2026 Men's Lacrosse

[BearLover]

The bigger competitive disadvantage by far is that all of our opponents can now have fifth year players. Imagine Notre Dame/Duke/Maryland/etc keeping their best players five years and plucking other teams' best players as graduate transfers. It will be very hard for us to compete.

[Al DeFlorio]

The bigger competitive disadvantage by far is that all of our opponents can now have fifth year players. Imagine Notre Dame/Duke/Maryland/etc keeping their best players five years and plucking other teams' best players as graduate transfers. It will be very hard for us to compete.

I believe you've you already told us this at least 100 times.  That's more than enough.  Time for a new whine.

[mike1960]

I think Chemotti is much bigger reason for their success than their facilities.

[CU2007]

Coach Tennant left the program

[Ken711]

Cornell adds new men's lacrosse assistant coach.

https://cornellbigred.com/news/2026/6/29/danny-murphy-named-assistant-coach-for-cornell-mens-lacrosse.aspx

[BearLover]

Now that players have five years of eligibility, Goldstein and Firth may be able to skip fall semester in 2026 and 2027 and use all five years of eligibility at Cornell before graduating. Hopefully the coaching staff is talking to them about this option.

I was wrong - this is currently impossible. According to Cornell athletics rules, athletes may only compete for four seasons unless they get a waiver (typically for injury). So you can expect to see Goldstein and Firth on UVA or Duke in a couple of seasons.