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Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - polls 4/22 - Yesterday
mike1960 arugula Bracketology on IL has us as number 8-playing Penn State (no!), if we win playing Notre Dame. Oh boy… Bring 'em on. Bring 'em ALL on! a) Thank you to everyone who avoided saying, "If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best." b) We lucked out en route to the 2022 final because we did not have to play #1 Maryland until the title game and en route we faced uby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Alumni in the pros 23-24 - Yesterday
Maybe the near-binary choice made by this near-sentient researcher described it as superstars or nobodies who drift back to the juniors. There is a reasonable number of college drafted college players who may have ~5-year NHL careers punctuated by one or two trips back to the minors. You make money that the majority of your college classmates 1-5 years out do not.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - days/times <you had one job> - 2 days ago
I think, ah, the Ivy League was in a deadline crush, say, and somebody didn't proofread the sketch that became the graphic. Everybody, everywhere, doing online stuff feels rushed. But they also know, if they make a mistake, they can correct later that day, or tomorrow. In print, you're kind stuck, except you run a correction in a future issue. I'm sure it's two semifinal games Friday, title gameby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 2 days ago
Our son got paid by BU to work the penalty box and I don't think there was a huge amount of competition for the job. You can't yell or cheer but you have one hell of a view. I think at Lynah you could have charity bidding war for the right to work it. (He went there for the hotel school. Got recruited by an ex-Cornell hotel prof who'd been a Hobart lacrosse guy early 1970s. In the era when thby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Alumni in the pros 23-24 - 2 days ago
One in four NHLers have been to college. Per AI: Google AI answer to "nhl percentage college playrs" Roughly 25% of NHL players have played college hockey, but the majority come from Major Juniors. In 2021–2022, 48 NCAA Division I schools had an alum playing in the NHL, which is a 65% increase from 2002–2003, when 21.1% of NHL players were NCAA alumni. The NHL generally draws playby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Alumni in the pros 23-24 - 2 days ago
There'd be a big story on this if Caitlin Clark got drafted.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - days/times <you had one job> - 2 days ago
This schedule 10 days in advance of the Ivy League Lacrosse Tournament has the 2-3 seeds playing the early game at 6 pm, the 1-4 seeds playing at 8:30 pm, then the title game at 1 pm. When it was neutral-site last year, I believe the 1-seed got the early game. Ignore that the graphic has all 3 games Sunday May 5. It should be semifinals Friday, day off Saturday, title game Sunday. Games on ESPNU.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Attendance at Lynah - 3 days ago
CAS Cornell reported for the 2023-4 season an average attendance of 4,178, or 98% of capacity. I presume this is the number of tickets sold, not actual attendance at games. The attendance was the highest in the ECAC From Section M, across from the Cornell bench, we saw way more than 2% empty seats. Unless a lot of fans aree going to the bathroom with cocaine frequency. Someday there'll be an iPby billhoward - Hockey
Re: New athletic director Nicki Moore - 3 days ago
Cop at Lynah To put any speculation to rest, Missouri is finalizing a deal to make Laird Veatch their new AD Laird Veatch has been athletic director ("Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics" ) at Memphis for five years; Kansas State grad, played football.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Goodbye Alumni Fields... - 3 days ago
Jeff Hopkins '82 You'd have to figure that if more sites are relocated to there, they'd probably add parking, too. You'd think. One suspects Cornell downplayed the need for parking. Two miles is too long of a walk from the old Hoy Field and there's no bus service, I believe. Parking has been a hot button for Cornell. Recall the "Rosebud Woods" controversy circa 2005 about relocatingby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - polls 4/22 - 3 days ago
