Cornell football 2023

[CAS]

Lehigh website has the Cornell kickoff at noon (not 2:00).

[Swampy]

Lehigh website has the Cornell kickoff at noon (not 2:00).

Hey, if the team arrives late, it will have a good excuse for losing.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Lehigh website has the Cornell kickoff at noon (not 2:00).

So does the Cornell website.

[Ken711]

This press release sums up the expectations for the Archer years. As long as we finish higher in the standings than was predicted, the season will be a success. If Cornell finishes in 6th place in the Ivies, we can consider it another successful season! Our opening Ivy opponent, Yale, received 13 of 16 first-place votes.
"The Big Red football team will be in position to prove the experts wrong - again.

Cornell was picked to finish seventh in the 2023 Ivy League Football Preseason Media Poll that was announced today. The Big Red will kick off the new campaign with its sights set on having a much bigger impact on the league standings when it visits Lehigh on Saturday, Sept. 16 at 2 p.m. in Bethlehem, Pa. Cornell opens Ivy League play the following weekend at Yale, then opens its home season on Saturday, Sept. 30 against Colgate at Schoellkopf Field for Homecoming.

The Big Red has surpassed its preseason predicted finish in seven of the past eight seasons, including in 2022 when it was picked to place eighth only to tie for sixth."

Cornell spin doctors have to work overtime to put a positive spin on Cornell's predicted season finish.  (Hopefully Archer's last!)

[mike1960]

This press release sums up the expectations for the Archer years. As long as we finish higher in the standings than was predicted, the season will be a success. If Cornell finishes in 6th place in the Ivies, we can consider it another successful season! Our opening Ivy opponent, Yale, received 13 of 16 first-place votes.
"The Big Red football team will be in position to prove the experts wrong - again.

Cornell was picked to finish seventh in the 2023 Ivy League Football Preseason Media Poll that was announced today. The Big Red will kick off the new campaign with its sights set on having a much bigger impact on the league standings when it visits Lehigh on Saturday, Sept. 16 at 2 p.m. in Bethlehem, Pa. Cornell opens Ivy League play the following weekend at Yale, then opens its home season on Saturday, Sept. 30 against Colgate at Schoellkopf Field for Homecoming.

The Big Red has surpassed its preseason predicted finish in seven of the past eight seasons, including in 2022 when it was picked to place eighth only to tie for sixth."

Cornell spin doctors have to work overtime to put a positive spin on Cornell's predicted season finish.  (Hopefully Archer's last!)

"The Big Red has surpassed its preseason predicted finish in seven of the past eight seasons, including in 2022 when it was picked to place eighth only to tie for sixth."

This is the saddest sports-related thing I've read in a long, long time.

[billhoward]

For those of us who chose the profession of journalism / communication, it's fascinating to see the skills one on the PR side must employ to put a better face on reality. For a couple years there was the hed "Ivy Coaches Tab Cornell for Eighth." Now this.

I wish Cornell football well. Jameson Wang is exciting to watch and he's picked Second Team All-Ivy. And we have one player on the first team, senior linebacker Jake Stebbins. https://cornellbigred.com/news/2023/7/28/football-stebbins-named-to-all-ivy-preseason-first-team-to-lead-nine-on-phil-steeles-team.aspx

And Cornell puts on a fab homecoming weekend pre-game party. 2 pm versus Colgate. A winnable game.

[Chris '03]

Wang in LA Times:
https://www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/story/2023-09-10/ivy-league-cornell-football-jameson-wang

[billhoward]

Wang in LA Times:
https://www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/story/2023-09-10/ivy-league-cornell-football-jameson-wang

The usual blah-blah-blah about "no scholarships but oh that sheepskin" and this ... ah ... incredible photo that is sooooo Ithaca. Go, Jameson!!!

[billhoward]

Cornell football at Lehigh, 12 noon. Lehigh is 1-1 with a home loss to Villanova to 38-12 and a 14-12 win at Merrimack. This is the Cornell season opener and the Big Red goes in unbeaten. playpics-com has Cornell a 1.5-point favorite.  

Ivy teams first week:
#5 (in the playoff, smaller school side of D1) Holy Cross at Yale, noon
Cornell at Lehigh, noon
Columbia at Lafayette, 12:30
Penn at Colgate, 1:00
St. Thomas (who?) at Harvard, 1:00
Brown at Bryant, 4:00
Princeton at San Diego, 4:00
Dartmouth at #11 New Hampshire, 6:00
All on ESPN+ except Dartmouth, FloFootball

Yale is the pre-season favorite with 13 of 14 first-place votes in the media poll (Princeton gets the other one, and Cornell is placed 7th, behind Dartmouth, ahead of Brown). Were Yale to beat UNH and UNH have an otherwise excellent season, more people will wonder why football is the lone Ivy NCAA sport where the players can't take part in playoffs.

