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Re: 2022 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament Thread of DESTINY - SEMIFINALS - 4 months ago
billhoward Rentschler background info says "grass field." Info lacking on which side of the field or which sections are Cornell for Saturday. Also which is the parking area for the Cornell-sponsored (BYO food) tailgate. Rentschler buy-tickets landing page suggests majority of sections have limited or no availability. Hard to believe it's close to sellout. In the years of 40K+ atby Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: 2022 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament Thread of DESTINY - QFINALS - 4 months ago
CU77 Rutgers goalie Colin Krist was terrific against Penn. He is the brother of Cornell attackman CJ Krist. Both goalies were standing on their heads in that game. But Crist was astounding.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: Alumni in the Pros 2021-2022 - 4 months ago
billhoward Weder billhoward April story on Matt Moulson, out of the lineup since December with Hershey Bears of the AHL. Moulson has been pretty healthy most of his pro career. He turns 39 this fall. Moulson is one of the handful of not-yet-retireds from the 2003 draft (Patrice Bergeron, Zach Parise, Joe Pavelski, Marc-Andre Fleury, Ithaca's Dustin Brown). Brown is retired now that the Kingsby Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: 2022 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament Thread of DESTINY - 4 months ago
Robb CU77 On to the quarterfinals! Massey gives Cornell a 63% probability of beating Delaware, vs what would have been 30% against Georgetown. Reminds me of 2010, when Cornell was the #7 seed. Needed triple OT to beat Loyola in the first round, and was set to go against #2 Cuse (who had beaten Cornell 8-7 at Schoellkopf in the regular season), but Cuse was upset by Army in OT. Cornell thenby Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: 2022 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament Thread of DESTINY - 4 months ago
Final 15-8. LGR! Rutgers leading Sucks, 11-6 middle of the 3rd.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: New indoor campus recreation & sports center - 4 months ago
upprdeck most of these buildings are fairly tall.. you could, in theory, add something later that was higher up, protected by netting and had some seating. then people could watch but be out of the way of the players and the balls I went to a hockey rink in Korea that was kinda like that.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: Opponents and Others, 2022-23 - 4 months ago
Trotsky Swampy Trotsky This would be interesting to do for all the NC$$ teams (or at least the ECAC). Some guesses (IMO) Cornell: 1. Harvard 2. Clarkson 3. Quinnipiac Harvard: 1. Yale 2. Cornell 3. Princeton Clarkson: 1. SLU 2. Cornell 3. RPI No BU for Cornell? Or, is this only in-league or frequent opponent? I would not say BU is a factor over the range of all fans anymoby Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: Cornell Football 2021 - 5 months ago
Ken711 George64 Here’s an excerpt from a Rochester D&C article about college football coaches on the hot seat — David Shaw, Stanford: Here are the cold facts about Shaw. He is a good coach, the winningest in the program’s history. . . Last year’s team failed miserably in areas that used to be strengths: running the ball and stopping the run. The Cardinal were among the worst in the nationby Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - 5 months ago
Al DeFlorio upprdeck going into the game Princ was #2 in rpi so the win helped Harv/BU lost so that helped. I think Its 100% we are in with a win and almost 100% with a loss. brown/cornell/prin/yale are all in.. what do they do with Penn who has a crazy high rpi and didnt make the IVY tourney and Harvard probably falls out even if they have a top 15 RPI Contrary to some of the scenariby Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: Alumni in the Pros 2021-2022 - 5 months ago
ugarte scoop85 Swampy scoop85 Barron with a goal and primary assist tonight. Winnipeg leads MTL 2-1 late in the second. 1st multipoint game of his NHL career. Great that he's getting ice time in the big show. Named one of the 3 stars of the game.Barron gets his first as a #GoJetsGo #NYR #NHL pic.twitter.com/heoDqjJaew— David 🔹 (@DaveyUpper) April 12, 2022 That was a great pass to hiby Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: Expansion - 5 months ago
George64 Scersk '97One of my many concerns regarding the Roosevelt Island project is whether it will cause a brain drain in science and engineering from the Ithaca campus to the great detriment of the University. Frankly, a Cornell without engineers rubbing shoulders with hotelies, architects (even the misled ones), etc., etc. is not Cornell. To the contrary, Cornell is making a huge capital iby Jeff Hopkins '82 - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Recruits 2023 and beyond - 6 months ago
ACM Chris '03 Trotsky It will be a few years and anything can happen, but he may be our highest-rated incoming F since Riley Nash. I just hope he gets here in time for Grady and Jason to have to say variations on "Pirtle from Ertel." Sounds like something from Dr. Seuss. The Teenage Mutant Ninjas? The Yertle Line.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: Expansion - 6 months ago
billhoward David Harding Plans are moving forward to double the size of Thurston Hall. Bleep! Evenings and weekends, it was a good place to find parking behind Thurston and the gorge. Parking for alumni versus learning space for students seems like a close call to me. From what I can see in the article, the parking is intact. It's the engineering quad that's getting chewed up.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: An even ice rink - 6 months ago
osorojo To even things up how about the high-altitude team has to walk on their skates (with no skate guards) over 30 yards of concrete sidewalk before the game - and not sharpen their skates afterward? That should level-up the playing field (ice). Make them use figure skates.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others, 2021-22 - 6 months ago
