I, too, am disappointed by Colgate's inability to work with us in an honorable way. I think the time has really come to cut bait with them and find a more cooperative partner. I don't really care who it is. An America East program (Albany?) would be the best choice. Someone from our Patriot League past (Bucknell?) would also be ideal, but they have scheduling difficulties given the size of the league. Let's just find someone and enough with Colgate.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Mon Feb 27, 2023 2:23 amStill bugged by what feels like all sorts of weak gamesmanship the last few years and building suspicion this isn’t a relationship worth keeping if we aren’t treated like any sense of fair competition matters and no benefit to the team for big picture or conference play. Was looking on Gate and since 1980 (division setup)oldbartman wrote: ↑Sat Feb 25, 2023 8:41 pmFarfromgeneva wrote: ↑Sat Feb 25, 2023 8:40 pmThere was a bit of desperation and gamesmanship by their HC all week and today. Time to find a new upstate dance partner IMO.oldbartman wrote: ↑Sat Feb 25, 2023 8:18 pmYes!! They knew they were going to do that and ran the team in to their locker room to warm up. Didn't inform Hobart from what I could tell. Dick move imo.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Sat Feb 25, 2023 7:57 pmThey tried to pull a Patriots snowplow move and bring out the trucks between Q3 & Q4 for a longer break!faircornell wrote: ↑Sat Feb 25, 2023 4:57 pm Congratulations, Statesmen! Field conditions looked a mess.
Albany?
1981-1985 Paul Rose - 37-28, .569
86-87 Hank Janzcyk - 12-12, .50
88-91 Mike Toop (MMA FB HC?) - 34-14, .704
92-95 Pace Kessenich - 22-28, .44
96-2001 Dan Whelan - 38-43, .469
02-11 Jim Nagle - 86-64, .573
12-18 Mike Murphy - 57-51, .528
19-current Matt Karweck - 11-31, .262
Covid and whatever other stories, the program is historically bad under this coach and we can’t count on him to work with us or even be reasonably honorable. With SBU a conference opponent we can probably justify a little bit of travel over this matchup. When we left the PL we didn’t play them from 05-10 and 2015, not to mention the cancelled game last year so there’s plenty of recent, modern precedent.
I have been reading Christian Swezey's "We Showed Baltimore." It is an excellent book and I can only recommend it to any fan, especially those who like Cornell lacrosse. I liked them a lot in the '70s when I was a teenager (Eamon was unreal), but that kind of ended when I went to Hobart. I was at a lot of the games/events that Swezey mentions in his book. One of them was in 1977. Hobart played Ithaca College in the morning and Cornell played Johns Hopkins at Cornell in the afternoon. 1977 was the year the game between Hobart and Cornell was cancelled because of bad weather (ice storm). After the IC game (pounded them) the Hobart team came into Schoellkopf to watch Cornell. I was sitting there and the team sat down right next to me, a real thrill. I can still remember that they were all wearing blue blazers (or at least that's the way I remember it) and looked very imposing. There is also a great passage where Swezey describes the "Super Bowl" between Hobart and Cornell that then took place in 1978. He nails it right down to his depiction of the weather on that day and he provides fantastic detail of the action. Get the book and read it. Hobart lacrosse comes up a lot.
As the book shows, we've had a lot of great games against Cornell. Unfortunately I have to say that Tuesday is not going to be one of them. Cornell is one of the slickest passing teams you'll see and their defense is truly shutdown (look what they did to Lehigh). I'll watch, but...