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Re: WSJ Ivy League Sports Article - 15 years ago
The irony, IMHO, is that the article doesn't question the hypocrisy of the BCS schools in the money sports (F&B-ball). So many kids get chewed up in these "revenue sports," the schools make millions, and in return the players get four or five years at a university, sometimes even getting an education. The current scandal over Derrick Rose at Memphis is a good case in point. Even ifby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Lacrosse Recruiting at Cornell - 15 years ago
Al DeFlorioSwampyHockey, on the other hand, has power schools with much lower academics, and I'd be surprised if this didn't happen all the time at places like Minnesota. I think we should be careful to distinguish between what we surmise are a school's admissions standards for athletes and its "academics." By almost any academic measure the University of Minnesota is a top 25 universby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Lacrosse Recruiting at Cornell - 15 years ago
RobbWederHow many lacrosse players actually get full scholarships? The NCAA limit is relatively low -- lower than it is for hockey, I'm pretty sure.I think you're allowed the equivalent of 12.5 (or so - I know it's not a whole number) full scholarships, and most D-1 rosters are 40+ players, so almost nobody gets a full ride. If the best player on the team qualifies for need-based aid, you can beby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Lacrosse Recruiting at Cornell - 15 years ago
Are people suggesting that Tambroni deliberately recruits diamonds in the rough rather than the high profile players? While a kid like Pannel is a great story -- too small to attract much attention until he shot up after a late puberty -- surely at least SOME of the highly ranked players are really deserving of their rankings. The fact that such players don't play well as a team at Virginia refleby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Cornell's Triple Crown Year - 15 years ago
dietlbombWe're due for an Ivy football title. So's Columbia.by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Lax Quarterfinals vs. Princeton - postgame - 15 years ago
Jordan 04scoop85Kudos for a complete team effort. Best I've ever seen Romero play, And much of it after he got his bell rung pretty emphatically when he was led blindly into a defender with a pass in the midfield. The pass was a pretty, behind the back kind of deal, but the kind that sets up the receiving player to have his clock rung. I didn't notice who made the pass, but I bet a few teamby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Lax Quarterfinals vs. Princeton - 15 years ago
FarEastLaxWith last weekend's win against Hofstra, Cornell advances to the quarterfinal round of the NCAA tournament for the fifth time since 2002--not bad at all, and a sign of how much things have improved following a down period in the 90's. There was a great run in the late 80's driven by Tim Goldstein and a high-octane offense that was built around him. The 1987 team was undefeated and mby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Goalie Recruit For This Fall (Omar Kanji) - 15 years ago
CowbellGuymnagowski1) This kid is a lot smarter and/or hits the books a lot harder than the rest of the 'all-stars' listed. Good for him. IB1 student Omar Kanji is such a player. He has been given the St. Michael’s Majors Minor Midget ‘AAA’ Scholarship Award that is presented annually by the Greater Toronto Hockey League, which is the largest minor hockey league in the world. “The scholarshiby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Goalie Recruit For This Fall (Omar Kanji) - 15 years ago
billhowardFascinating stuff about the birthdate disparities among hockey players, and a reason to keep browsing eLynah in the off-season. Yeah, but not such a revelation. (I was, however, happy to find such strong statistical support.) When I coached house league youth sports, which did not have a real draft, one of the first things I looked at was the birth month of the kids. Our league went Aby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Goalie Recruit For This Fall (Omar Kanji) - 15 years ago
KeithKmnagowskiHigh level athletics really is about as close to meritocracy as you'll find in America. That's why so many hockey players were born in January and February. Yeah. Kids born earlier in the year are probably bigger and stronger in their age groups and therefore perform better. This is merit based. The fact that the merit may be more coincidence of the calendars than inherent talentby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Goalie Recruit For This Fall (Omar Kanji) - 15 years ago
