Cornell lacrosse 2024

[marty]

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.

Could have also suggested that all teams wearing orange are not from Syracuse.

[Ken711]

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.

It took him 11 years and a decision to retire to finally realize that hiring David Archer was not working?  OK

[CU77]

Sticking to mlax only, AN
1) fired Ben DeLuca for unspecified reasons
2) hired Matt Kerwick, who drove the team into a ditch
3) made Peter Milliman spend a year as "acting" HC, then lost him to JHU

Yes, we lucked out because CB (who started as a volunteer assistant) turned out to be really excellent.

[mike1960]

Sticking to mlax only, AN
1) fired Ben DeLuca for unspecified reasons
2) hired Matt Kerwick, who drove the team into a ditch
3) made Peter Milliman spend a year as "acting" HC, then lost him to JHU

Yes, we lucked out because CB (who started as a volunteer assistant) turned out to be really excellent.

I'm not sure we had much chance of keeping Milliman from going to Hopkins and acquiring all those grad transfers.

[CU77]

No, probably not, but it sure didn't help that AN wouldn't commit to him without hanging the interim tag on him for a year first. I actually wrote to AN to complain about that, the first and only time I ever did such a thing.

[CAS]

Any response from AN?

[CU77]

He had the head of the Cornell Lax Boosters call me. That was a surprise! I was mostly upset about the hit to recruiting from having a HC saddled with the interim tag. Pleaded my case to the booster guy, to no avail of course. He defended AN as having done the right thing. I couldn't tell if he really believed that or not.

[ugarte]

Duke v Syracuse on ESPN+ and 'Cuse is leading 8-2 late in Q3.

[mike1960]

Duke v Syracuse on ESPN+ and 'Cuse is leading 8-2 late in Q3.

I caught a little bit at the end. That Syracuse defense plays hard, and they play together. That's going to be a tough game.

[rss77]

Yes Duke seems a little vulnerable because Penn shut them down too.

[upprdeck]

Is cornell going to start playing D?

[Cornell95]

I was at the game (sister has season tickets)
TBH, neither team looked great... but Duke was awful. Syracuse D has been steadily improving but many of the turnovers were unforced. Just sloppy passing, balls not coming out of the stick clean.
(I feel like I read a post on the fanlax forums that Coach Gait has his guys setting up their sticks differently and using 'grippy' balls (?) at home, so visiting teams struggle... fact or conspiracy theory ??)

Duke kept it close early because they seemed to be able to neutralize SU's very good FO specialist (portal pick up from Tufts) and the Duke goalie made some point blank saves in the first half (SU going high-to-high on the crease with no fake multiple times)... but eventually SU started rotating in a different FOGO and finding the back of the net

Will Mark in goal was very solid for Cuse as well.
I have no idea what the Duke offensive coordinator was doing. SU basically played O'Neill straight up most of the game, he is a specimen and it seems like they could have run some 2 man sets and gotten him good looks easily

Time will tell how the ACC plays out, but I always say a Duke lax team in May is like Michigan State hoops in March... no one wants to face them late in the season/tournament time

[billhoward]

Final was Syracuse 10, Duke 4. 3/20/24

[dag14]

An email from Coach:

We wanted to make you aware that due to the impending weather tomorrow morning, we will be pushing our start time against Yale back to 2pm on Saturday, 3/23/24. We hope to see many of you out there braving the conditions!

[Al DeFlorio]

Penn at Dartmouth 6-6 at half with field covered in snow.