Men’s Basketball 23-24

Men’s schedule is out. Interestingly, they play Syracuse at the JMA Wireless Dome on December 5. When did it stop being the Carrier Dome? Incidentally, Carrier Corp. was founded by Willis Carrier ‘01.

In 1979, Carrier cut a deal with Syracuse, $2.75 million for naming rights in perpetuity. Idiots. Syracuse U has been trying to get out of that ever since. Carrier's Syracuse footprint has been declining and in 2020, the company moved to Palm Beach Gardens. In 2022, Syracuse cut a deal with JMA Wireless for naming rights, 10 years, undisclosed amount. JMA what? It's a wireless networking hardware company, aka John Mezzalingua Associates. It is not a wireless carrier like a Cricket. To clarify (per Wikipedia), "JMA Wireless operates on a software-based XRAN [radio access network] architecture, which integrates processes into a single common server and removes the need for radios and jumpers in Distributed antenna system (DAS) deployment."

In 1979, Carrier cut a deal with Syracuse, $2.75 million for naming rights in perpetuity. Idiots. Syracuse U has been trying to get out of that ever since. Carrier's Syracuse footprint has been declining and in 2020, the company moved to Palm Beach Gardens. In 2022, Syracuse cut a deal with JMA Wireless for naming rights, 10 years, undisclosed amount. JMA what? It's a wireless networking hardware company, aka John Mezzalingua Associates. It is not a wireless carrier like a Cricket. To clarify (per Wikipedia), "JMA Wireless operates on a software-based XRAN [radio access network] architecture, which integrates processes into a single common server and removes the need for radios and jumpers in Distributed antenna system (DAS) deployment."

George64
Men’s schedule is out. Interestingly, they play Syracuse at the JMA Wireless Dome on December 5. When did it stop being the Carrier Dome? Incidentally, Carrier Corp. was founded by Willis Carrier ‘01.

1901. My subconscious understanding went first to the more recent ‘01.

Good irony is that the dome only got air conditioning installed the same year Carrier was removed from the name (2022).

good news is the wireless is gonna be in place by the time cornell gets there in Dec. Wish we had wireless/cell working in lynah one day.

Counted 11 home games and 2 against D 3 teams in Wells and Morrisville. I see that Coach Earl brought in some height and maybe the interior defense will be a little stronger than in past years, Greg Dolan was a "glue guy" on the past couple of editions and we will see who steps up this coming season. Princeton, Yale, and Brown will all be very formidable this coming season.

Cornell is picked third in preseason poll, behind overwhelming favorite Yale and Princeton.

Season Opener tonight at Lehigh. Last year v. the formerly Engineers was maybe the best game the guys played all season.

The pregame notes list Gray, Manon and Noard as starters -- all expected -- but then list Sophomores Nix and Noard as joining them. Does anyone know if Nazir Williams is hurt?

mountainred
Season Opener tonight at Lehigh. Last year v. the formerly Engineers was maybe the best game the guys played all season.

The pregame notes list Gray, Manon and Noard as starters -- all expected -- but then list Sophomores Nix and Noard as joining them. Does anyone know if Nazir Williams is hurt?

Quite a handicap if Noard has to play two positions.

Al DeFlorio

mountainred
Season Opener tonight at Lehigh. Last year v. the formerly Engineers was maybe the best game the guys played all season.

The pregame notes list Gray, Manon and Noard as starters -- all expected -- but then list Sophomores Nix and Noard as joining them. Does anyone know if Nazir Williams is hurt?

Quite a handicap if Noard has to play two positions.

Putting aside Noard's double billing, I assume if he's not started Williams is injured.

Naz just came in as a sub, no need to worry.

chimpfood
Naz just came in as a sub, no need to worry.

My other thought was Earl would bring him in as an early 6th man for a jump start off the bench. That may well be the case.

Season’s only 12 minutes old and I’m already exasperated by Ragland.

scoop85
Season’s only 12 minutes old and I’m already exasperated by Ragland.

That makes two of us!

As soon as Manon got foul happy, the defense has not been as good and they've gone down. He has to stay out of trouble this year.

And like last year, their press is weak and gets beat repeatedly.

And once again, we can't shoot free throws.

Down 5 at the break because Lehigh is shooting at a hoop the size of the Pacific Ocean.

ugarte
Down 5 at the break because Lehigh is shooting at a hoop the size of the Pacific Ocean.

Overall, I'd say we've done more to shoot ourselves in the feet than Lehigh has done to be leading this game.

