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Re: Cornell football 2023 - 6 months ago
arugula How on Gods name did we ever beat Yale? Maybe She thought RBG was better than the Justices coming out of New Haven Law. Or just had a sense of humor.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell @ Princeton 11/18/23 - 6 months ago
Seats for the visiting team are typically in the Princeton balcony. In the past 3 decades, I've gotten tickets blocks with the Cornell club a couple times, always balcony, and once as visitor tickets, also balcony, we've gotten standing room tickets night-of-game until 5 years ago, now bought standing room a week in advance, and always found empty seats behind the Cornell bench and certainly betwby billhoward - Hockey
Cornell @ Princeton 11/18/23 - 6 months ago
A day before the game, Princeton declared a sellout at the Hobey. That means there'll only be ~300-400 empty seats of 2,000. They leave beaucoup space for student - faculty walk-ins with ID cards and they overestimate.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 6 months ago
TrotskyThe reduction of people to Homo Derpus Commercia is not for their benefit. It's lab rats being given electroshock. I just want to see Cornell not hit the post.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 6 months ago
I'm not a huge fan of the music during play stoppages and of the Tokyo-by-Night graphics on the video scoreboard. But I'm old. If it brings younger fans and keeps them coming, well, more power to them.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 6 months ago
upprdeck considering you could run all the video off remote cameras I dont think High angles are really an issue if you use the right equipment, Remote cameras at center ice could be placed only a couple feet higher (than they are now a couple feet higher than the upper press table) before you run into the flags. But a camera high-ish up in the corner, and a second placed diagonally across at theby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell Hockey Jerseys? - 6 months ago
George64 I pity the players that had to wear these jerseys during their Cornell careers. As I recall, they were designed by a Hum Ec class. The instructor should have been fired. For those too young to know, or too old to remember - that’s Bob Murray ‘74 and David Groulx ‘76. Oops, Bill Murray ‘74. There was both Bill Murray '74, a big, solid defenseman who was also a standout soccer playby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Fish N Fowl 11/11/23 - 6 months ago
The winning goal was the one Harvard scored 60 seconds in. After that, both teams traded goals twice. Here, the goal that broke our back. To me, Cornell never recovered. No, not in the statistical meaning, since it was the third and final goal that ensured victory, thus the rules-official GWG.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 6 months ago
Re barns: Appleton Arena at St. Lawrence got a refurb in 2020. It's still dark wood seats (photo) for the olde barn feel. But now a spiffy facade, entry concourse, meeting rooms / video rooms on the outside of the concourse. They probably tuned up the bleeping siren to make it even louder. Just the right feel for a school of 2,100. The new Colgate rink is the benchmark for small schools. I knby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Man they really gotta take WHCU off the air. - 6 months ago
14850.com goes into greater detail without providing additional information. I mean, it sounds as if authorities treat this as serious attempt at bomb-making. But then a truck with diesel in the fuel tank carrying a load of fertilizer (ammonium nitrate) is all you need for a bomb, other than a detonator (and the right ratio of fertilizer mixture to fuel). Or so I hear. I was never real good in chby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Jack O’Leary mic’d up at morning skate - 6 months ago
I'd like to hear the Lynah audience mic'd up next time Jack O'Leary is in the penalty box and the crowd chants "Free O'Leary." Too bad we don't have a Saint Patrick's Day game. That would make the rafters ring. Actually, it's possible: Game 3 of the ECAC home-higher-seed playoffs would be Sunday, March 17. Man, does JOL hustle on the ice. Love him for that.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Man they really gotta take WHCU off the air. - 6 months ago
This is a challenge for low-budget newsgathering operations: The reader gets no idea what it all means, if this is a serious threat to the United States -- blow up the Watervilet Arsenal? or the Barton Hall ROTC offices? -- or somebody watching too much Fox News or just a local crackpot, or the guy was entrapped because he had an extra truckload of fertilizer he couldn't use.by billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Cornell football coach - 6 months ago
SwampyWell, there's an old saying: "A successful university president provides sex for the students, parking for the faculty, and winning football for the alumni." Clark Kerr, chancellor, University of California, also president, Berkeley. Write that on your hand. If I said that, I'd want it on my tombstone. Better than Beloved by All or I Told You I Was Sick.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - no NCAAs at Syracuse - 6 months ago
Looks as if Syracuse won't be hosting future NCAA tournament basketball games on account of not enough hotel rooms. The on-campus Sheraton and its 235 rooms will be converted to dormitories. This per a brief local story, which says the Sheraton comprises 10% of the local hotel rooms. The Sheraton for tournaments past had been used as housing for out-of-town media. It appears to apply to possibleby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Fish N Fowl 11/11/23 - 6 months ago
I heard some Section M (behind the visitor bench) complaints about officiating. Schafer was not happy with the officiating, but that's, ah, not an uncommon situation. If defense of "it's almost all our fault": * The puck giveaway on our own blue line and ensuing goal 60 seconds in was a killer. We both got 2 goals after that. * We hit a crossbar or pipe with a clang louder thaby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell football coach - 6 months ago
