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Re: On-campus NCAA regionals - 22 days ago
I think overall it will help us but I just hate the regionals as a relic of when we were bending over for Bristol thinking we were going to be the next hoops. Fuck that and fuck them, return the sport to the campuses and the barns that make it great. If it means we play in NoDak whatevs. It will also tend to take the air out of the balloon for expansion, and we won't have to tolerate Alababy Trotsky - Hockey
Re: On-campus NCAA regionals - 22 days ago
Conference tournament champion auto bids. The rest PWR, KRACH or whatever. 1-to-16 seeding On campus 16 @ 1, ... 9 @ 8. No exceptions or alterations. Single game elimination 1-to-8 reseeding On campus 8 @ 1, ... 5 @ 4. No exceptions or alterations. Single game elimination Frozen Four as now, with 4 @ 1 as early game, no day offby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: ECAC 2026 Predictions and Pre-season Polls Omnibus - 22 days ago
I mean it works both bad and good.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Ivy League lacrosse 2026 - 24 days ago
RichH Trotsky My vote goes to my daughter's school, Sea Gull Stadium, Salisbury Maryland. It's a cathedral for lacrosse. 1) That’s a football field. 2) it just looks like the now gone West Stands, but maintained. They have it marked off for football but nobody cares. The school is serious about lacrosse (and baseball). It would only be the west stands if the west stands were (1) not condby Trotsky - Other Sports
Re: Origin of "Red!" during national anthem? - 24 days ago
As a C season ticket holder both as a student and then as an alum after they (stupidly) took the section from the students, the press box was a fun part of the experience as a fan. If you made friends with the right person you got line sheets, and certain visiting radio guys were... shall we say... easy to wind up (lookin at you, SLU and UVM).by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: WHCU ends broadcast partnership with CU - 27 days ago
In his house at Shea, Seaver waits dreaming.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: WHCU ends broadcast partnership with CU - 27 days ago
ugarte Chris H82 Trotsky I discovered long range AM by growing up a Mariners fan on Long Island in the mid-late 70s. Wow, they were NOT good at all back then. And I'll bet you didn't have much company rooting for the Ms on Long Island.it's ok he was able to enjoy baseball by rooting for the mets as well *touches earpiece*TBH the Mariners have been the perfect pairing with the Mets. This isby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: WHCU ends broadcast partnership with CU - 27 days ago
Chris H82 Trotsky I discovered long range AM by growing up a Mariners fan on Long Island in the mid-late 70s. Wow, they were NOT good at all back then. And I'll bet you didn't have much company rooting for the Ms on Long Island.I wanted to root for a team right from their start, so I adopted the Mariners and Seahawks.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: AI analytics - 27 days ago
Fun with ChatGPT 5: Top 10 Cornell Men's Ice Hockey Players of All Time Lance Nethery (1975–1979) Career Points: 271 (91 goals, 180 assists) Highlights: All-time leader in career points and assists; two-time All-America first team; set multiple ECAC records for career assists and points. Brock Tredway (1977–1981) Career Points: 207 (113 goals, 94 assists) Highlights: Holds tby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: ECAC 2026 Predictions and Pre-season Polls Omnibus - 27 days ago
marty TrotskyDid the administration change? The witch is gone as is her mansion in the Adirondacks that virtually no one knew she had negotiated (demanded?). It's nice. ; Looks like RPI made a killing on the sale (bought $600k sold $1.1M just 5 years later). Good for them. From a perusal of a lot of different social media posts it appears your dislike for her was... not unique. &quby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Opponent and other news and results 2025-2026 - 27 days ago
VIEWfromK BearLover In sum, Robertson is a known quantity great collegiate player. Through ten games of his freshman year I thought he was on the way to being a great college hockey player. Then he struggled to maintain that pace all the way up until he started to get back to that level this past postseason. This is what I saw, too.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: ECAC 2026 Predictions and Pre-season Polls Omnibus - 27 days ago
ursusminor Trotsky Also I fucked up the rank order, so please note the changes (ursusmajor's reply is now OBE). Considering that I am even shorter than when I adopted the ursusminor handle, ... BTW, considering how much turnover RPI had, #12 makes a lot of sense. OTOH, I am optimistic that RPI will get to Lake Placid for the first time in ages. Your algorithm doesn't include a factor for repby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Origin of "Red!" during national anthem? - 27 days ago
Dafatone Jeff Hopkins '82 David Harding hypotenuse An interesting project. As a 1973(!) graduate, I feel that like a game of telephone, or that Star Trek episode with the Coms and the Yangs, some of the cheers have become garbled over the decades. The one I miss most is the cheer after we score, which went ONE! WE WANT MORE, hopefully followed by ONE! TWO! WE WANT MORE,, etc. This was done slowlyby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: ECAC 2026 Predictions and Pre-season Polls Omnibus - 27 days ago
