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Re: Any Questions for Schafer? - 7 years ago
billhoward Whereas as Reunion you can drive up and down libe slope and nothing happens to you. That was about the first thing I captured when I got my first GoPro. If Cornell has convinced you to leave them something in your will they might even encourage the practice.by Towerroad - Hockey
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
"But oh, BTW. Since you brought up Stalin and Mao's murders, for consistency wouldn't you also need to mention Pinochet's? " As bloody as Pinochet was, he was a minor league player when compared to Stalin & Mao (or Pol Pot or the various Kim's). The death toll under Pinochet was on the order of 10,000. Stalin racked up between 7,000,000 and 20,000,000 (not counting WWII) and Maoby Towerroad - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
Well, I guess you have exposed my North Eastern elitist bias. That statement was based in my reading "The First Tycoon" by T J Stiles, the biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt (an excellent biography by the way). Vanderbilt, at least in the US, was the pioneer in developing modern corporate capitalism, selling stock in a corporation to raise sufficient capital for projects (eg the NY Centrby Towerroad - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
" both the Soviet Union & China industrialized at a rate faster than most capitalist countries" - This is not really a valid comparison. It is always faster to play "catch up" than it is to do something new. Now, if you were going to compare the capacity to slaughter their own people then the communists are in a league of their own. Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, and the rest evenby Towerroad - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
"although one might want to consider if industrialization under a different set of social relations might have been similar albeit perhaps a bit slower." The alternative systems that have been tried socialism, national socialism, communism, imperialism, all produced positive results at a slower pace but also produced far far greater negative results. Free market capitalism requirby Towerroad - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
College students (or their parents) are buying a product pure and simple. That product is at it's simplest, a diploma that confers a credential which increases the students human capital. Colleges are in the business (yes, business) of selling "Diploma's", constrained by the need to maintain some level of brand recognition. (Eg Cornell is a premium brand and strives to maintain that preby Towerroad - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
"Many lesser ranked schools used to hire people with masters degrees to instruct only 15 or 20 years ago. Now, they can often find adjuncts with PhDs from decent schools and with fairly impressive scholarship. The industry has created this unbalance by their unwillingness to pay and hire. It is not a supply and demand issue. " This is the essence of supply and demand" ie too mucby Towerroad - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
Scersk '97 Towerroad Does anyone else get tired of this academic bleating? No one put a gun to the heads of all these PHD's and said, "You must work for crappy wages in a demeaning job." For that matter, no one put a gun to their heads and said "You must go to grad school and get a PHD." Sorry, but if you are a 22 year old BS or BA and you decide to get a PHD there is no shortby Towerroad - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
Does anyone else get tired of this academic bleating? No one put a gun to the heads of all these PHD's and said, "You must work for crappy wages in a demeaning job." For that matter, no one put a gun to their heads and said "You must go to grad school and get a PHD." Sorry, but if you are a 22 year old BS or BA and you decide to get a PHD there is no shortage of information abby Towerroad - Other Sports
Re: Lake Placid Attendance - 8 years ago
Scersk '97 upprdeck they seem to price things in ways that make you wonder. but part of me understands it too. there is x% that will come because the team they follow is in it. if it was $15 or $40 it really wont make a difference thats very large since travel hotel make a much larger piece of the puzzle. there is y% that will come on a whim and for them price does matter. if they sby Towerroad - Hockey
Re: ECAC Quarterfinals Cornell @ Q 03/11/16 - 8 years ago
Trotsky RichH dbilmes Big puff piece on Q in today's NY Times. Let's hope it jinxes them, similar to the way the Sports Illustrated jinx has worked over the years. "Before Quinnipiac first got in touch with Garteig about playing collegiate hockey, he had no clue where the university was, let alone where Connecticut was on a map." Ladies and gentlemen, your Quinnipiac University schby Towerroad - Hockey
Re: Future Coaching? - 8 years ago
Given the turmoil at the head of the University I suspect that no one is thinking about changes in Athletics in the very near term. Regardless of the record the current AD will not make any changes in the Men's Hockey leadership this year since that would bring the Eye of Day Hall on him. Doing nothing is probably his best bet, the only question is how long the extension will be.by Towerroad - Hockey
Re: Do we need a housecleaning in the athletics dept? - 8 years ago
Trotsky Ken711 Trotsky It would cost a ton, but if we devoted comparable resources to HYP we would probably dominate the Ivies in football. It is the best sport for us to use our admissions advantages. Cost a ton? How so? Upgrades to athletic facilities would benefit all sports.I was referring to refurbing Schoelkopf. From what I understand the cross-sport facilities (weights and conditioniby Towerroad - Other Sports
Re: Do we need a housecleaning in the athletics dept? - 8 years ago