The Cornell press is a joke. I wish Brian would stop.

Let’s not overreact, earl has done a lot for this program and the press is a very important part of this teams identify which is wearing down the other team with a fast paced game. I agree that it has lost its effectiveness later into this game but give it time, it’s a long season.

The ease with which other teams break this press is not new. I was at the Yale game at home last year, for example, as just one example (we went from down 13 to winning by 12 going away when we stopped pressing). I understand why they do it. I watched a game or two last year. But when trailing and at risk of a game getting away, against a team that they should be much better than, I'd rather he not press.

Nice win considering the team got no minutes from tsang-Hinton, Baldwin, and watson, who I thought would all be important pieces this year. Anybody know what’s up with those guys, whether it was injuries or just healthy scratches? Big props to Noard and okereke for stepping up. Looking forward to the rest of this season!

Cornell with some good free throw shooting to secure the win down the stretch 84-78.

Really helped that Lehigh shot 1-12 from behind the arc in the second half. Nice to steal a win when Williams was not at his best.

Noard only started in one spot, but carried the offense in the first half, so it was kinda like two. Hansen just missed his career high and was clutch in the second half.

But who had AK Okereke playing 25 minutes? Okereke was essentially a walk on, played a whopping six minutes last season, but looked solid.

chimpfood
Nice win considering the team got no minutes from tsang-Hinton, Baldwin, and watson, who I thought would all be important pieces this year. Anybody know what’s up with those guys, whether it was injuries or just healthy scratches?

We should find out Wednesday when I would expect everyone who is healthy to log minutes.

mountainred
Really helped that Lehigh shot 1-12 from behind the arc in the second half.

I didn't get to watch but it sure seems like some genius upthread figured out why we were losing!

What in the world happened to Boothby's 3 point shot? He slipped last year considerably and was 0-3 last night.

Proposal for the future, if the hoops fans are going to be active, that we have "weekend" threads rather than have a basketball thread that stretches forever. Nightmare on mobile.

Good chance I'll be at Rose Hill on Saturday afternoon to watch us play Fordham.

ugarte
What in the world happened to Boothby's 3 point shot? He slipped last year considerably and was 0-3 last night.

Proposal for the future, if the hoops fans are going to be active, that we have "weekend" threads rather than have a basketball thread that stretches forever. Nightmare on mobile.

Good chance I'll be at Rose Hill on Saturday afternoon to watch us play Fordham.

Dinner at Dominick's on Arthur Avenue

ugarte
What in the world happened to Boothby's 3 point shot? He slipped last year considerably and was 0-3 last night.

Boothby's shooting as a freshman was unsustainable; 49.5% from behind the arc was insane. And he found his stroke in league play last year, 22-46 (don't do the math on his out of conference shooting last year, it's not pretty).

Not going to start a thread over a D3 game, but maybe next weekend? I saw the commentators for the broadcast are new names. Did Barry retire/get replaced?

Al DeFlorio

ugarte
What in the world happened to Boothby's 3 point shot? He slipped last year considerably and was 0-3 last night.

Proposal for the future, if the hoops fans are going to be active, that we have "weekend" threads rather than have a basketball thread that stretches forever. Nightmare on mobile.

Good chance I'll be at Rose Hill on Saturday afternoon to watch us play Fordham.

Dinner at Dominick's on Arthur Avenue

Something like that. Definitely going to get fresh mozz somewhere. Is anyone else going?

mountainred

ugarte
What in the world happened to Boothby's 3 point shot? He slipped last year considerably and was 0-3 last night.

Boothby's shooting as a freshman was unsustainable; 49.5% from behind the arc was insane. And he found his stroke in league play last year, 22-46 (don't do the math on his out of conference shooting last year, it's not pretty).

Not going to start a thread over a D3 game, but maybe next weekend? I saw the commentators for the broadcast are new names. Did Barry retire/get replaced?

Wasn't the discussion about the Lehigh game going 0-3? we didn't play the D-3 game yet.

upprdeck

mountainred

ugarte
What in the world happened to Boothby's 3 point shot? He slipped last year considerably and was 0-3 last night.

Boothby's shooting as a freshman was unsustainable; 49.5% from behind the arc was insane. And he found his stroke in league play last year, 22-46 (don't do the math on his out of conference shooting last year, it's not pretty).

Not going to start a thread over a D3 game, but maybe next weekend? I saw the commentators for the broadcast are new names. Did Barry retire/get replaced?

