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dbilmes

#15
February 11, 2024, 07:23:31 PM
The saddest thing about the women's basketball program is that due to years of mediocrity, there is no fan base and no excitement about the program. The official attendance for their home loss to Yale on Saturday was 183. It can't help recruiting efforts if potential players watch a game either in person or on TV and see it being played before such a small crowd. Cornell is 1-7 in the Ivies, but that one win was Dayna Smith's 100th career Ivy victory! It will be interesting to see how the new AD deals with this program moving forward.

scoop85

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February 11, 2024, 07:58:51 PM
Quote from: dbilmesThe saddest thing about the women's basketball program is that due to years of mediocrity, there is no fan base and no excitement about the program. The official attendance for their home loss to Yale on Saturday was 183. It can't help recruiting efforts if potential players watch a game either in person or on TV and see it being played before such a small crowd. Cornell is 1-7 in the Ivies, but that one win was Dayna Smith's 100th career Ivy victory! It will be interesting to see how the new AD deals with this program moving forward.

I expect there will be a "change in leadership" after the season.

mountainred

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February 19, 2024, 09:29:09 AM
Quote from: scoop85
Quote from: dbilmesThe saddest thing about the women's basketball program is that due to years of mediocrity, there is no fan base and no excitement about the program. The official attendance for their home loss to Yale on Saturday was 183. It can't help recruiting efforts if potential players watch a game either in person or on TV and see it being played before such a small crowd. Cornell is 1-7 in the Ivies, but that one win was Dayna Smith's 100th career Ivy victory! It will be interesting to see how the new AD deals with this program moving forward.

I expect there will be a "change in leadership" after the season.

Dartmouth holds off Cornell to break a 26 game league losing streak.  Their last win came against Cornell.  The women looked reasonably competitive in the non-conference part of the schedule, but the wheels have come off.

scoop85

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February 19, 2024, 10:38:39 AM
Quote from: mountainred
Quote from: scoop85
Quote from: dbilmesThe saddest thing about the women's basketball program is that due to years of mediocrity, there is no fan base and no excitement about the program. The official attendance for their home loss to Yale on Saturday was 183. It can't help recruiting efforts if potential players watch a game either in person or on TV and see it being played before such a small crowd. Cornell is 1-7 in the Ivies, but that one win was Dayna Smith's 100th career Ivy victory! It will be interesting to see how the new AD deals with this program moving forward.

I expect there will be a "change in leadership" after the season.

Dartmouth holds off Cornell to break a 26 game league losing streak.  Their last win came against Cornell.  The women looked reasonably competitive in the non-conference part of the schedule, but the wheels have come off.

If Moore is serious about upgrading the program, she'll make a coaching change after the season.

dbilmes

#19
February 19, 2024, 12:46:18 PM
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Quote from: scoop85
Quote from: dbilmesThe saddest thing about the women's basketball program is that due to years of mediocrity, there is no fan base and no excitement about the program. The official attendance for their home loss to Yale on Saturday was 183. It can't help recruiting efforts if potential players watch a game either in person or on TV and see it being played before such a small crowd. Cornell is 1-7 in the Ivies, but that one win was Dayna Smith's 100th career Ivy victory! It will be interesting to see how the new AD deals with this program moving forward.

I expect there will be a "change in leadership" after the season.

Dartmouth holds off Cornell to break a 26 game league losing streak.  Their last win came against Cornell.  The women looked reasonably competitive in the non-conference part of the schedule, but the wheels have come off.
The women won some close non-league games against weak opponents. Their best non-league game was the eight-point loss to Syracuse. Cornell led going into the fourth quarter of that game.

billhoward

#22
March 11, 2024, 02:31:38 PM
AI in Sportswriting PR then sent to a first-year-law class to suck out any residual signs of life.  

Quote from: Cornell PR"The Ivy League has become one of the preeminent women's basketball conferences in the country," Moore said. "As we embark on a new leg of this journey, we do so with unwavering confidence in our ability to discover an exceptional leader who will embrace the ideals of the Ivy League and Cornell University, and who will cultivate, prepare and propel extraordinary student-athletes toward academic and basketball achievement as well as lifelong success and wellbeing."

Perhaps if it said,
"The Ivy League has become one of the preeminent women's basketball conferences in the country, and we'd like to be part of it..."

Three winning seasons in 17 years under Dayna Smith, a 2008 Ivy title and trip to the NCAAs, is suboptimal.

Good luck on finding a good coach. Let's find another Brian Earl (four losing years, Covid, two winning years, this team will finish > .750), get 5 years out of her or him, maybe the new coach stays longer and wins more.

ugarte

#23
March 11, 2024, 05:11:25 PM
Quote from: billhowardThree winning seasons in 17 years under Dayna Smith, a 2008 Ivy title and trip to the NCAAs, is suboptimal.
True, yet the 2008 tiebreaker at Columbia (against Dartmouth) was fun.

Iceberg

#24
March 11, 2024, 05:26:34 PM
I imagine the fact that this is an endowed position made the choice easier, but good on Moore making this well-needed decision

scoop85

#25
March 11, 2024, 05:55:00 PM
I wouldn't be surprised if the Colgate women's coach, who Moore hired and has turned the Raiders program around, is on the short list.
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