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Discussions about the Cornell men's and women's hockey teams
Thanks, John - 19 years ago
Since the advent of more rational methods for determining the NCAA field, anyone with a rudimentary understanding of math has realized that every game is crucially important in the seeding process. Through constant proselitizing by John, Adam, and others, and through the generally thoughtful analysis available on USCHO, I think the average, non-math-inclined fan now grasps this concept. Tying Yby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Quest for #1 seed - 19 years ago
I don't think we can win the ECAC championship and see 5 ECAC(HL) teams in the NCAAs anymore. Stupid Michigan State. Oh well, guess we'll have to settle with winning the tourney (hopefully) and getting 4 ECAC(HL) teams in. Mwah-ha-ha-ha! Oh, the westerners will be mad. I would also get a certain amount of satisfaction from seeing only one bid for the CCHA, especially if, say, Michigan wereby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Quest for #1 seed - 19 years ago
Will Wrote: Someone on the USCHO message board had posted a way for five ECACHL teams to get in with Cornell still winning the tournament. I'd love to see that happen, if only to really piss off the WCHA posters there. That would be me, but I posted it here first.by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Relaunch of Athletics Website - 19 years ago
Al DeFlorio Wrote: Scersk '97 Wrote: Why are our colors "red and black?" Dunno, but I wish we'd remove all the ugly black, blue, and silver/gray trim from our uniforms. Seems to me only hockey has it right: Carnelian and white. Period. Yes, a new fan could be led astray by the trim on uniforms of the last few years. I am also thankful that the hockey uniforms haveby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Relaunch of Athletics Website - 19 years ago
And defending our Cornellian colors, sadly, does not result in "Cornell, victorious to the end." The accepted spelling of "Tee Fee Crane" has never been "Teefy." Man... utter lack of proofreading. It's not like these things are a matter of oral history: all they would have had to do was refer to "Songs of Cornell."by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Relaunch of Athletics Website - 19 years ago
Why are our colors "red and black?"by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: SUCKS or Toothpaste - 19 years ago
Since neither Harvard nor Colgate are likely to win any popularity contets with Cornell fans, wouldn't it be more fun just to trivialize both schools at the same time? My suggestion: fake Harvard and Colgate signs to tape to your Cornell regalia. Assign a group to Harvard, assign a group to Colgate, and have fun yelling at each other during the game. Buddy up and make the losers buy the winnby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: the next question: what to do in Albany? - 19 years ago
Jordan 04 Wrote: Albany also has some great architecture. The Empire State Plaza (including the Egg)... If you like Bob Moses-inspired, highway-swallowin', gargantuan-alien-welcomin', airplane-landin' tarmac. Your other suggestions are great. The Delaware & Hudson building is magnificent. I'd also suggest contemplating what a nice railroad station used to be smack-dab downtown befoby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Bracketology Sunday - 19 years ago
Somebody lost to Quinnipiac this season... Dartmouth!by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Bracketology Sunday - 19 years ago
Well, after one abortive attempt at bracketing my scenario, I came up with this: Mariucci 1 CC 16 Bentley 12 Colgate 5 Minn Amherst 2 Cornell 15 Bemidji 11 Harvard 7 UHN GR 3 Denver 14 Vermont 10 Maine 6 Michigan Worcester 4 BC 13 Dartmouth 9 UND 8 BU As has been discusseby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Bracketology Sunday - 19 years ago
Oh my. I'm sure there are other ways for it to happen as much as I'm sure it's not going to happen, but oh my: 1 CC 2t Cornell 2t Denver 4 BC 5 Minnesota 6 Michigan 7 UNH 8 BU 9 North Dakota 10 Maine 11 Harvard 12 Colgate 13t Dartmouth 13t Vermont ** Bemidji ** Bentley Yep: ECAC(HL) 5 WCHA 4 HE 4 CCHA 1 CHA 1 AHA 1by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Cornell-Clarkson postgame thread (no scores updates) - 19 years ago
RichS Wrote: Perhaps I'm more sensitive to it because I do a lot of work with kids. "Won't somebody please think of the children?!"by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Bracketology Sunday - 19 years ago
Dart~Ben Wrote: FWIW, here's how Dartmouth backs into the NCAA tourny. Bucky losing to NoDak would be big. Michigan winning the CCHA tourny is likewise a near must. Cornell or Harvard must win the ECAC tourny. NMU is likely out of the picture. Less certain on whether tOSU must lose twice or if they can win once and still leave Dartmouth in the hunt. So, I changed what you suggested in mby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Clarkson's band - 19 years ago
Yale's marching band had a good sound back then, but their band was hockey MIA as far as I remember. 98 and 99 seemed to energize their fan base. From what I heard from the @ Yale game this year, though, it seems like their band and fan base might even be able to make it through a horrible year like this one.by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Bracketology Sunday - 19 years ago