Cornell polls after the 4/20 Harvard game, one week left in the season. 8 or 9 (USILA) in polls, +1 places from last week. USILA coaches had Cornell at #7 in the pre-season. Current rankings 8 Media poll/Inside Lacrosse 9 USILA coaches 8 Kessinich / LaxAllStars 8 RPI Media / Inside Lacrosse Poll # Team Pts/1st Prev 1 Notre Dame (9 - 1) 500(25) 1 2by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Goodbye Alumni Fields... - 3 days ago
Consider the possibility that all Cornell sports will be exiled – sorry, relocated – to a more distant location. There is certainly plenty of room at the McGovern Fields complex for more varsity sports. You can fit a soccer / lacrosse field plus sidelines in 2 acres, plus stands. There would certainly be more room for a 50-meter pool there than on campus. The tennis center and polo barns areby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell admissions - 4 days ago
If Cornell is a safe backup alternative for a Columbia or Penn also-admitted candidate, Cornell might pick up some more students than it expects. But: I just don't know much fear an admit would have to have to say they'll take Cornell over Harvard. This Cornell Daily Sun story says there were 1,607 early decision admits and they made up about 33% of the freshman class. Cornell has said itby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - 4 days ago
RPI after weekend of 4/21 (ie Cornell-Harvard et al) to see how close the Ivy final weekend's games might be if RPI is an indicator: Lax RPI going into final weekend of Ivy play (1. Duke (2. Notre Dame) ... 8. Cornell (one place ahead of Penn State) 10. Yale 12. Penn 15. Princeton 19. Harvard 38. Brown 60. Dartmouth (of 76 ranked teams) perby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Goodbye Alumni Fields... - 4 days ago
Fifteen year ago, Cornell Alumni Magazine (RIP 2021) did a cover story, Tomorrowland, on Cornell's master plan for the next fifty years. We're almost a third of the way to the end game. Since Cornell plans to increase the student population as well as research facilities, which calls for more dorms and classrooms, the on-campus athletic facilities are endangered. Lower Alumni Field, across frby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - rankings after 4/20 games - 4 days ago
upprdeck It would be a disappointing loss for sure. The NCAA is not a lock... Take solace in the soothing thought of a great Canadian/American sportswriter. Ignore Eccesiastes 9:11. Hugh Keough, 1864-1912 "The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but that is the best way to bet," (Grantland Rice used the line also, and credits Keough.)by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - rankings after 4/20 games - 5 days ago
upprdeck whats a 4 way tie look like? It looks unlikely in the extreme. As a practical matter, Cornell ain't gonna lose to 0-5 Dartmouth. But should that happen, I believe Cornell would be the 1-seed. The first tie-breaker is how many wins each team has against the others tied for the same playoff seed. The only four-way would be Cornell-Yale-Penn-Princeton. The four-way would become possibleby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - rankings after 4/20 games - 5 days ago
Looking good for Cornell to win the regular season title, alone or tied with Yale, and as a result host the Ivy League tournament, semifinal games Friday May 3, title game Sunday (no third-place game). Why: * Cornell and Yale lead the league at 4-1, Cornell holds the tiebreaker to host the ILT, based on H2H (C18-Y15). * Cornell finishes against the only winless Ivy team, at Dartmouth. Prettyby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Harvard at Cornell 4/20/24 - 5 days ago
I was the guy who dislikes video zoomed out to almost half-field. Now the opposite issue early in the Harvard game: The camera has trouble panning to keep up with a runner who lets off a shot, maybe you see the save or goal, maybe you don't. Cornell looked okay in that four goal run but not unbeatable. Okay, we've had greater success as games went on.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 10 days ago
arugula ugarte nothing dumber than a post tournament poll yes, but I'm grasping Dumb would also be not doing the poll. Gives the voters a chance to seed differently from how the brackets turn out, to upvote somebody who was really good and ran into a buzzsaw early in the tournament. In another bracket, they might have gone further. Where would Denver have been seeded if one of those UMass pipe shby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - polls 4/15 week 10 - 10 days ago