Wasn't the discussion about the Lehigh game going 0-3? we didn't play the D-3 game yet.

separate points. he was talking about Boothby and then referring to my earlier suggestion of "weekend threads," proposing that we keep the D-III game discussion here instead of giving it its own thread.

ugarte

upprdeck

mountainred

ugarte
What in the world happened to Boothby's 3 point shot? He slipped last year considerably and was 0-3 last night.

Boothby's shooting as a freshman was unsustainable; 49.5% from behind the arc was insane. And he found his stroke in league play last year, 22-46 (don't do the math on his out of conference shooting last year, it's not pretty).

Not going to start a thread over a D3 game, but maybe next weekend? I saw the commentators for the broadcast are new names. Did Barry retire/get replaced?

Wasn't the discussion about the Lehigh game going 0-3? we didn't play the D-3 game yet.

separate points. he was talking about Boothby and then referring to my earlier suggestion of "weekend threads," proposing that we keep the D-III game discussion here instead of giving it its own thread.

Yeah, it made sense to me when I typed it.

No one was hurt while the Cornell won comfortably 107-86. Some random thoughts:

* The defense and ball security were troubling. Surrendering a point a possession and losing the turnover battle to an okay D3 school is a problem.
* The only changes to the first ten guys were that Williams sat out, he's said to be day-to-day, and a bunch of minutes for Fr. Jacob Beccles -- who looked pretty good.
* Max Watson sighting with 6-ish minutes left. Very late for a rotation guy from last year.
* New announcers were nothing great. Very young. I guess Al Michaels started somewhere, but it felt that we were providing training for a recent Newhouse grad.

Looks like Baldwin may have torn his acl. He has the standard acl knee brace and crutches, that definitely hurts.

chimpfood
Looks like Baldwin may have torn his acl. He has the standard acl knee brace and crutches, that definitely hurts.

Jeff Goodman tweeted the other day he was out for the season for a knee injury:

IVY LEAGUE INJURY REPORT: [t.co] pic.twitter.com/hQJWRqRPD6

— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) November 6, 2023

so an ACL tear would make sense.

Understand that Barry may be out this season

rss77
Understand that Barry may be out this season

Thanks. I hope everything is okay with him.

mountainred
* New announcers were nothing great. Very young. I guess Al Michaels started somewhere, but it felt that we were providing training for a recent Newhouse grad.

i thought the same. they could follow the action well but the emotion felt forced and overstated. idk. maybe i'm being harsh. gotta let them grow on me.

mountainred
Some random thoughts:

* The defense and ball security were troubling. Surrendering a point a possession and losing the turnover battle to an okay D3 school is a problem.
* The only changes to the first ten guys were that Williams sat out, he's said to be day-to-day, and a bunch of minutes for Fr. Jacob Beccles -- who looked pretty good.
* Max Watson sighting with 6-ish minutes left. Very late for a rotation guy from last year.

with respect to the other thoughts, i'm not concerned with the rotation in the D-III game. let's see what it's like on Saturday.

$25 single-game tickets for Fordham basketball seems...high?

That seems to the price for tickets to their games in that gym.

Compared to games at Newman its high but not like going to the Dome or any big time bball games.

Was considering going to the game at George Mason next week and you can get in for $10

Yeah, out of curiosity I looked around at other A10 teams. Most seemed to be $10-15. Columbia is $12 or $13. And it doesn't appear to be a supply/demand issue - their gym holds 3K and attendance last year (per their own boxscores) was anywhere from 500 to 1800 for games I looked at. Oh well, it is what it is - just seemed out of whack to what I would've expected the pricing to be.

ugarte

mountainred
Some random thoughts:

* The defense and ball security were troubling. Surrendering a point a possession and losing the turnover battle to an okay D3 school is a problem.
* The only changes to the first ten guys were that Williams sat out, he's said to be day-to-day, and a bunch of minutes for Fr. Jacob Beccles -- who looked pretty good.
* Max Watson sighting with 6-ish minutes left. Very late for a rotation guy from last year.

with respect to the other thoughts, i'm not concerned with the rotation in the D-III game. let's see what it's like on Saturday.

Sure, today will be more telling, but you have to think Earl likes Beccles since he was running with the regulars starting with the first "line change." I guess we'll see if his PT and Max's were D3 game wonkiness or a sign of how valuable they will be this year.

(I guess we aren't doing a new chain?)

Defense is doing great today. Maybe we shouldn’t be saying scrap the press after one game?

chimpfood
Defense is doing great today. Maybe we shouldn’t be saying scrap the press after one game?

