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Re: Lacrosse 2011 polls [4/24 #3 coach / #2 media] - 12 years ago
billhoward Swampy billhoward Ronald '09 TimV And, at that time we were still trying to find an answer to our faceoff problems. You mean we found that answer? Last time I checked, McMichael was still losing most of them against Brown. Or are you saying we were still trying to figure out how to deal with losing every faceoff? Guy on our HS team this week won 20x21 faceoffs. THAT changes the complby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Lacrosse 2011 polls [4/24 #3 coach / #2 media] - 12 years ago
billhoward Ronald '09 TimV And, at that time we were still trying to find an answer to our faceoff problems. You mean we found that answer? Last time I checked, McMichael was still losing most of them against Brown. Or are you saying we were still trying to figure out how to deal with losing every faceoff? Guy on our HS team this week won 20x21 faceoffs. THAT changes the complexion of a gamby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Penn State head coach - 13 years ago
Josh '99 billhoward Jim Hyla So for those that haven't been reading CHN on realignment, here are two articles. first, Adam's take on what might happen, then discussion of the possible super six. If you want a small school killer, that's probably the best you can get. In theory, the big markets or big conferences dominate sports. The No. 1 example is the New York Yankees. The No. 2 example is ...by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Cornell mentioned in NYTimes Title IX article 4/25/11 - 13 years ago
Redscore Legislating equality before the law is the right thing to do whether people try to get around it or not. Besides anyone with any economic sense knows that if you take 50% (female) or 12.5% (African Americans), or whatever percent of your population and exclude them from opportunitees, you simply throw away a huge piece of your valuable human resources and screw yourself. How many Einsteby Swampy - Other Sports
Roll, Red, Roll (to another World Championship) - 13 years ago
Yet another area of Big Red excellence: . Photos of yesterday's event at Lime Rock are hereby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse in 2011 - 13 years ago
Let me take another crack at what I was trying to get at with my observation about Quint Kessenich's statement about Pannell and the Tewaaraton. I tried humor and irony, but I should have known my limitations better. Pannell is by far the consensus leader for the Tewaaraton. It's not at all clear that Notre Dame is the best team in the country It's not at all clear that Cornell is not the bby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Cornell mentioned in NYTimes Title IX article 4/25/11 - 13 years ago
Redscore Without making any comment about the law itself and whether I think it is good or bad.... Laws that manipulate human behaviour in unnatural or uneconomic ways, always result in creative attempts to avoid them. Sometimes ridiculously creative attempts. That just goes with the territory and is not at all surprising as a response. So then you need other laws to plug the creative loophoby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse in 2011 - 13 years ago
Robb Swampy Josh '99 jeff '84 From Inside Lacrosse: Quint Kessenich answers: Who Should Win the 2011 Tewaaraton? "The Tewaaraton has typically gone to the best player on the best team. Playoff wins and exposure during the NCAA tournament have meant a ton. But this year is different. The best player resides in Ithaca, N.Y., and it isn't debateable. Start engraving the trophy withby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse in 2011 - 13 years ago
Josh '99 jeff '84 From Inside Lacrosse: Quint Kessenich answers: Who Should Win the 2011 Tewaaraton? "The Tewaaraton has typically gone to the best player on the best team. Playoff wins and exposure during the NCAA tournament have meant a ton. But this year is different. The best player resides in Ithaca, N.Y., and it isn't debateable. Start engraving the trophy with the name Robby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse in 2011 - 13 years ago
Ben Courtesy of cornellbigred.com: Ben DeLuca becomes the first Cornell coach to win an Ivy title in his first season since Richie Moran (1969) and the first to win the outright conference crown in his rookie season since Ned Harkness (1966) That bodes very well. Elite company indeed! What's impressive is how this young team has both improved and gained confidence as the season has progrby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Leaman leaves for Providence - 13 years ago
Kyle Rose SwampyAnd exactly what do you think PC is going to win? Becoming head coach at PC is like becoming manager for Baltimore or Toronto in the AL East. Or Tampa Bay until a few years ago. Nothing lasts forever. True, but some things last longer than others. Some day, Tampa Bay may have a larger media market than New York or Boston, or MLB might change the rules that currently favor largeby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Leaman leaves for Providence - 13 years ago
Josh '99 marty Leaman to Providence Providence JournalI like this because I think it makes it more likely that Union will continue to never win anything, which I think is a hilarious state of affairs. And exactly what do you think PC is going to win? Becoming head coach at PC is like becoming manager for Baltimore or Toronto in the AL East.by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse in 2011 - final four chances - 13 years ago
Robb billhowardNo. 2 Notre Dame is 9-0 with one-goal wins over Denver and (on Sunday) Georgetown; they close at Syracuse and at North Carolina. If they stay unbeaten, they deserve the #1 ranking and seeding going in.It will get a little messy if Syracuse beats Notre Dame! If only we'd taken care of Army... Injuries made Cornell shorthanded in the Army game, as they did Syracuse last night. Cby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Cornell recruits in NHL Central Scouting final rankings - 13 years ago
pfibiger Trotsky Is that overall or just N.Am.? Any idea how this might compare with prior years? (Is the best comparison to look at prior draft picks?) This is the North American list. Last year at Mid-Season, Brisson and Ferlin were ranked (177 and 122). Ferlin fell to 141 and Brisson off the list, and no Cornellians were drafted. In 2009 Kirill Gotovets was ranked 179. Gotovets wasby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Cornell-BU tickets MSG Sat 11/26/11 8 pm - 13 years ago
