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Discussions about the Cornell men's and women's hockey teams
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 5 months ago
Dunno, I've been feeling off ever since I saw this photo commemorating our Florida tournament success. Especially when you see the great photos coming from Ned Dykes for Cornell hockey fans, in addition to the official Cornell hockey sports information pix.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 5 months ago
What are the March 2024 Sweet Sixteen arenas? Should we pencil them in? Cornell could make it unbeaten through December 5. Then Syracuse. The losing streak is 42. Last 2 wins over the Orange were the years where protesting ROTC and Vietnam was a major sport. Even in 2009-2010, out Sweet Sixteen year, we lost by 15 to the Orange. Also: This is an at-Syracuse series now. It was home-and-home thby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: New Cornell football coach search - 5 months ago
I almost read the end of your post as, 'Sean Gleeson ... currently a Senior Offensive Analyst at Northwestern Mutual Life.'by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell under scrutiny of DOE for potential Title IV violations - 5 months ago
Trotsky Accusing Cornell of being anti-Semitic seems like accusing Notre Dame of being anti-Irish but ok. If anyplace a Jew should feel safe-ish on campus, it ought to be at Cornell. Against this, there is the history of humankind. November 2023, BTW, is the 100th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch that got Hitler and the Nazis rolling. Three Ivies – Brown, Columbia and Cornell – are in theby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 5 months ago
scoop85 Al DeFlorio 82-63 over CSU-Fullerton with 2:27 to go 88-70 final. I didn’t pay to see the stream, but a nice bounce back win against what appears to be a not particularly strong Big West team. Could you share how much the cost was?by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football coach - 5 months ago
jmeaneyjr This is a necessary and positive development. Let's see where the Cornell hierarchy takes us. I believe AD Moore is up to the task. <heh> I read that as Andrew Dickson Moore.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: New Cornell football coach search - 5 months ago
Ken711 Glad they are using a professional executive search company to assist in the national search. Glad Cornell made public the change just 25 hours after the season ended. Maybe the search company can accelerate the search process. Maybe Cornell can have a new head coach by end-of-year. Or January. Ivy league players don't sign letters or intent as at scholarship schools. But at least they wanby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: New Cornell football coach search - 5 months ago
If you find the right coach and he's relatively young, you could look forward to several decades of winning football in the Ivy League. As Harvard has done. The success profile is based on the Ivy coaches with 5+ years coaching an Ivy school: He might or might not be an alum, age was late 30s when hired, if he didn't catch fire immediately at least the new HC got the team headed upwards a yeaby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: New Cornell football coach search - 5 months ago
Ken711 Glad they are using a professional executive search company to assist in the national search. a) Definitely a help. b) If it doesn't work out, it's CYA insurance. My friends at Princeton who've played football say: Cornell should be the most successful football school in the Ivy League. You've got the freakin' ag school.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: New Cornell football coach search - 5 months ago
Bill Belichick should be available. He's a Wesleyan grad so he knows academic schools. But he's old. About as old as Bob Blackman when we hired him. Wait, Belichick is 71 and Blackman at Cornell came aboard at 59. When somebody around 60 shows up and you're a student or recent grad, it feels like he's an octogenarian.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: New Cornell football coach search - 5 months ago
(Re: Cheney: Don't go hunting in the afternoon with a guy who had a drink at lunch.)by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football coach - 5 months ago
With the season ended, the most likely outcome is for David Archer to step down as head football coach or be removed. Given his two-decade career with Cornell (including as a player), he might find a second life in athletics or Cornell administration. The decision will be easier – less hard – to make this year: * Cornell football lost 3 more games than the best-under-Archer .500 of 2022 *by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football coach - 10-years, .290 - 5 months ago
Cornell finishes the 2023 football season in seventh place, with a 2-5 record thanks to wins over tied-for-title Yale) and tied-for-fifth Brown. After the first two games, the remaining record was one win and seven losses including the last four games. 2023 Ivy League Football Standings SCHOOL CONF CPCT. OVERALL PCT. STREAK Harvard 5-2 .714 8-2 .800 L1 Yale 5-2 .714 7-3 .700 W4 Dby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - 5 months ago
arugula How on Gods name did we ever beat Yale? Maybe She thought RBG was better than the Justices coming out of New Haven Law. Or just had a sense of humor.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell @ Princeton 11/18/23 - 5 months ago
Seats for the visiting team are typically in the Princeton balcony. In the past 3 decades, I've gotten tickets blocks with the Cornell club a couple times, always balcony, and once as visitor tickets, also balcony, we've gotten standing room tickets night-of-game until 5 years ago, now bought standing room a week in advance, and always found empty seats behind the Cornell bench and certainly betwby billhoward - Hockey
Cornell @ Princeton 11/18/23 - 5 months ago
A day before the game, Princeton declared a sellout at the Hobey. That means there'll only be ~300-400 empty seats of 2,000. They leave beaucoup space for student - faculty walk-ins with ID cards and they overestimate.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 5 months ago