I don't want to jinx anything, but that was about as good a half of basketball as we can hope to see from our guys. 45-24 good guys.

Yeah Fordham has no answer for it so far. Even half-court ball pressure seems to be flustering them. Gray has been great on D.

pretty good view from the front row (non-VIP) across from our bench and they look great after a shaky first couple of minutes. once they settled in Fordham couldn't do anything at either end.

Rose Hill is worth every penny for a ticket.

Fordham’s going to be shooting free throws for 15 minutes.

Jordan 04
Fordham’s going to be shooting free throws for 15 minutes.

and for all the tight calls they've been getting they've taken 5 points of the lead in 8+ minutes

Wow the refs are slowing this one down

A lot of play-ons from the first half being called as fouls this half. Both ways.

Refs taking over in the 2nd half. Impressive run from them

This is extremely disappointing.

Someone needs to explain Guy Ragland to me.

When they practice the press, is the other side not practicing how to break it? They’ve looked lost the entire half.

Even if they hold on, having a 27-point lead and then little but fouls, turnovers, giving up offensive rebounds, and missed free throws is really really ... bad.

PHEW,

Whew.

Great win overall, fordham is a good team. Gotta work on free throws and closing out games but I’ll take that result any day.

Now that we can breathe more easily and my nerves have relented ... extremely proud of this team and this coaching staff to beat a solid A-10 team in their gym. I wish they'd learn to play with a lead better, as that was a problem at times last year as well. But you can't ignore opening up a 27-point lead and hanging on after a good team threw everything it could at you.

Part of the problem is that Chris Manon cannot stay out of foul trouble. I know the coaching staff has tried to work on this issue with him. He's their best defender and they need him on the floor late in games like this one.

chimpfood
Great win overall, fordham is a good team. Gotta work on free throws and closing out games but I’ll take that result any day.

Absolutely. Don't forget, the Rams were favored. Even though the Big Red had a 27 point lead at one point (if you watched the broadcast, you may not have known that, I'm not sure it ever came up.)

Also have to work on handling pressure and boxing out. Fordham had 9 offensive rebounds in the second half, felt like more, and forced 12 turnovers in the half.

The Almanac had Fordham #8 and George Mason #12 in their pre-season rankings. Cornell will be much better than the two teams Mason has played so far. 2-0 on this swing is not nuts.

Manon has to stop getting cheap hand check fouls. It keeps him off the court and he's easily our most dangerous player.

Our point guards have to keep their heads up during the press. Multiple times Boothby leaked into the frontcourt unguarded but nobody was looking. tbh i don't think they really trust boothby much anymore. they certainly didn't try to get him the ball at all.

negatives aside, that first half was fantastic. naz looked good, noard fights for boards and hits his looks, okereke and nix made some nice plays and gray has real grit.

ragland, man. no touch under the rim and rebounds slip through his hands like he is eating buttered popcorn on the bench.

Looks as if Syracuse won't be hosting future NCAA tournament basketball games on account of not enough hotel rooms. The on-campus Sheraton and its 235 rooms will be converted to dormitories. This per a brief local story, which says the Sheraton comprises 10% of the local hotel rooms. The Sheraton for tournaments past had been used as housing for out-of-town media. It appears to apply to possible future tournaments beyond 2024. The 2024 regional sites are already chosen and public. (The finals sites are chosen all the way out to 2030.)

It was super nice that the 2010 round of sixteen and Cornell's participation wound up in the then-Carrier Dome.

[www.localsyr.com]

There is a plan for another hotel but it will leave a hole for a few years until that gets done.

Penn beats Villanova, stop sleeping on the Ivy League. Also, how in the world did Penn manage to get Villanova and Kentucky to come to their house this year? I would kill to just get Syracuse to come to Newman once.

chimpfood
Penn beats Villanova, stop sleeping on the Ivy League. Also, how in the world did Penn manage to get Villanova and Kentucky to come to their house this year? I would kill to just get Syracuse to come to Newman once.

According to Wikipedia, the Palestra is "often called the Cathedral of College Basketball." I doubt anyone has ever used those words to describe Newman Arena.

chimpfood
Penn beats Villanova, stop sleeping on the Ivy League. Also, how in the world did Penn manage to get Villanova and Kentucky to come to their house this year? I would kill to just get Syracuse to come to Newman once.

i think some coaches follow the Dean Smith model and give their seniors a homecoming game and i wouldn't be surprised if both teams had a philly kid. we have two seniors from brooklyn (Gray and Ervin) and two from commuter new jersey (Manon and Hansen) which would account for the Fordham game and two from Plano (Boothby and Williams) which maybe should have been SMU or Dallas Baptist but a two hour drive to Waco to see your kid get blown out by Baylor isn't the worst way to spend a day. We don't always do it though, so it might be a coincidence.

