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Re: Lake Placid roll call - 3 months ago
billhoward upprdeck as many of the ivy kids apply to several of the schools its not really selective anyway.. if 50K apply to the same 5 schools and they all take 10K it looks like each school only accepts 20% of applicants.. but is that really reflective of what happened. Sometimes when I think about admissions rates, selectivity, and yields, I'm never sure if cause and effect get confused.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: NCAA hockey 2022 tournament - 3 months ago
Trotsky Greenberg '97 marty Does Harvard have any pull to move itself closer to Cambridge? Yes. Win two games.Wins thread. Shut it down, folks, nobody is beating that. I dunno. If they lose one game, they also move directly back to Cambridge.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: Cornell admissions - 3 months ago
In '79, there was a lottery for the few on-campus rooms available to non-freshmen. If your number came up, you could pick your room and pull in any friends to fill the beds. But most people had to look for housing elsewhere. It's why there were so many fraternities.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - 3 months ago
billhoward BearLoverTrue, but in hockey the puck is turned over or up for grabs every 30 seconds or so, and there are about four goals per game. Sometimes there are 4 goals in 6 minutes. 12/4/2021, Potsdam Cornell 1 1 2 0 0 -- 4 Clarkson 0 0 4 0 0 -- 4 Clarkson, third period 14:43 17:07 18:27 19:58.8 That's another game that didn't happen.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - 3 months ago
CU77 billhoward The ultimate rule change may yet be: Other team gets the ball after a goal. It has been proposed, not sure how seriously. It was tried one year in the late 70s. I hope never to see it again. It was '79, My freshman year. I vividly remember "1...2...3...4! We want more...faceoffs!" And I agree. Don't eliminate the faceoff.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - 3 months ago
We got about 4" so far in Allentown. State College was supposed to get a bit more than us.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - polls 3/7 Cornell 4th - 3 months ago
billhoward mike1960So, so close . . . I noticed at the end of a close game this year, as time ran out, our middie at midfield threw the ball up-up-up with :03 left and the ball had a hangtime of :05. So, close 2009 was. That and not closing out Wisconsin (hockey), 5-2 lead start of the third, got tied, lost OT. I'm sure older alums recall 1969 title game and just coming up short to Denver. Moby Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - polls 3/7 Cornell 4th - 3 months ago
mike1960 billhoward Jeff Hopkins '82My experience is that our guys don't have much nice to say about him, either. I was sitting near a bunch of team alumni at the Final Four in Foxboro. When we were beating UVa in the semifinals. Those guys all started cheering "Suck it, Quint!" That Saturday after the 2009 Virginia game (NCAA semifinals, Cornell in a blowout, 15-6, over the #1 seed)by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: Recruits 2023 and beyond - 3 months ago
Dafatone Redpucks1! New Cornell commit! Winter Wallace of the Youngstown Phantoms. Big right winger (6’3” 215) who was previously committed to Michigan State. I assume he is coming in this fall. What a name. FREEDOM!!!!!by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - polls 3/7 Cornell 4th - 3 months ago
mike1960 arugula Interesting that Quint, who I think usually has us higher than the poll, has us at 8 this week after 7 last week. So two good wins and he dropped us? Strange Quint rarely has a kind word to say about Cornell lacrosse. He must have had a bad experience with the Big Red back in the day. My experience is that our guys don't have much nice to say about him, either. I was sittinby Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: Randy Wilson Day - 3 months ago
redice ACM redice Trotsky redice Trotsky Box. The final part of the box score has an error. Lance Nethery did NOT skate "end-to-end. Henessey retrieved the puck near the Cornell cage & head-manned to Nethery, who shot the puck from near the Friars' blueline, for the goal.I went by the game report posted to the prior Randy Wilson Day thread. If you look at the box score, you can seeby Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: Alumni in the Pros 2021-2022 - 3 months ago
billhoward French Rage Vesce also played there for a season. Ryan Vesce is the name I was trying to recall watching Cornell build its lead Saturday against Princeton late in the third. Vesce, at Princeton, fall 2003, 3 goals, 4 assists in a 7-0 Cornell victory. I kept thinking Topher Scott, who was 5-foot-6 to Vesce's 5-foot-8. Gad, Vesce is now ~40 years old. I remember that game. Fun timeby Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 4 months ago
Trotsky JFC it's 6 degrees in Placid right now. Play the ECACs in Vegas. Oh, fuck no!by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: Yet another collegetown bar bites the dust - 4 months ago
