push in the back penalty. I know penalties are not good, but it shows that he believes that the ball is his property, and he's pushing people around to get it, not vice versa.

[Swampy]

Is the freshman (cascadden?) our best hope for faceoffs?

The sample size is a little small right now, but he did well against one of the best. As others said, he has good physical size, and he clearly also has good skills (technique) and mental toughness to twitch on the whistle. I also like that he was called for a push in the back penalty. I know penalties are not good, but it shows that he believes that the ball is his property, and he's pushing people around to get it, not vice versa.

IMHO, it will be his strength going side-by-side, shoulder-to-shoulder with his opponent, his quickness to the ball, and his skill (technique) getting the ball off the ground that will tell the tale.

[upprdeck]

Cornell men in for another crappy weather day tomorrow.

[billhoward]

Cornell men in for another crappy weather day tomorrow.

I recall (tho that doesn't mean it actually happened) a Cornell game at the Carrier Dome vs. host Hobart, and that a Binghamton game was played at some indoor facility in Binghamton.

Monday: Snow and sleet, becoming all snow after 3am. The snow could be heavy at times. Low around 31. Southeast wind 11 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow and sleet accumulation of around 4 inches.
Tuesday: Snow likely, possibly mixed with rain before 1pm, then a slight chance of drizzle between 1pm and 2pm, then a slight chance of snow after 2pm. Cloudy, with a high near 39. South wind 15 to 17 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.

One more reason for a full-field practice-February games facility that holds 500-1000 fans. Saturday's Lehigh game attendance was reported at 312.

I'd really rather see a new domed stadium holding 20,000. At that point Cornell would probably see it moved off campus, too.

[billhoward]

Cornell's first home game, as seen from the living room of my home on video, was disappointing. (Not the outcome and Cornell's almost three quarters of shutout defense.) Cornell and the Ivies should have increasing standards of acceptable quality compared to the sketchy early efforts of 15 years ago. Quality means connection quality (close to non-issue versus early days), video image quality & resolution, quality of the camera-crew and director/producer tracking play and picking the best angles, number of cameras, and announcer quality. For the most part, in the ESPN+ era, it's been better. Saturday, hosting Lehigh for lacrosse, the audio broadcast (i.e. our announcers) was very good (esp. compared to Yale's hockey duo). The Lehigh lax video, meh:

• The video was jerky, the ball went off camera or the center of action wasn't centered, then there was a sudden tug to recenter.
• Sometimes the video covered half the field (first photo). That's okay for game films where Coach wants to show the overall flow. I want to see the guy with the ball (and his defender) and then follow the action as the ball is passed and shot. Or flip back and forth.
• It was cold and we weren't prepared. It appeared the video was shot from behind a press box window. You saw reflections (second photo, I believe that's a reflection on the right side). The videographer's-photographer's comfort is not a concern. Let him or her dress warmly with multilayer gloves if need be. I've shot field sports on the sidelines in a snowstorm with the field obscured, temps in the teens, without heated gloves. I didn't retreat to a press box to be out of the wind. At the least, have Cornell's videographers work from one of the enclosed areas of the press box and just have the front glass open. Let the broadcast guys (announcers) have their separate, semi-heated booth with glass closed.    
  

I think we're not that far from affordable, streaming-quality cameras that can be located in the open and have the videographer in a warmed part of the press box.

Maybe we can put a remote camera atop the press box at Lynah, next to the fixed camera that's used, or will be used, to verify offsides penalties, goals. The higher location will show more of the ice not hidden by the glass. This beyond the fixed cams directly over the goals. (Heck, we could mount remote cameras atop the scoreboard and on Schoellkopf House, a second videographer actively controls the one facing play and the other fixed, centered and ready.)

College game broadcasting is not just something to mollify old alums. It keeps happy the player parents who can't make it to every game and shows off Cornell to prospective recruits. Second-class negatively impacts the brand. I bet they teach that at the Dyson School. Maybe we recast our motto from "I found an institution ... " to "Das Beste Oder Nichts."

I watched the at-Yale hockey game a day late on account of a dinner party Saturday, and when I switched away from the ESPN+ webcast at game's end, I wound up shunted to the start of a Liberty University (Falwell U) home hockey. The broadcast quality was awesome. There was a camera in the tunnel to catch the players coming out and perhaps four more trained on the ice. The last time I was at Liberty's LaHaye Ice Center (our son was a student trainer getting clinical hours in; he was not matriculated there), there was also a camera on a boom outside the home team broadcast booth that the two announcer could talk into. If anybody knows good streaming video, it's the people who also bring Christ into your living room.

[billhoward]

Polls 2/27 -- heady standing for Cornell with its two victories against two teams not ranked, but then we did play 40+ minutes of shutout ball vs. Lehigh. Not a good week for the other leading Ivies otherwise. Maryland beat Princeton 11-5, Penn State beat Yale 13-11, Duke beat Penn 14-12. Harvard did beat Bucknell 13-8. The only other unbeaten Ivy? Dartmouth, also 2-0.

Media Poll  
1 Virginia
2 Notre Dame
3 Cornell was 4
4 Maryland was 9
5 Princeton was 3
Also: TOSU 8, Penn 10, Yale 13, Penn State 17, Syracuse 20, HM Harvard, Brown
Poll (always points to newest poll): https://www.insidelacrosse.com/league/di/polls/2023''

[TimV]

For contrast to our Lehigh stream, check out the ESPN+ archive of Maryland at Princeton on the same day.  THAT'S the way you do it.

[TimV]

I saw most of those teams play at least a half on Saturday. Much as I love our team, we are way overrated at this point in the season. Maryland, Carolina and Duke are better right now.

[upprdeck]

yup, but they also have 2-3 more weeks of practice in already and some have played 4-5 games.

[Cornell95]

agree on all of your points. watched a chunk of the game live on my phone and thought the quality wasnt very good... assumed either ESPN themselves or my carrier was degrading because of bandwidth. watching the replay at home, obvious that the game isnt being captured in HD, which really is unacceptable

[upprdeck]

maybe saving camera money to bring back a radio feed ...

[BeamHilll87]

maybe saving camera money to bring back a radio feed ...

LOL- there's an interesting idea!
Agree with other posters that the video feed was, well... borderline awful.

Hearing Barry and Tom was great, though, and made up for the video.

[upprdeck]

looks like today being in Genava might be cold but missed most of the snow thats still coming down around here

Sat in OSU might be fun with the huge storm warnings out now. If they are driving out they may not make it