Cornell Soccer 2023

[Al DeFlorio]

Cornell scores two in the 2nd half to take down #7 ranked and defending National Champion Syracuse 2-1. The win breaks SU's 20 game unbeaten streak dating back to last October.

Syracuse with one shot on goal.  Shots Cornell 18-4.  Strong showing.

[marty]

Cornell scores two in the 2nd half to take down #7 ranked and defending National Champion Syracuse 2-1. The win breaks SU's 20 game unbeaten streak dating back to last October.

Syracuse with one shot on goal.  Shots Cornell 18-4.  Strong showing.

Per Mr. Natural, " Is dis a system?"

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Cornell scores two in the 2nd half to take down #7 ranked and defending National Champion Syracuse 2-1. The win breaks SU's 20 game unbeaten streak dating back to last October.

Syracuse with one shot on goal.  Shots Cornell 18-4.  Strong showing.

Wow.  18 shots is impressive.

[ugarte]

Cornell scores two in the 2nd half to take down #7 ranked and defending National Champion Syracuse 2-1. The win breaks SU's 20 game unbeaten streak dating back to last October.

Syracuse with one shot on goal.  Shots Cornell 18-4.  Strong showing.

Wow.  18 shots is impressive.

if i read a postgame quote correctly, i think we hit the frame twice so this really could have been a blowout.

[Al DeFlorio]

Cornell scores two in the 2nd half to take down #7 ranked and defending National Champion Syracuse 2-1. The win breaks SU's 20 game unbeaten streak dating back to last October.

Syracuse with one shot on goal.  Shots Cornell 18-4.  Strong showing.

Wow.  18 shots is impressive.

if i read a postgame quote correctly, i think we hit the frame twice so this really could have been a blowout.

The highlights video clearly shows one free kick hitting wood.

[scoop85]

Great game story from the Daily Orange

[billhoward]

Great game story from the Daily Orange

Note the story following Cornell-Syracuse soccer in the Daily Orange's story stack:
College Republicans withdraw request to host Moms for Liberty as SU cancels event Maybe we could send over Ann Coulter.

... I miss the seventies, not so much for the whiff of tear gas lingering from 1969, but everybody had freshmen teams and the Sun in its headlines found room, in Cornell-Syracuse frosh stoies, to use 'Tangerines.' Something to amuse us until 1977 and disco madness.

[Beeeej]

Cornell scores two in the 2nd half to take down #7 ranked and defending National Champion Syracuse 2-1. The win breaks SU's 20 game unbeaten streak dating back to last October.

...when their last loss was also to Cornell.

[dbilmes]

Great game story from the Daily Orange

As a former sports editor of The Cornell Sun, it pains me to say this, but the quality of this story is better than any sports story I've seen in the Sun in years. The Syracuse sportswriter actually went to an away game in person, had some good tactical details from the game, and had pertinent quotes both from the coach and one of the players. To make it even more impressive, the article was published at 11:48 p.m. Tuesday, the same night the game was played. Meanwhile, the Sun has yet to publish an article on the game. This is the most recent men's soccer story on its website: https://cornellsun.com/2023/09/18/mens-soccer-falls-short-against-umbc-in-a-penalty-filled-contest/

[RichH]

Great game story from the Daily Orange

As a former sports editor of The Cornell Sun, it pains me to say this, but the quality of this story is better than any sports story I've seen in the Sun in years. The Syracuse sportswriter actually went to an away game in person, had some good tactical details from the game, and had pertinent quotes both from the coach and one of the players. To make it even more impressive, the article was published at 11:48 p.m. Tuesday, the same night the game was played. Meanwhile, the Sun has yet to publish an article on the game. This is the most recent men's soccer story on its website: https://cornellsun.com/2023/09/18/mens-soccer-falls-short-against-umbc-in-a-penalty-filled-contest/

Having the Sports Media Center at the Newhouse School of Communications gives them a nice pool of interested and invested talent.

[scoop85]

True, but I agree with David. I covered several teams for the Sun in the early 80's, and today's Sun pales in comparison with the work we did.

[billhoward]

Having the Sports Media Center at the Newhouse School of Communications gives them a nice pool of interested and invested talent.

A college journalism program can help some people develop their talents. But, sheesh, at Cornell you ought to know how to write, to have an inquisitive nature and have suspicions that press releases don't tell the whole story.

If you have to go to J-School -- sorry, Communications, which can also mean PR -- Syracuse is stepping up in the world.

The Daily Orange soccer story was pretty well done.

Not every editor of every daily/near daily college newspaper really cares about sports. Sometimes it gets shunted aside. I have always argued that if some big city paper needs a "mood of the campus" story after a protest, strike, drug death, student sit-in, you tell the reporter to call the student paper and talk to the sports editor. He or she is better dialed in to what's on the minds of the students.

Bob Costas, the best sportscaster ever (so far), went to Newhouse School. So there is that.

[dag14]

If you click on the "sports" tab on The Sun website, the drop down menu only includes the major sports.  Apparently nothing else is important any more.  I was on the board of directors of The Sun for 25 years and rarely had a complaint about coverage before the digital age, other than the times that the business manager prevailed and ran a grocery store ad on the back page.  When it should be easier to have up-to-date coverage, especially of home games, reporting is worse.  I mean really: I live in Denver and I could have written something for the website given the ESPN+ live stream.

[ugarte]

Tuned in and it's 1-1 at the half v. Harvard. Need to follow up the big W.

[chimpfood]

1-1 draw at Harvard, kind of a wacky game with some rain and a lot of fouls. It was Avery back and forth match and both teams seemed to be playing at a similar level. I'm satisfied with the result so long as we beat brown next week at home as we should.