Cornell's guide is now available for download as a PDF here. According to the website, it will not be available in print form. Cornell joins a growing number of schools that have decided to abandon, or are considering abandoning the printing of guides.
Princeton already has announced its intention to move away from printing. I've been told Dartmouth will print several guides this year (including football), shift others to electronic publication only and make a decision about what way to go with all athletic department materials in time for next year.
A couple of thoughts after downloading Cornell's guide.
First, maybe I did something wrong and didn't have to, but I ended up signing up for something called Issuu before I could download the guide. Good thing I have a junk email address that I could use because I really didn't want to sign up for a service I don't need or want just to get a media guide. And second, although these PDF download links almost always say you need Adobe Acrobat to download the guide that's not necessary if, like me, you use a Mac. Preview works just fine.
As I visited my usual haunts this morning I clicked on a link on the Colgate page called The Biddle Years and up popped a PDF fact sheet on the Raiders' very successful head coach, Dick Biddle. There's lots of good stuff on the sheet, but I found this particularly interesting:
Biddle's record against Patriot League teams since 1996: 63-16
Biddle's record against Ivy League teams since 1996: 31-8
I don't know whether I expected his record to be better against Patriot League teams or against Ivy League teams. Either way, I would have been wrong. It astonishes me how consistent Biddle has been. Go ahead, double the Ivy League wins and losses and see how that compares to his Patriot League record.
And finally, I want to thank all of you who sent along links to Penn State being named the No. 1 party school in the country. It's not a huge surprise, given my intimate knowledge of the Nittany Nation and how votes were collected. I love the spin the Penn State spokeswoman puts on the
"These rankings are not more than popularity contests. ... Nationwide, kids want to pump their schools in these surveys. It's not connected to reality."And finally there's this, sent with tongue in cheek by one of the emailers who passed along the link and who shall remain anonymous:
Bad enough the days of D Football winning Lambert Trophies, much to Joe Pa's annoyance, are long gone. Now Penn State has taken over Number 1 Party School status.
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