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Discussions about the Cornell men's and women's hockey teams
Re: RIT to go D-I - 19 years ago
There are a bunch of rinks on upper floors. I recall reading a couple in NYC are like 10 or so floors up. It's not as tough as it seems because once you've got a clear span (support posts would be tough on defensemen skating backwards) there's not much weight to support - no furniture, no wall partitions, just a fraction of an inch of frozen water. Chelsea Piers on NYC's west side is way coolby billhoward - Hockey
Re: AM Antenna for WHCU - 19 years ago
CCrane is also a good source of LED flashlights which run almost forever on a couple batteries.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Anyone have extra Harvard Sucks shirts? - 19 years ago
The more this thread carries on, the more it seems as if we're not always on opposite sides. But like two drunks arguing in a bar (okay, I’m maybe speaking only for myself), if we agreed we agreed, there'd be nothing more to talk about and it's still another ten days till the next hockey game. (Well, there is that RIT Goes D-1 thread which is now in a discussion about getting to Lake Placid viaby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Anyone have extra Harvard Sucks shirts? - 19 years ago
Pete Godenschwager Wrote: I'm reasonably sure trademark simply doesn't work that way. When you own the rights to a mark, you get to control how the mark is used, period - especially in situations where someone else wants to use the mark in a way that could devalue it. This topic has recently come up with TiVo. Apparently, "TiVo" can only be used as an adjective, and the company iby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Anyone have extra Harvard Sucks shirts? - 19 years ago
A-19 Wrote: whether or not you use "harvard" or "cornell" it's still trademark infringement, fyi. and i remind you this is a public forum. and even if you don't request permission initially, the schools have an uncanny way of finding you. and just another note on a related topic which irritates me: harvard will threaten to prosecute you for making such shirts. but walk past tby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Springfield or Albany, Part I? - 19 years ago
Will Wrote: I'm all for moving the tourney to Boston, because there's always stuff to do there. But isn't Springfield kind of a craphole? I was one of the people championing more, more, more stats to figure out where the best location for the ECAC tourney was based on lat/long, highway miles, driving time, possibly factoring for fan base. Your solution is a bit more elegant: It's better to dby billhoward - Hockey
Re: RIT to go D-I - 19 years ago
jeh25 Wrote:Just ask Age about the time he stopped by the lab, only to find and the technician and me weighting pocket change on the electronic balance. (We were trying to figure out for a given weight, which has a higher monetary value, dimes or quarters. We were bored.) It's a dead heat, isn't it? At least to one decimal place. Quarters are worth 2-1/2 times as much and weigh ~2-1/2 times aby billhoward - Hockey
Re: RIT to go D-I - 19 years ago
"Multidimensional scaling"? That had to be for course credit because a normal person would use existing toolsets like Streets & Trips or going lowest common denominator, MapQuest. It would be good to also map out geographic centers where you give extra credit to schools likely to show up for the tournament based on say attendance per game plus percentage of seats filled. And toby billhoward - Hockey
Re: RIT to go D-I - 19 years ago
Maybe Cornell and RIT could play a home over Thanksgiving weekend, say Friday in Rochester and Saturday in Ithaca. Bored-from-being-at-home Cornellians in the Rochester region would have something to do Friday night. And if it's downtown, there's that incredible club scene afterwards. <g>by billhoward - Hockey
Re: RIT to go D-I - 19 years ago
Indeed, Rochester / Blue Cross Arena would be a good place for an NCAA regional. The capacity is up from 7250 (when it was the War Memorial) to something like 11,200 circa 1996, so that should be enough to keep the NCAA happy for regionals. They probably want more capacity (>15,000?) for an NCAA Frozen Four now. But there has to be a host school so Cornell would have to step up to the platby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Championship Belt -- complete list! - 19 years ago
Dart~Ben Wrote: ... 3rd scenario - again, alternate belts are outside the purview of the official belt. People can make whatever rules they want for it, since there will only be one true Championship Belt. Kind of unusual describing an official belt, an alternate belt, and an unofficial belt for a Championship Belt that is wholly unsanctioned. OTOH, if fantasy baseball can have "ofby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Fish at Lynah East? - 19 years ago
Unless you want to wear Harvard shirts, throw fish on the Cornell side, run like hell, and hope Cornell converts on the PP.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Ride to NYC/Newark after Lynah East? - 19 years ago
Apropos of this request, what is the ride board now? Way back, it was a physical posting (ie paper) in the Straight. Is there now an eRideBoard? That should make it easier to meet a wider variety of perverts in the guise of good samaritans without ever leaving your dorm room.by billhoward - Hockey
Exhibition season at Canisus - 19 years ago
Long weekend in Canisus: School dumps its longtime hockey coach, Brian Cavanaugh, in mid-season over "irreconcilable differences." One source told USCHO the players were revolting. Apparently so, and in more than one way: >>> The Buffalo News reported in today's edition [12/13] that Daniel Bognar, 21, was arrested by Buffalo police after exposing himself and fighting with cuby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Polls 12/13 - 19 years ago
Greg Hornby proved the Big Red can score in OT at least once a year when he put one in 2:30 into OT in the title game last year against (The) OSU. It would have gone to a shootout had it remained a 3-3 tie (in which case the game would be a tie for the purposes of seasons standings and any end of season power rankings) and if I recall OSU's best scorer, Paul Caponigri, had gotten a 10 minute miscby billhoward - Hockey
Re: RIT to go D-I - 19 years ago
*If* there's a reason why it can't happen, it would probably be some NCAA rule that fears for the athletic purity of the HS students. In the minds of an NCAA bureaucrat, all those carefully laid down rules about when and when you can't visit, make phone calls, send letters, would be undermined by the proximity of a HS game and a college game on the same entertainent venue. The NCAA is good atby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Championship Belt -- complete list! - 19 years ago
The hard work is done by the people who researched old games where it was unclear if it was exhibition or regular season or even who actually won the game. That lets the rest of us argue nuance such as the meaning of the alternate belt. My own take is that if the belt holder doesn't make the NCAA tourney, then the alternate belt should expire with the new NCAA champion. Tie-goes-to-the-hoby billhoward - Hockey
Re: RIT to go D-I - 19 years ago
If there is a prohibition of HS and college on the same venue, it probably has to do with it being seen as some kind of unfair recruiting inducement. The NCAA's creed is to leave no small stone unturned in search of minor techical violations so they can in better conscience ignore wholesale payoffs and blatant violations in say, D1 basketball or football.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Polls 12/13 - 19 years ago
Maybe Cornell rose because it did no bad this past week. A couple teams just ahead of Cornell lost, which Cornell didn't do, so you have to ding them. 9 vs. 5 in the Everblades Classic seems like we have a better chance than 12 playing 5. This should be good: The No. 5, 9, and 15 teams playing; only one unranked team. Cornell and BC are both wishing they'd drawn St. Cloud State in the openeby billhoward - Hockey
Re: RIT to go D-I - 19 years ago
Sheesh. The ECACHL needs to go back to a shorter acronym. Four letters is enough. I think it should just be ECAC and the heck with confusion between the two groups. Not that they'd fall for it. You could also have a nested acronym, EHL, where E stands for ECAC, except EHL is already taken.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Championship Belt -- complete list! - 19 years ago
Harvard probably counts back to when John Harvard took the belt from Priscilla Alden. This thread is so ridiculous it deserves even further elevation. (You caught me cheating by my only going back to the Harkness era in my count of Cornell belt-holding.) Wouldn't it be great to have an actual cup -- okay, belt -- carried by the team holding the figurative belt, and it's passed along at game'sby billhoward - Hockey
Re: RIT to go D-I - 19 years ago
Is RIT playing in the original circa 1970 rink (Ritter?) built on the then-new campus? Capacity about 2,000? Still, this is good for Rochester and perhaps good for RIT, which would dearly love to be thought of in the same breath as RPI (and you can expect some name confusion) if not MIT. Obviously the printing/graphic arts and photgraphy programs are world-class. RIT is lucky that silly aby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Championship Belt -- complete list! - 19 years ago
Cornell appears to have done it 12 times including for 333 days in 1970-71. Since the 1960s, only RPI (1984-85, 363 days) held it longer. DATE WON FROM LOST TO 3/16/1967 Harvard Brown 12/18/1967 Harvard N Dakota 3/14/1969 Mich Denver 1/2/1970 BU RPI 12/30/1971 BU Harvard 3/10/1972 UNH BU 1/6/1973 Harvard BC 3/9/1973 Clarkson Wisc 1/24/1981 N'eastern Princeton 2/28/1981 Harvard Proby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Phil Kessel - 19 years ago
David Harding Wrote: 35+ years ago a Harvard alumnus came to my high school to talk with prospective applicants. When asked about the preference given to children of alumni, his response was that 1/10 of all students at Harvard would be in the botton 10% of their class. It made sense, he said, to spare students who had been top-notch academically in high school the emotional turmoil of doinby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Ned Harkness Cup and Cleary Bedpan? - 19 years ago
There is no one perfect team to represent a league at the tournament. The RS points leader ("regular season champion" won more games but that's over the course of the season. It might not be the best team to represent because it slipped due to injuries (Cornell w/o Vesce last year) or another team jelled the last two months. There is no title or award for the team whose winning pby billhoward - Hockey
Re: BC Will Be Without Schneider - 19 years ago
There are two possibilities why the highlight doesn't play: - You are incompetent - Your PC is incompetent. Some player software is missing. As you probably know, to do real things online, if you're using a Windows PC, you're going to need to add RealPlayer and Adobe Acrobat and Java environments and QuickTime (what you need here) and so forth until the task tray in the lower right cornerby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Phil Kessel - 19 years ago
In the past the recruiting / admissions system was described as being in bands or layers of preference. If you played the sport in HS four years and started, good for you, it's like playing the tuba in the band, but you still better take the Princeton Review to make sure the SATs are as good as possible. (That would have been me.) It's points toward your being a diverse student, if not quite tby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Ned Harkness Cup and Cleary Bedpan? - 19 years ago
Other voices have noted here before: Playoffs produce tournament winners who are called champions. They don't always settle who's the best team. (For instance, 2003 nationally.) Some of Cornell's finest moments in hockey (also lacrosse circa 1987 and 1988 and then the past couple years) have been catching fire late in the season and going further than the RS record would have suggested possiblby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Phil Kessel - 19 years ago
calgARI '07 Wrote: A very large portion of atheletes at all the Ivy league schools are "snuck past admissions" You think? Or is it a couple wildcards who get in because they are so good ... plus a bunch of others who get a nice preferential boost ... and some who get a boost just like you'd get for playing tuba real well in the HS band. Because for some of us the opposite is tooby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Everblades Tourney - 19 years ago
You might try sending an email to someone on the sports information staff and note that it has caused confusion in the past. Or contact / email the ticket office, since they ought to know what they're selling. The best solution and the one I may have copped to last year in a moment of desperation was contacting Sue Detzer, who I think is general manager of the hockey program despite her not havinby billhoward - Hockey