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Discussions about the Cornell men's and women's hockey teams
Re: Congress allows Ivy League antitrust exemption to expire - 1 year ago
All this bushwa about the "best" ranked colleges/universities is an exercise comparing wrestlers to high-jumpers. e.g.: Which is better, Cornell's Veterinary School or Harvard's Foreign Language Department?by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Miscellany, for trivia not worthy of its own thread . . . - 1 year ago
My apologies. It's just that I prefer fond memories to current speculations about the future of Cornell men's hockey - which also tend to be repetitive.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Congress allows Ivy League antitrust exemption to expire - 1 year ago
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!by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Miscellany, for trivia not worthy of its own thread . . . - 1 year ago
Mid-60's, Overheard at Colgate rink, between periods, Harkness and Colgate coach following teams to locker rooms in narrow passageway between and below fan's bleachers - Colgate coach: "Ease up a little, will you?" . Harkness: "Go * yourself!" Much more fun than a statistical analysis - for most fans.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Athletic correctness - 1 year ago
There you have it - from an expert on the subject. Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Athletic correctness - 1 year ago
If you can't sing good, sing loud. If you can't talk sense, talk lots.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Athletic correctness - 1 year ago
What we have here is a generation gap, a big generation gap! During several years of the 1960's Cornell fans assumed Big Red Men's hockey would win the Ivy league, figured they would go to the D-1 hockey playoffs, and even complained when they did not win the D-1 national hockey championship. It's not like that any more. Today Cornell men's hockey fans are very sensitive to any statement which miby osorojo - Hockey
Re: Athletic correctness - 1 year ago
You proclaim "People who mention free speech are against free speech." I concede the point. Your argument Trumps all objection. you:by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Athletic correctness - 1 year ago
I quickly tire of everyman attempts to parse causes for wins and losses - bag the dissertations on and dissections of wins and losses - even if you are/were a science or math major. You sure as hell weren't a student of logic or language... Me: "I support free speech." You: "That implies free speech is lacking."by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Athletic correctness - 1 year ago
"Promoting a winning spirit" is hardly denying such spirit exists. Quite the contrary. I began attending C.U. hockey games when the rink opened, watched C.U. battle Susquehanna, traveled to exotic venues like Princeton and Brown to attend games. Now I live over 1,000 miles from the nearest Cornell hockey game and seldom get to see a live game, That is the pitiful wisp of validity to youby osorojo - Hockey
Re: Athletic correctness - 1 year ago
I'm not promoting vulgarity - or blasphemy - only a winning spirit.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Athletic correctness - 1 year ago
Intensity, not decorum, is the soul of sports.by osorojo - Hockey
Athletic correctness - 1 year ago
I overheard this statement at an away game at Colgate in the mid-60's - between periods in a walkway leading to the dressing room between and beneath fans' bleachers. Cornell was clobbering Colgate. Colgate coach to Harkness: "Hey, ease up a little." Harkness: "Go **** yourself!" I miss Cornell winning hockey games and the lively spirit which accompanied these wins.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: blackwidow - 1 year ago
I wonder what the top five considerations are most commonly the deciding factor in a college hockey recruit's choice of school? My guess is head coach is near, if not the top of this list.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2023 and beyond - 1 year ago
Maybe Cornell scouts should look for aspiring politicians who dabble in hockey? The last one we had like that was a doozie!by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2022-23 Predictions - 1 year ago
I take it suggesting any connection between coaching and winning is out-of-bounds? I have watched several coaches win numerous games for their teams - Harkness not the least of which.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Sad news - 1 year ago
Watching these guys play and win, even driving for hours to away games, was a significant* part of my Cornell experience. * and positive!by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Alumni in the Pros 2021-2022 - 1 year ago
We can only hope that offering college hockey players a year or two longer of eligibility to play college hockey just might encourage them to take up education while they aren't playing/practicing hockey.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2022 Incoming Recruits - 1 year ago
I'm old-school enough to suspect that even C.U. hockey transfers might take into account the reputation of a Cornell education could benefit their non-hockey, post-university careers and livesby osorojo - Hockey
Re: NCAA hockey 2022 tournament - 2 years ago
Today top-shelf academic institutions go by one name or just a few letters, while their less renowned educational counterparts adopt long, multi-word descriptive names. Let's keep C.U. hockey cheers nice and short.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: An even ice rink - 2 years ago
I don't think you can train an athletes for a sudden four or five thousand foot increase in altitude by holding their breath at sea level.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: An even ice rink - 2 years ago
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov "General consensus is that athletes should arrive at moderate altitude AT LEAST TWO WEEKS before a given event."by osorojo - Hockey
Re: An even ice rink - 2 years ago
I wonder how coaches and players feel about real or imagined claims of high-altitude rinks being an advantage for home teams playing opponents fresh from the lowlands?by osorojo - Hockey
Re: An even ice rink - 2 years ago
To even things up how about the high-altitude team has to walk on their skates (with no skate guards) over 30 yards of concrete sidewalk before the game - and not sharpen their skates afterward? That should level-up the playing field (ice).by osorojo - Hockey
Re: An even ice rink - 2 years ago
A hockey player who is not acclimated to a 5,000 foot rise in altitude suffers a degradation of stamina from the first drop of the puck, not just on certain plays or circumstances. It's about as fair as a hockey team with little speed raising their home ice temperature to exactly 32 degrees to slow down the speedy visitors. Don't tell me this slow-ice ploy has not been used, or it hasn't worked aby osorojo - Hockey
An even ice rink - 2 years ago
With 76 seconds left in the hockey game Denver beat Minnesota Duluth 2-1. The Minnesota-Duluth ice rink is 702 feet above sea level; Denver is 5,279 feet above sea level. The Loveland Ice Arena is 4,982 feet above sea level: below Denver. Ice hockey is an oxygen-deficit game. The ice was a perfectly level playing field, but hardly a neutral venue.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Lake Placid roll call - 2 years ago
I enjoy some small satisfaction that the odds against either Quinnipiac or Harvard winning the title involve a decimal point - and lots of zeros.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2022 Takeaways - Root for any ECAC-in-NCAAs team - 2 years ago
I can't bring myself to root for a league, let alone an opponent. Harkness said it best one night at Colgate when Cornell was clobbering the home team. The coaches were walking side-by-side behind the teams between periods through a gap in the bleachers leading to the dressing room. Seated on the bleacher above this gap I clearly heard the Colgate coach suggest Ned should tell his players to &quoby osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2020 Takeaways - 2 years ago
As a member of the class of '64 I was privileged to enjoy the first and most spectacularly successful decade of Cornell hockey. Those early teams had nowhere to go but up, and did they ever! The past few seasons of Cornell hockey have placed the team in a similar position. The new decade should be a beauty!by osorojo - Hockey