Trotsky Jeff Hopkins '82 Trotsky RichH Trotsky Scersk '97I'll never get the fetish for exposed lightbulbs.It's 2010-2019 for "Naugahyde." Each period's gimmicks quickly date themselves. cf. granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances. Orange and olive Formica forever, because the 1970s aesthetic was the peak of modern society. Anything else are just passing fads.And whateveby Jeff Hopkins '82 - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Yet another collegetown bar bites the dust - 4 months ago
Trotsky RichH Trotsky Scersk '97I'll never get the fetish for exposed lightbulbs.It's 2010-2019 for "Naugahyde." Each period's gimmicks quickly date themselves. cf. granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances. Orange and olive Formica forever, because the 1970s aesthetic was the peak of modern society. Anything else are just passing fads.And whatever this is called: Iby Jeff Hopkins '82 - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - 4 months ago
dbilmes At least we only lost one faceoff in the third quarter. Took me a second...by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: CCT @ Cornell, 2/19/22 - 4 months ago
dbilmes Trotsky Non-goaltender, < 5 Goals, 100+ GP Career: Grad G GP Christian Felli 1995 0 103 Danny Powell 2001 3 127 Kirill Gotovets 2014 3 112 Brian McMeekin 2002 3 103 Jared Seminoff 2009 4 130 Jacob MacDonald 2015 4 104 Jeff Roche 1979 4 102 I graduated in 1978 and have no recollection of Jeff Roche. That was a high-scoringby Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: CCT @ Cornell, 2/19/22 - 4 months ago
Trotsky If Psenicka puts on any more muscle he may collapse into a singularity. OK, that was funny.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 4 months ago
upprdeck the reality is the broadcast in the US is for 2 things.. One is for promoting the US athletes and is for promoting the sport. You forgot the main reason: Selling advertising.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Other Sports
Re: Second ND Game Thread - 5 months ago
billhoward Trotsky Holy shit. Google the population for the Dakotas combined: enough for a minyan but the bagels are gonna be in the freezer case. +1 (or should it be +10 for the minyan?)by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others, 2021-22 @ Princeton Sat 2/26 - 5 months ago
I haven't yet decided whether I'll go to Princeton yet. Probably depend on what the cases are like then.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: Arizona State game thread - 6 months ago
Trotsky Jeff Hopkins '82 Trotsky French Rage How will the players' Christmas presents affect their play?Probably won't affect Stienberg much. Really? I never figured he was an MOT.Nobody knows Talmudist jokes anymore... After months of negotiation with the authorities, a Talmudist from Odessa was finally granted permission to visit Moscow. He boarded the train and found an empty seat. Aby Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: Arizona State game thread - 6 months ago
Trotsky French Rage How will the players' Christmas presents affect their play?Probably won't affect Stienberg much. Really? I never figured he was an MOT.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: Season Ticket Renewal - 6 months ago
Al DeFlorio Dartmouth Athletics Covid policy announcement: I figured that would be the approach.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: cornell covid testing - 6 months ago
CU2007 So are we just going to cancel things forever? What’s the end game with this? Is there any sort of plan or scientific theory as to how this can end? Everybody infected or vaccinated. Or dead.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Alumni in the Pros 2021-2022 - 6 months ago
Micah Zandee-Hart getting some good ice time (and some praise from the TSN announcers) in tonight's Canada-USA game in St. Louis. She's even skating on the power play. Johnston, Saulnier, and Jenner are also playing, of course, but Kristin O'Neill is not playing as far as I can tell.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: cornell covid testing - 6 months ago
jtwcornell91 Trotsky Ignore it. It feeds on attention. The Querdenker are everywhere, it seems. Not sure there doing much denken.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Lake Placid - 6 months ago
"The common clay of the New West." Indeed. I assume you know the ending of the line was ad libbed by Gene Wilder. That's why Cleavon Little giggles at the end of the scene.by Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey
Re: cornell covid testing - 6 months ago
jtwcornell91 upprdeck i have been off campus for awhile now. did i miss some thing major happening to campus buidlings. cornell campus Dammit, we told the Physics Department to stop doing experiments with Alice strings! Isn't that in Australia?by Jeff Hopkins '82 - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Lake Placid - 6 months ago
ugarte The Rancor jtwcornell91 Trotsky Rita I can't find it now, but yesterday Yahoo news had an article about Covid-19 in upstate NY and how there are major areas where the vaccination rates are low and the hospitalization rates are now rising. Surprise, Surprise.Most of upstate is Derpistan. Although I've seen that Rochester has a lower vax rate than Monroe County as a whole, despite being aby Jeff Hopkins '82 - Hockey