My eyes glaze over when drilling down into what goes into RPI numbers. Is there a more complex RPI – that is, more accurate, that is better favors Cornell and Ivy teams – such as: Disparity in games already played before first weekend of March, relative rank of teams when the game was played vs. current or end-of-season rank, trend over the season, projected rank of the team in the post-season (oby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's lax: CU-Notre Dame Sunday 4/14/24 - 10 days ago
scoop85 rss77 Did anyone think that Psyllos was a little worn down those last few minutes at fogo? How could he not be? Both teams used two faceoff players. All I felt was we were about 50% and that was good for the past half-doze years. Stats do show it was 6-3 Notre Dame in the fourth quarter, which supports your point. FACE OFFS Cornell 5 6 5 3 19 Notre Dame 5 4 4 6 19 Anotheby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - polls 4/15 week 10 - 10 days ago
Cornell loses by 1 goal to the #1 team and drops a position in the polls to 9th. 10th in RPI. Media poll is in, Quint Kessenich's personal poll is in (Cornell 10), USILA coaches poll strolls in late Monday / Tuesday. All have Yale rated above Cornell by 1-2 positions, FWIW. Update: USILA poll, in Tuesday, is the most favorable to Cornell's status: ranked 8th, ahead of 9 Yale, 13 Penn, 17 Princetoby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 11 days ago
adamwJust like when Kraws went there , there are few opportunities for 5th year goalies on the skids. Just as Bogey and Bergman always had Paris, Bwen Kraws will always have Lake Placid and that 3-0 shutout of Quinnipiac. It improved his standing as he headed to the pros. At the Cornell-at-St. Lawrence game, I sat in the top row of a section that included SLU partisans. Kraws pere was standingby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - into last 2 weeks - 11 days ago
Princeton getting upset 13-12 by Brown Saturday (4/13) reduces the number of ways Cornell gets the 1-seed in the ILT. The one-loss teams are now Yale, Penn (which gave Cornell its loss) and Cornell, but not Princeton now at 2 losses nor Harvard at 3 losses (but 7-4 overall, suggesting they're tough for Cornell to beat). We can't count on help from Princeton in a multi-way one-loss tie at the top.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's lax: CU-Notre Dame Sunday 4/14/24 - 11 days ago
If we can stay with Notre Dame for 58 minutes, Harvard (senior day at Cornell) and Dartmouth should be no problem, um, right? And we'll deserve home ice in the NCAA first round, right? Those who attended the game did not hear, for better or worse, the pitter-patter of the announcers, such as, "Not only is this a barn-burner, but three rows of the corn came down" and something aboutby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - 4/13-14 games - 12 days ago
Penn 15, Harvard 12. Harvard ran up a 9-6 lead before the half, Penn ran off 6 straight, game tied at 12, Harvard missed a couple chances, Penn got up 14-12, Harvard messed up a clear, got a miracle empty-net save by a defender, failed to capitalize when the Penn goalie dropped the ball on a clear, Penn added a final goal on a long-stick shot from its own 25 yard line. The save that almosby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - 4/13-14 games - 12 days ago
Not much this weekend to affect the outcome of the Ivy race with three weekends of play left. Yale, Cornell, Penn, all 3-1 Ivy, Princeton 2-1. One game with the outcome not clear: * 16 Harvard at 14 Penn, 1 pm Two games with the visiting teams likely to win: * 7 Yale at 59 Dartmouth 3:30 pm * 12 Princeton at 40 Brown, 3:30 pm Non-league game Sunday * 10 Cornell - 1 Notre Dame at LIU'sby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: 2024 Awards - 13 days ago
Trotsky Greg Brown wins the Spencer Penrose. Last BC coach to win it was Len Ceglarski in his first year at BC in 1973. Since Ceglarski and 1973 (actually since 1949), BC had a long title drought until 2001, 2008, 2010 and 2012. And Greg Brown is only BC's fifth head coach in just under a century, mostly because Snooks Kelley was HC 1933-1972, then Ceglarski for two decades, then Jerry York forby billhoward - Hockey
Re: 2024 Awards - All-America Shane 2nd team - 13 days ago
1) You sound like a cranky old man. Do you yell, "Hey, you kids get off my lawn"? But ... 2) Yeah, you're right. 3) His bio notes Richter played 666 games in the NHL so it could have been the Mark of the Best Award. He won second place in the Vezina Trophy in his second year. He only played two years at Wisconsin, 33-25-1. Let's see, Ken Dryden went 76-4-1 at Cornell. He embodies thby billhoward - Hockey