Cornell football coach

[Ken711]

With the season ended, the most likely outcome is for David Archer to step down as head football coach or be removed. Given his two-decade career with Cornell (including as a player), he might find a second life in athletics or Cornell administration.

The decision will be easier – less hard – to make this year:
* Cornell football lost 3 more games than the best-under-Archer .500 of 2022
* There's a newer, younger athletics director (read: could be building a record at Cornell for a higher position in 5 years, or could be here into the 2040s because Cornell is not a low-level AD's job), one who did not make the hire
* Ten seasons (11 years including the Covid bye year) is a round number, time to take stock
*  The last time it made clear sense to move on was 2018, the second straight 3-7 season and an Ivy record that fell from 3-4 to 2-5. 2019, Cornell had its best ever Archer-era Ivy season (tie for fourth on a 3-4 record). 2020 was the Covid year, not going to make a move then. 2021 was the worst record, 2-8, since 2015, but maybe Noel knew then he was leaving in a year and wanted (rightly) to let the new AD make the hire. 2022 was Archer's best season if only a 2-5 Ivy record.

If it happens, it should happen quickly. It gives the assistants a better chance to find new jobs. And for Archer to find a new role outside Cornell, although his leadership abilities and his years here make him equally suited for a job in athletics or Cornell-elsewhere.

It has happened quickly; official announcement: Cornell Announces Change in Football Leadership

Someone please check on Ken711. I fear the excitement may have caused him to pass out.

::banana:: It's time for a celebration, :-D

[Trotsky]

I'd like to think he was offered a position with the university.  He couldn't cut it as the HC but as someone said above he bleeds Carnellian and white, and that's worth something to me.

[mike1960]

I'd like to think he was offered a position with the university.  He couldn't cut it as the HC but as someone said above he bleeds Carnellian and white, and that's worth something to me.

+1

[tycho]

I'd like to think he was offered a position with the university.  He couldn't cut it as the HC but as someone said above he bleeds Carnellian and white, and that's worth something to me.

+2. Time for a change, but no personal vendetta from me. Best to him and his folks.

[RichH]

I'd like to think he was offered a position with the university.  He couldn't cut it as the HC but as someone said above he bleeds Carnellian and white, and that's worth something to me.

+2. Time for a change, but no personal vendetta from me. Best to him and his folks.

And I thought the tone of the official announcement was spot on in acknowledging and respecting that. Well done.

[kingpin248]

I'd like to think he was offered a position with the university.  He couldn't cut it as the HC but as someone said above he bleeds Carnellian and white, and that's worth something to me.

+2. Time for a change, but no personal vendetta from me. Best to him and his folks.

And I thought the tone of the official announcement was spot on in acknowledging and respecting that. Well done.

https://twitter.com/jeremy_hartigan/status/1726373544462864470
In his personal capacity, Cornell SID Jeremy Hartigan (who I presume wrote the statement): "David Archer has always been a terrific leader of young men, and maybe no one in my lifetime has committed more energy into trying to get Cornell football to win. The positive impact he's had on Big Red student-athletes and the department is immeasurable. I only hope my two kids find a role model like him in a coach at some point in their lives. They'll be better for it."

[David Harding]

The Cornell Sun story https://cornellsun.com/2023/11/19/david-archer-05-let-go-after-11-season-tenure/

[jmeaneyjr]

This is a necessary and positive development. Let's see where the Cornell hierarchy takes us. I believe AD Moore is up to the task.

[billhoward]

This is a necessary and positive development. Let's see where the Cornell hierarchy takes us. I believe AD Moore is up to the task.

I read that as Andrew Dickson Moore.

[ugarte]

It's Swanstrom

https://twitter.com/CornellSports/status/1732792087848812604

[Trotsky]

That's kind of neat.  ::cheer::

Good luck to him.  I don't know if it is possible to build a competitive football team at Cornell because of systemic issues, but I wish him well.  LGR!

[ugarte]

Man, three Liberty League co-championiships in four years and every time the other school went to the DIII playoffs. Not going to the playoffs is good experience for coaching in the Ivy League.