Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024

[billhoward]

It's almost midnight, the game has been over going on 2 1/2 hours, and there's no sign of a Cornell lacrosse story on cornellbigred-com. Syracuse U site has its story up. Ditto the Syracuse newspaper's site.  Cornell has its story up about the Orange lax women taking down Cornell 17-4. Bupkis about Cornell men's lax and one of the year's best games in D1.

I don't believe anybody at Cornell sports PR is lazy. But somehow, there's no story up and posted in an era when timeliness matters even more. It may be Cornell sports PR is understaffed. I started doing sports journalism at 16 at the Gannett Rochester papers and I can say with confidence: Smart people make better sportwriters (viz Jason Gay, WSJ) but there are plenty of passably capable people, they work cheap (alas), and they do decent work. Typing fast (and more or less accurate) can be learned. Ditto for photographers. I shot a couple games for another ECAC hockey school this winter (my son is a trainer there) and I transmitted photos during and after each period; it's a breeze compared to going back to the Daily Sun darkroom and developing Kodak film.

Please, Madame Athletic Director: You have a lot of important tasks starting with resolving the disparity between men's and women's sports success at Cornell (we're worst in the Ivies) ... better facilities ... getting more students to attends sports events ... letting still-eligible now-grad students play a final year without transferring to BC. But at some point, you need to think about how remote alumni consume Cornell sports: via ESPN+ and the Cornell site (plus the Daily Sun sports site). It's also a powerful recruiting tool for HS athletes.

Below, Cornell and SU sites a bit after 11:30.

Update: The Cornell MLax story posted at 11:50 pm. About 2:15 after the game (2:34 to play) ended.

[ugarte]

Ugh please don't turn this into basketball. The number one reason I don't watch it.

if there are 10 seconds left in a game, there's time to score a goal. if there are 4 seconds left on a restart, maybe not so much? we're not talking about 30 minutes of real time to play 2 minutes of action. There's no reason to allow a remotely decent shot in that little amount of time when the consequences of a foul are basically nil.

[billhoward]

The last-minute-of-basketball problem is the timeouts and the commercials. Not the play itself.

[ugarte]

Knust heroics: https://twitter.com/Inside_Lacrosse/status/1775342663438364918

Kirst Game winner: https://twitter.com/NCAALAX/status/1775337338891047268

[RichH]

How do we not pick that guy up???

We let him walk right to the goal and toss it in.

Wasn't this a 2009 Lesson Learned?

The biggest 2009 Lesson Learned is "when you have possession with 9 seconds left, heave the ball 3 miles into the air."

[MattShaf]

This edition of Cornell Lacrosse is an enigma. At this point, anything is possible.

[upprdeck]

A big issue you can see in this era of lax with the video  is on the replay.. Cornell basically has the wide camera and some low stuff.. But like hockey, you need something that is zoomed in to deal with goal replays.  They dont need to be manned but they need to be there.

I would say there has been easily 10 goal plays with no idea if it went in or not because the only replay is from the bad angle center camera.

[billhoward]

Give Connor Buczek credit for making the goalie change to Wyatt Knust (.750 save pct) at halftime not, say, when it was a 7-0 deficit in the first. Less sense of panic, less damage to first goaltender Matthew Tully (.300).

[mike1960]

I hope Barry gets better soon and returns. The camera person needs to stop with the close ups! I can't see the field!

OTOH: The video guy needs to zoom in some of the time, too. If I'm a coach charting how the sets worked and I need to see the entire half of the field, cool. But when it's zoomed so far out and you can't see the ball, and you know if it was a goal or not you only when you see all the players on one side or the other celebrate. I'm on a 65" TV with an HD signal. I know I should go to 85" and 4K (the in-wall surrounds have 80" between them which fits 86-90 diagonal) in anticipation this will be supported by Cornell sports video.

Maybe switch between the cameras: press box wide, press box close, end zone, maybe a sideline camera. If need be, hire the RPI guys. They know their stuff.

Normally we argue this stuff to take our minds off a heartbreaker loss. [edit correction:] Syracuse's heartbreaker.

I watch on my computer, and I can see the ball fine when the camera is set to about the half field. I'm not charting any plays. I just like to see who is on who, how the offense is setting up and moving, and how the defense is sinking in and sliding. When the camera person is trying to give up the close ups on a player and, one presumes, "the feel of the game," it's just annoying.

[rss77]

Check out the Daily Orange article-much better than the Sun's (Yes-Cornell on break, Newhouse school, etc.) but the Sun's sports coverage with the exception has been on the spare side this academic year.  Not enough staff??

[rss77]

Meant with the exception of ice hockey

[ugarte]

Check out the Daily Orange article-much better than the Sun's (Yes-Cornell on break, Newhouse school, etc.) but the Sun's sports coverage with the exception has been on the spare side this academic year.  Not enough staff??

You can quibble with how long it took to put out but i thought the Sun gamer was very good (unless what I'm referring to is the Athletic Department recap).

[dbilmes]

Kudos to the Daily Orange, which actually had three stories about the game filed on deadline. This one has a lot of quotes from Long, Another story notes that two years ago, the last time the teams played, Knust also came  off the bench to help Cornell pull out a come-from-behind win in OT. The third story is a notebook on the game, noting, among other things, that Cornell is 69th nationally in defensive efficiency, not a surprise to those of us who have been watching the games. Where is Adler when we need him?
The Syracuse offensive coordinator was reportedly ejected for making contact with an official.

[Al DeFlorio]

Kudos to the Daily Orange, which actually had three stories about the game filed on deadline. This one has a lot of quotes from Long, Another story notes that two years ago, the last time the teams played, Knust also came  off the bench to help Cornell pull out a come-from-behind win in OT. The third story is a notebook on the game, noting, among other things, that Cornell is 69th nationally in defensive efficiency, not a surprise to those of us who have been watching the games. Where is Adler when we need him?
The Syracuse offensive coordinator was reportedly ejected for making contact with an official.

Got the score of the game wrong, though, in the Long article.::doh::  Also, said the subject of the article, Long, was (5,5), not the correct (5,4).  Accuracy matters.

[arugula]

the comment about defensive efficiency is brutal  Let's see how it goes as the schedule eases up a little with Brown