Even though it seems John, et al. will be debuting some tool (heh) on USCHO soon, I figured I'd post what I'm using for others convenience. Here are the finals from tonight and the rest of the schedule--I think, someone can double check--filled out with the higher KRACH teams winning: 20050313 Da 0 Vt 1 NC 20050313 AA 0 Wi 1 NC 20050313 FS 0 OS 1 NC 20050313 WM 0 NM 1 NC 20050313 AH 0 Bby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: uvm 2 dc 1 (final - game 3) & all the other scores - 19 years ago
Damn, I never get tired of that dancing banana. Makes me giggle like a schoolgirl.by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Bracketology Sunday - 19 years ago
You are right, of course, Chris. There have been many threads discussing the as yet ill-defined behavior of the committee in a 16-team tournament. We don't exactly know what they'd do. Yet, as JTW has stated most forcefully elsewhere, the next directive after placing host schools is for the committee to place #1 seeds closest to home in order. I think the likelihood of the committee shippiby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Bracketology Sunday - 19 years ago
Pocket Scersk '03 Wrote: Not if we flip with MN and we're the #4 overall with MN #5 overall. Then Cornell would just wear white on the huge ice in MN. Oh Bizarro, how you will lead the kiddies wrong! Tub(a) Wrote: Doesn't 1 seed as close to home as possible override competitive equity? Out of the mouths of babes...by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Bracketology Sunday - 19 years ago
I said it in another thread , and Ken '70 backed it up, but there are two things that matter in the upcoming weeks regarding the PWR: 1) MN loses the #1 seed. 2) We stay a #2 or move up. Or you could reduce that to one thing: 1) Avoid Mariucci. If MN drops to a #2 seed, we avoid them whether we're a #1 seed or not. (Please, let's not consider what it would take to drop us to a #3by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Clarkson's band - 19 years ago
Brian Deerr Wrote: Through my four years as a Cornell percussionist, I don't think I've ever heard the Clarkson band being up to anyone's standards. I'd put them at the bottom of the pack for other bands in the league (with the possible exception of the SLU(t) rent-a-band incident). RPI has had a good band in recent years, as has Yale. Harvard checks in a little bit below them. I've played wby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: QF2: Clarkson 2 @ Cornell 2, 2nd per. - 19 years ago
Probably playing over whatever the Clarkson "band" is doing. Not the choice I would make, but, hey, I'm not the conductor, am I?by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: New Bracketology: We Get Hosed - 19 years ago
OK, just because I like to believe that I have a lot of time on my hands, I ran the script using the admittedly error-bar-tastic KRACH to predict the rest of the results. Here are the final rankings, using John's abbreviations: 1 BC 2 CC 3 Cr 4 DU 5 Mn 6 Mi 7 Ha 8 NH 9 ND 10 Me 11 OS 12 Wi 13 Da 14 BU 15 BS 16 Qn This proves to be less of a committee niby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: New Bracketology: We Get Hosed - 19 years ago
Section A Banshee Wrote: Scersk '97 Wrote: Winning an NCAA championship without winning the ECAC championship (Harvard) is like eating a big ol' tub of chocolate icing: the icing still tastes good, but, without the cake, it makes you feel a bit sick. Losing the ECACs and winning the NCAAs due to more fortuitous seeding is closer to having your long-time girlfriend dump you only to get askeby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: New Bracketology: We Get Hosed - 19 years ago
Oh, I would never, ever, never exchange an ECAC tournament championship for niceties in NCAA seeding. If we end up playing Minnesota at Mariucci because we've won our eleventh championship, then so be it. Winning an NCAA championship without winning the ECAC championship (Harvard) is like eating a big ol' tub of chocolate icing: the icing still tastes good, but, without the cake, it makes yoby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: New Bracketology: We Get Hosed - 19 years ago
A Canisius tournament win and, hence, extra TUC for us could turn out to be a pyhrric victory once removed. If you use the DIY script to calculate the potential PWR, having all the favorites yet win the series that have been extended to three games, using a 3-2-1 bonus, and including Quinnipiac as an extra TUC, we end up #6 and Michigan gets shipped out to Minnesota. If Canisius wins, we'reby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Cornell 5 Clarkson 0 postgame thread - 19 years ago
Tub(a) Wrote: Thanks for the correction. The awful parts of last season (e.g. NEARLY THE ENTIRE THING) just seem to blend together sometimes. You are spoiled. I don't care how "unsuccessful" it was: 2004 was not a bad season. Bad seasons don't involve winning Christmas tournaments, five game winning streaks towards the end of the season, and the #2 seed in the playoffs. Maybeby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Cornell 5 Clarkson 0 postgame thread - 19 years ago
RichS Wrote: And make no mistake, I know that Roll does not like this stuff. To a great degree I think it will decline once he has all his own recruits playing for him. Exactly my feeling. I don't want to go back and dig up the stats, but his teams were relatively clean at Oswego. Under his successor, Ed Gosek, the penalty numbers have started to creep back up.by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: QF1: Clarkson 0 @ Cornell 0, 1st - 19 years ago
No matter how bad that trumpet sounds, that takes cojones. SHORTHANNNNDED!by Scersk '97 - Hockey