Well-read Lehigh fans will be forgiven for chanting, in Cornell's direction, "Safety School." The 2024 WSJ ranking of 400 top universities/colleges (out of ~3000 four-year schools) has Lehigh No. 14, Cornell No. 24. (Brown is worse, at 67.) The Journal upended its methodologies for this year and made the ratings attributable to outcomes attributable to the educational process after factoring out things like family income, quality of HS education; and factoring odds of graduating on time and on improvement in salaries after graduation. https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/wsj-best-college-rankings-princeton-12c44c47?st=fn1qsi8oz78b1no&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

All Ivy teams will wear BT helmet decals ... in honor of Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens, injured in March in a bicycle accident and lost his leg. Sammy McCorkle, a Dartmouth assistant the past 18 years, is the interim coach.

[edit add: Teevens died Tuesday, 9/19/23. He was injured in a car-bicycle accident March 16 on Route A1A in St. Augustine.]
BT helmet: https://dartmouthsports.com/news/2023/9/12/football-ivy-league-teams-to-wear-bt-decal-on-helmets-230912.aspx
Obituary via Dartmouth: https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2023/09/dartmouth-announces-death-buddy-teevens-79

[marty]

Cornell football at Lehigh, 12 noon. Lehigh is 1-1 with a home loss to Villanova to 38-12 and a 14-12 win at Merrimack. This is the Cornell season opener and the Big Red goes in unbeaten. playpics-com has Cornell a 1.5-point favorite.  

Ivy teams first week:
#5 (in the playoff, smaller school side of D1) Holy Cross at Yale, noon
Cornell at Lehigh, noon
Columbia at Lafayette, 12:30
Penn at Colgate, 1:00
St. Thomas (who?) at Harvard, 1:00
Brown at Bryant, 4:00
Princeton at San Diego, 4:00
Dartmouth at #11 New Hampshire, 6:00
All on ESPN+ except Dartmouth, FloFootball

Yale is the pre-season favorite with 13 of 14 first-place votes in the media poll (Princeton gets the other one, and Cornell is placed 7th, behind Dartmouth, ahead of Brown). Were Yale to beat UNH and UNH have an otherwise excellent season, more people will wonder why football is the lone Ivy NCAA sport where the players can't take part in playoffs.

Well-read Lehigh fans will be forgiven for chanting, in Cornell's direction, "Safety School." The 2024 WSJ ranking of 400 top universities/colleges (out of ~3000 four-year schools) has Lehigh No. 14, Cornell No. 24. (Brown is worse, at 67.) The Journal upended its methodologies for this year and made the ratings attributable to outcomes attributable to the educational process after factoring out things like family income, quality of HS education; and factoring odds of graduating on time and on improvement in salaries after graduation. https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/wsj-best-college-rankings-princeton-12c44c47?st=fn1qsi8oz78b1no&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

All Ivy teams will wear BT helmet decals (for Buddy Teevens, not for Bluetooth connectivity, which was my first thought seeing the photo and headline) in honor of Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens, injured in March in a bicycle accident and lost his leg. Sammy McCorkle, a Dartmouth assistant the past 18 years, is the interim coach. https://dartmouthsports.com/news/2023/9/12/football-ivy-league-teams-to-wear-bt-decal-on-helmets-230912.aspx

I thought the BT was a box to be accepted into the B1G league.  ;-)

[Scersk '97]

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME PUNTING!!!

[Chris '03]

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME PUNTING!!!

This reminds me of the Tim Pendergast era. When the offense was on the field and facing third down, the sideline would yell "punt team!" Coaches included.

Talk about having confidence in your offense....

[Scersk '97]

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME PUNTING!!!

This reminds me of the Tim Pendergast era. When the offense was on the field and facing third down, the sideline would yell "punt team!" Coaches included.

Talk about having confidence in your offense....

Quick kick! No one ever sees it coming!

Unironically, since punting is actually the second most important strategic element in football behind run offense/defense, I am surprised we don't see more third down quick kicks. Seems to be the analytic analogue to the new emphasis on going for it on fourth.

[Chris '03]

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME PUNTING!!!

This reminds me of the Tim Pendergast era. When the offense was on the field and facing third down, the sideline would yell "punt team!" Coaches included.

Talk about having confidence in your offense....

Quick kick! No one ever sees it coming!

Unironically, since punting is actually the second most important strategic element in football behind run offense/defense, I am surprised we don't see more third down quick kicks. Seems to be the analytic analogue to the new emphasis on going for it on fourth.

Oh, they didn't quick kick. They just wanted to be ready to take the field after the inevitable failed third down.

[Trotsky]

All QBs should be able to drop kick, change my mind.