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Discussions about the Cornell men's and women's hockey teams
Re: Indoor sports facility announced - 2 months ago
David Harding One step at a time. Ithaca Planning Board has some suggestions. Ithaca Voice The board had some suggestions. Daniel Correa lauded the use of Sasaki Associates as landscape architect, but felt the landscaping was lacking in interest, and suggested decorative boulders or a small-quad like layout, and Chair Mitch Glass added that “it needs a lot more attention.” Emily Petrina likeby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell's new baseball stadium - "Booth Field" - 2 months ago
Chris H82 Photos? I keep meaning to snap a photo when we drive past Game Farm Road (a bad name if it makes people think we're in the middle of farm country) but it's not exactly right alongside the highway. Hopefully there will be stately trees at the new sports facility in a decade or two. I wonder if there's room to be buried among the trees, outside the stadium.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell's Sprint Football HC stepping down - 2 months ago
It's also a good idea -- a form of football that takes into account the inequities when some college mainstream football teams have front lines that average 300 pounds. The most a sprint player can weigh is 178 pounds at weigh-in 4 and 2 days before the match, I believe it is, meaning about 185 maybe 190 after the weigh-in. In 50 years the max weight at weigh-in has gone up 20 pounds.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell at Harvard, 1/26 - 2 months ago
arugula billhoward We lost in the fall before the team realized how bad Harvard would be. We lost to their reputation. This. Last year was similar. We lost twice to a great Harvard team because we didn’t believe we could win. Or that. When we lost in the fall, Harvard was five games removed from a 24-8-3 seasons with 3 wins over Cornell including the ECAC semifinal game. They are 3-11-3 enteby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell admissions - 2 months ago
Still unsure if the record number of applications is because Cornell is a totally excellent university, or because Cornell accepts the common application. How many Princeton-intenders decide on Cornell as a safer if not safe-admissions choice? Do colleges have a way of sussing what is really the applicant's first choice? Is it the reachiest of the reach schools? Or maybe the Ivies have doby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: NIL - 2 months ago
Weder Trotsky George64 Free-agentry - Couldn’t think of a better place to post this.Confused. Thought that rule was dead? You get the first transfer with immediate eligibility now, but you need to complete a year at School 2 before you can transfer to School 3 unless you get a waiver. That description may be what troubles the Justice Department: that players aren't free to jump at any time, inby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 2 months ago
Trotsky Any chance Cornell gets into the polls this year, even as "Also receiving votes"? It could happen with a tailwind and a few more W's including against Princeton and Yale. The AP Top 25 has 46 teams including the also-receiving-votes. Princeton is one of the also-mentioned. Here is the Ivy League power rankings. Read from the bottom to see which team might upset us. NCAAby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell at Harvard, 1/26 - 2 months ago
We lost in the fall before the team realized how bad Harvard would be. We lost to their reputation.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: AI killing SI - 2 months ago
Wow! I thought I was good at thread-drift. There is competition and that improves the breed. Thank you for keeping me on my toes. The high-end clothes if they can't or shouldn't be burned, could be shredded. They aren't produced in quantities like Zara. They aren't quirks that were done up in advance for the team that wound up losing the Super Bowl. So it's manageable. But if you send the cloby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: AI killing SI - 2 months ago
Exactly: took the golf supplement. Me too. I've played maybe 3 dozen rounds of golf, lifetime, so why not read more about it. Because you checked a box, it could be said you opted in or were a qualified and interested reader, which shows value to the advertiser. Every pub wants highly qualified readers. Especially the ones with money: I love the WSJ fashions for men (and women). A man's winteby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: AI killing SI - 2 months ago
martyI remember Ziff Davis mostly for double billing me for a magazine and then threatening collection (IIRC). I do remember that the only way a poor guy like me living in suburban Chicago could get their attention was to write a complaint to the NYS AG (Louis Lefkowitz?). Suddenly I was no longer invisible and was treated like a VIP. Geez, why didn't you call me? I would have taken care of itby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: AI killing SI - 2 months ago
marty Bill, I thought you would comment but really wondered if you have ever heard of this: It was she who oversaw the “advance text” portion of the mag, stories that mostly ran only in subscriber issues (versus newsstand), and only then for subscribers in affluent zip codes. In addition to regional editions (1-2 pages that are different for NYC, NJ, CT, NYS outside NYC), publications target morby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: New Cornell football coach search - 2 months ago
Lot of people taking six, eight years to graduate college back when there was a Vietnam war on, in the era of the student draft deferments that kept you from getting your ass shot off.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: AI killing SI - 2 months ago
John Walters' piece on the further demise of Sports Illustrated has the undercurrent of "Who? Me? Laid off? My magazine is losing ground? But I went to Yale!" It happens when the staff of magazines regarded as the best -- by National Magazine Awards, by circulation, by ad pages, by revenues, by the percentage of staff from the Ivies / Seven Sisters / Little Three -- lose their traction,by billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 2 months ago
RIT as of January 2024 is in the polling Top 20 (19 as of Jan. 22, both polls). If only we had two more games allowed, we could have played them this year in an early January dead week. They would be a reasonable replacement if Quinnipiac decides to flee to Hockey East or <gag> B1G.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 3 months ago
