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Re: Florida College Classic - 7 years ago
wakester2468 I'm making my first trip to the Florida College Classic this year. Perhaps the most insignificant question on this forum is this. While in Florida I have no intention of wearing anything but shorts if at all possible. Is that the normal attire for games at Germain Arena or should I plan otherwise? Probably depends on who you ask. People who live in Florida think 65°F weather warrby Kyle Rose - Hockey
Re: Opponents News - 7 years ago
Trotsky Kyle RoseSounds like Yale from a few years back: only 1 draft pick, but good coaching and an effective system. That Yale team reminded me of a college football team running the option: success predicated on the talent level of the college game and the inability of the defense to deal with it. It can't be run in the pros because there even the linemen and the linebackers run as fast asby Kyle Rose - Hockey
Re: Opponents News - 7 years ago
BearLover Penn State has one draft pick on team, a 7th rounder. Sounds like Yale from a few years back: only 1 draft pick, but good coaching and an effective system.by Kyle Rose - Hockey
Re: Replacement Song for Swanee/Over There - 7 years ago
KGR11 Personally, I think the telephone cheer is becoming ridiculous. The intros for the call recipients used to be way more concise. Some of the funniest things I've heard at Lynah were telephone cheers with ridiculously long, involved intros with lots of detail about the player in question. But the person doing it needs to be really loud.by Kyle Rose - Hockey
Re: Lynah Rink Review - 7 years ago
jtwcornell91 Trotsky nshapiro Trotsky nshapiro As a parent of a current numb nut (and I am not offended on his behalf...my opinion of him alternates between smart-ass and dumb-ass)Good, that is healthy. If you don't want to sell your child to a Russian copper mine between the ages of 16 and 25, they're not doing it right. We also have provided a sufficiently unsatisfactory home life, so thereby Kyle Rose - Hockey
Re: Commence Complaining - 7 years ago
Jim Hyla CAS Beeej, do you know how out athletic fundraising compares with the other Ivies? Given we have the highest undergrad enrollment in the Ivies, do we raise more money for athletics than these schools? Given the state of our football facilities & some of what Dave Archer has said about the material underfunding of football, I doubt it. Hell, considering our alumni numbers we shoulby Kyle Rose - Hockey
Re: ILDN - announcers focus on video not audio - 7 years ago
Trotsky Kyle Rose Trotsky billhoward At some point, the radio announcers should shift to being video announcers, and it's the radio broadcast that rides along.No, no, no. I like the announcers staying in radio mode. Much more play by play detail and much less fluff and "personality" garbage. What's even better is MLB's postseason internet video, with selectable cameras and sounds-oby Kyle Rose - Hockey
Re: ILDN - announcers focus on video not audio - 7 years ago
Trotsky billhoward At some point, the radio announcers should shift to being video announcers, and it's the radio broadcast that rides along.No, no, no. I like the announcers staying in radio mode. Much more play by play detail and much less fluff and "personality" garbage. What's even better is MLB's postseason internet video, with selectable cameras and sounds-of-the-ballpark. I'by Kyle Rose - Hockey
Re: Streaming of the ILDN - 7 years ago
Trotsky I'm sorry for the dumb question, but what do people use Roku for? I can stream on my computer, and if I want the larger screen I can directly cable to the TV. Does this give higher resolution or extra features, like being able to dump the feed to TiVo and watch later? I'm not being deliberately dense or, for once, Luddite. I just don't get what it's for. Convenience. You can, of cby Kyle Rose - Hockey
Re: Upcoming Season - 7 years ago
Trotsky Kyle RoseCould be a good opportunity for some troll-cheering. If they make you go, you might as well have fun with it. It's not the athletes' fault that Cornell athletics sucks so please don't cleverly (a.k.a. not at all cleverly) slag them. Who, really, would be to blame in that scenario? The collateral damage is unfortunate, but acceptable since it doesn't involve actually harming anyby Kyle Rose - Hockey
Re: Upcoming Season - 7 years ago
KeithKIn principle I think this is a good idea. Even, all jokes aside, including football. But my take on the current generation of students (possibly unfair, certainly not well informed) is that many or most would simply blow off all sporting events rather than put up with the requirements. Could be a good opportunity for some troll-cheering. If they make you go, you might as well have fun withby Kyle Rose - Hockey
Re: Dryden in US politics - 7 years ago
SwampyWhat's really offensive is the load of BS that passes for valid political opinion/discourse without any concern for facts or logic. +1. A good argument can come from anywhere. Bad arguments OTOH seem to come from everywhere.by Kyle Rose - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
SwampyFurthermore, one would hope your premise, about capitalism being responsible for human advances over the past few centuries, would always be open to examination and revision. Absolutely. I think you're reading too much into a rejoinder. The best way to interpret my statement is more simply, "You (meaning Al) are likely to have a problem with any source I am able to cite expressing in aby Kyle Rose - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
SwampyKyle, this seems inconsistent with some other things you've said. Shouldn't you be looking for a book, journal, web site, news feed, blog, or whatever that has rigorous analyses that include well-researched empirical evidence, the results of which may be pro- or anti-capitalism? Or perhaps claiming that "capitalism" itself is not a particularly cogent way of understanding politicaby Kyle Rose - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
Al DeFlorio Kyle Rose The challenge is coming up with a solution to this problem that doesn't make things worse. Because, as bad as it is for many individuals in many situations, capitalism is responsible for greasing the wheels of human progress to a greater degree than any other philosophy in the history of civilization. People often miss the forest for the trees, ignoring the great strides inby Kyle Rose - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
2 I really believe you are just stubborn at this point, Kyle. No need to agree with me, but I think you are being intentionally obtuse. No, you are simply not making a coherent argument. To wit, in the rest of your post you keep saying "should" (as in "should" hire full professors) without giving a single justification beyond a value judgment: "My argument is that this iby Kyle Rose - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
