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Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - 15 days ago
Give Connor Buczek credit for making the goalie change to Wyatt Knust (.750 save pct) at halftime not, say, when it was a 7-0 deficit in the first. Less sense of panic, less damage to first goaltender Matthew Tully (.300).by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - 15 days ago
The last-minute-of-basketball problem is the timeouts and the commercials. Not the play itself.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - 15 days ago
It's almost midnight, the game has been over going on 2 1/2 hours, and there's no sign of a Cornell lacrosse story on cornellbigred-com. Syracuse U site has its story up. Ditto the Syracuse newspaper's site. Cornell has its story up about the Orange lax women taking down Cornell 17-4. Bupkis about Cornell men's lax and one of the year's best games in D1. I don't believe anybody at Cornell spby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - 16 days ago
mike1960I hope Barry gets better soon and returns. The camera person needs to stop with the close ups! I can't see the field! OTOH: The video guy needs to zoom in some of the time, too. If I'm a coach charting how the sets worked and I need to see the entire half of the field, cool. But when it's zoomed so far out and you can't see the ball, and you know if it was a goal or not you only when youby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - 16 days ago
mike1960I hope Barry gets better soon and returns. The camera person needs to stop with the close ups! I can't see the field! Well then you're not doing worse than our video crew. Look, I appreciate it's being broadcast and the signal stability is worlds better than 2008. But JFC, Track. The. Ball.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - reset needed - 16 days ago
Mr. Niss chimpfood That is the best fucking game I have ever seen and will ever see I said the same thing to my wife, who went to Syracuse (ha ha loser) Is there a spare bedroom you're sleeping in? Or is the backseat comfy with about three pillows and a blanket?by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - rest of season - 16 days ago
Is this the game where we slipped past the odds or ... does this set us up for the rest of the season? Give us the confidence to clobber the rest of the Ivy competition even if we don't host the ILT?by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - 16 days ago
mike1960 How do we not pick that guy up??? We let him walk right to the goal and toss it in. Wasn't this a 2009 Lesson Learned?by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - 16 days ago
ugarte Of course the real when the rubber meets the road moment is when we play Syracuse in the postseason. Or in the Groundhog Day replay of Cornell-Syracuse 4/2/24. Syracuse got 17 goals in this parallel game but ... phew ... it was the women's lax match earlier. I know I was drinking too much in the run as the men went down 7-0. Seeing this made me doubt what I saw. I mean, we know from 2009 Sby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - 16 days ago
mike1960 I'm too old for this. Dude, you are never too old for this. This is better for anti-aging than injecting monkey hormones. Or lurking in the ladies' dressing room at Bergdorf. I saw Cornell lose about 3 times in my mind in the overtime before we nailed the victory that resurrects this season. LGR!!! I take back about 33% of what I said about the broadcast / broadcaster quality earby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - reset needed - 16 days ago
Cornell got off a terrible start, gave up the first 7? more? goals ... can't win faceoffs ... the defense is challenged in this game at least ... and it feels unclear how we made it into the top ten earlier in the season. And yet we're down only 14-10 at the half. Already Syracuse has given up more goals than its per-game season average. This matters less than whether Cornell wins but ... Ms.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - 16 days ago
Make or break game for Cornell. It feels as if we're on the cusp of not making the NCAA tournament if we don't win the Ivy League tournament. And that will be harder with the loss to Penn and the possibility we don't host the tournament. We need Yale and Princeton to step up and knock Penn around. Meanwhile, let's go, Red. And Penn has a tough final three games: at Yale, vs. Harvard, at Princby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 23 days ago
The smaller cities and smaller arenas may be hungrier for the NCAA's business. Springfield MA is an 8,000-seat arena and Midwest regional site Centene Community Center in Maryland Heights, Missouri , I believe the largest of their four rinks is 3,500 (one is outdoors, covered). Syracuse, Binghamton and Glens Falls and have 4,000+ and could bid for NCAA hockey regionals. Or Lake Placid.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: NCAA regionals in Springfield - seating chart - 23 days ago
Seating chart of the Springfield Civic Center / MassMutual Center, below. Cornell will be the visiting team against Maine. Cornell attacks twice: Behind the goal: Sections 1-5, 28-31 Out to blue line: 2-7, 26-27. Center ice is: 8-10, 23-25 IIRC there is an upper and lower level and you can go between them. It is not an upper / lower bowl. Hockey seating capacity is 6,800. Main Street, Spby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 28 days ago
Final was Syracuse 10, Duke 4. 3/20/24by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Lake Placid-2024 - dining-drinking - 28 days ago
On Main Street, you are never more than 50 feet from the next bar and warming refreshment.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lake Placid-2024 - 28 days ago
a) Fiber is 300 yards away but not getting closer. Our unprovisioned part of the road has our camp with a half dozen buildings and families, one other camp, and about 150 people. Unfortunately 125 of them are veterans of the Revolutionary War and not voting any more. I believe. "Camp" is Adirondack-speak for anything from an open-front lean-to to the places the robber barons built circaby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lake Placid-2024 - 28 days ago
