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Discussions about the Cornell men's and women's hockey teams
Re: ECAC 2024 Discussion Thread - 7 weeks ago
ursusminor Give My Regards ursusminor After Friday, you will know that RPI doesn't have much power, and the penalty kill is at the bottom of the NCAA. In other words, exactly the kind of team that Cornell fans should be worried about at this point. RPI is due to upset someone. The only real upset so far this year was beating Clarkson in Potsdam, but RPI doesn't have the talent it had on 12/by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 8 months ago
This article say Cornell has more legacy students than black students! (Notre Dame and USc, too.) It's about Wesleyan University dropping them. MIT and Johns Hopkins already have. Maybe Cornell needs the $$$ more than they do? It's bad policy and they should drop it as soon as they are able to.by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 8 months ago
Did the decision refer to how U of Texas does admissions? Admission is pretty much guaranteed to Texas applicants who graduate in the top 10% of their HS class. This does a lot to level the playing field for disadvantaged kids. So it boosts diversity without resorting to racial quotas. The great majority of black and hispanic kids admitted under Harvard's approach were from the top 20% of theby Troyfan - Hockey
Re: RIP John Hughes - 10 months ago
This sorry thread makes Ariana Dumbledore's wake look like a model of decorum. John Hughes was a great Cornellian and a great hockey player. His contributions to Cornell, the memories he helped make for those of us old enough to have them are more than enough to concern us at the moment.by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others, 2022-23 - 1 year ago
Iceberg Trotsky Iceberg Yale also leading at Merrimack 3-1 well into the 3rd. That would be a huge upset to the benefit of the rest of the ECACMerrimack 2 third period goals, now 3-3. And that's how it ends...without a shootout. Meanwhile, Harvard comes back from 3-0 down and wins late in overtime 4-3 We did the exact same thing to Harvard in the Lance Nethery era. Down 3-0 midway in tby Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Duluth (10.28 and 10.29) - 1 year ago
Al DeFlorio Troyfan Cornell's 1st 2 games vs. MD's 7th and 8th. I know, UND situation was same last year. Still, 6 more games means mid-season form for them, just out of the gate for us. Cornell had played 13 games before UND. Guess I was righter than I thought but for the wrong reason.by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Duluth (10.28 and 10.29) - 1 year ago
Cornell's 1st 2 games vs. MD's 7th and 8th. I know, UND situation was same last year. Still, 6 more games means mid-season form for them, just out of the gate for us.by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: AI coming to a hockey rink near you soon - 1 year ago
Oops, I thought it was American International.by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Congress allows Ivy League antitrust exemption to expire - 1 year ago
I don't have a problem with using ability to pay as an admissions criterion provided it doesn't get carried to extremes. For one thing, it leaves more money to be distributed among kids who need aid. Also, except for Harvard, which could eliminate tuition entirely and not miss a beat, every college has to be aware that, hey, we can get this kid for free and his parents might have a little leftby Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Congress allows Ivy League antitrust exemption to expire - 1 year ago
billhoward IIRC, among the Ivies, they collud—sorry, came to agreement, with the best interests of students in mind—that if the Ivies provided equal or equivalent aid packages to those admitted to more than one Ivy, this was a great advantage to the admitted applicant because he or she then could choose the best fit based on academic reasons. Critics and free-market types made the point thatby Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Congress allows Ivy League antitrust exemption to expire - 1 year ago
osorojo I doubt the welfare of a legitimate institution of higher education depends upon the success of its amateur college sports teams. On the flip -side, not one successful sports team has spawned an institution of higher (or even lower) education! I've heard or read that good but small schools, like Union and Colgate, use athletic success to increase their visibility. Williams and Oberlin,by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Congress allows Ivy League antitrust exemption to expire - 1 year ago
Why don't they just keep colluding? Is anyone outside or inside the Ivies likely to care? Applicants, I guess...Non-Ivy schools compete for hot applicants. So they might feel Ivies should too. But does competition have to penetrate every niche of the market? So what if a handful of colleges go off and do their own thing? Isn't there enough competition to go around? Even if worse came to wby Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Congress allows Ivy League antitrust exemption to expire - 1 year ago
The Ivy League is a sports conference where members aren't allowed to give athletic scholarships. Is that a condition that is subject to anti-trust persecution?by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: ESPN+ price increase - 2 years ago
That's nothing. Grape Nuts were $4.29 yesterday vs. $2.69 a year ago.by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Attendance policies in ECAC - 2 years ago
Why are vaccinated people required to wear masks? Doesn't the shot prevent the virus from entering cells and replicating? The vaccinated shouldn't have viruses to spread except for what they may have just inhaled.by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: The Future - 2 years ago
Prediction is difficult, especially about the future.by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Sun rehashes 1969-70 season - 3 years ago
This is absolutely the best post on any thread on any board that I have ever seen! Thank you jkhan!by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: 2020-21 Season *Officially* Delayed - 3 years ago
Noneya Business It doesn't fundamentally matter where they have gone. As a reader here forever, the typical response from the exalted members will certainly indicate the boorish stupidity to play anywhere but CU. However, these kids at CU will all be paying for 4 years of school to play only 3, when they could all receive a quality education elsewhere on scholarship and still play 4. Tby Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Greatest Game? - 3 years ago
I heard it on the radio, Cornell Providence ECAC 1979 quarterfinal. My candidate would be the 1970 National Championship vs. Clarkson. I don't remember the details even though, or because, I was there. But I think Cornell was down a goal when Dan Lodboa scored while Clarkson was on a 5 - 3 power play. He got 2 more goals to win it. The semi was great as well. Cornell was down 1by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: 2020-21 Season *Officially* Delayed - 3 years ago
Al DeFlorio Troyfan Big East is playing, Big 10. Why not ECAC? College football is playing with fits and starts. Games cancelled or rescheduled. But they're managing. I don't know if a hockey program is like a train that you can just hop on and hop off and it just keeps going. Once players start going somewhere else they keep going there. Programs become places to be or to consider. Otheby Troyfan - Hockey
Re: 2020-21 Season *Officially* Delayed - 3 years ago
Big East is playing, Big 10. Why not ECAC? College football is playing with fits and starts. Games cancelled or rescheduled. But they're managing. I don't know if a hockey program is like a train that you can just hop on and hop off and it just keeps going. Once players start going somewhere else they keep going there. Programs become places to be or to consider. Others also with good coby Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Opponent News 19-20 - 3 years ago
There were 2 Big Ten hockey games on TV last night. Why didn't they cancel?by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Attention hockey fans . . . - 3 years ago
In MA EZ Pass was cheaper when they went to electronic tolling. Now it's higher?by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: RIT Cancels 2020-2021 Hockey Season - 3 years ago
They had on Wisconsin vs. Notre Dame last night. Did the King of Ivy ask how they did it? Excess of caution is great but not unlimitedly.by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: RIT Cancels 2020-2021 Hockey Season - 3 years ago
I think other colleges will follow just like they did with the fall sports. Winter sports are money losers (maybe not basketball?) so they won't have the incentive to restore them like the did with football.by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: RIT Cancels 2020-2021 Hockey Season - 3 years ago
The point of canceling sporting events is to reduce covid spread. Did anyone ever look at colleges which are running sporting events vs. those that aren't? Clemson vs. whatever? Is it sporting events, off-campus speakers, bars, frat parties, or what? Cornell's got it under control but they've done so many things they could probably could have football and it wouldn't matter. The NFL and NCAAby Troyfan - Hockey
Re: coaches coming from the pros. is it a trend? - 3 years ago
Didn't RPI have one of these, Seth Albert? He was pretty good for a while. Recruited pretty well but his hot head brought him down. He had a bad habit of criticizing his players publicly. Personally I think the currency of having been behind an NHL bench has been cheapened. But each case is different.by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: coaches coming from the pros. is it a trend? - 3 years ago
A major league manager going to the minors? What's the history? What's the perception? Dealing with men is different from dealing with boys. NFL drafting is a world apart from college recruiting. No guarantees I can see one way or the other.by Troyfan - Hockey