When I was an undergrad, Binghamton's own King Rice was at UNC and I don't think Binghamton was D-I at the time. Unfortuantely, the game was scheduled for winter break. I didn't remember this but after playing them at Newman in 1991, we played them in Chapel Hill the next two seasons.

chimpfood
Penn beats Villanova, stop sleeping on the Ivy League. Also, how in the world did Penn manage to get Villanova and Kentucky to come to their house this year? I would kill to just get Syracuse to come to Newman once.

Penn-Villanova is a Big 5 game, so those get rotated around all the Philly schools’ home courts. (Though I think at one time all Big 5 games were played at the Palestra?)

Weder

chimpfood
Penn beats Villanova, stop sleeping on the Ivy League. Also, how in the world did Penn manage to get Villanova and Kentucky to come to their house this year? I would kill to just get Syracuse to come to Newman once.

Penn-Villanova is a Big 5 game, so those get rotated around all the Philly schools’ home courts. (Though I think at one time all Big 5 games were played at the Palestra?)

I thought Villanova quit the Big 5

ugarte

Weder

chimpfood
Penn beats Villanova, stop sleeping on the Ivy League. Also, how in the world did Penn manage to get Villanova and Kentucky to come to their house this year? I would kill to just get Syracuse to come to Newman once.

Penn-Villanova is a Big 5 game, so those get rotated around all the Philly schools’ home courts. (Though I think at one time all Big 5 games were played at the Palestra?)

I thought Villanova quit the Big 5

Nope, and they let Drexel in so now there are six teams in the Bjg 5.

The Palestra is a remarkable place for basketball history. I would compare it to Matthews Arena.

Trotsky
The Palestra is a remarkable place for basketball history. I would compare it to Matthews Arena.

They held the EIWA wrestling tournament there last year. Very cool. Different than Rose Hill at Fordham but they share genes.

Trotsky
The Palestra is a remarkable place for basketball history. I would compare it to Matthews Arena.

Went to Matthews Saturday night. The wall at the west end is being held up by a forest of girders propped against the outside of the wall. Fans not allowed to sit in the balcony sections against that wall. Not a good sign.

Weder

ugarte

Weder

chimpfood
Penn beats Villanova, stop sleeping on the Ivy League. Also, how in the world did Penn manage to get Villanova and Kentucky to come to their house this year? I would kill to just get Syracuse to come to Newman once.

Penn-Villanova is a Big 5 game, so those get rotated around all the Philly schools’ home courts. (Though I think at one time all Big 5 games were played at the Palestra?)

I thought Villanova quit the Big 5

Nope, and they let Drexel in so now there are six teams in the Bjg 5.

I think Villanova no longer commits to playing all four other teams in the Big 5, claiming it took up too many NC slots on the schedule

nshapiro

Weder

ugarte

Weder

chimpfood
Penn beats Villanova, stop sleeping on the Ivy League. Also, how in the world did Penn manage to get Villanova and Kentucky to come to their house this year? I would kill to just get Syracuse to come to Newman once.

Penn-Villanova is a Big 5 game, so those get rotated around all the Philly schools’ home courts. (Though I think at one time all Big 5 games were played at the Palestra?)

I thought Villanova quit the Big 5

Nope, and they let Drexel in so now there are six teams in the Bjg 5.

I think Villanova no longer commits to playing all four other teams in the Big 5, claiming it took up too many NC slots on the schedule

I think that’s why they switched to a format this year with two three-team groups. Each team plays the other two teams in their group and then one crossover game.

Al DeFlorio

Trotsky
The Palestra is a remarkable place for basketball history. I would compare it to Matthews Arena.

Went to Matthews Saturday night. The wall at the west end is being held up by a forest of girders propped against the outside of the wall. Fans not allowed to sit in the balcony sections against that wall. Not a good sign.

Well they need to refurb it, because other than Gutterson and Appleton it's the most (only) beautiful barn left in the US.

Wait Barton is still in use..

George Mason up 43-42 at halftime.