Swampy marty ugarte CAS It's possible to have both academic and athletic excellence. Look at Harvard's recent football and basketball run. Is there a reason we can't compete with other Ivies in football and basketball? Cornell is going to fall behind H/Y/P in athletics because we are behind H/Y/P in financial aid guarantees. It isn't athletic scholarships that are going to do us in, it's regulaby Towerroad - Other Sports
Re: Do we need a housecleaning in the athletics dept? - 8 years ago
CAS Not satisfied with 9-11 in football - want to compete for titles. But Austin's last 2 years are a far cry from consecutive 1-9 records. If alums care about fielding competitive teams, it's far more likely the trustees and administration will as well. While I agree that a good housecleaning is in order, we should look at the bright side. For better and worse, mostly better, the athletics dby Towerroad - Other Sports
Re: Cornell vs. Yale 02/13/2015 - 8 years ago
redice Watching Yale play, they were having fun and not standing back worrying about making the right play. Allain is allowing them to use their athletic abilities to create plays. What a concept!! That will never workby Towerroad - Hockey
Re: 1/29 @ Clarkson - 8 years ago
Gosh, if only there was a person who's job it was to figure all this out and make the pieces work. It would also help if there was a person who's job it was to find the right pieces. If only.by Towerroad - Hockey
Re: B1G Age Restrictions - 8 years ago
Jim Hyla Swampy RatushnyFan Jim, I think there's a target date but it is not in any way a commitment. My oldest son is 16 ('99 birth year) and plays Midget AAA hockey on a very good team. Some of his teammates have started to commit to colleges. One committed to Penn State and is expected to join the team in 2018-2019. He's also a '99 birth year, if he went right after graduating high schoolby Towerroad - Hockey
Re: Season tickets - 8 years ago
Beeeej Towerroad Ask yourself the following question: You are a wet behind the ears Freshman, you have heard about Lynah and the faithful and are intreagued. But, being a Cornell student you decide to do a little research before plunking down what amounts to all your winter entertianment budget (plus that Chem book you don't really want to buy). You hear about elynah and visit these pages andby Towerroad - Hockey
Re: Season tickets - 8 years ago
Ask yourself the following question: You are a wet behind the ears Freshman, you have heard about Lynah and the faithful and are intreagued. But, being a Cornell student you decide to do a little research before plunking down what amounts to all your winter entertianment budget (plus that Chem book you don't really want to buy). You hear about elynah and visit these pages and see it is a bunchby Towerroad - Hockey
Re: Re-Sign or Resign - 8 years ago
Trotsky Jim Hyla I just want to know how many times, with how many variations of this theme, are we going to bring this up, when we have no new data. I did a quick search and since last March found at least 4 different threads that mainly dealt with this subject. Has anyone got any new info since last season? If not, do we expect people will have different feelings now, compared to before. It surby Towerroad - Hockey
Re: Re-Sign or Resign - 8 years ago
Trotsky I'd ask him, what are my other choices? What choice would you like?by Towerroad - Hockey
Re: Season tickets - 8 years ago
redice Will Cop at Lynah They'r getting desperate now by offering a split season ticket package. Going to be awful difficult for the athletic department to handle the loss of revenue . Is this the result of high ticket prices and the atmosphere that has been created over the past few years or have people just lost interest in the program ? They're all contributing factors. Ultimately, they allby Towerroad - Hockey
Re-Sign or Resign - 8 years ago
Cornell does the unexpected, they ask their supporters what they think. You are called into Andy Noel's office and asked. "If you were in my shoes what performance this season would justify resigning Coach Schafer?by Towerroad - Hockey
What are your expectations? - 8 years ago
Ok, it is time for the start of season annual polls. What performance by the Mens Hockey Team would lead you to say. "Yeah, they did pretty much what I expected this season"by Towerroad - Hockey
Re: Season tickets - 8 years ago
Cop at Lynah A lot of season tickets are not being renewed from what I hear. Based on a quick scan, perhaps 10%-15% of the non student seats are still available. Season tickets are now including tickets for football and lax. I am unsure how this compares with prior yearsby Towerroad - Hockey
Re: Future Coaching? - 8 years ago
TimV Wow. I'm duly chastised. Jim- please read back over the thread- I didn't initiate the Bennett idea, and have absolutely no inside info. I just commented on it when the original poster expressed that no one responded to him/her. I did this based on Bennett's body of work aside from his incident with RPI, which I am willing to look at as an aberration unworthy of the vitriol the RPI faby Towerroad - Hockey
Re: Cornell football 2015... - 8 years ago
CAS ...picked to finish last in the Ivies, in a just released media poll. Columbia, which has lost its last 21 games but has a new head coach, is picked ahead of us. Do we play football?by Towerroad - Other Sports
Re: Future Coaching? - 8 years ago
06Cowboy13 There shouldn't be a question whether Mike's contract is renewed. He has built this program up over the last 15 years to be a force, year after year. Our goaltending(Gillam, Iles, Scrivens, McKee and Leneveau etc.) has been top notch year after year and our defense is extremely solid. Our lack of offense is a bit of an issue this past season but it will come around with a new stock ofby Towerroad - Hockey
Re: Future Coaching? - 8 years ago
Cop at Lynah Mike has already stated publicly that he tried new systems and they just didn't work. Hopefully he goes back to what he knows to be successful and we see a return to being in the hunt for league titles and NCAA berths. His intent to return to the old system is clear. Whether that system is still capable of taking us to the promised land is far from clear. Remember, the "14/15by Towerroad - Hockey