Cornell football 2023

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Making me less concerned that I didn't bother driving down to the game.

[scoop85]

Play-calling still abysmal.  Making it impossible to sustain a drive.

Considering we actually have a talented QB, it's inexcusable.

[tycho]

Penn dominating on the ground. 125 yards and a TD for Hosley at the half. Yikes.

[Ken711]

Want a logical replacement for Archer.  Look no further that U. of Penn's Offensive Coordinator Dan Swanstrom. He was went 32-11 (.744) and his teams registered eight wins in all four seasons in which they took led Ithaca College as their head coach.  Knows the Ivy League, was a former head coach, and has even lived in the Ithaca area.

[tycho]

Penn dominating on the ground. 125 yards and a TD for Hosley at the half. Yikes.

Of course, 68 came on one play, the TD. Big play strikes again.

[tycho]

Nice series to start the half. 4 minutes, a touchdown, and a 2-pt cuts the lead in half. Talk about a hot-and-cold team.

[ugarte]

Cornell losing 16-8, Penn blocks a Cornell FG but cocks up the recovery so they take over all the way back at the 4. No matter; RB bounces the run outside and he's gone for a 96 yard TD. 23-8.

[tycho]

I'd have to go back and look, but it seems like very nearly all of the TDs against Cornell over the past couple of weeks have been >50 yarders. Hard to watch.

[Al DeFlorio]

Real issue is inability to put up points.

[Ken711]

I'd have to go back and look, but it seems like very nearly all of the TDs against Cornell over the past couple of weeks have been >50 yarders. Hard to watch.

This goes way back to Archer's decision to hire Jared Bakus as his DC.  Bakus was the Princeton DC before Cornell hired him, and Princeton was planning to fire him after Princeton went 1-9, 1-9 and 5-5 in his 3 seasons there. This explains why Princeton would let him go in a lateral hiring to another Ivy school.

[ugarte]

Cornell losing 16-8, Penn blocks a Cornell FG but cocks up the recovery so they take over all the way back at the 4. No matter; RB bounces the run outside and he's gone for a 96 yard TD. 23-8.

Cornell with an actually great response drive that ends in disaster. Catch and run by Laboy on third and long to get to the 2, marred by, to my amateur eye, what looked like a potentially serious hip injury from an awkward tackle. Then, play action incomplete pass, run up the middle for 1, jet sweep for 0, sneak stuffed. Oof.

[ugarte]

Wang tried to throw the incomplete pass out of the back of the end zone and accidentally hit a receiver in the hands who then got hit by three defenders at once while he was in the air and the ball looked like it was going to get picked off, then like one of the other receivers might make a crazy catch on the deflection. A real rollercoaster of a single play.

[ugarte]

Cornell gets the ball back, crossed midfield, Wang telegraphs his intent on a stop and go sideline route and the safety sides under for an easy pick.

[rss77]

Lack of a big play offense.  Offensive pass plays only seem to get 5-7 yards at a time all season long.  Kizer had some long touchdowns catches in the Lehigh game.  Besides him no blazing speed in the receiver corps plus Kizer has been playing injured. Run blocking g not so hot either.

[George64]

Cornell now guaranteed its 18th consecutive non-winning season.  Well, only 17th, if we don't count 2020 when we didn't play.