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Discussions about the Cornell men's and women's hockey teams
Re: hockey fund raiser - 22 years ago
"but if one is withholding contributions (and in the past withheld contributions) merely because one now must pay to hear Cornell audio on the web, then you are in effect saying that you believe you are entitled to free access to the audio feed." You are simply hopeless, I regret to say. Age, can we have an "ignore" function?by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: hockey fund raiser - 22 years ago
Gametracker was available for home football games last year. I don't know about basketball. I can't stand the punishment involved in listening to Cornell basketball, so I wouldn't know. Gametracker was free last year. It's free this year--as is LiveStats for home hockey games. The highlight of this year's Gametracker season was the Towson game, when Gametracker declared the game over after Cby Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: hockey fund raiser - 22 years ago
Sorry about that, Jason. Football, hockey, basketball, and lacrosse were all broadcast last year. Contrary to the bullshit from Athletics, there's nothing new under the sun this year. Sorry. The premise of CUlater's entire first paragraph in that posting is that something's better now. Otherwise it says nothing. Fact is, there is nothing better. Why post it without finding out the facts fiby Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: hockey fund raiser - 22 years ago
big red apple wrote: We're on the same side here... I agree. I'm just trying to keep us there. And I think JTW's there, too, and don't want to see him "labeled" incorrectly.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: hockey fund raiser - 22 years ago
I just read JTW's postings, and see nothing charging Athletics with acting "nefariously," just stupidly.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: hockey fund raiser - 22 years ago
I'm beginning to think you're a shill for "our friends in Athletics," CUlater. Before you write something like this: "But the service for which we're asked to pay includes more than just play-by-play of the men's hockey games. Don't they provide more things overall than were available overall in 2001-2002?", why don't you find out whether what you're writing is bullshit? Yby Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: hockey fund raiser - 22 years ago
Reads like a good cause to me, apple. I especially like the line: "No subscription fee limits access to LII services."by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Guy in a agarage - 22 years ago
Look, go back and read your 10:58 and 15:35 postings. They're lectures, telling us we're committing "wrongs," calling us "children," telling us what we are or are not "entitled" to, etc. Feel free to donate whatever you'd like--and tell us why you think what you're doing is right, if you'd like. But--get off our case. We really don't need you as a conscience.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Guy in a agarage - 22 years ago
I don't think anyone here has said the AD wasn't within his "rights" to discontinue hockeycam, or that we, as fans, are "entitled" to anything--and I wish you'd stop playing those tunes. They're irrelevant. I'm within my rights to withhold support for Cornell athletics--and I'd like to stop getting lectures from you about exercising that right. What the AD did--in my viewby Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: hockey fund raiser - 22 years ago
R wrote: Ivy League rules apparently prohibit the Athletic Department to fund recruiting - funds may only be applied to administrative costs, i.e. road trips, uniforms, equipment, etc. I'll believe this when I see it in an official Ivy League document. The check I sent at the end of 2001 was made out to Cornell University. So if it was being used for recruiting expenses it was coming out of Cby Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Guy in a agarage - 22 years ago
Cutting off the noses of scores of fans to spite one face (Age) is stupid, too. Maybe even childish. Don't you think? So now you've given us two very different reasons for the killing of hockeycam, CUlater: control of quality and getting even with Age. Which is it? Got any others?by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: hockey fund raiser - 22 years ago
Treating your stakeholders badly is stupid. I'm disappointed you're unable to understand that. Access to our free will financial support is not an entitlement, either. When a vendor, contractor, merchant, etc., treats me badly, I withhold my business. This is no different. I'm sorry you can't seem to understand that, either. And I don't appreciate your snide comment about "children.&quby Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: hockey fund raiser - 22 years ago
CUlater '89 wrote: But the University clearly prefers that it have control over video coverage, not "a guy in a garage" who has no contractual obligation to the University and no standards to live up to (this is not to knock the HockeyCam in actual practice, but rather to describe the way the Department views this problem as a theoretical issue). IIRC, the University intends to implemby Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: OT: Wrestling - 22 years ago
The W.I.N. rankings, released yesterday, now have Cornell at #4, behind Oklahoma State, Iowa, and Minnesota. Lee and Wattenberg are both #2, Manotti #5.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: hockey fund raiser - 22 years ago
Just got off the phone with my paisan' Sam, who really is a terrific guy. Explained the "protest" to him, and he was understanding. He did not seem to be aware that hockeycam had been cut off by "your friends at Cornell athletics" (as they referred to themselves in the recent issue of Spirit), although he did know that it had been implemented last year by Age.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: hockey fund raiser - 22 years ago
Some of us who have given specifically to hockey in the past--or who have participated in other hockey-related activities, like the summer golf outing--get solicitation calls from the players each winter.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Nieuwy 500 Countdown: 4 - 22 years ago
Are you sure it's not Hieuwy or Dieuwy?by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Ithaca to Union - 22 years ago
This is why God evolved cars into having CD players.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Profiting from the Internet? - 22 years ago
Also in the latest Cornell Alumni Magazine is mention that "Cornell's CyberTower online program series has dropped its subscription fee."by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Cornell now doing banner ads! - 22 years ago
Columbia has deep-sixed Fathom.com, its attempt at delivering for-profit Internet education. Interestingly, The New York Times article says that Cornell has already shut down its commercial venture. I had not been aware of that.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: OT: Wrestling - 22 years ago
Jim, check the women's sports section of your Cornellian. There's exactly one page in mine on women's sports. We have come a long way.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: 2 North Country Wins - 22 years ago
Thanks, bra. Congrats to Todd. Great for the ECAC, as well as Clarkson. I'm surprised it took so long for an NHL team to really give him a full-blown shot. He was one helluva college player.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: USCHO player of the week? - 22 years ago
Harvard hosts Brown on the Friday prior to Beanpot round one and goes to RPI the Friday before round two. Playing at Union this past weekend means Harvard will not have to play the usual Saturday game--at Union--that weekend.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: USCHO player of the week? - 22 years ago
Beanpot games are played on Monday nights. Harvard playing after a Friday-Saturday ECAC weekend has been cited as putting them at a disadvantage vis-a-vis the Hockey East teams that have only Friday games scheduled before Beanpot Mondays.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: USCHO player of the week? - 22 years ago
Bet Bâby'd kick their collective asses.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: USCHO player of the week? - 22 years ago
Lanny Gare of UHN had a four-goal game this weekend.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: [Road trip] North Country? - 22 years ago
Imagine what it was like when 17 was a two-lane local road.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: OT: Wrestling - 22 years ago
I really enjoy wrestling, Jim. Remember Jim Nance at those Easterns? Unreal.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey