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Discussions about the Cornell men's and women's hockey teams
Re: Responsibility for effect of cheers - 19 years ago
The columnist, Eric Zorn, does a nice job delving into the pschye of beyond-reasonable sports fanatics: >>> Just enjoy with me the transformation of the slightly built fan in the dark golf shirt--several media reports have said his name is Mike Ryan--from punk loudmouth idiot jerk to terrified little wimp.... Police later say that Ryan didn't throw the beverage; it's still unclear exby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Vermont/Dartmouth Weekend - 19 years ago
Unofficially, when we bought standing room tickets for a regular weekend (ie not Harvard), it was no problem to move into the seats that were unclaimed. Dozens not hundreds of people could do this. I was thinking about something more upfront for a Thanksgiving weekend game from Cornell athletics, perhaps telling townspeople who wanted to see a Big Red game that they could get almost guaranteed seby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Harvard Football Fans agree... - 19 years ago
The photo in the Yale Daily News shows characters that could be WE SUCK or OE SOCH or who knows what. It's a little raggedy around the edges. Would have benefitted from anti-aliasing or something. The story suggests the suspicions were not that Yale students were pulling a prank, but that it was MIT students all over again. MIT circa 1980 (?) planted a device on the sidelines that popped up dby billhoward - Hockey
Re: The Proof - 19 years ago
Whenever you think you've come up with something clever - a cheer, a flip-card hoax - somebody else may have been there first. Cal Tech definitely did it first with the flip cards. Regardless of possible Photoshop enhancements to the version passed around online that makes We Suck seem more legible, it's often hard at the field to tell just what many flip cards say, just as it's hard to tellby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Vermont/Dartmouth Weekend - 19 years ago
Too bad the various athletic departments (including Cornell's) can't work some kind of better deal to get in townspeople on thanksgiving weekend so the places are filled, not just sold out, every game. Right now it sounds as if you have to voluntarily turn your tickets back in to the ticket office? If so that means a trip to the office. (Or can an email notice suffice?) Plus I bet there's a lby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Responsibility for effect of cheers - 19 years ago
The Sports Illustrated cover piece on the Pistons / Pacers donnybrook was a sobering, if deadline-driven, indictment of both the goons in the audience and the ones on the playing court. It may be time even within Lynah to reconsider the line between supporting the team and being out of control. Cheers, of course. Witty and even rude but funny insults, why not - we need to keep pace with the cby billhoward - Hockey
Re: 11/27:Canisius 0 @ Cornell 0 - 19 years ago
calgARI '07 Wrote: Getting a little bit concerned with Cornell's offense, not because they didn't blow out Canisius tonight, but because it genuinely seems as if this team is struggling to get chances and convert them. Defense is awesome. Nobody has gotten more than two goals against Cornell and the GA average is 1.22, more than half a goal better than anyone else. Offense started out aweby billhoward - Hockey
Re: OT: Apparently we have a squeakball team - 19 years ago
Who turn pro and become pugilists.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: 11/20: Cornell 1 @ Dartmouth 2, F/OT - 19 years ago
Not to excuse mistakes of identification, but Cornell (and other colleges and pro teams) could do a better job of putting jersey numbers on more places. Sometimes there's no jersey number on the front or on the sides of the helmet. Maybe the player's arm is at the right angle to the camera and you can see his sleeve patch, but maybe it's obscured by a defender draped around him, or maybe the jersby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Davy at the Everblades - 19 years ago
Suggestion: If you want specific music played, have somebody who represents the Pep Band send the CD under official cover. And maybe send a courtesy copy to Craig Brush '71 ('70?) who oversees the TECO arena and got the tournament going. If you have any thought of spending the Christmas-New Year's week in southern Florida on the Gulf Coast side, the tournament is sensational. And if the reaby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Vermont/Dartmouth Weekend - 19 years ago
Dart~Ben Wrote: True enough, although I will point out that Dartmouth is roughly 1/3rd the size of Cornell (4,400 undergrads to 13,600 undergrads), Hanover is helluva lot smaller than Ithaca, and hell, Cornell alone is bigger than Hanover andthe Dartmouth student body combined. And yet our arena is roughly 15-20% bigger. You could fit the entire Dartmouth student body into Thompson and it woulby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Majors for piddly shit - 19 years ago
"Game disqualification" needs to have a clearer name, such as "next-game disqualification." "Game DQ" by itself could be read to mean DQ for the current game or the next game. Clearly it's not clear or we'd not be having these questions pop up. You'll notice the game reports on USCHO.com or cornellbigred.com don't excactly go into detail.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Majors for piddly shit - 19 years ago
Section A Banshee Wrote: "This isn't figure skating, it's hockey." --Steve Moore Tell that to the BU player who was paralyzed on his first varsity shift at BU.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Vermont/Dartmouth - USCHO picks Cornell sweep - 19 years ago
uscho.com picks the New York State teams to sweep this weekend. But the column thinks more of Colgate's offense than Cornell's: Cornell 3, UVM 2 Colgate 4, Dartmouth 3 Cornell 2, Dartmouth 1 Colgate 3, UVM 1 If Juan Martinez is right, that's going to mess up McKee's GAA average by a couple hundredths. (Remember we did this what-if math last year to see if Jim Howard of Mainby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Sports Illustrated: Top 5 College Hockey Programs - 19 years ago
SI's College Hockey Top 5 1 BC 2 Michigan 3 Minnesota 4 Colorado College 5 Cornell. "The Big Red is first in the nation in defense (1.17 goals allowed per game) and penalty killing percentage (94.3) and tied for second in offense (4.00 goals per game)." It's in the Scorecard section of the 11/22/04 issue (Basketball Preview). It lists the top five teams in the nation this year -by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Vermont - 19 years ago
There's such a difference between a passing facial gesture in person and the emoticon that hangs there forever. To a lot of people, emoticons seem to be overkill. Reluctantly some people use the single text emoticon <g> to mean "this is actually tongue in cheek ," and no other emoticon.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Who stole whose cheers? - 19 years ago
Before laying claim to originality, definitely see if Wisconisn had it first. Their fans are legend. When Wisonsin made the NCAA final in Boston 1972, it seems as if dozens and dozens of charter buses loaded with red-shirted Badger fans descended on Boston Garden. And they probably spend time on those reds and at other times dreaming up more and better cheers, and insults.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Vermont - 19 years ago
At least it should be so cold the mud will be ice, so there's that in favor on the Vermont trip.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Humbling Weekend - 19 years ago
Through iterations and learning from mistakes, the power rankings get better over time. And it's fun to play what if. Problem is, game to game variability is still worth a couple goals a game, more than all the fine tuning you can do. In baseball, we're seeing savvier statistics the past couple years. Turns out batting average isn't maybe the best way to rank ballplayers.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Humbling Weekend - 19 years ago
JohnnieAg'99 Wrote: billhoward Wroteoint was: It's all about peaking at the end of the season. So, you can "underachieve" , but do well in the playoffs, win two titles, and claim a good degree of success? Who does that sound like? It sounds like my undergraduate days. If you do poorly at the outset, the professor is always impressed by the progress you made later on. This wby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell-Michigan State game 1 postmortem - 19 years ago
You're right that expectations are so high with Mike Schafer. At least with the current Mike Schafer. We forget that after he won the ECACs in his first two years (meaning the team had a lot of Brian McCutcheon in it), Schafer then suffered through seasons of 15, 16, and 14 losses before the turnaround 16-12-5 season of 2001 and then the three great seasons leading up to this year. I still thby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Humbling Weekend - 19 years ago
Jacob '06 Wrote: Wheres facetimer when you need him? There are some posters who're a bit like herpes -- they lie dormant for long periods, only to surface at critical junctures. Could be lunar, too.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Michigan State Signs - 19 years ago
Sounds as if the Pep Band is doing a lot with a little money. And whatever musicans showed up last spring at the Cornell at Princeton lacrosse game, and there were a lot of them, they were much appreciated, and a lot louder than the Princeton Tiger No Show No March No Pep Band. Not to quibble when you say no money comes from Cornell, only from SAFC (Student Assembly Finance Commission), but dby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Humbling Weekend - 19 years ago
Apropos of Cornell's great first four games and humbling fifth and sixth games, I just finished re-reading A Season Inside, Jon Feinstein's chronicle of Cornell's 1988 Ivy champsionship basketball season along with the seasons of the teams that made the basketball playoffs that year. (OK, Cornell got about three sentences for getting blown by Arizona and Steve Kerr in the opening round. It was reby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Michigan State Signs - 19 years ago
I check off Big Red Pep band on my Cornell Fund card and make it for $500, Cornell is going to deduct $500 from whatever it was planning to give the pep band otherwise. Call me a cynic. The only way the pep band would see extra money is if Cornell had plans to lay $10,000 on the pep band in the next year and concerned alumni designate $11,000, then Cornell is sort of stuck forking over elevenby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Michigan State Signs - 19 years ago
Section A Banshee Wrote: billhoward Wrote: Section A Banshee Wrote: Ew. Do you really want a Cornell version of that one guy with the trumpet from Clarkson who showed up to the quarterfinals last season? The pepband recently may or may not have gotten reamed out by their advisory council for taking too many roadtrips. The pep band gets reamed out for supporting the teams at sportiby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Gametracker lame - 19 years ago
Gametracker only appears to run 1-2 game-time minutes behind life action.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: 11/14: Cornell 0 MSU 1, 1st - 19 years ago
Tom14850 Wrote: Who is Jason Weinstein? Aren't we listening to Adam Wodon? You must be getting one hell of a tape delay if you hear Adam's dulcet tones.by billhoward - Hockey
Gametracker lame - 19 years ago
Anybody else find the gametracker hard to read, overburdened with busy moving ads, and unwilling to show more than about 15 lines of play by play at one time? Yesterday for the football game the tracker stopped for about 5 minutes, those 5 minutes being the last 90 seconds of the game when quite a bit happened.by billhoward - Hockey