2Most colleges do, in fact, need to hire experts with PhDs in the particular subjects. While less presitigious schools used to hire masters recipients a couple decades ago, it is tough for even them to do so now. When Cornell started, man faculty only had bachelors degrees as was the norm. Soon after there was a movement towards PhDs. Now students and their families expect instructors with Phby Kyle Rose - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
2Kyle, I think you are a little too stubborn on this supply/demand issue, and you seem to think that we live in a free market in the US. We don't at all when the market is controlled by regulation, licensing, and pseudo-governmental boards. Since you missed it before: STOP TELLING ME WHAT I THINK. You don't know me. Is that clear enough? Whenever you start a clause with "you seem to thinkby Kyle Rose - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
2 No, it is not traditional supply and demand at all. There is ever greater demand right now. While supply has risen because of more PhDs and fewer retirements, these PhDs are still getting work teaching. I just wouldn't call it jobs. They work as adjuncts (again making about $2,000 per course) or contingent positions. The schools still need them to teach and tehy are still teaching. A decadeby Kyle Rose - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
Scersk '97From your perspective, you hear "bleating." What you should be hearing is a warning cry. Corporations have usurped the power of governments, and those who run corporations are using what's left of the social contract—mindlessly adhered to by those who continue to tuck their heads under the sand and keep "gettin' 'er done"—to maximize their profits at the expense of tby Kyle Rose - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
I don't understand how you go from: 2Many lesser ranked schools used to hire people with masters degrees to instruct only 15 or 20 years ago. Now, they can often find adjuncts with PhDs from decent schools and with fairly impressive scholarship. directly to: 2The industry has created this unbalance by their unwillingness to pay and hire. It is not a supply and demand issue. You're missing somby Kyle Rose - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
Given that I have a job (producing things other people want to pay for), I'm going to pick and choose here. Sorry. Swampy Responding to Kyle, I want to raise three issues. 1. How do you propose to protect academic freedom, or do you not care about academic freedom? Not my job, but since you asked: Cornell and other universities have a mission, one that to my understanding they've really strayby Kyle Rose - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
Scersk '97Would that we were all perfect automata living in a libertarian utopia! Sorry, but the utopia here is one in which you think someone deserves compensation indefinitely simply for the virtue of devoting one's self to research (or to some other pursuit). The real world doesn't work that way: in the real world, people get paid for producing things that others want, because producing thingsby Kyle Rose - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
Scersk '97 All occupations are under attack; academia is yet another sector of society from under which the rug continues to be pulled, i.e., where the conditions of employment are going through such rapid disruptive change that many of those who signed up under a different set of rules are feeling cheated. Isn't this the story of all employment ever? What exactly is special about today's job marby Kyle Rose - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
2Cornell is one of the better schools when it comes to the percentage of instructors who are tenure track. It is estimated that over 76% of faculty at Cornell is tenure track. This is likely mostly due to Ithaca's remote geographic location, away from a large enough supply of highly trained PhD experts. To this specific point, I think you hit the nail right on the head. I have no specific daby Kyle Rose - Other Sports
Re: Quinnipiac signs 23 year-old transfer - 7 years ago
DafatoneI think they're doing something right, and I would suspect that targeting players that have been undervalued by the rest of the conference/league is part of that. Smart recruiting, then. Still not clear that old age is the primary target here. This is the sort of thing that's really tricky to prove, obviously. No meddling kids (they're too old), so they're currently getting away with it.by Kyle Rose - Hockey
Re: Quinnipiac signs 23 year-old transfer - 7 years ago
BearLover Kyle Rose ugarte Kyle Rose If we were talking about middling players, I'd agree that the 23yo is probably at the end of his career, but I'm talking about dominant players: that 23yo player who would be dominant in the NCAA is more likely to be in the pros by that point. A 23 year old going the college route has been told - implicitly or explicitly - that his chances of a pro career areby Kyle Rose - Hockey
Re: Quinnipiac signs 23 year-old transfer - 7 years ago
ugarte Kyle Rose If we were talking about middling players, I'd agree that the 23yo is probably at the end of his career, but I'm talking about dominant players: that 23yo player who would be dominant in the NCAA is more likely to be in the pros by that point. A 23 year old going the college route has been told - implicitly or explicitly - that his chances of a pro career are slim. Which means heby Kyle Rose - Hockey
Re: Chapter House fire last night/this morning - 7 years ago
Trotsky Kyle Rose jtwcornell91 Scersk '97 jtwcornell91 Well, crap. Future Of New Chapter House In Doubt Generally, absentee landlords are nothing but festering carbuncles on the body politic. One wishes a cooperative of Cornellians and other interested locals could get together and remove such an important property from the clutches of these management companies upon management companies.by Kyle Rose - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Chapter House fire last night/this morning - 7 years ago
jtwcornell91 Scersk '97 jtwcornell91 Well, crap. Future Of New Chapter House In Doubt Generally, absentee landlords are nothing but festering carbuncles on the body politic. One wishes a cooperative of Cornellians and other interested locals could get together and remove such an important property from the clutches of these management companies upon management companies. It seems like tby Kyle Rose - John Spencer Is Dead