Cornell football 2024

[Trotsky]

Am I crazy. I thought Homecoming was always (or usually) the first home game after a road game after a home game.

[tycho]

Am I crazy. I thought Homecoming was always (or usually) the first home game after a road game after a home game.

It's been the home opener for the past several years, even in years in which the season opener was at home (VMI in 2021, Bucknell in 2015). Last it was not was the Brown game in 2017 (which, interestingly, was the third of three straight home games).

[upprdeck]

I think having it early in the year helps a ton of  the stuff they want to do around campus. Much easier to use the golf course, the weather has a better shot at being good, more local stuff to do before things shut down as well

[billhoward]

Am I crazy. I thought Homecoming was always (or usually) the first home game after a road game after a home game.

"Am I  crazy?" is apart from the second thought?

Homecoming is often thought of as: Your team has been on the road, they come back home, so it's Homecoming. I mean, in HS, if they played two towns over, or the city school zone next to yours, then you play at your school, it's Homecoming. My city HS did not have have any sports fields so all teams practiced in a park a mile away and played at the next nearest HS, and we once played that HS for our Homecoming game.

Think also of Homecoming as not being about the home-away-home schedule but about the alumni: They come home to the U to see their team play. It also has to be early in the season so there's still some hope, and the worst you might be is 0-2. In the Ivies that are 8%-24% Tribal, you really can't do it during Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur. And maybe you try to pick a beatable opponent, thus Yale was not a logical good choice this year, but it turned out for the best.

[Tcl123]

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