Cornell football 2023

[ugarte]

Brown 30, Penn 17 start of 4th.  Maybe one fewer one-loss teams?

As soon as I turn it on, a whiffed tackle followed by a fade to the end zone to close it to 30-24 with 8:57 left.

Penn drives into the red zone but throws an end zone pick with :56 left. Penn has all 3 TOs and Brown looks like it's not going to get fancy so probably a punt with 45-50 seconds left.

sharp coaching by brown. burned a bunch of time on the punt running along the back line of the end zone before stepping out for a safety. Still have a four point lead and get a more advantageous kickoff from the 20 instead of a punt from the end zone... Penn has 33 seconds to go 60 yards with no timeouts.

[ugarte]

Brown 30, Penn 17 start of 4th.  Maybe one fewer one-loss teams?

As soon as I turn it on, a whiffed tackle followed by a fade to the end zone to close it to 30-24 with 8:57 left.

Penn drives into the red zone but throws an end zone pick with :56 left. Penn has all 3 TOs and Brown looks like it's not going to get fancy so probably a punt with 45-50 seconds left.

sharp coaching by brown. burned a bunch of time on the punt running along the back line of the end zone before stepping out for a safety. Still have a four point lead and get a more advantageous kickoff from the 20 instead of a punt from the end zone... Penn has 33 seconds to go 60 yards with no timeouts.

11 yard pass... incomplete... incomplete 19 yard pass that hit their best receiver in the hands ... 14 seconds left Brown timeout... sack! Penn can't stop the clock and Brown wins.

[ugarte]

Good lord what the hell was that. No defender within 20 yards of a receiver for an 85 yard TD. Princton up 7-0 with 2:32 left in Q1.

[Ken711]

Good lord what the hell was that. No defender within 20 yards of a receiver for an 85 yard TD. Princton up 7-0 with 2:32 left in Q1.

Technically it was only a 77yd TD pass.  :-D

[ugarte]

Good lord what the hell was that. No defender within 20 yards of a receiver for an 85 yard TD. Princton up 7-0 with 2:32 left in Q1.

Technically it was only a 77yd TD pass.  :-D

At least they responded with a quick drive into the red zone to cut it to 7-3 at the beginning of Q2.

[ugarte]

Princeton must be running really confusing patterns because for the second time they had a completely unguarded receiver with room to run, picked up ~30, and they're approaching the red zone again.

[mike1960]

Ran off the safety and the underneath route was way way open.

[Ken711]

Cornell's pass defense is atrocious.

[Scersk '97]

Absolutely brilliant defensive scheme on 3rd and 10 outside of field goal range with very little left in the half. Let's delay blitz! Because, you know, we really need a sack... to knock them... out of...

[mike1960]

Cornell's pass defense is atrocious.

Completely deflating to give that up with 8 seconds left in the half.

[Ken711]

4-6 overall record and 3-4 in the Ivy League is the best Cornell can hope for, and that should get Archer fired.

[rss77]

Hey I know Archer's record isn't stellar but let's not forget that the players that have to execute.  Two blown coverages lead to touchdowns yesterday.  Why do we ablways blame the coaches.

[CAS]

Not "stellar" is a bit of understatement, no?

[Trotsky]

Why do we always blame the coaches.

Because they recruit and train the players?

[BearLover]

Why do we always blame the coaches.

Because they recruit and train the players?

I always find this discussion kind of funny. It comes up all the time. Phil Jackson not a great coach because he had MJ/Pippen/Kobe/Shaq. Buck Showalter shouldn't have been fired because the players underperformed. But it's the coach who teaches and trains the players (and in college, recruits them as well), and who devises schemes for his players to succeed. It's really impossible to separate player performance from coaching because it's the coach's duty to get his players to succeed.