billhoward Scersk '97Quinnipiac, in all facets of its expanded form, is the natural result of the student-as-consumer model of education. Coming soon to a campus near you! As the president of Enterprise Rental said of his academic background and wanting branch managers like him: I want to hire hungry people. I want the people who made possible the upper half of the graduating class. Translationby Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - 6 months ago
FWIW, Yale beat Princeton. So any given Sunday Saturday, right? Also, I was watching some of the Syracuse-Duke game today. The announcers said that the Ivies could send as many as five teams to the NCAA's.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: Lake Placid roll call - 6 months ago
billhoward upprdeck as many of the ivy kids apply to several of the schools its not really selective anyway.. if 50K apply to the same 5 schools and they all take 10K it looks like each school only accepts 20% of applicants.. but is that really reflective of what happened. Sometimes when I think about admissions rates, selectivity, and yields, I'm never sure if cause and effect get confused.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: NCAA hockey 2022 tournament - 6 months ago
Trotsky Greenberg '97 marty Does Harvard have any pull to move itself closer to Cambridge? Yes. Win two games.Wins thread. Shut it down, folks, nobody is beating that. I dunno. If they lose one game, they also move directly back to Cambridge.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: Cornell admissions - 6 months ago
In '79, there was a lottery for the few on-campus rooms available to non-freshmen. If your number came up, you could pick your room and pull in any friends to fill the beds. But most people had to look for housing elsewhere. It's why there were so many fraternities.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - 6 months ago
billhoward BearLoverTrue, but in hockey the puck is turned over or up for grabs every 30 seconds or so, and there are about four goals per game. Sometimes there are 4 goals in 6 minutes. 12/4/2021, Potsdam Cornell 1 1 2 0 0 -- 4 Clarkson 0 0 4 0 0 -- 4 Clarkson, third period 14:43 17:07 18:27 19:58.8 That's another game that didn't happen.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - 6 months ago
CU77 billhoward The ultimate rule change may yet be: Other team gets the ball after a goal. It has been proposed, not sure how seriously. It was tried one year in the late 70s. I hope never to see it again. It was '79, My freshman year. I vividly remember "1...2...3...4! We want more...faceoffs!" And I agree. Don't eliminate the faceoff.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - 6 months ago
We got about 4" so far in Allentown. State College was supposed to get a bit more than us.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - polls 3/7 Cornell 4th - 6 months ago
billhoward mike1960So, so close . . . I noticed at the end of a close game this year, as time ran out, our middie at midfield threw the ball up-up-up with :03 left and the ball had a hangtime of :05. So, close 2009 was. That and not closing out Wisconsin (hockey), 5-2 lead start of the third, got tied, lost OT. I'm sure older alums recall 1969 title game and just coming up short to Denver. Moby Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - polls 3/7 Cornell 4th - 6 months ago
mike1960 billhoward Jeff Hopkins '82My experience is that our guys don't have much nice to say about him, either. I was sitting near a bunch of team alumni at the Final Four in Foxboro. When we were beating UVa in the semifinals. Those guys all started cheering "Suck it, Quint!" That Saturday after the 2009 Virginia game (NCAA semifinals, Cornell in a blowout, 15-6, over the #1 seed)by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: Recruits 2023 and beyond - 6 months ago
Dafatone Redpucks1! New Cornell commit! Winter Wallace of the Youngstown Phantoms. Big right winger (6’3” 215) who was previously committed to Michigan State. I assume he is coming in this fall. What a name. FREEDOM!!!!!by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - polls 3/7 Cornell 4th - 7 months ago
mike1960 arugula Interesting that Quint, who I think usually has us higher than the poll, has us at 8 this week after 7 last week. So two good wins and he dropped us? Strange Quint rarely has a kind word to say about Cornell lacrosse. He must have had a bad experience with the Big Red back in the day. My experience is that our guys don't have much nice to say about him, either. I was sittinby Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: Randy Wilson Day - 7 months ago
redice ACM redice Trotsky redice Trotsky Box. The final part of the box score has an error. Lance Nethery did NOT skate "end-to-end. Henessey retrieved the puck near the Cornell cage & head-manned to Nethery, who shot the puck from near the Friars' blueline, for the goal.I went by the game report posted to the prior Randy Wilson Day thread. If you look at the box score, you can seeby Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: Alumni in the Pros 2021-2022 - 7 months ago
billhoward French Rage Vesce also played there for a season. Ryan Vesce is the name I was trying to recall watching Cornell build its lead Saturday against Princeton late in the third. Vesce, at Princeton, fall 2003, 3 goals, 4 assists in a 7-0 Cornell victory. I kept thinking Topher Scott, who was 5-foot-6 to Vesce's 5-foot-8. Gad, Vesce is now ~40 years old. I remember that game. Fun timeby Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 7 months ago
Trotsky JFC it's 6 degrees in Placid right now. Play the ECACs in Vegas. Oh, fuck no!by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: Yet another collegetown bar bites the dust - 7 months ago
Trotsky Jeff Hopkins '82 Trotsky RichH Trotsky Scersk '97I'll never get the fetish for exposed lightbulbs.It's 2010-2019 for "Naugahyde." Each period's gimmicks quickly date themselves. cf. granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances. Orange and olive Formica forever, because the 1970s aesthetic was the peak of modern society. Anything else are just passing fads.And whateveby Jeff Hopkins '82 - John Spencer Is Dead