I thought that was a good first half. Guy had a fantastic first half. I like that version of him better. Naz had a terrible half, which is not like him. I can't believe his second half won't be better. Mason's team looks substantially better than Fordham's to me. Our rebounding really improved as the half went on. And we didn't have many free throws so we couldn't miss many.

The first minute of this half reminds me of Kentucky being down 10-2 and Calipari telling them "you gotta be kidding", and Cousins and Wall and the rest of them just out-athleted us. That's what it looks like Mason is trying to do. If we can fend it off they'll tire themselves out.

Other than missing an obvious walk on Ragland, the officiating in this game has seemed decidedly one-sided. And not for the good guys.

OK this is now ridiculous. An ordinary loose ball foul is a flagrant 1 at a critical juncture. Laughable.

Cornell dropping threes and cut it to 1. I think they called a charge right before the commercial break but the announcers seemed to think that Manon fouled out on the play. We'll see!

ugarte
Cornell dropping threes and cut it to 1. I think they called a charge right before the commercial break but the announcers seemed to think that Manon fouled out on the play. We'll see!

It was Manon's 5th. Ugh.

Their big guy Kelly pushes the defender away on every move in the paint. Not a whistle.

Terrible sequence. GM hits the free throws, Naz with a clumsy pass to a cutting Gray, GM scores an easy layup. Hanson throws a dunk off the back rim. Down 5, GM ball with 2:45 left.

Mr. Niss
Their big guy Kelly pushes the defender away on every move in the paint. Not a whistle.

That's basketball. Come on, man.

Damn. Cut it to 3, fouled out their big man, and they hit a dagger 3 with the shot clock expiring before swiping the ball on a backdoor cut. Down 8 with 1:26 left.

ugarte
Damn. Cut it to 3, fouled out their big man, and they hit a dagger 3 with the shot clock expiring before swiping the ball on a backdoor cut. Down 8 with 1:26 left.

90-83 final. They were too tough in the paint and we were sloppy with the ball when we had to rush. Our perimeter game was good though.

Kudos to Isaiah Gray. He is a one man clinic on defense. As in past years Cornell struggles to guard near the rim.

The Ivy League is looking really good this year, Princeton and penn especially have some big wins. Not too concerned yet because all out of conference games are basically just ramping up to Ivy play but we are certainly going to have to play better than we did tonight if we want to win the Ivy or even make the Ivy League tournament

chimpfood
The Ivy League is looking really good this year, Princeton and penn especially have some big wins. Not too concerned yet because all out of conference games are basically just ramping up to Ivy play but we are certainly going to have to play better than we did tonight if we want to win the Ivy or even make the Ivy League tournament

I think this is easily an ILT team tbh but things can go awry. It is a good year for the league, though.

Harvard and Yale looking good too.

The top 6 Ivy teams (excluding Dartmouth and Columbia) all look solid. Yale and Princeton are likely a cut above, so it appears likely to be a 4-team battle for the the other 2 spots in the Ivy tournament. But a lot of basketball left to be played.

I wonder how much longer they'll keep running out Nix in the starting lineup. He's just not hitting any shots right now.

Re barns: Appleton Arena at St. Lawrence got a refurb in 2020. It's still dark wood seats (photo) for the olde barn feel. But now a spiffy facade, entry concourse, meeting rooms / video rooms on the outside of the concourse. They probably tuned up the bleeping siren to make it even louder. Just the right feel for a school of 2,100.

The new Colgate rink is the benchmark for small schools. I know we all love Lynah to a fault. But Colgate's huge, wide concourse at the top of the bowl allows an extra 500? more? attendees beyond the seating capacity of 2200. And the higher roof allows for better video angles than Lynah affords.

Appleton Arena fall 2023 (capacity 3200):

billhoward
And the higher roof allows for better video angles than Lynah affords

Low roof crowd noise > high roof video angles every day of the week.

considering you could run all the video off remote cameras I dont think High angles are really an issue if you use the right equipment,

upprdeck
considering you could run all the video off remote cameras I dont think High angles are really an issue if you use the right equipment,

Nevermind that, can we talk about the assault on the senses every venue seems to want? Even the modest & thin video scoreboard I can see in the photo of Appleton is entirely too many blazingly bright photons to completely ruin the setting.

And don’t get me started on the apparent need to have thumping DJs blasting tweeter-tearing music in (nearly) every arena at every stoppage. If ADs want to trim budgets, start by firing the DJs.

At the Cornell-Penn football game, there was a large home band, a larger visiting band, and a half-broken speaker. Guess which of the three was allowed to play most of the time?