Also the era when Cornell with Black players beat Kentucky at Kentucky. Legend has it that the Wildcats' coach, Adolph Rupp, realized the future of basketball was not White-only. We won 92-77 (December 1968) and it helped Rupp let the state of Kentucky see the handwriting on the wall. That and Kentucky six months earlier losing the NCAA championship to UTEP (now Texas Western) with all-Black starby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 3 months ago
ugarte Princeton is running away with the Ivies on Kenpom (48) and are maybe an at-large candidate if they are a one-loss team heading into the ILT and get get upset. Cornell is creeping up on Yale for second (both in the 110s) in the conference with Harvard in 4th (~150). If this keeps up, great news. I like getting to the ILT. Just need a chance. Cornell's entire history in basketball in the erby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 3 months ago
Ken711 Cornell vs Robert Morris U. Friday 2:00 PM Maybe they could play in Barton Hall. Players just get up from the exam tables and walk over to the court.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: 2023-24 MEN'S SCHEDULE - 3 months ago
There are more than 15,000 college students in Canton, pop. 7,000 (St. Lawrence, Appleton Arena, 3,200 seats, and older by 7 years than Lynah) and Potsdam pop. 15,000 (Clarkson, Cheel Arena 4200 seating). So, yeah, there's food to be had but it is not as, ah, eclectic as in Ithaca. Beyond pizza, there's Chinese, Indian, Thai. County Seat in Canton has a goodly sized bar. You'll find something. Thby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Alumni in the pros 23-24 - 3 months ago
Justin Barron, 22, b. 11/15/01, Morgan's brother: 2017-2021 (4 seasons) Halifax Mooseheads, QMJHL 2020-2022 (2 seasons) Colorado Eagles, AHL, 43 GP in 2022 2021-2022 (1 season) Colorado Avalanche, 2GP 2021-2022 (1 season) Montreal Canadiens, 5GP, 2 Pts 2022-2023 (1 season) Laval Rocket, AHL, 25 GP 2022-2023 (1 season) Montreal Canadiens, 39 GP, 15 Ptsby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Odds of winning 2024 NCAAs - 3 months ago
These are PR mailings sent to anybody who's been in publishing and drawn a breath in the last couple years, with the sender's hope something will be written and mention the name of the oddsmaker. Which I did but not in the form of a direct link.by billhoward - Hockey
Cornell football 2024 - 4 months ago
Cornell 2024 football schedule as of December 2023. No kickoff times yet. All games currently listed as Saturday: We open on the road 1 game, 3 at home, 3 on the road, 2 at home, 1 on the road (Columbia is the continuing season-ender). Cornell Fall 2024 Football Schedule Sep 21 TBA @Colgate <-- With a new coach Sep 28 TBA Yale <-- Homecoming so likely 2pm kickoff Oct 05 TBAby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - 4 months ago
CU2007 upprdeck At the same time our HS has had far more concussions from soccer than football for many years. I read somewhere that girls soccer was the 2nd highest concussion rate, behind football. And I think USA Soccer banned headers until age 15 or so because of it - could be wrong there. Most were caused by heading the ball without fully developed neck muscles to support the impact on thby billhoward - Other Sports
Odds of winning 2024 NCAAs - 4 months ago
An oddsmaking site (betting site) says Cornell men have the 11th best odds of winning the NCAAs (22/1), with North Dakota the favorite and Quinnipiac the only more highly regarded ECAC team. Cornell women have the seventh best odds of winning, with TOSU favored and ECAC teams Colgate, Clarkson and Quinnipiac rated above Cornell. From the site sportsbetting dotAG (Antigua and Barbuda) NCAA Menby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell football 2023 - upstate NYS football success - 4 months ago
Correct is on Staten (not Long) Island. A place where the school motto should be, "How Much Off for Cash?" I'm surprised there wasn't a rebellion when the first toll readers went onto the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Some people there are believed to underreport their incomes. Wagner about 25 years ago, previous administration, had aspirations of being an Ivy caliber school, sized liby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - upstate NYS football success - 4 months ago
Correct is on Staten (not Long) Island. A place where the school motto should be, "How Much Off for Cash?" I'm surprised there wasn't a rebellion when the first toll readers went onto the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Some people there are believed to underreport their incomes. Wagner about 25 years ago, previous administration, had aspirations of being an Ivy caliber school, sized liby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - upstate NYS football success - 4 months ago
Update: Cortland won the 2023 D-III championship 38-37 over North Central (Ill.) 38-37 12/15. #1 North Central scored with a minute left, went for 2 to win and didn't make it. In the FCS semifinal, Albany got clobbered by South Dakota State, 59-0. 4 of the 32 NCAA D-III football playoff teams were from New York State: Cortland, Ithaca, Union and Alfred State. Cortland made it to the titlby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell in the Valley of the Sun - 4 months ago
So weird that we play two at Arizona State but we also may play them Dec. 30 in the Lake Placid Adirondack Winter Festival second day,depending on the outcome of Cornell-UMass and Clarkson-AState Friday games. For that, seats are available. And by the way, a lot of hotels are going $600-$1000 for Friday-Saturday. We will be in Phoenix/Scottsdale that week so Gwen and I are likely to be thereby billhoward - Hockey
Re: NCAA NIL/Subdivision Proposal - 4 months ago
Sounds like a discussion where many of us could be in violent agreement as well as disagreement. Why would Olivia Rodrigo, sorry, Olivia Dunne, want to share her big NIL payout to the LSU gymnasts who are less skilled that her? As well as the LSU gymnasts who are more skilled as gymnasts, less skilled with social media presence? Football and basketball may have their super-big-time world.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Dan Swanstrom new Cornell head football coach - 4 months ago
Ken711 The new indoor practice facility slated for construction this Fall is a good start. But, yes the new coach needs all the resources necessary to recruit student athletes and hire and retain a quality staff. 37 varsity sports, 1 practice facility. Does a 3-4 football team get priority over an 8-3 soccer team? And if the women's soccer team is 9-2?by billhoward - Other Sports