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Re: 2016-17 Schedule - 7 years ago
wakester2468 Actually that's not exactly the case. Cornell will also visit Merrimack on Friday Oct 28th for a single game alone with returning on Jan 7th for another single game. Very strange. Good catch. I wasn't looking for the date in Oct so I only saw the one game in January. Maybe the coaches wanted to spread the games out a bit so the two teams didn't face each other three times withinby KeithK - Hockey
Re: 2016-17 Schedule - 7 years ago
Merrimack released their schedule today (7/6). It only shows them hosting one game against Cornell on Saturday, Jan 7.by KeithK - Hockey
Re: Any Questions for Schafer? - 7 years ago
Was there any Q&A or was it just him speaking to the assembled 86'ers? Given the setting I kind of assumed it would be the latter.by KeithK - Hockey
Re: Any Questions for Schafer? - 7 years ago
css228 Also will you resign, please? I'm picturing you showing up at the reunion breakfast and starting a "Schafer must go!" chant as he stands up to speak.by KeithK - Hockey
Re: Schoellkopf Field being re-turfed - 7 years ago
George64 KeithK We probably don't need additional seating on the west side. But we also don't need a condemned West Stands sitting there. Tear 'em down and do what you're going to do with the space. Done. I thought that was the plan but couldn't remember the schedule. The pic (dated March) shows the demolished stands. Are they gone by now?by KeithK - Other Sports
Re: Any Questions for Schafer? - 7 years ago
I suspect that asking probing questions about the hockey team would be inappropriate at a reunion breakfast. But if not, I'd ask something along the lines of "what changes are planned to try to improve scoring for next season?"by KeithK - Hockey
Re: Schoellkopf Field being re-turfed - 7 years ago
What do you mean the Crescent never fills. It fills once per year like clockwork. We probably don't need additional seating on the west side. But we also don't need a condemned West Stands sitting there. Tear 'em down and do what you're going to do with the space.by KeithK - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
ugarte The only point I would like to add here is please shut up everybody. It's the offseason, there's no news about bball coaches. Let 'em talk.by KeithK - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
Swampy What you said reminds me of the Hoover Institute's charter, which defines its mission as combatting the ideas of Karl Marx. Nothing like starting out with a foregone conclusion and then looking for those arguments and sources that support it, while being close-minded about anything that might undermine the conclusion. I'm sorry, but that pretty much describes the vast majority of economicby KeithK - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
Al DeFlorio And making a reference to anything produced by the Cato Propaganda Institute destroys any credibility you might have had. It, and all the other Koch/Bradley/Adelson/etc.-funded faux think-tanks, are just shills for the oligarchs. This is just being belligerant. You might consider sometime that people who disagree with you may be doing so in good faith.by KeithK - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
2 You can espouse supply and demand ideas, all you want, but the schools are an intermediary between the supply (PhDs) and demand (students), and the intermdiaries have distorted the market to take advantage of teh academics. I think this is fundamentally incorrect. There are two supply and demand pairs here. One is students seeking an education. To this they turn to colleges and universitieby KeithK - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
Kyle Rose People need to adjust to what others actually need. No one is owed a living for the remainder of their life doing exactly what they trained for in their 20's. It's unfair that I can't make a living manufacturing buggy whips! Outlaw cars! In all seriousness, I totally understand why people feel this way. It's a natural reaction to changes in the world that affect ones life negativelby KeithK - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
Scersk '97 Kyle RoseBut, like $150 oil, anyone who thinks this is going to last forever is not paying attention to history. In a free market, surplus and scarcity both sow the seeds of their own destruction. One hopes this is the case. Is there any data that suggests the minting of PhDs is slowing down? (If I weren't such a lazy layabout, I'd try to find it myself. I hope someone else has doneby KeithK - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
Swampy Obama Care (aka ACA) uses mandates on employers to expand the U.S. system of employer-supplied health insurance. The obvious answer is to abolish this system altogether. Why should employers be responsible for health insurance at all? And why should a government program open up this can of worms in the form of unintended labor-market outcomes? I can't imagine how anyone could defend the cuby KeithK - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
imafrshmn Thread drift be damned. It's intelligent discussions like this that keep me coming to ELF in the off season. It's the off-season. This is largely the only reason to come here for the next few months. Even when the discussions are TLDR (at least while I am in theory working).by KeithK - Other Sports