(I'm hoping Congresswoman Stefanik stays in that position and develops enough additional clout to bring wired internet and electricity along our road 15 miles outside LP that has it at both ends, but not the 250 yards in the middle. Yeah, we've got solar and we've got a backup generator, but there's nothing like grid power if you want to add a heat pump. You especially want electric if a governmeby billhoward - Hockey
Basketball March Madness 2024 - 28 days ago
Let's see how long #13 Yale holds on versus #4 Auburn, Friday, 4:15 pm. Consider this understatement insight: Fox61 TV Yale Men’s Basketball travels to Spokane to face the No. 4 seed Auburn in the Round of 64 Down six with 22 seconds left, Yale beat the odds and the buzzer against Brown to win the Ivy League, but the Bulldogs face steeper competition against Auburn.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Lake Placid-2024 - 28 days ago
Sorry, I switched to an LG Gram (<3 pounds, 17-inch screen) and as part of the weight-reduction project, they removed the irony font. My bad. I was thinking of the little guy getting the same information as the big guy. Like how Toyota shared most all its factory production data with suppliers so they could make parts ever better. Savvy corporations, at least in books about business innovaby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lake Placid-2024 - 28 days ago
adamw billhoward Correct, the ECAC site box score has it as 3839, or 49.9% full in a 7700-seat arena, for Colgate's 3-2 win over Harvard a year ago in Placid. I never know if the site publishes tickets sold for the game or people who actually come in. I don't know any venue on the planet anymore that counts people who come in. It's always tickets sold. Imagine perfect world if only for a moment,by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lake Placid-2024 - dining-drinking - 28 days ago
Here's what to do in Lake Placid this weekend with Cornell in the ECACs. Before you go: Bring a pair of snow brushes and extra windshield washer fluid. Will not reach 30 all weekend. Snowy Saturday, 5"-8", Lake Placid can handle it no problem. For visitors, Lake Placid is effectively one street wide, a half mile long: Main Street, the greenish line. (the map points north.) The LP Olby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lake Placid-2024 - 29 days ago
Correct, the ECAC site box score has it as 3839, or 49.9% full in a 7700-seat arena, for Colgate's 3-2 win over Harvard a year ago in Placid. I never know if the site publishes tickets sold for the game or people who actually come in. I'm buying the two-game package but if Cornell loses Friday (unthinkable), we would not perhaps show Saturday, it being a multiple-of-ten anniversary for us. Atby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lake Placid-2024 - 29 days ago
I got tickets in the Quinnipiac section, section 24, kittycorner across from the Cornell section (11), because it has the most seats up high, it is the end Cornell attacks period 1 and 3, and in part because I love the irony of a school's broadcast journalism school being named (in part) to honor Ed McMahon (think Jimmy Kimmel's Guillermo). Most of the Q partisans will have decamped to watering hby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lake Placid-2024 - 4 weeks ago
St. Lawrence definitely helps attendance in Lake Placid. Clarkson a bit more. Clarkson 3700 students St. Lawrence 2200 students The best possible ECAC-in-Placid turnout would be Cornell, Clarkson, St. Lawrence and, um, pick one, maybe RPI. It is about 80 miles from Clarkson (+5 for St Lawrence) to Lake Placid but it is dark (well, yeah), twisty road that is not well-striped. Read: Iby billhoward - Hockey
Re: MLAX: Cornell vs Princeton 3/17/24 - 4 weeks ago
We don't lose many lacrosse games when during the game we score seven unanswered. I don't know of any games we allowed 10 unanswered goals and had a whiff of winning. Until today. Jeez, the Princeton crew at 1.8 left on the scoreboard, they looked like orphans who missed the party boat. Hey, there's always Wall Street to make you feel better, lads.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 4 weeks ago
Sad news for Andy Noel-haters. He's baaaack! (As a fan.) I shook his hand walking out of the Princeton lacrosse game and wished him well. Remember, it was Him who hired Connor Buczek. And Brian Earl. And etcetera. The Cornell coaching staff is his doing, outside of Mike Schafer. And it was his doing to let the new AD hire the football coach, rather than stick it on Nicki Moore. The yodeliby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 4 weeks ago
BearLover There are some YouTube videos with yours of college hockey facilities. For example, UMass, which provides its players 24-hour access to a rink and gym exclusive to the hockey team: Contrast with the Cornell men’s team, which shares its ice with the women’s team, figure skating team, club team, intramurals, and recreational skaters, and which has a couple exclusive bikes and treadmiby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Harvard @ Cornell Saturday - 4 weeks ago
ugarte Trotsky SLU and Dartmouth have advanced.LFGR! i never remember if ecac reseeds for LP. Pretty sure high plays low, and the two middles (Cornell, Dartmouth) play. I'm also pretty certain the top seed used to get its pick or early or late game, always chose early, so the high remaining seed gets assigned the 4 pm Friday game. More time for Cornell fans to drive up.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lake Placid-2024 - 4 weeks ago
pmbblblaw Anyone know where the Cornell fan section will be at Lake Placid this year? Be nice to know out which goal Cornell attacks first and third in case you want your seats there (or the goal Cornell defends if you prefer defense). We will be the home team / white sweaters for the Friday game and if we advance, away team / red sweaters Saturday if Quinnipiac also advances. Based on last yearby billhoward - Hockey