Cornell football 2023

[ugarte]

4th and 1 for Colgate from the Cornell 46... Cornell uses its last timeout. Decision coming for 'gate... going for it... not going for it. Takes the delay of game and will punt from midfield. Cornell is going to get the ball back for another two minute drill. Big stop for the D to give us a chance.

[ugarte]

Don't be that guy.

great call from the colgate announcer, talking about not jumping offside.

Incredible punt bounces out at the 3.

[ugarte]

Wang sacked in the end zone, fumbles. I think Wang was actually trying to shuffle an illegal pass to a lineman as he went down. The lineman also doesn't pick it up and Colgate recovers for a game-ending TD instead of a game-ending safety. 35-25 with 1:37 to go.

[mike1960]

The Cornell announcer is thinking we have a chance.

I am in awe of his optimism.

[Al DeFlorio]

Harvard crushing Holy Cross mid-2nd, 21-7.

[Ken711]

Harvard crushing Holy Cross mid-2nd, 21-7.

Cornell will get beat easily by Harvard.  And as crazy as it may sound after the Yale win, Cornell could end up 3-7 or at best 4-6. That should signal the end of the Archer era.

[rss77]

Yale absolutely destroyed a 1-3 Morgan State but they lost by 3 to FBS Akron, beat Richmond, lost close games to Albany and Towson.  Colgate's punter was one of the difference makers as well as the Colgate offensive line.  Cornell also seemed to have missed tackles in the open field.  Realize Stebbins is out which hurts but are Henderson and Fletcher out too?  Not sure if I understand the running back rotation-Caruthers and Tillman are quicker off the ball IMO-why not go with them? Harvard looks really good.

[rss77]

Meant to make point that Harvard coming up that by comparing scores chances against Harvard don't look great but each game is different.  Putting out the Morgan State info that Yale put a beatdown on a tough opponent so it shows Cornell is capable of beating an athletic team on a good day.  Must say that losing game changers like Kizer and Stebbins definitely and hope to see them back on the field ASAP.

[Local Motion]

Tough loss for Cornell, especially the collapse in the fourth quarter.  

Hey have you posters heard President Martha Pollack was once again absent during Homecoming?   I was talking with one of the Cornell board members who said she was traveling out of town and a bunch of alums were upset.   This is not the first time Martha Pollack has missed Homecoming or walked out after the first quarter.   We have thousands of alums making the 4-6 hour trip to Ithaca for the one big sports/alumni event all year and she blew it off.   Do you think Frank Rhodes would have skipped Homecoming?   Where does she think donations for Cornell infrastructure and financial aid come from?   Very annoying for loyal alumni to donate to our university and the president skips town.

[Weder]

Tough loss for Cornell, especially the collapse in the fourth quarter.  

Hey have you posters heard President Martha Pollack was once again absent during Homecoming?   I was talking with one of the Cornell board members who said she was traveling out of town and a bunch of alums were upset.   This is not the first time Martha Pollack has missed Homecoming or walked out after the first quarter.   We have thousands of alums making the 4-6 hour trip to Ithaca for the one big sports/alumni event all year and she blew it off.   Do you think Frank Rhodes would have skipped Homecoming?   Where does she think donations for Cornell infrastructure and financial aid come from?   Very annoying for loyal alumni to donate to our university and the president skips town.

According to her official Instagram, she was getting inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences over the weekend.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CxtVEAUvEc6/?img_index=1

[Trotsky]

The AD should be at Homecoming.  The President of the university has a lot better things to do.

As long as she sucks off the donors in some other forum and keeps the checks rolling in, she's doing her job.

[dbilmes]

I'm sure the president of the university spends a lot of time flying around the country and the world hitting up alums to make big donations to Cornell. I would hate to think that whether someone donates to Cornell or not is based upon whether they see the president at Homecoming.

[BearLover]

The only significance of the president not attending homecoming is that it indicates she doesn't care about athletics, which is probably the case for most or all Ivy League presidents. We can argue how much her not caring about sports matters, but other than that, I don't think the fact she didn't attend homecoming matters at all.

[Local Motion]

I think you miss my point.   Andy Noel's budget was cut by about $1MM as soon as Martha Pollack took office.   Andy is a nice guy and a good team player, but his hands were tied over the past five years.   Even if Andy wanted to hire a new head coach, he didn't even have the funds to hire one.   At least Archer knows his way around the system.   I also think Ryan Lombardi would have loved to make improvements to the athletic department but his hands are tied too.   In terms of Martha Pollack just ask our students as most of them would see her twice in their four years at Cornell .The first time at Orientation and the other at Graduation.  In comparison, Frank Rhodes, Hunter Rawlings, and David Skorton were all very visible around campus.   I think she's a great computer scientist who would be terrific dean, but not a college president where you need good social and public speaking skills.  

I like Nikki Moore the new AD but she's going to have an uphill battle getting anything done on the East Hill and I think most insiders on campus would agree.   Go Big Red!

[Trotsky]

The only significance of the president not attending homecoming is that it indicates she doesn't care about athletics, which is probably the case for most or all Ivy League presidents. We can argue how much her not caring about sports matters, but other than that, I don't think the fact she didn't attend homecoming matters at all.

Presidents care about athletics in direct proportion to how much athletics brings in $$$.

If you're the President of Alabama or Mississippi, you care about athletics almost to the exclusion of everything else.  If you're President of Michigan or UCLA, you care, but it's only one of several things.  If you're President of Brown or Cornell you give absolutely zero fucks.

The President of the university is a knob polisher of the donor class.  It's the job. At the Ivies that means (1) see the check clears, (2) protect the snob appeal brand.  When I earn my first trillion Pollack will be doing my dishes and taking out my trash, and she'll be at Fish N Fowl because that's my condition, bitch, now, boar on the floor!  But until then, they don't give a crap and arguably they shouldn't.  They are vacuum cleaners for the dandruff of privilege; they are not people.