Underdogs Underdogs Underdogs

It's coming from the team, too. From junior Pierre Derkac's blog post for the Times:

I am so jacked up right now, but everybody on the bus is asleep with their Oakley’s on and their Bose noise cancellation headphones blasting one of Schwoopa’s (Pat Kirwan’s) great finds. I have to settle for giving myself a slight grin, realizing that my 45 brothers and I will soon be battling as an underdog on the stage that all other way.

Elsewhere in the Times, this bizarre assertion:

While Duke and Cornell have flirted with the top echelon of the sport lately, they will not be considered true members of the present-day elite until they win [another] national title.

Right, because in basketball, no one thinks Pitt is any good because they've never won an NCAA title. Ohio State sucks, too; they haven't won since 1960.

Some interesting tidbits from the Annapolis paper:

Standout midfielder Max Seibald and his classmates planned [to miss graduation]. Cornell's seniors were so confident the team was headed to the Final Four, they declined to order caps and gowns for the ceremony.

But they also had this Sun-like mistake:

Cornell also advanced to the semis in 2007, falling to Duke 12-11 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

Silly us for driving to Baltimore, then. Let's go red tomorrow.