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Re: Overrated schools - 1 year ago
jtwcornell91 billhowardThe main criteria for being "borderline worthless" apparently was high tuition, low average starting salary (the first school cited was a college of art), or lengthy period for the average graduating salary to add up to more than the four-year cost to attend. The fact that the "worth" of an education is measured in terms of salary is much of what's wroby Swampy - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Bracketology 2023 - 1 year ago
BearLover Trotsky www.playoffstatus.com ECAC Tournament SF F Ch Qpc .99 .82 .51 Hvd .96 .61 .30 Cor .80 .32 .12 SLU .61 .13 .04 Field .64 .12 .03 I was actually about to post this, as I’d checked it this morning for a laugh. Imagine creating a predictive model this bad, and then having people around the internet cite to your model in earnest.by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - 1 year ago
abmarks Swampy After wasting my time on this trash, I wanted nothing more than for Notre Dame to lose. *That's* what it took for you to root against ND? No. They had me at Amy Coney Barrett.by Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - 1 year ago
mike1960 billhoward Al DeFlorio MD-ND in 3rd Ot Notre Dame, 13-12, in the third overtime. Not sure who I wanted to win. Other than the voters are probably dying for a reason to vote the Terps above Cornell. Announced attendance at Maryland, 6,001. All shall be resolved in May. There's a podcast called "The Crease Dive," Two guys perform on it. In their episode for last Thursday (I tby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: St. Lawrence at Cornell 2023-02-18 - 1 year ago
ursusminor billhoward Trotsky billhowardApropos of the NYT, the daily newsstand price is $4 as of this month. $120 a month to have your conscience assuaged for paying low taxes while people starve seems like an excellent deal. Styles of The Times would say staying thin. When I was in HS (1961-64), students could buy it for 15 cents per school week. Living in New England, we subscribe to delby Swampy - Hockey
Re: First True American University? - 1 year ago
Trotsky This author needs to be stabbed repeatedly in the face, but this piece, against all expectations, traces the death of the American university. TL;DR: It's the system (and class struggle) stupid. P.S. I've been thinking about these issues for some time. This is my first attempt at a first draft. Comments welcome. Thanks. This article is helpful and somewhat interesting, but its focby Swampy - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - Ohio State 3/4 - 1 year ago
mike1960 CU77 billhoward will Ohio State try a clampdown on CJ Kirst as others did to Jeff Teat his last 2 years CJ15 has 3 inches and 20 pounds on JT51 (if you believe the roster pages), and therefore is harder to shut off. CJ also has a better head coach than JT did. I also didn't like how Milliman handled the shut off. There were all kinds of ways to get the ball into Teat's stick -- offby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - Hobart - 1 year ago
Al DeFlorio billhoward After the third, Hobart game: You can always find a couple stats that look good when you lose. In this case, when you win big: Cornell is the blue-collar team of the Ivies (well, certainly not HYP). Ground balls are blue-collar. Versus Hobart, Cornell 44-20. CJ Kirst went 7G 4A 11 points. 7 goals on 9 shots. Good enough. Extrapolate that for the regular season (um, yby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: 2023 ECAC Post Season - 1 year ago
dbilmes Yale is 17-3 in its last 20 games against RPI. So, according to Garp's Law, the chances of RPI losing yet again are miniscule.by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - 1 year ago
mike1960 CU2007 Is the freshman (cascadden?) our best hope for faceoffs? The sample size is a little small right now, but he did well against one of the best. As others said, he has good physical size, and he clearly also has good skills (technique) and mental toughness to twitch on the whistle. I also like that he was called for a push in the back penalty. I know penalties are not good, but itby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: St. Lawrence at Cornell 2023-02-18 - 1 year ago
Am I the only one getting non-stop technical difficulties on ESPN+?by Swampy - Hockey
Re: St. Lawrence at Cornell 2023-02-18 - 1 year ago
Trotsky I'm pretty sure Brent Brekke just said you gotta lose to learn how to win. Tell that to the 1970 team.by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Union @ Cornell - 1 year ago
dag14 I agree wholeheartedly. My family watches a month's worth of Cornell athletic events for less than the price of one hockey ticket. Not to mention lacrosse & basketball. Whoops, I just did. And with the Dizzy Bundle, I can also watch Godfather of Harlem.by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Union @ Cornell - 1 year ago
RichH Give My Regards Trotsky ursusminor Trotsky The real solution is for CMU to go D-1 and join the ECAC. Tartans is an awesome nickname and they'd slot in between Cornell, RPI, and Clarkson for an Eng school, and we could kick out Q. Add RIT and kick out Union and now we're talking. Is there any rumor of CMU fielding a team, or did you just pick them? I suppose they could be Princeton's traby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Union @ Cornell - 1 year ago
nshapiro Shouldn't they pull Shane now that the shutout chance is gone, and give the backup some time? I agree. In 1970, Ned put the late, great Bob Rule in, replacing Brain Cropper (who’s he?) in a 11-5 game at Princeton. Schafer has substituted a few times in blowouts, but more frequently he’s gone with the horse that brought him.by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Union @ Cornell - 1 year ago
Trotsky I believe our record is 9 for any one period, against Yale in 1968. Note how rare second assists were. Not sure if that was the nature of the goals or if it was just not usual to give 2 assists back then. IIRC, we were much faster than many teams made up of mostly Usonians. So we scored on lots of breakaways and 2-on-1’s.by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Union @ Cornell - 1 year ago
