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Re: Barry Melrose on ESPN2 - 19 years ago
The numbers McKee put up were "in the Ivy League," as some voters are going to remember. That's a bias against athletes from smart schools, not that CC is a vo-tech four year institution. A generation ago, it probably cost Ed Marinaro the Heisman. ESPN may be lamenting the lack of color stories it would have had if a smart-ass Ivy school such as Harvard or Cornell had been one of theby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Schafer a Penrose finalist - 19 years ago
At some point the hockey coaches have to recognize what Schafer has done at Cornell. BU's Jackie Parker deserves one more COTY award before he signs off. The guy has outlasted more Cornell coaches that Castro has U.S. presidents.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Moulson and McKee on INCH All-American teams - 19 years ago
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was right ("defining deviancy downward".by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Borque Leaves BU - 19 years ago
So you know what regional Cornell will be posted in.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: OT: Proposed new NHL nets - 19 years ago
Hasn't the padding changed in two ways - it's both more protective (more depth or more protection per millimeter of thickness) which is okay unless toothless goalies really are a cool thing, and wider to fill up more of the net? As for the net, the shape screams out "compromise." Or that Chris Bangle designed it. But you could get used to it. Does anybody find lacrosse boring becausby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Moulson and McKee on INCH All-American teams - 19 years ago
Right or wrong that Noah is there, two ECACHL players - correction, two Ivy League players - on the first team and more on the second and third teams speaks well for the education vs. free-ride part of athletics. Notice the NCAA banner striped across the scorer's/press table at the basketball finals emblazoned with words like Fair Play, Education, Scholarship, Competition , etcetera. It wasn't clby billhoward - Hockey
Re: For amusement... - 19 years ago
A decade back, Daniel Seligman in Fortune (I believe it was him) did a contrarian piece on who should have the best looking women. One school of thought holds out that it's UCLA because several generations of inbreeding among Hollywood stars and the just-as-good-looking people who moved there hoping to find work produced an island of beauty. As I recall the article (this is one that should hby billhoward - Hockey
Re: OT: Proposed new NHL nets - 19 years ago
It will make every photo look like it's taken with a fisheye lens. The 6x4 net isn't graven in stone. Maybe if the sport came out of Europe the net would be 2 meters wide by 1.5 tall. With the net size standing still, two other things change: the area that's not covered by the goalie and equipment, and to a degree harder to measure, the area a now-more-able-and-athletic goalie can't reach.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: OT: Proposed new NHL nets - 19 years ago
It will make every photo look like it's taken with a fisheye lens. The 6x4 net isn't graven in stone. Maybe if the sport came out of Europe the net would be 2 meters wide by 1.5 tall. With the net size standing still, two other things change: the area that's not covered by the goalie and equipment, and to a degree harder to measure, the area a now-more-able-and-athletic goalie can't reach.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Going cold turkey on eLynah: Mission Impossible? - 19 years ago
Some of us are hoping for an incredible run by the lacrosse team although that's going to call for a superhuman second half surge. Maybe eLynah could expand to be the resource for all of Canada's national sports. (Not to start a discussion on whether lacrosse was or is the only official sport.)by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Moulson and McKee on INCH All-American teams - 19 years ago
The college hockey coaches don't own "All-America."by billhoward - Hockey
Re: BAN FACETIMER - 19 years ago
Every once in a while the subject of this conversation says something so outrageous it's thought-provoking. Not the usual Schafer can't coach, O'Bryne can't stickhandle, Topher can't dunk, Underhill-then-LeNeveu-now-McKee can't make the big save, etcetera BS. Such as, well, it's hard to remember, but twice in the past couple weeks something he posted was so far out in left field that it actuaby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lynah - 19 years ago
The solarium/walkway around the outside of Princeton's Hobey Baker are fine. You get used to it. It's one more way to expand a rink without tearing down the rink.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lynah - 19 years ago
Rich has a point. The NCAA could decree that if a college spends more than say 10% of the value of the rink on renovations that includes the home team locker rooms (and other work) then it has to allocate X square feet for the visitors with Y many showers, a bench for a skate sharpener, telephone, internet connection (that works), etcetera. This wouldn't remove the home ice advantage, not by a loby billhoward - Hockey
Re: New Recruits - 19 years ago
There is a Clarkson message board, one assumes. Can ladies read recent posts, or do they have to ask their boyfriends to find out ("and don't forget to wash your hands".by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lynah - 19 years ago
