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Re: How to fix the seeding process - 19 years ago
ugarte Wrote: ... They are inflexible about 4-team bands but willing to play favorites within the bands. It is as if they are just pissed about the codebreakers running bracketology analyses. Right: "NCAA selection process" and "transparency" are not words often heard together, at least not in the past. (Flipping the two and placing Denver ahead of Colorado College caby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Pep Band to Minnesota - where to send money? - 19 years ago
What's the address for sending money, payable to whom? And is there an electronic way eg PayPal?by billhoward - Hockey
How to fix the seeding process - 19 years ago
Maybe the pendulum has swung too far. The NCAA committee seems caught up in applying a formula that's inflexible. No matter how many decimal places of precision in the math-based part of its calculation, there is a margin of real world error, meaning the team calculated as the No. 8 might be anywhere from say the sixth through eleventh best team. So why be so prissy about giving the calculated Noby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Pep Band to Minnesota - 19 years ago
Too bad Wisconsin isn't playing in the East. Then you could take their place in Amherst/Worcester and they yours in Minneapolis. They're spirited, sassy, wear red, and probably know Davy already (and you know On Wisconsin). Save money all around with outscourcing. But seriously: If you think you really could make it to MSP with some fan / alumni contributions, you deserve our support.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Quit BITCHING about seeding - 19 years ago
Mike Nevin Wrote:... I think Cornell got screwed in that the # 1 seeds really should first go to teams who might actually be the number one team in the country. College hockey is too small, with too little interaction between the leagues for the statistics to accurately reflect who deserves what. But, any idiot can look at the recent results, and recent polls which to some degree reflect expertby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Quit BITCHING about seeding - 19 years ago
Pro hockey fans are more well-heeled that pro basketball fans, I believe I've read. 'Course, there's a lot *more* pro basketball fans and pro basketball fans who sit in front of TV. HDTV will help hockey more than it helps basketball, unless you're dying to see what the squeakballers' tattoos read.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Quit BITCHING about seeding - 19 years ago
calgARI '07 Wrote: As I have said, this is the best case scenarios for the usual suspects: Minnesota, BC, Michigan. The little schools that won't generate the huge TV dollars in the Frozen Four, Cornell and CC, get just about the worst case scenarios. I think it would have only been worse for Cornell had they been matched up with Wisconsin in the first round (they play on the international iceby billhoward - Hockey
Re: CSTV shows CU at 10pm Fri (odds of successful taping) - 19 years ago
I get on a plane Thursday at 8 am. I get back Friday. wheels down, at 11:58 pm. I have the blank disk (formatted) in the DVD-recorder set to go on Friday on Line 1 at 10 pm and record four hours (there could be overtime). There are two spare formatted disks on top of the drive. I have the DSS dialed in to CSTV 610 and running out to Line 1 in on the DVD drive. I made a test recording tongiht at 1by billhoward - Hockey
Re: [QT] I-Drive fallacies - 19 years ago
Active steering (turns more per 1/4 turn of the wheel at lower speed than high speed) on the new (E90) 3 Series is supposed to be better. Meanwhile a current E46 330i coupe is going to be as fast as a 14-year-old E30 M3, if not anywhere as exclusive, and not as hard on your fillings or wallet. A lot of people who buy M3's (say the ones who cashed in stock options) don't realize that "sport sby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Relaunch of Athletics Website - 19 years ago
Jeff Hopkins '82 Wrote:It's the same format as several other schools web pages, and IMO it's not very good. But you can be sure, they contracted out the web design for a large sum of money so they wouldn't have to employ anyone in Ithaca to do it.It is offputting to be browsing the Web and see what looks like the Cornell site but halfway across the country in, say, Jayhawk blue-and-crimson. Whenby billhoward - Hockey
Re: [QT] I-Drive fallacies - 19 years ago
If you can make iDrive work well in 15-30 minutes then you can explain this thing about matter sometimes becoming energy and giving off a lot of heat and noise as well. I have 5,000 miles on iDrive in five different BMWs dating back to July 2001 in both U.S and European models and only now do I feel comfortable with it. The simplified four-not-eight-ways 5 Series controller is marginally easby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Relaunch of Athletics Website - 19 years ago
Al - Pop-up ads and motion ads are seductive from the POV of the site developer because they're dynamic and they have the potential to generate more clicks / revenue. Cornell perhaps has dreams of pop-ups curing the athletics department deficit. Problem is, when every ad buzzes, waves, pops ups/flies around, or flashes, it's annoying as hell, and the viewer goes away. When even one ad does that,by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Relaunch of Athletics Website - 19 years ago
Jordan 04 Wrote:... who really cares? It's the Cornell Athletics website.It's Cornell's sports image to the outside world. Recruits will see it. Alumni who don't know about eLynah go there. If you're about to head out to the football game in New Haven, it's where you'd go to check the time and that it really is at Yale not Cornell before you set out from Pawtucket. And this is a Cornell that isby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Relaunch of Athletics Website - 19 years ago
The media transport buttons are there but no instructions / hints either directly, as hover help, or by right clicking for those whose mice have right buttons. But as has been pointed out, the site is just now up and no matter how much you think these thing through, you're going to miss something. Also missing (I believe): No easy way to contact sports information. For working press who don'tby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Relaunch of Athletics Website - 19 years ago
The rotating headlines are cool if you like shiny and sparkly objects but you have to spend a couple minutes there to see if a new story posted. Plus, what's going to rotate in and out over the summer? More space for photos is nice but where is Cornell going with this: Will it post 10 photos of the hockey game an hour after the game? Or just have more chances to run the same stock photos: &quby billhoward - Hockey
