Cornell lacrosse 2024

[scoop85]

Cornell lax primed to be the bottom of the ivy

Jordan Stevens has coached some really good defenses, like the 2022 team that went to the title game. I'm sure they'll work hard this week on picking up the ball a little sooner and protecting the topside so they can help the goalie on Sunday.

I think the young coaching staff is being found out for who they really are. I think there will be some growing pain, this season being the main one

I think you're full of shit.

I'm with Al

[rss77]

Losing Bozzi as a short stick d-middie has not helped matters.  Hardest position in lacrosse in my view.

[Al DeFlorio]

Losing Bozzi as a short stick d-middie has not helped matters.  Hardest position in lacrosse in my view.

And maybe the most exposed.

[mike1960]

Losing Bozzi as a short stick d-middie has not helped matters.  Hardest position in lacrosse in my view.

And maybe the most exposed.

Yep. You're going to get beat a lot of the time. But you want to choose where.

[Al DeFlorio]

Cornell-Princeton on ESPNU Sunday at 2 with Carcaterra (yuck) doing color...incessantly.

[billhoward]

Cornell lax primed to be the bottom of the ivy

Jordan Stevens has coached some really good defenses, like the 2022 team that went to the title game. I'm sure they'll work hard this week on picking up the ball a little sooner and protecting the topside so they can help the goalie on Sunday.

The best solution is, Fire Andy. I know, that's so 2022.

[dbilmes]

Let's hope Cornell can get back on track today against Princeton.
I went to the Yale-Harvard game yesterday and both of those teams are going be tough as well. Yale scored 10 seconds into the game and was up 13-6 at the half. Yale's No. 37 won nearly every faceoff, and Yale seemed to be scoring at will. Harvard made a comeback in the second half, twice cutting the Yale lead to two goals and having a possession to cut the lead to one, but could never narrow the gap. The game got a lot closer in the third period when Yale was called for two penalties at once, one of them a two minute non-releasable. Harvard scored three extra-man goals during that span, and also won all the faceoffs since Yale could only have two players out to take the faceoff while Harvard had three. A key play in the game came when Yale was trying to clear and the Harvard goalie was caught out of his cage. A Yale middie shot the ball nearly the length of the field into the Harvard goal. First, I was trying to figure out who he was passing it to and then I saw it heading into the cage.
Yale ended up winning 17-15 before the largest crowd I've seen in person at the Yale lacrosse stadium.

[mike1960]

Let's hope Cornell can get back on track today against Princeton.
I went to the Yale-Harvard game yesterday and both of those teams are going be tough as well. Yale scored 10 seconds into the game and was up 13-6 at the half. Yale's No. 37 won nearly every faceoff, and Yale seemed to be scoring at will. Harvard made a comeback in the second half, twice cutting the Yale lead to two goals and having a possession to cut the lead to one, but could never narrow the gap. The game got a lot closer in the third period when Yale was called for two penalties at once, one of them a two minute non-releasable. Harvard scored three extra-man goals during that span, and also won all the faceoffs since Yale could only have two players out to take the faceoff while Harvard had three. A key play in the game came when Yale was trying to clear and the Harvard goalie was caught out of his cage. A Yale middie shot the ball nearly the length of the field into the Harvard goal. First, I was trying to figure out who he was passing it to and then I saw it heading into the cage.
Yale ended up winning 17-15 before the largest crowd I've seen in person at the Yale lacrosse stadium.

I hope Cornell is more innovative with their offense today. It looks like we play with a standard set and depend on our deep talent to make plays and score. This is most evident in our EMO sets. We do the same thing every time. This will work against a Lehigh, but not against a Penn State caliber defense that has scouted us and knows exactly what we do.

I try not to be a Duke fan, but I do like how Danowski gives his players freedom to create on the fly. It takes a while for this kind of offense to find its groove, so they are sometimes not as successful early in the season. But they are tough when tournament time rolls around.

Also of course we just have to defend the topside today. Any decent shooter in D1 is going to have success with free hands from 10-12 yards. I hope we are better there today.

[billhoward]

Sad news for Andy Noel-haters. He's baaaack! (As a fan.) I shook his hand walking out of the Princeton lacrosse game and wished him well. Remember, it was Him who hired Connor Buczek. And Brian Earl. And etcetera.

The Cornell coaching staff is his doing, outside of Mike Schafer. And it was his doing to let the new AD hire the football coach, rather than stick it on Nicki Moore.

The yodeling rodent on the Lynah Scoreboard is not his doing. It is kind of amusing. Let's see how long it stays amusing.

[CAS]

Andy did hire Matt Kerwick, Bill Courtney, Tim Pendergast and many others who weren't very successful at Cornell.  Not everyone is congratulating Andy for keeping Dave Archer (29-71) for 11 years so his successor could hire the new coach.

[Trotsky]

The yodeling rodent on the Lynah Scoreboard is not his doing.

Beg pardon?

[upprdeck]

Getting 5 goals from the 2 new kids was huge

[rss77]

Per the ESPN coverage-I know it's cheaper for them to have remote announcers but they could have invested in a on site spotter to convey the adjustments made in the respective teams' lineups.  E.g. Cornell short stick d-middies- no Chris Davis or Aiden Blake doing shifts, etc.

[mike1960]

Per the ESPN coverage-I know it's cheaper for them to have remote announcers but they could have invested in a on site spotter to convey the adjustments made in the respective teams' lineups.  E.g. Cornell short stick d-middies- no Chris Davis or Aiden Blake doing shifts, etc.

The freshman Gilmartin did a good job overall, I thought. He was burned once by Mackesy who went right on him to the topside and of course scored, but Gilmartin was involved in the final goal when he faced up the Princeton ballcarrier in the middle of the field. The ballcarrier threw it left, and Gilmartin or Wallace might have tipped it, causing the bad throw, turnover, and game-winning score.

So I think all the time he spent on the field will really pay off as the season rolls along.

[RichH]

Per the ESPN coverage-I know it's cheaper for them to have remote announcers but they could have invested in a on site spotter to convey the adjustments made in the respective teams' lineups.  E.g. Cornell short stick d-middies- no Chris Davis or Aiden Blake doing shifts, etc.

Agree, but I thought they did a good job overall. Talking about foot & hand work was good for someone like me what has never really played.

Except when the times they referred to Princeton as Syracuse.