"Luxury box" is in the eyes of the beholder. Padded leather chairs? Carpeted floor? Bathroom? Closed circuit TV? Bartender? Waitress service? Sliding windows if the noise gets too much? That's a luxury box. Bet they're more boxes than luxury boxes.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Which loss was more painful? - 19 years ago
Will Wrote: One wonders if this will be our ultimate revenge on Minnesota. Then again, the NCAA likes to make money and Minnesota likes to host regionals, so it might do nothing. But it'll be nice to have the rules on our side in the future.Minnesota can host all the regionals it wants ... at the Excel Energy Center (in St. Paul) with a I'm pretty sure an NHL size surface. BTW the arena rulesby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Whither Mike Schafer? - 19 years ago
Another case of having to waffle on the stats. At some pont in the official history of Cornell hockey it's going to say, "The man who was to become Cornell's all-time winningest coach averaged 20 wins over his first ten seasons." One bleeping victory shy of 200 over the decade.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: [OT] The Fish flies again! - 19 years ago
Hobart loses by 1 goal to Syracuse because of a possession change awarded when a fish comes flying on the lacrosse field. Good! Hobart people always were crazy, not always sober (kegs at lacrosse games), and I believe they were especially rowdy in a game when Hobart upset Cornell, at which point I believe Richie Moran called off the series for a couple years. This at a time when Hobart really neeby billhoward - Hockey
Re: McKee in Hobey Hat Trick - 19 years ago
McKee serves two, make that three purposes ... Token Easterner (sometimes they win) Token defender (sometimes they win) Token Ivy Leaguer / smart college boy (not that CC is a hockey factory) ... who gets to go to Columbus after all, put on a jacket and tie, say nice things for a day, and then applaud politely when the winner is announced. Still, it's good the smart-ass Ivy League colleby billhoward - Hockey
Re: ECACHL Championship Wear - 19 years ago
Find a tailor shop with a sewing machine with a USB port. If you feed it a bitmap image, it can embroider anything you want on any shirt, any color. Illegal as hell if you a) try to sell and b) get caught. Otherwise, have at it.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Burn this post - 19 years ago
>>> Hockey seasons are like relationships. Almost every single one ends with a loss and that loss always hurts. Adam, you are an incurable romantic. Have you ever thought of writing the sentiments that go on greeting cards? And just like relationships, you get back on the horse and try again after you fall off. You believe right about Harvard's hockey history: their seniors weby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Dustin Traylen Out at Clarkson - 19 years ago
The point was: Don't pile on George Roll for not working miracles in just two seasons at Clarkson. The first two Cornell years under Schafer were amazingly good and some people hoped for more of the same in succeeding years as he brought in a team that was all his. For some, the inability to advance on to the NCAAs for the next several years was a bit hard to take even if the season was quite sucby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Dustin Traylen Out at Clarkson - 19 years ago
Scersk '97 Wrote: It's taking Roll longer than I thought it would, but I have every confidence that he's the right guy for Clarkson.These expectations seem to be speeded up, like dog years or Internet time. Roll has only been at the helm last year and this year. True, Mike Schafer took Cornell to the NCAAs his first two years, but most coaches coming in are not going to pull that off, and even inby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Going cold turkey on eLynah: Mission Impossible? - 19 years ago
Good point. There's recent research that says a psychologist is just about as good as a psychriatrist at helping a lot of people working through their depression and other problems, and by the way a social work is almost as good as a psychologist, and even a good support group is helpful. Plus, with eLynah there's no $25 copay. Well, actually there is a one-timer since I promised to kick in for tby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Don't underrate Mike Schafer - 19 years ago
There is one, correction one and a half, advantages Cornell has: the Ivy League. Michigan is not a crummy school and Minnesota is okay, but if your diploma can read Cornell, that's a huge thing for a lot of people. Most hockey players are going to have to work for a living after college. So if you're a hockey player and you want a first-class academic experience on a team that's going to beby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Dustin Traylen Out at Clarkson - 19 years ago
Traylen's departure might just be a such tipping point even if it seems like the end of the world now. Every time it seems as if the North Country teams are on the ropes and will never come back, they come back and win like two of the next three ECAC playoffs between the two of them. Playoffs, Rich, we said "playoffs," not RS titles. We know you have a wallfull of them. Like the vicby billhoward - Hockey
Re: USCHO chat with Coach Don Lucia of MN - 19 years ago
Did anybody ask him, "Where's our cowbell?"by billhoward - Hockey
Re: INCH rankings - 19 years ago
Kinder words for Cornell than Harvard, but truer words were never spoken about both: >>> Not in the Frozen Four, they get No. 3 here. In a seven-game series on neutral ice, we think this is where they'd belong. >>> Harvard seniors will graduate with four straight first-round exits. But hey, they're graduating from Harvard.by billhoward - Hockey