Trotsky Holy shit. This must have been what 1967 was like. I thought I remembered such games, but I’ve been over at TBRW, and all I can find is a few 4-goal first periods. Do you know of any 6-goal first- or other periods? Or have we just witnessed a record-setting, historically significant period?by Swampy - Hockey
Re: RPI vs. Cornell 2/3/23 - 1 year ago
billhoward Trotsky upprdeck it would be nice if lynah had decent internet to actually use my cell phone while in the building.Funny you say this. I favor the opposite. Put the pacifiers away for a couple hours and be a present human being. Your dildos can function at home. Oh, please! There should not be a ranking on what makes for the best Cornell fan in attendance and especially not if it'sby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Polls - 1 year ago
RichH BearLover RichH BearLover I mean, there are all sorts of very reasonable explanations for why blue chippers don’t come to Cornell. But the fact we get so many players who are just a step or two below the blue chippers makes me wonder why we can’t snag a first- or second-rounder from time to time. We were getting them every so often in the early 2000s. There’s also the case of an NHL team/by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others, 2022-23 - 1 year ago
Trotsky Skating Dutchmen could be the greatest logo in history if they used their imaginations. Just adapt this to a goddamn skater and you have something spectacular: Are they allowed to call themselves "Orange," or the "Dutch Orange," or the "Orange Dutch, or the "Original Orange," or the "Orange you glad I didn't add a fifth name? Orange"?by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 & schedule - Ivy Tournament date/site - 1 year ago
jkahn TimV Trotsky Does Ivy lax have a Mecca like the Palestra is for Ivy basketball? Is it at Princeton? Yes. Lower Alumni Field, where the barking ghost of Ned Harkness can still be heard late at night. Loved just being able to stand on the sideline and watch the game with the same perspective as the players had on the opposite sideline. Also, you could just walk to a spot where you wanby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Love Means Not Having to Say "You Just Suck": Cornell at Harvard - 1 year ago
Scersk '97 I do think we need to put the body to them as much as possible, though. I’m not sure we’re playing as physical as we can. Of course, a missed hip check or two can very well be a puck in the net. Yet Harvard’s rink, at 204 x 87 with lots of room behind the nets, makes that difficult. So you have to tire them out through cycling, which, as you say, the 2003 team would’ve been able toby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 & schedule - Ivy Tournament date/site - 1 year ago
TimV Trotsky Does Ivy lax have a Mecca like the Palestra is for Ivy basketball? Is it at Princeton? Yes. Lower Alumni Field, where the barking ghost of Ned Harkness can still be heard late at night. +1 And I thought it was just tinnitus.by Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Love Means Not Having to Say "You Just Suck": Cornell at Harvard - 1 year ago
scoop85 chimpfood BearLover Harvard’s five goals all scored by top-three-round draft picks. Maybe we can finally dispense with the notion that draft picks don’t matter and that Harvard doesn’t play up to its talent. Only one of them was a snipe. The others were screens and a wide open net from a 2 on 1. To be fair the 2 on 1 was perfectly executed Yeah. We had a 2 on 1 and blew it.by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Alumni in the pros 2022-2023 - 1 year ago
Jeff Hopkins '82 George64 Trotsky Speaking of, my office rolled out beautiful new wall paper all along the inside wall this morning. D A T A E N G I N N E R I N G I hope you’re joking, but it reminds me of a card that was once sold at the Campus Store — Before I came to Cornell, I couldn’t even spell engineer, and now I are one. . The one I remember is that they couldn't spell "studby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Tonight on Skate to Survive: Cornell vs Quinnipiac - 1 year ago
Trotsky RichH Give My Regards From TBRW's Top 10 section, tonight's four goals is the largest margin of victory the Big Red has had over a #1-ranked team (dating back to 1983). It also feels really great to spoil a perfect league record. Like that.Somewhere, the Dolphins pop the champagne. Or Ken Dryden and the rest of Cornell's undefeated 1970 team do the same.by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Tonight on Skate to Survive: Cornell vs Quinnipiac - 1 year ago
During Period 3 the announcers mentioned that Mitchell limped off the ice and never mentioned his name again. Do any of you know if he ever returned to skate?by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Tonight on Skate to Survive: Cornell vs Quinnipiac - 1 year ago
Trotsky Dafatone Trotsky Dafatone Anyone else having trouble finding the game on ESPN+?Pull it from the CU schedule. Thanks!I never use the ESPN+ search, it sucks. I navigate from either the CU schedule or the CHN or USCHO scoreboard. ESPN+ app > ESPN+ menu item > scroll down to Ice Hockey > NCAAM > from either Live or On Demand choose the game. Only once did I need to searchby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Polls - 1 year ago
osorojo If current rating systems are no better at predicting outcomes of upcoming hockey games than my Aunt Beulah is why not dig a hole, cover it with leaves and grass, and TRAP someone to predict outcomes of upcoming college hockey games? I tried this. It doesn't work very well.by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - 1 year ago
TimV mike1960 Bill Tierney is retiring after this season. Great career. One social media account asserts he will coach a granddaughter's lacrosse team. Referees are calling an emergency meeting. +1by Swampy - Other Sports