r/ultimate • u/Objective-Cap7303 • 10h ago
Cornell bad spirit
CORNELL STOLE AND RELABELED AT LEAST 20 DISCS FROM FLORIDA AND RUTGERS AT LOBSTER POT
This post is coming from a UF player for context
We started the day with 25 discs in our bag. They all were labeled with our captain’s name, our coach’s name, or “UF A”. By the time we finished our 2nd game vs Cornell we had 2. Of course it’s expected that some players will take a disc or two at tournaments but with barely any left we were extremely lost.
We started looking around the sideline for them because obviously they can’t just disappear. We mentioned this to a Cornell player, who then held up a disc bag to show how they had only 3, and said theirs had all been taken too
We continued looking and then found one of the Cornell players holding one of our discs and writing “Cornell Buds” on it. We asked him if he had taken more discs, to which he answered that he had not, that he would add “Florida,” and that we could have it as a memento
Very quickly after that we found a 2nd Cornell disc bag containing 10+ of our stolen discs, all with the names SCRATCHED OUT and “Cornell Buds” with a number 1-20 written on them.
We took the discs back and rushed to our 3rd game against Rutgers, complaining about what had just happened, and were then told that Rutgers had also witnessed Cornell players taking their discs but didn’t know how many and so didn’t speak up about it.
Also still at this point we were (and are) missing several more discs. The numbers 1-20 were incomplete and random
After reporting it to the Upper Men’s director he very graciously gifted us 15 discs for the ones we could not find. Allegedly it was 2 freshman on Cornell who did this in high school and always got away with it, and allegedly nobody else knew. Their coach 100% did not know any players were doing this throughout the game or after so no shade to him.
But still, wtf. Taking so many discs, lying about it to our face, and crossing out our names is absolutely crazy. Never seen anything like this before
Photo attached showing some of the discs we found