Re: CSTV shows CU at 10pm Fri - 19 years ago
ncaas Wrote: Does anyone know if the first 2 rounds of the ncaas are televised in other countries? -- say italy?? i'm gonna be away, but i need to watch us.You're going to be in Italy and you're hoping maybe the local flavor of teams like this is going to impress ESPN-Italia: Abbott Abbott Bitz Carefoot Chabot Cook Davenport Downs Gleed Glover Hynes Iggulden Knoepfli Krantz McCutcby billhoward - Hockey
Re: CSTV is contractually obligated etcetera etcetera - 19 years ago
When you're starting out, you're probably just glad to fill in your programming hours. Later you start thinking about having - requring - escape clauses in case other more interesting programming comes along.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: SUCKS or Toothpaste - 19 years ago
Let's see Harvard-Colgate both score and give up a lot of goals. If the hyphen gives up eight goals this weekend (two game total) while maintaining his average of about 29-30 saves a game, that would drop him out of the lead in save percentage should those just behind him maintain their current ratios.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Goalie for next year - 19 years ago
From those who've seen 30 come and go: Thirty is the most terrifying decade change because you think four rogue gray hairs means you're getting old and then shortness of breath when you go jogging in 10-degree weather must be the onset of a coronary. The next ones get easier even if that's when you really are getting older. Other sad milestones are when at reunion the university president attendby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Syracuse v. Princeton - 19 years ago
For those who saw or at least recall Cornell lacrosse going back to the Harkness years and getting screwed on national championships because it was a poll favoring schools in Baltimore and points south until the first (1971) NCAA playoff, a) Bill Tierney at Princeton deserves incredible amounts of credit and b) it's galling to read about the history of Ivy lacrosse being Princetong greatness sincby billhoward - Hockey
Re: SUCKS or Toothpaste - 19 years ago
Like Harvard is the only college or university with bizarre hiring and promotions practices. It should get better in Cambridge: Despite sticking his foot in his mouth, Lawrence Summers seems to be a breath of fresh air for Harvard. And if he's not, by virtue of having gotten embroiled in the controversy (the rest of his remarks seemed reasonable if not his remarks in their entirety), he now has tby billhoward - Hockey
Re: CSTV shows CU at 10pm Fri (final score leaks out?) - 19 years ago
You just know if you stay in a vacuum till 10 pm Friday, somehow the final is still going to leak out .... It's not yet clear if the tape-delayed Cornell-Vermont game airs at 10 pm or "immediately following" the Harvard-Colgate game that faces off (?), airs (*?) at 7:30 pm. Maybe CSTV doesn't know for sure itself. Most non-tournament games, non-televised, run 2:10 or 2:15 to play, sby billhoward - Hockey
Re: SUCKS or Toothpaste - 19 years ago
Most everyone wants to play - and beat - Harvard because Harvard is Harvard. Harvard is the pretty girl who wouldn't date you, the boy two blocks away with family money who never had to rake leaves or babysit to pay for his Boxster in high school, the school that wouldn't let you in. (This apparently is how some Clarkson fans see us.) Plus it's a pretty good hockey school. Colgate is our upstby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Big Blow to BC - 19 years ago
Much as you want BC to go down, down, down, you don't want it to happen via losing their best player. Better they should do it the old fashioned way: choke when the going gets tough.by billhoward - Hockey
Fans say less doubt on Cornell-Vermont game (USCHO) - 19 years ago
Current USCHO poll asks which college hockey game will be the closest this weekeknd ("most difficult to predict a winner". That's currenlty Minnesota-Colorado College. Cornell-Vermont is at the other end of the spectrum: Only 4% of respondents say that's going to be tough to pick, same response as for Michigan State-Omaha Nebraska, bested only by 2% saying Mercyhurst-Holy Cross will be cby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Tighter officiating a qualified failure? - 19 years ago
There were a bunch of 5's early in the season but not recently? If the chart showed # of penalties (2:00 or 5:00 counts as 1, 10:00 not counted) I wonder if it would change. Not trying to make light of all the work you've done. It just seemed as if there was a surge of penalties earlier on this year, but looking back and also seeing your chart it's not clear if there really was, or it was juby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Tighter officiating a qualified failure? - 19 years ago
How much can college hockey do to make the officials do what college hockey wants them to do? Where's the levereage: The pay sucks. There's some prestige but not a lot. It's not like major league baseball or football where you've got a pool of willing and probably able replacements if the ump doesn't call balls and strikes the way MLB wants them called.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Another New Recruit - 19 years ago
So if Cornell hasn't plumbed the depths of prep hockey in New England, we're doing pretty well out of the Illinois area. And every other coach in the country must be kicking himself for not thinking about Texas. Have to keep an eye on California, too.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Another New Recruit - 19 years ago
The coaches only have so many recruiting hours in a season. Maybe the Harvard fans (pardon the oxymoron) are wondering why Donato and company don't spend more time in BC/Vancounver outhustling Cornell and less time on the prep circuit because "those players will come to Harvard anyway." Going back a generation, Cornell was slow to turn from Ontario to the greatly improved Massachuseby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Letter to CSTV about ECACHL Tournament Coverage - 19 years ago
There needs to be about ten satellite channels available and standing by (like that's gonna happen) for surges of sports activity. Even so, if it magically became available in the next 96 hours, it would probably all go to men's and women's college hoops. We're spoiled because we can get maybe a half-dozen Cornell games on real TV and the home games on Webcast ... and We Want More!by billhoward - Hockey