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Where will the thread end? - 19 years ago
It's at 2229 views so far. I'm guessing 4,000 before this slugfest winds down. Cowbell Guy, you started it; if you were getting ad views on top of the pages, I'd think you had an ulterior motive. So it has to be pure altruism that you led you to scan and post this page.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: How To Be a Good Fan - 19 years ago
Some Clarkson fan complains because a 32-year-old Cornell fan exclaims, "Let's go, Red!"? What's she gonna say if Clarkson ever gets a home-and-home series with Nebraska in football (club football?) and the Cornhusker fans pull up Thursday afternoon in the Bluebird motor homes (ever price one of those suckers?) and start partying for the next 72 hours. That's the fans for which one shouby billhoward - Hockey
Re: How To Be a Good Fan - 19 years ago
Trotsky Wrote: I don't think Ned rates high on the modesty scale either... Wasn't it Casey Stengel who said (wasn't Yogi; this makes too much sense), "If you can do it, it ain't braggin'."by billhoward - Hockey
Re: How To Be a Good Fan - 19 years ago
Trotsky raises two good points (the second, Harvard sucks, being an axiom), that the world needs more people clamoring for student-athletes. It's unlikely it's going to happen, but there's always the hope that college sports will blow up so badly with say a football scandal at Miami (beyond the usual shootings, muggings, and girlfriends taking tests) or hoops at Kentucky ... and the college presiby billhoward - Hockey
Re: How To Be a Good Fan - 19 years ago
daredevilcu Wrote:Did you not get accepted to Clarkson or something? Is that why you're bitter? Or do you hate most aspects of Cornell (not hockey) and are transferring that hate towards Clarkson?To get rejected from Clarkson, Dr. F., one has to have decided to apply there. The Clarkson catalog sitting in what passed for our high school's guidance office, on the cover, had this picture, and youby billhoward - Hockey
Re: How To Be a Good Fan - 19 years ago
You have been good sports about this even though it's humbling. But that is good practice for later in life if -- sorry, when (little slip of the keys) -- you find employment.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: How To Be a Good Fan - 19 years ago
daredevilcu Wrote: I know that I'm stereotyping, and I'm sure this probably doesn't apply to you, but most of the Cornell students come through with credit cards their parents pay off and buy the dumbest things known to man, and are extremely rude to me and others while doing it, so whatever.If we had contact, most eLynah fans would never be rude to you. But then, we pump our own.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: How To Be a Good Fan - 19 years ago
JFK35 Wrote: Well I agree with the fellow Clarkson posts up here so far. I also think that our pepband has done everything in our power to try and make things better. But I need to make one point very well known. It's not a huge problem of spirit, it's a problem of numbers. Cornell has about twice as many if not more regular fans than we do, and it definetly shows. I would bet money that if Clarby billhoward - Hockey
Re: McKee Ivy League Player of the Year - 19 years ago
Brian Ihnacak who beat out David McKee for Ivy rookie of the year honors last year and shared ECAC rookie of the year honors with McKee ... nowhere to be seen on this year's All-Ivy roster. Note also one freshman made the All-Ivy team (HM) this year, Sean Hurley, a Brown defenseman, but it was Nick Johnson of Dartmouth, a forward, who was rookie of the year. More good forwards than defenders,by billhoward - Hockey
Re: How To Be a Good Fan [OT: grants & aid] - 19 years ago
The comparison of admissions information for the purposes, allegedly, of making equal financial aid offers, that I knew about. I was thinking about the tracking afterwards, of seeing who actually enrolled where, and comparing that to the places where the person was accepted. Did the schools follow through before, and did they give it up after their legal woes arose? The equal-financial-aid iby billhoward - Hockey
Re: How To Be a Good Fan - 19 years ago
daredevilcu Wrote: I gotta say, I'm glad I go to Clarkson and not Cornell, but I wish we had enough people to have the kind of fan base Lynah's got, and I think most colleges would say the same thing.Didn't Aesop say that a while back, only using "fox" instead of "Clarkson": >>> A FAMISHED FOX saw some clusters of ripe black grapes hanging from a trellised vine.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Vermont misses NCAA's APR threshold - 19 years ago
When you break out athlete graduation rates, you may see differences between walk-ons and recruited athletes, scholarhship and non-scholarhip athletes, and major and other sports. There might be differences between starters and reserves. (Some of the breakouts were covered in more detail in Bowen's second book.) At Temple, the Temple News (2/22) cites the higher overall graduation rate for athletby billhoward - Hockey
Re: OT: 2005 lacrosse preview - 19 years ago
Wow, great report. Maybe we need an eSchoellkopf (?) forum? Nah, doesn't have quite the same ring. It sounds as if the pre-season predictions of Cornell around #10 in the nation are not out of line. As I was reading down the list of people who Cornell was hoping would play and then bailed, it sounded (initially) as if possibly there were some coach(es)-player relations issues. OTOH the flow oby billhoward - Hockey
Re: McKee is USCHO DPOTW - 19 years ago
McKee would be helped (in terms of winning various player-of-the-xxxx awards) if he grouped his shutouts two per weekend, rather than a shutout and a one-goal game. In particular, the RPI (3-0) / Union (4-1) weekend, which also would have been the game (Union) that tied Dryden. He has one set of back-to-backs, 1/29 against St. Lawrence and then 2/4 at Colgate. He should have had a back to bacby billhoward - Hockey
Re: How To Be a Good Fan - 19 years ago
