I guess we see if the schedule imbalance was a good thing
Posted by upprdeck
I guess we see if the schedule imbalance was a good thing
Posted by: upprdeck (38.77.26.---)
Date: January 06, 2020 09:51PM
pretty crazy to be 3 months into the season and Cornell has played 4 home games and yet its only 9 home 7 road the rest of the way.
i can only find one team that has played even 7 home games, some have played 13
i can only find one team that has played even 7 home games, some have played 13
Re: I guess we see if the schedule imbalance was a good thing
Posted by: abmarks (209.107.190.---)
Date: January 06, 2020 09:55PM
upprdeck
pretty crazy to be 3 months into the season and Cornell has played 4 home games and yet its only 9 home 7 road the rest of the way.
i can only find one team that has played even 7 home games, some have played 13
How could we possibly be hurt by this?
Re: I guess we see if the schedule imbalance was a good thing
Posted by: jkahn (---.west.biz.rr.com)
Date: January 07, 2020 12:12AM
In the end, we are balanced. Three of our first 13 were neutral site games, and our full regular season totals will be 13 home, 13 road and 3 neutral site games.upprdeck
pretty crazy to be 3 months into the season and Cornell has played 4 home games and yet its only 9 home 7 road the rest of the way.
i can only find one team that has played even 7 home games, some have played 13
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Re: I guess we see if the schedule imbalance was a good thing
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: January 07, 2020 10:06AM
It's not really an "imbalance." It's one weekend: we have played 4 home, 6 road, 3 neutral. It derives from playing home-and-home pairs with NC opponents.
Having said this, in a perfect world we would not open with a road pair against a team with a bunch of games under their belt. I think that is part of Mike's drive to raise the Ivy limit and expand the schedule. I am for academics > athletics but it is not as if the players are studying more in those early weeks when they are unable to do formal team practice or games. They are just doing self-directed training which if anything may even be more time consuming because all these guys are obsessive.
I've come around completely on eliminating the Ivy schedule distinctions. I don't buy athletic scholarships, though. That is a move in the wrong direction (and anyway it is an open secret that there are plenty of ways around it and it is empty prestige branding).
Having said this, in a perfect world we would not open with a road pair against a team with a bunch of games under their belt. I think that is part of Mike's drive to raise the Ivy limit and expand the schedule. I am for academics > athletics but it is not as if the players are studying more in those early weeks when they are unable to do formal team practice or games. They are just doing self-directed training which if anything may even be more time consuming because all these guys are obsessive.
I've come around completely on eliminating the Ivy schedule distinctions. I don't buy athletic scholarships, though. That is a move in the wrong direction (and anyway it is an open secret that there are plenty of ways around it and it is empty prestige branding).
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Re: I guess we see if the schedule imbalance was a good thing
Posted by: upprdeck (---.fs.cornell.edu)
Date: January 07, 2020 01:53PM
its an imbalance in that we started in oct and have played 4 true home games and no other teams has played less than 7 and the vast number have played 10+.. its a great thing for the team to have started so well with most of the games not being on home ice.
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