Cornell football 2023

[billhoward]

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[b]CORNELL 2023 [url=https://cornellbigred.com/sports/football/schedule/2023-24]FOOTBALL SCHEDULE[/url][/b]
Sep 16 @Lehigh
Sep 23 @Yale
Sep 30 Colgate 2:00 ([url=https://alumni.cornell.edu/come-back/homecoming/]Cornell homecoming[/url])
Oct 07  @Harvard Friday 7 pm
Oct 14 Bucknell 1 pm
Oct 21 Brown 1 pm
Oct 28 Princeton 1 pm
Nov 04 @Penn 1 pm
Nov 11 @Dartmouth 1:30
Nov 18 Columbia 1 pm
No times formally set even though Cornell has them penciled in, at the least.

Away 3 of the first 4. At home 4 of the last 6. Columbia game happens just a week before the odd-years-since-2007 date for Red Hot Hockey vs. BU at MSG; no problem for the players (different teams) but hard to organize alumni-club events when the two are adjacent.

[billhoward]

Cornell's schedule doesn't show any Friday night games. There has been a package of (mostly Friday) night games going back for about a decade, at least, per the NYT, which notes the night games get better attendance than afternoon games. Brown and Yale had to put in temporary lights; Harvard got lights in 2007.

[Trotsky]

I don't get a vote, oddly enough, but it bugs me Homecoming isn't an Ivy game.

[Scersk '97]

I don't get a vote, oddly enough, but it bugs me Homecoming isn't an Ivy game.

Don't even barely get me started. Athletics would combust if they had to schedule Homecoming as late as October 21, no matter that it's one of the most beautiful times of the year in Ithaca and often finally the appropriate weather for football. No, no—let's schedule Homecoming for when it's still hot and muggy! (And more likely to rain.)

And then there's the rescheduling of Spring Break some years ago... Values, people!

[Trotsky]

I'm sure Day Hall ran the numbers and mid-September optimizes the curve where they can squeeze money out of befuddled Class of '62s up from Tribeca.

[billhoward]

I thought it meant your team came home the week after playing a road game. Or after the longest trip of the year, which in 2023 would make it the final game. If you want it against an Ivy opponent, a) odds are more likely than against a non-Ivy you're gonna lose, and this year that would be Brown Oct. 21 if not the Sept. 30 game that is Homecoming.  

At Cornell, you want it before the frost has killed off the vegetables. And when the odds still favor it being warm enough for students unlike some alumni to show off their tanned, still-taut skin with shorts and sleeveless shirts.

It's a Tribal thing, too: Assuming more of the earlier games were at home, Rosh Hashanah, Sept. 15-17, knocks off the Lehigh weekend, which is game one and also away. Yom Kippur starts sundown Sunday of the Yale game, but that game's at Yale. So it's Sept. 30, although it's in the middle of Sukkot.

[ugarte]

appreciate all those words bill but what i'd say instead is "what a weird thing to have any opinion about at all"

[billhoward]

Thank you. So much politer than you saying, "Just how much time do you have on your hands?"

I do think about the hassle of ending the football season at Columbia then seven days later playing BU in hockey at the Garden in the odd years (2021, 20213, etc.) It's hard to pull together back to back class events and sometimes even classes of the 70s, 80s, 90s, etcetera.

[ugarte]

Thank you. So much politer than you saying, "Just how much time do you have on your hands?"

I do think about the hassle of ending the football season at Columbia then seven days later playing BU in hockey at the Garden in the odd years (2021, 20213, etc.) It's hard to pull together back to back class events and sometimes even classes of the 70s, 80s, 90s, etcetera.

i mostly liked the columbia game earlier because it was more likely to be a nice day

[Trotsky]

At Cornell, you want it before the frost has killed off the vegetables.

Don't exaggerate.  Johnson has heat.

[Iceberg]

I don't get a vote, oddly enough, but it bugs me Homecoming isn't an Ivy game.

That was my first year. I think it was...Bucknell

[ugarte]

I haven't done the research to know if the game will be streaming in the US, but Cornell is sending five players to Tokyo to play in the Dream Bowl. The Dream Bowl is an exhibition game between Ivy seniors and grad students vs. the Japan All-Stars. The game is on Saturday at 11 EST.

[billhoward]

I haven't done the research to know if the game will be streaming in the US, but Cornell is sending five players to Tokyo to play in the Dream Bowl. The Dream Bowl is an exhibition game between Ivy seniors and grad students vs. the Japan All-Stars. The game is on Saturday at 11 EST.

Cornell has 5 players. Columbia has 15. League champion Yale has 2. There are Yale players boycotting so they don't incur a major injury before the draft?

[ugarte]

I haven't done the research to know if the game will be streaming in the US, but Cornell is sending five players to Tokyo to play in the Dream Bowl. The Dream Bowl is an exhibition game between Ivy seniors and grad students vs. the Japan All-Stars. The game is on Saturday at 11 EST.

clarification: 11pm. but still not streaming so i don't know that it matters unless you were going to check for updates.

[billhoward]

Son of Princeton coach Bob Surace – the Princeton football player alum who arrived on scene ~same time as Cornell football player alum David Archer, had similar so-so early years, righted ship, then (divergence from Cornell's path) Ivy titles 2013, 2016, 2018 (10-0), 2021: His  quarterback son AJ HS '24, top-20 NJ player as a junior (a big thing, top 20 in NJ), has committed to Rutgers. A Princeton friend says there's more football upside, better NIL money, new Rutgers ass't coach is a friend of Surace père et fils. So that makes Princeton a tad bit easier to beat two falls from now.

Story: https://rutgers.rivals.com/news/2024-new-jersey-qb-aj-surace-commits-to-rutgers-football

Also:

Greg Schiano secures Rutgers' next quarterback of the future: A.J. Surace, son of an Ivy League coach

Greg Schiano [Rutgers coach, second time around] has found his next quarterback of the future, and he's the son of an Ivy League head coach.

A 6-2, 205-pound junior with an accurate arm, timing, leadership qualities and a thickly built lower half [something they wouldn't say about a Rutgers field hockey recruit, Notre Dame high school junior A.J. Surace checks most of the proverbial boxes required to play quarterback. And he will keep his talents home, in New Jersey, the state he knows best. Surace announced his commitment on Twitter on Sunday afternoon.