Martha Pollock like predecessor president David Skorton seem neutral on sports. Don't want to expand it, don't want to kill it. That kind of leaves the Teagle pool replacement in limbo. Perhaps Cornell's most glorious athletics years, 1967 first NCAA hockey championship to 1970 second to 1971 first NCAA men's lax championship, IRA (rowing) title and Ed Marinaro / Cornell's first football chamby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football coach - 6 months ago
ugarte .658 with No Coach. Could it work again? It's how Ultimate (Frisbee) is played in college, more or less. The players pretty much run things. And Ultimate is a sport that led to one of the best-ever intros in sportwriting: Michael Miller, Wall Street Journal, 2018 “How did our kids wind up in this stoner sport?” my friend Aaron asked as we pulled up to a multi-field complex in Rockforby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: spam - 6 months ago
TrotskyMine's better than cute. She's married. Best kind is kids grown and no longer in need of a 529. Except then there are grandkids.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Empty seats at Lynah - 6 months ago
nshapiroCornell has figured this out with admissions, where they take a relatively large percentage of ED candidates partly because they want a student body that is happy to be there, rather than kids who didn't get in to HYP. And it also helps the yield (admits who choose to attend) which is another factor supposedly showing the school's exclusivity.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell Hockey Jerseys? - 6 months ago
From time to time there will be jerseys auctioned off to support the team, or a local charity. Example: There was a Cornell Club/Philadelphia hockey night at the ballpark (to watch via satellite a Cornell hockey game elsewhere). I was high bidder on a Cornell not replica jersey, $100. ($175 in current dollars.) Signed by the team. No help if you want one this weekend, but if you want one at someby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell football 2023 - a team we could beat - 6 months ago
We already had to wade through as many Fire-Archer messages as comments about the games themselves. I just created a separate thread about Archer's history at Cornell and how he stacks up against past Cornell coaches as well as against other Ivy coaches with at least 5 years of Ivy coaching experience.by billhoward - Other Sports
Cornell football coach - 6 months ago
(See Ken711's post "New Cornell football coach search" for discussion on the search to replace David Archer. This November 2023 thread has been on the the possibilities of a coaching change; with Archer departed, it's no longer germane.) With 2 games left in the 2023 season, David Archer has a .296 career winning average (.279 Ivy). The best of his 10 seasons overall was last year'sby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell football 2023 - a team we could beat - 6 months ago
Yeah, we could beat them. But after the game when parents congregate in the parking lot ... 911 caller: "There's a man with a gun at Joelton community, little league football. There's a guy. He has a gun.” This is football for 12-year-olds, not even old enough for N.I.L. rights, probably. Police investigate fight, alleged gun threat at Joelton youth football gameby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Empty seats at Lynah - 6 months ago
Well, UMD is the Bulldogs. Close enoughby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell v Yale, 11/3/23 - 6 months ago
Cornell-at-Yale tickets are available, Yale says "limited," but there is standing room. Availability is certainly better than in the years around the national championship year (2013). You can find parking on-street, it'll be a 5- or 10-minute walk. The paid-parking garage is quite near, easy-in, but a wait to get out post-game. The New Haven deal for many includes dinner at one of theby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell football 2023 - 6 months ago
Good points. From another vantage point: If Schoellkopf's visitor locker rooms suck for visiting football players, well, tough, that's a good reason to go to Cornell. De facto if not de jure, the visitors sit on the far (away from campus; scoreboard side) end of Schoellkopf Field, between the 20- and 40-yard lines. With an attendance of 5525 and a Schoellkopf Crescent capacity of 21,500,by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Indoor sports facility announced - why $55MM? - 6 months ago
Why Cornell's facility might cost more than somebody else's indoor facility from 5+ years ago? Possible causes: Inflation Cornell requires a big set-aside for 10? 20? 25? more? years of upkeep; it feels like Cornell is more fiscally responsible Roof high enough to play lacrosse, ? soccer ? not just a roof good enough to practice for the games that are then played outside Spectator seating (by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Empty seats at Lynah - 6 months ago
If students are going to the fit-rec center instead of Cornell basketball, hockey or football, that seems okay. Sportsing rather than watch others sportsing. Maybe there needs to be stronger WiFi in Lynah, Bartels, etcetera so you're not bored waiting for the puck drop.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Empty seats at Lynah - 6 months ago
It's possible the fire marshall cleared out the over part of the capacity crowd and got a little overzealous. Just as anytime a country is called the Peoples' Democratic / Free / Independent Republic it most certainly is not any of them, when the home team's stories talk about over-capacity, maybe there's an under-capacity issue. Perhaps Cornell counts tickets sold but not used? For any oby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Empty seats at Lynah - 6 months ago
This is Lynah Rink for Minnesota-Duluth, 5 minutes past the start time. So the "over-capacity crowd of 4,316" (per Cornell PR) is, ah, still filing in. Photos from Section M, the townie-faculty-old alumni section at center ice behind the visitor bench. The crowd certainly filled in somewhat, as the game got going. Both nights. Section B, the second section in on the Cornell-bench siby billhoward - Hockey