TrotskymnagowskiIf I can infer as much from his surname, does anybody else find it refreshing that there will be a little bit more diversity in the program? So he's Jewish? His name ends with a vowel. He must be Italian.by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Goalie Recruit For This Fall (Omar Kanji) - 15 years ago
Josh '99jkahnToronto Star May 5 article: For what it's worth in juding the level of competition: Kanji is the only player on this all-star team who will be on an NCAA roster next year. One player will be playing Junior A, three will be at Canadian colleges, and one is taking a lacrosse scholarship at Jacksonville University (which next spring will become the first school in Florida to offer aby Swampy - Hockey
Re: [Lax] 2009 Ivy League Awards - 15 years ago
Josh '99Laxpower link Ivyleaguesports.com link Rob Pannell wins Rookie of the Year. Max Seibald is one of two unanimous First Team selections and becomes the first men's Ivy player ever selected to the First Team four times. Pannell, John Glynn and Matt Moyer join Seibald on the First Team. Ryan Hurley was picked for the Second Team (in my opinion a pretty clear case of award-spreading sinby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Baseball/Softball Teams - 15 years ago
Al DeFlorioTom Pasniewski 98Cornell baseball forces a deciding Game 3 tomorrow along with the softball team. Baseball Game 2 final: Cornell 14 runs, 18 hits, 2 errors, Dartmouth 12 runs, 17 hits 1 error You're sure this wasn't Yankees-Angels? Sounds like the baseball team is trying to be like the Yankees. Hey guys, no bull does not mean no bullpen! Good luck tomorrow!by Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Alumni in the Pros - April 2009 - 15 years ago
ugarteSwampyKeithKftyuvAt least I know how to use the quote tags! SNAP! In my day we didn't have these WYSIWYG editors for the web. You had to type the HTML by hand and sometimes the bit patterns too. It was garbled and unformatted and unreadable. And that's the way it was and we liked it! In my day, we had to write the HTML out on HTML coding forms, drop them off to be key punched, pick up tby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Alumni in the Pros - April 2009 - 15 years ago
KeithKftyuvAt least I know how to use the quote tags! SNAP! In my day we didn't have these WYSIWYG editors for the web. You had to type the HTML by hand and sometimes the bit patterns too. It was garbled and unformatted and unreadable. And that's the way it was and we liked it! In my day, we had to write the HTML out on HTML coding forms, drop them off to be key punched, pick up the cards andby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Vote for Seibald for Senior Award - 15 years ago
Jim HylaJust got this email: Dear Friends of the Big Red.... I hope you will join me in supporting Max Seibald for the prestigious Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award. The Lowe’s Senior Class Award recognizes a senior athlete with outstanding achievement in the classroom, on the field of play, with strength of character, who is a contributing member to his or her community. This prestigious natby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Bitz gets his first playoff point - Boston Globe article - 15 years ago
ftyuvKeithKftyuvUntil Cornell gets its act together and offers consistent (and quality) video feeds of its games, I'm sorry to say, my "us" is only peripherally CU. Extremely peripherally. I like all y'all and that's why I continue to post here, but I just can't get all that excited about a team I can't watch. BLASPHEMY!!! You will be cast out into hockey hell!!! (Maybe forced to attenby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Alumni in the Pros - April 2009 - 15 years ago
Ronald '09oceanst41ftyuvThe Lucic suspension could be a blessing in disguise. He's the loose cannon of the team, and I'm betting that with Montreal behind 0-2 and finally playing one at home, emotions are going to be high. I could see that game ending up with Lucic with a broken hand again. I agree, and of course we get to see Bitz in the lineup. I am hoping upon hope that he finds the bacby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Cornell Hockey in 2009-2010 - 15 years ago
profudgeSeems RPI is getting a good young forward: Binghamton Press and SunThe United States blanked Russia, 5-0, to win the IIHF World Under-18 Championship on Sunday night at the Urban Plains Center. It was the first time a U.S. men's national team won a title in the United States since the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, and it was the fifth time in the last six years the Americans playby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Cornell Hockey in 2009-2010 - 15 years ago