ursusminor Trotsky Hyperlinks are your friend. Not those on ELynah when one is colorblind. Thanks. Whoops, sorry. Here:by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: ECAC 2026 Predictions and Pre-season Polls Omnibus - 27 days ago
Also I fucked up the rank order, so please note the changes (ursusmajor's reply is now OBE).by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: ECAC 2026 Predictions and Pre-season Polls Omnibus - 27 days ago
Updated. Tell me what you think. You may have to right-click and "Reload frame."by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: ECAC 2026 Predictions and Pre-season Polls Omnibus - 27 days ago
BearLover Pretty sure I asked the same question last year, but if I’m understanding correctly, isn’t the “future” category mislabeled as it is looking at the “past” ten seasons? Once upon a time, the Predictions weighted Past and Future factors based on the percentage of returning points and goaltender minutes: The Future Secondly, we want to make the same two estimates for the incomingby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: WHCU ends broadcast partnership with CU - 28 days ago
I discovered long range AM by growing up a Mariners fan on Long Island in the mid-late 70s. Boston and Baltimore were easy, Cleveland, Detroit, and Chicago were more challenging, mostly because there was so much NYC argle bargle in the way. I picked up Texas and KC broadcasts one time each -- no idea if there were origination or from repeaters. OTOH it was absolutely no problem to get Cardinby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Opponent and other news and results 2025-2026 - 28 days ago
The blueline lost Robertson but picked up Fisher and Ashton, both NHL draft choices. That sounds like a net gain. As to the reasons, we just don't know the details of the specific cases, so we don't know if they are systemic and repeatable or personal and unique. We'll need years of results to see if this will make a significant difference in either direction for the team. I would analogiby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: ECAC 2026 Predictions and Pre-season Polls Omnibus - 28 days ago
Hyperlinks are your friend.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Origin of "Red!" during national anthem? - 28 days ago
Will hypotenuse The one I miss most is the cheer after we score, which went ONE! WE WANT MORE, hopefully followed by ONE! TWO! WE WANT MORE,, etc. This was done slowly and deliberately, so the full impact of our scoring prowess could be absorbed by our adversary. Over the last decade(?), the words are said, but without any understanding why, IMHO. The Lynah Faithful haven't done the slow posby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: WHCU ends broadcast partnership with CU - 28 days ago
Jeff Hopkins '82 Trotsky Swampy December 28, 1966 I was driving, either to NYC or Boston, and, in the middle of nowhere, heard that Cornell had beaten Kentucky in basketball. (They only started to call it "men's basketball" years later.) I thought I had entered the twilight zone and almost ran off the road. It probably was WHCU. I had a similar experience in 81 or 82 driving through sby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: We're gonna be in the news again - 28 days ago
George64 NY Times: At Cornell and elsewhere, many international students won’t make it to class this fall.by Trotsky - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Opponent and other news and results 2025-2026 - 28 days ago
The Rancor Trotsky Elite Prospects currently lists Yale has having 8 players, each with 0 games of experience. They're gonna get a lot of ice time. 12.5% of the team is Finnish. Is this really the entire team?The locker room would smell better but no goalie is a bold move Cotton.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: WHCU ends broadcast partnership with CU - 29 days ago
Swampy December 28, 1966 I was driving, either to NYC or Boston, and, in the middle of nowhere, heard that Cornell had beaten Kentucky in basketball. (They only started to call it "men's basketball" years later.) I thought I had entered the twilight zone and almost ran off the road. It probably was WHCU. I had a similar experience in 81 or 82 driving through some awful NJ hinterland aby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Opponent and other news and results 2025-2026 - 29 days ago
Elite Prospects currently lists Yale has having 8 players, each with 0 games of experience. They're gonna get a lot of ice time.by Trotsky - Hockey
ECAC 2026 Predictions and Pre-season Polls Omnibus - 29 days ago
I'll start. W L T Pts 1 Quinnipiac 16 4 2 34 2 Cornell 12 6 4 28 3 Clarkson 12 8 2 26 4 Colgate 11 9 2 24 5 Union 11 9 2 24 6 Harvard 11 9 2 24 7 Dartmouth 10 9 3 23 8 Yale 7 12 3 17 9 Brown 7 13 2 16 10 Princeton 7 13 2 16 11 St. Lby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Ivy League lacrosse 2026 - 29 days ago
My vote goes to my daughter's school, Sea Gull Stadium, Salisbury Maryland. It's a cathedral for lacrosse.by Trotsky - Other Sports
Re: WHCU ends broadcast partnership with CU - 29 days ago
jtwcornell91Am I remembering that right, that in the 90s there was a phone number you could call to listen to some college hockey broadcasts? You are correct. It was terrible quality and rife with problems and we ate it and we liked it! Relative Deprivation Theory wins again.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Origin of "Red!" during national anthem? - 29 days ago
Yes, I am also assuming various people screamed Red! during the anthem, and one night the stars aligned and it stuck.by Trotsky - Hockey