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Last Saturday, Cornell coach Jim Knowles declared his squad one player away from equaling Harvard—an athlete capable of confining quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick to the pocket, then punishing him for tarrying there.
For the next 20 minutes, Knowles sounded like a proud parent boasting about his son’s accomplishments to a group of neighbors at a backyard barbecue or PTA meeting.
When a reporter asked about what went wrong for Cornell, Knowles talked about Fitzpatrick. When a reporter questioned what happened to the vaunted Big Red defense, he talked about Fitzpatrick. Even when a reporter asked Knowles about his own offense, the Cornell coach somehow managed to turn the question around...
“He’s a guy who just runs around and makes plays,” Knowles beamed about the Crimson signal caller. “He’s a hard runner and he’s a great thrower. We didn’t underestimate...
At the end of the media session, Knowles took a moment of reflection and summed up his team’s defeat fairly succinctly.