Scersk '97ugarteHonestly, I couldn't see the 2009 Cornell team skating with either of those squads. Cornell 2003 would have been fine because they would have slowed these teams to a crawl and those shots, as quick as they are, would have been blocked before they reached the goal. I agree and disagree. I agree that the 2009 team that we saw probably could not skate with BU (as our troubles agaiby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Cornell Hockey in 2009-2010 - 15 years ago
BU is going to be tough again next year. They only lose about a half-dozen seniors. Some, like Yip, were very important to this team, but many of the stars in the Final Four are juniors. Of course, they may have defections now that they won the national title, but then again, so may we now that we didn't. BTW, their roster web page shows they do have a goalie coach. The game a MSG will be a goodby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Vermont 4, BU 5, Final - 15 years ago
French RageugarteKyle RoseJeff Hopkins '82I found myself thinking, "Screw you, Milo, you little traitor." Bitter much? I place the blame for this one on Schafer, not Milo. I'm with you, Kyle. I feel bad for the kid that he was basically forced to transfer so he could be a two-sport star only to have the baseball program canceled. I hope making the Frozen Four is enough consolation.by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Bracket Predictions - 15 years ago
You know, given the way this turned out, there's not necessarily much difference for us between being a #2 seed and a #3. As a #3 we play NE, but could have played NoDak or UMD. As a #2, we could have played Vermont, UNH, or Miami, plus one other. All are good competition, as is NEU, but none are teams we could not beat or lose to, depending on if we're on our gamee.by Swampy - Hockey
Re: ECAC Awards - 15 years ago
Jim HylaCowbellGuyGreening was 5-7-12, Nash was 3-5-8 in Ivy competition. Doesn't seem that hard to figure out.But then there were 3 other players with Ivy stats better than Nash who got nothing. Nash's stats were equal to Vokes and Wilson. But who knows how they pick them, maybe couldn't pick any more Yale forwards so had to pick Nash. Anyway I still feel no one will care about this after the yeby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Cornell in Pairwise and KRACH - 15 years ago
KeithKnyc94David Hardingnyc94New Hampshire, Cornell, Princeton, and Minnesota are currently the projected #3 seeds. With New Hampshire and Minnesota locked in as regional hosts that would mean either Cornell or Princeton would be sent to Bridgeport to face Yale (currently a #2) in the first round.But avoiding first round match-ups between teams from the same conference is supposed to be a high pby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Bowling Green - 15 years ago
You know if they dropped football, eliminated hockey scholarships, and could move to a hockey league where non-scholarship teams are competitive, this alone would probably take care of the $750K Athletic Department deficit. These mid-major, poor, public universities, which occupy second and third tiers in their state systems, get in over their heads when they try to win consistently against publiby Swampy - Hockey
Re: ECAC Playoffs - 15 years ago
Trotskylynah80How much of Harvard's demise can be attributed to Mike Clemente's goal tending? Harvard really didn't seem to challenge Clemente much. Props to the guy for shutting them out for two nights -- he literally could not have been better -- but it was an assisted suicide. Fisher, OTOH, flat out saved Q in game three. Eighty-six saves in two games sounds pretty challenging to me. Bby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Cornell 1 at Yale 3 (3rd period) - 15 years ago
Lauren '06TrotskySwampyCornell tends to recruit more from Canada than some of these other schools. And everyone in Canada knows Cornell gives athletic scholarships, eh. International exchange rates can shift a Canadian family's income. For example, today a family making CN$100K is making only US$77,229. I'm missing something. I would think the dollar being in the toilet would be good for recruby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Cornell 1 at Yale 3 (3rd period) - 15 years ago
TrotskyabmarksEffectively speaking, who's left that either doesn't have sholarships or does not have the education for any kid's basically a free-ride policy? If I read this question correctly, the recruits we can't compete for have middle class (and even upper middle class) parents who are not offered as good financial aid packages from Cornell as from Princeton or Yale and/or who are offeredby Swampy - Hockey