Re: Cornell men's assistant basketball coaches named - 7 years ago
marty Assistant coaches hopefully don't have to worry about this. A rather foreseeable consequence of government mandates.by KeithK - Other Sports
Re: Recruits 2016 and Beyond - 7 years ago
Swampy scoop85 Alex Limoges, who's slated to enter Cornell in the fall of 2017, had a great rookie season and playoff (14 points in 11 playoff games) for Tri-City in the USHL as they won the Clark Cup. Encouraging to see such scoring prowess in what is widely recognized as the top Junior A league in North America. Jeff Malott, who I believe is heading to Ithaca this fall, had 12 points in 13 pby KeithK - Hockey
Re: Do we need a housecleaning in the athletics dept? - 7 years ago
The point being that a couple of down years aren't necessarily sufficient justification for canning the AD. Particularly in college athletics. Oh, I know many of us have beefs with him that run back far more than two years. But that's seperate from the "what have you done for me lately" argument.by KeithK - Other Sports
Re: New Cornell Assistant - Sean Flanagan - 7 years ago
Flanagan was a forward at SLU who scored 12 goals and 52 points in 121 games (0.42 points per game). He had about half a point per game in his one year of pro hockey (14-11-5 in 48 games). So no offensive powerhouse as a player by the stats. Anyone have a recollection of him on the ice?by KeithK - Hockey
Re: This Year Around The League - 7 years ago
LGR14 KeithK css228 LGR14 No to the shootout, but I don't understand why the ECAC plays 5-on-5 in OT. Taking away one player from each team would make overtime much more exciting and probably decrease the number of ties. Not ready for 3-on-3 yet, but 4-on-4 should be a no-brainer. With the style of player we tend to recruit, we would get our asses handed to us in 3v3 But 3v3 is amazing and I'm gby KeithK - Hockey
Re: This Year Around The League - 7 years ago
css228 LGR14 No to the shootout, but I don't understand why the ECAC plays 5-on-5 in OT. Taking away one player from each team would make overtime much more exciting and probably decrease the number of ties. Not ready for 3-on-3 yet, but 4-on-4 should be a no-brainer. With the style of player we tend to recruit, we would get our asses handed to us in 3v3 But 3v3 is amazing and I'm glad the NHL wby KeithK - Hockey
Re: Cornell football recruiting class of 2020 - 7 years ago
RichH The Class of 2020, featuring 31 members (30 incoming freshman, one transfer), joins a Cornell football program building momentum. "building momentum" is what political candidates say 2 weeks before suspending their campaigns. At least Athletics didn't make a portmanteau. An object in freefall is also building momentum.by KeithK - Other Sports
Re: This Year Around The League - 7 years ago
jkahn Trotsky nshapiro I am ok with the shootout, but the effect should be de-emphasized, especially the creation of the extra point in the standings. Each game should be worth 5 points - 5 - regulation win 4 - overtime win 3 - shootout win 2 - shootout loss 1 - overtime loss 0 - regulation loss No. No, no, no, no, no. No. The ECAC does this one thing exactly right, and everyone fby KeithK - Hockey
Re: Women's Lax wins Ivy Tournament - NCAA tournament - 8 years ago
scoop85 KeithK billhoward Cornell is ranked 8 of 26 teams in the tournament. Why does women's lax have a 26 team tourney? Is lax now seen as a "cheap to field and balance out football for TIX" sport? The field is larger because there are many more women's D1 programs -- schools such as Florida, Stanford, USC, Cal, BC, and Louisville that do not have men's teams are all tournament teaby KeithK - Other Sports
Re: Women's Lax wins Ivy Tournament - NCAA tournament - 8 years ago
billhoward Cornell is ranked 8 of 26 teams in the tournament. Why does women's lax have a 26 team tourney? Is lax now seen as a "cheap to field and balance out football for TIX" sport?by KeithK - Other Sports
Re: This Year Around The League - 8 years ago
Jim Hyla Via ECAC, NCPR on an SLU stats prof who is working on hockey. One study really got a lot of play. It found that shoot-outs – the one-on-ones with the goalie to break a tie game - are basically a crapshoot. Schuckers’ analysis found no player is a better shoot-out scorer than anyone else. Thank god, a reason to not decide games that way. There's got to be some selection bias baked inby KeithK - Hockey
Re: Quinnipiac signs 23 year-old transfer - 8 years ago
RichH Why is there all this hand-wringing? It's the typical response to someone having success by following a different strategy. There's a tendency to either copycat that strategy or complain that it's not fair. Learning lessons from someone else's success is a smart thing to do. Maybe older players are an under-recruited resource at the moment. But lets not rad too much into Q's success.by KeithK - Hockey
Re: Quinnipiac signs 23 year-old transfer - 8 years ago
BearLover Absolutely! Older players are stronger and more experienced. Yes, but you balance that against the presumably lower skill level. It's definitely true that this approach can work. ut it can also lead you to a bunch of low skill players on your roster who don't play well, regardless of the fact that they have experience and physical maturity. Having a bunch of older players definby KeithK - Hockey