>>> Is there a Clarkson cheer that goes "I'm blind, I'm dumb, I study at Cornell"? It's seven syllables short of hai-ku, although one could add, "Fight, fight, fight, go Golden Knights." But it's not the kind of thing you'd ink on ricepaper and hand out.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Vermont misses NCAA's APR threshold - 19 years ago
We like Quinnipiac because we like what we think will become their informal school nickname, and because they'll help make for even more four-point weekends for us and the rest of the league. The real problem is the ECACHL gets no respect once you get below the top five, six teams: Cornell, Harvard, Clarkson/St. Lawrence about half the time, RPI and Colgate and Brown about half the time, nowby billhoward - Hockey
Re: How To Be a Good Fan - 19 years ago
>>> Also, keep in mind that nobody's student section gets into it, INCLUDING the Lynah Faithful, when they're getting killed. From what I hear, Game 3 of last year's playoffs at Lynah was pretty dead, except for all of you getting mad at the Clarkson fan with the trumpet. Regardless of what you thought of him, you gotta admit it takes balls to go to Lynah and do what he did. The kidby billhoward - Hockey
Re: How To Be a Good Fan - 19 years ago
Now Clarkson fans once again learn the reality that a gracious loser is still a, ah, loser. Clarkson/St. Lawrence seem to share a couple ECAC RS or postseason titles every ten years, then go into never-neverland.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: RPI primer (brackets for dummies): Why #2/#3 Cornell may seed lower - 19 years ago
Most online threads degenerate to unpleasantness and name-calling. Here it moves higher and upward in the noblest of Ivy League traditions. While still leaving us time to name-call the Harvard swells. KRACH may be complex mathmatecally, but it may be possible to explain what it does so that people of normal abilities (eg liberal arts majors) have some clue was to what's going on. You don't haby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Polls 2/28 - 19 years ago
If you mean the penalty called against Cornell in the waning minutes against UNH, most people don't think it was a marginal call - it happened, it was obvious, the ref had to call it. It was just not smart hockey by Cornell.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: How To Be a Good Fan - 19 years ago
>>> "SILVERTHORN AND McKEE ARE SIEVES!!! LET THEM KNOW THIS!!!!" 125 minutes played, 3 goals allowed, 1.44 GAA (the average of 2.76GAA and 0.00GAA). Some sieves.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: RPI primer (brackets for dummies): Why #2/#3 Cornell may seed lower - 19 years ago
Second try: KRACH can account for about one-fifth of the explanation of how any game turns out (for games among ~closely matched teams)? As opposed to (my bad interpolation) it can account for the outcome of one of every five games among closely matched teams - you're saying the second interpretation isn't the same as the first?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: How To Be a Good Fan - 19 years ago
Pete Godenschwager Wrote: where's the "shoot spitballs at the opposing fans"? Unneeded instruction. Encoded in Clarkson fan DNA.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Union/Senior Night Photos - 19 years ago
What kind of shutter speed (and ISO) did the spotlighted pictures work out to? I think a couple people in the stands with BIC lighters would have given you another half stop to work with. Pretty impressive.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: RPI primer (brackets for dummies): Why #2/#3 Cornell may seed lower - 19 years ago
>>> Indeed; I neglected to mention in my post (although it's in the excel file if you downloaded it) that the process for finding the variance also tells you, on average, what percentage of the variance in game outcomes is explained by KRACH. In other words, how much of a factor the different KRACH ratings are in determining who wins. This year it's 19% across the whole season so far, anby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Polls 2/28 - 19 years ago
The big sheet of ice in Lake Placid isn't an excuse for Cornell not beating Harvard but it may have been the reason. Remember that the UMass/Amherst rink is near-Olympic, 200x95, and that's one of four NCAA regional sites this year.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: RPI primer (brackets for dummies): Why #2/#3 Cornell may seed lower - 19 years ago
It's possible they're BS'ing us, but it's also possible there's some underlying beauty and symmetry if you apply enough math to all this. But the margin of error is always going to be there and it's as least as great as the sum of all posts and crossbars hit plus Zambonis making double passes across the ice and leaving it wet, and players coming out of the penalty box just as the puck is pasby billhoward - Hockey
Re: ECAC Playoff Predictions! - 19 years ago
As a practical matter, I can see the the possibility of one team (but not two teams) ranked below #4 making it to Albany and that team gets to play Cornell, whereas the #2 and #3 teams sandwiched in the middle will probably also continue on to Albany. As you probably know, no film critic worth his goatee ever picks the same top ten films as any other critic, otherwise it looks like he's not bby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Vermont misses NCAA's APR threshold - 19 years ago
Cornell hockey is at 1000 (something Yale didn't manage). Heh! Although the threat for non-compliance is loss of scholarships. Seems the Ivies are insulated against that problem. <g> There are conflicting studies on whether Ivy (and other elite) athletes are better, same, or worse students than the rest of us. In The Game of Life (James Schulman and ex-Princeton prez Wm Bowen), the authoby billhoward - Hockey
Re: ECAC Playoff Predictions! - 19 years ago
What's the scenario that would give Cornell the clearest, fewest-land-mines path to the ECAC title game? We don't want to lose the title game, but we're going to have a hard time looking good in the NCAA seedings if we're not in the late game in Albany on Saturday. 10 Princeton or 12 Yale have had a couple good games of late (for Yale, good game means one-goal loss and OT loss) and could surpby billhoward - Hockey