TrotskyThe reduction of people to Homo Derpus Commercia is not for their benefit. It's lab rats being given electroshock. I just want to see Cornell not hit the post.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 5 months ago
I'm not a huge fan of the music during play stoppages and of the Tokyo-by-Night graphics on the video scoreboard. But I'm old. If it brings younger fans and keeps them coming, well, more power to them.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 5 months ago
upprdeck considering you could run all the video off remote cameras I dont think High angles are really an issue if you use the right equipment, Remote cameras at center ice could be placed only a couple feet higher (than they are now a couple feet higher than the upper press table) before you run into the flags. But a camera high-ish up in the corner, and a second placed diagonally across at theby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell Hockey Jerseys? - 5 months ago
George64 I pity the players that had to wear these jerseys during their Cornell careers. As I recall, they were designed by a Hum Ec class. The instructor should have been fired. For those too young to know, or too old to remember - that’s Bob Murray ‘74 and David Groulx ‘76. Oops, Bill Murray ‘74. There was both Bill Murray '74, a big, solid defenseman who was also a standout soccer playby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Fish N Fowl 11/11/23 - 5 months ago
The winning goal was the one Harvard scored 60 seconds in. After that, both teams traded goals twice. Here, the goal that broke our back. To me, Cornell never recovered. No, not in the statistical meaning, since it was the third and final goal that ensured victory, thus the rules-official GWG.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 5 months ago
Re barns: Appleton Arena at St. Lawrence got a refurb in 2020. It's still dark wood seats (photo) for the olde barn feel. But now a spiffy facade, entry concourse, meeting rooms / video rooms on the outside of the concourse. They probably tuned up the bleeping siren to make it even louder. Just the right feel for a school of 2,100. The new Colgate rink is the benchmark for small schools. I knby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Man they really gotta take WHCU off the air. - 5 months ago
14850.com goes into greater detail without providing additional information. I mean, it sounds as if authorities treat this as serious attempt at bomb-making. But then a truck with diesel in the fuel tank carrying a load of fertilizer (ammonium nitrate) is all you need for a bomb, other than a detonator (and the right ratio of fertilizer mixture to fuel). Or so I hear. I was never real good in chby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Jack O’Leary mic’d up at morning skate - 5 months ago
I'd like to hear the Lynah audience mic'd up next time Jack O'Leary is in the penalty box and the crowd chants "Free O'Leary." Too bad we don't have a Saint Patrick's Day game. That would make the rafters ring. Actually, it's possible: Game 3 of the ECAC home-higher-seed playoffs would be Sunday, March 17. Man, does JOL hustle on the ice. Love him for that.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Man they really gotta take WHCU off the air. - 5 months ago
This is a challenge for low-budget newsgathering operations: The reader gets no idea what it all means, if this is a serious threat to the United States -- blow up the Watervilet Arsenal? or the Barton Hall ROTC offices? -- or somebody watching too much Fox News or just a local crackpot, or the guy was entrapped because he had an extra truckload of fertilizer he couldn't use.by billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Cornell football coach - 5 months ago
SwampyWell, there's an old saying: "A successful university president provides sex for the students, parking for the faculty, and winning football for the alumni." Clark Kerr, chancellor, University of California, also president, Berkeley. Write that on your hand. If I said that, I'd want it on my tombstone. Better than Beloved by All or I Told You I Was Sick.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - no NCAAs at Syracuse - 5 months ago
Looks as if Syracuse won't be hosting future NCAA tournament basketball games on account of not enough hotel rooms. The on-campus Sheraton and its 235 rooms will be converted to dormitories. This per a brief local story, which says the Sheraton comprises 10% of the local hotel rooms. The Sheraton for tournaments past had been used as housing for out-of-town media. It appears to apply to possibleby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Fish N Fowl 11/11/23 - 5 months ago
I heard some Section M (behind the visitor bench) complaints about officiating. Schafer was not happy with the officiating, but that's, ah, not an uncommon situation. If defense of "it's almost all our fault": * The puck giveaway on our own blue line and ensuing goal 60 seconds in was a killer. We both got 2 goals after that. * We hit a crossbar or pipe with a clang louder thaby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell football coach - 5 months ago
Martha Pollock like predecessor president David Skorton seem neutral on sports. Don't want to expand it, don't want to kill it. That kind of leaves the Teagle pool replacement in limbo. Perhaps Cornell's most glorious athletics years, 1967 first NCAA hockey championship to 1970 second to 1971 first NCAA men's lax championship, IRA (rowing) title and Ed Marinaro / Cornell's first football chamby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football coach - 5 months ago
ugarte .658 with No Coach. Could it work again? It's how Ultimate (Frisbee) is played in college, more or less. The players pretty much run things. And Ultimate is a sport that led to one of the best-ever intros in sportwriting: Michael Miller, Wall Street Journal, 2018 “How did our kids wind up in this stoner sport?” my friend Aaron asked as we pulled up to a multi-field complex in Rockforby billhoward - Other Sports