ajh258 I bought my student tickets this morning and recieved the actual tickets along with seat assignments. Section 330 and 329 are Cornell student sections this year, so expect that end to be CU. Does anyone have thoughts on whether it's worthwhile to spring the extra $27/ticket to get the lower-level premium seats instead of the mid-level ones? MSG's seating chart shows views, and the viby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Cornell-Harvard lacrosse - 13 years ago
Jeff Hopkins '82 Chris '03 kingpin248 LaxPower reports Brown 13, Penn 12 and Yale 9, Dartmouth 7 (both final). I believe Cornell has thus clinched a share of the regular season Ivy title, and need only win one of the remaining two league games to bring the Ivy League NCAA bid tournament to Ithaca. FYP. I think kingpin248 had it right. The regular season winner gets to host the Ivy Tournamentby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Recruits - 13 years ago
BRP reports that John McCarron has been named USHL offensive POTW. If you follow the link, you'll also see this week's defensive player of the week, Jordan Schmaltz -- a NODAK recruit. This reflects one recruiting advantage I'd never thought of before. With a name like that, wouldn't you want to go someplace where most people don't even know what schmaltz is? It's hard to think of a betterby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Cornell Football -- The Future Starts Now - 13 years ago
Jeff Hopkins '82 billhoward David Harding Ken711 Another article on an incoming Cornell football recruit. It sounds as though Austin is getting his message across. Hausmann I didn’t want to go to a program already at the top. I wanted to be a part of a program building something with a sense of direction. Over in Cambridge, the hockey coach gave the Crimson a sense of direction, and in onby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: CU Schedule 2011-2012 - 13 years ago
Trotsky SwampyPeople don't have utility functions, Kyle. Economists do.Oh, we all do. At the margins. Margins of what? Even Uncle Milty never claimed utility functions are real.by Swampy - Hockey
Re: CU Schedule 2011-2012 - 13 years ago
KeithK Kyle Rose Swampy People don't have utility functions, Kyle. Economists do. Who? Didn't you know we are interchangeable, Kyle? Sorry. My fingers and brain had a disconnect.by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Big Ten Hockey Conference - 13 years ago
Trotsky If the emphasis is on only the best teams making the national tournament, the solution is to cut back autobids and cut back the tournament field. Assuming 1 autobid per conference (the current 5 + the future BTHC), a 12 team tourney would still allow 6 at large teams (translation: 4 from the WCHA and BTHC, 1 from HE, and 1 from the ECAC or CCHA). I don't advocate that at all but that'sby Swampy - Hockey
Re: ECAC Inferiority - 13 years ago
nshapiro Swampy Cornell is "the easiest Ivy to get into, the hardest to graduate from," and I have to think that most of us take great pride in this. Is this still true? I know that my freshman year, the first thing we were told was 'look left, look right... one of you three will not make it to graduation.' This is no longer the case. When I compared Cornell's Freshman retentionby Swampy - Hockey
Re: ECAC Inferiority - 13 years ago
cu722001 PBS had a good show about the NCAA last night. Its premise was that the NCAA's purpose is to channel the revenues generated by college sports from college atheletes to the administrators of college athletic programs and to coaches. This is so obvious it's hard to believe they felt a show was needed to expound upon it. Not only can players not be paid while they are performing, theby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Yale, Cornell & EZAC in Sports Illustrated 3/28/11 - 13 years ago
css228 dbilmes css228 Yeah not a good weekend for Cornell to say the least. It was a terrible weekend. Our wrestling team finished second in the nation, our women's hockey team lost in the Frozen Four and our men's hockey team advanced to the ECAC championship game, where it was trounced. Too bad our lacrosse team had to spoil everything by winning a road game against an undefeated Yale team. Foby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Cornell Football -- The Future Starts Now - 13 years ago
ugarte Al DeFlorio Trotsky Such talk would be wasted on Togiaso, who later this year will be a Cornell freshman on full scholarship. Sigh.Given his financial situation, I suspect that's an accurate statement. Exactly. They didn't say "athletic scholarship" and this kid seems like Cornell's version of The Blind Side. I hope he can pull off an engineering degree but even if he can'tby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: CU Schedule 2011-2012 - 13 years ago
KeithK Trotsky Kyle Rose KeithK css228 ajh258 Bump. Better start saving for that flight from SYR to COS! Colorado Springs is about 400 mi further from Ithaca than Estero. Maybe we'll get CC for the 1/6-1/7 weekend. Also, looks like the Harvard game will be at the end rush week, which is the same weekend that we had the Colgate series in January. It was not well attended this year. Yeah weby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Big Ten Hockey Conference - 13 years ago
css228 Trotsky css228 Yeah pretty much to sum up my thoughts, we should only make a move that makes our competition and national profile stronger (random example pulled out of thin air - if the Ivies were to defect and join Hockey East).I know it was just a random example, but some of the younger fans may not know Hockey East was formed to get away from the Ivies and our academic-based restrictioby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Big Ten Hockey Conference - 13 years ago
Trotsky css228 Yeah pretty much to sum up my thoughts, we should only make a move that makes our competition and national profile stronger (random example pulled out of thin air - if the Ivies were to defect and join Hockey East).I know it was just a random example, but some of the younger fans may not know Hockey East was formed to get away from the Ivies and our academic-based restrictions. Thby Swampy - Hockey
Re: ECAC Inferiority - 13 years ago
Ben billhoward Let's work on getting the Ivies eligible for the Division 1-A-Something football playoffs, too. The Ivy presidents discriminate against football in a way that doesn't cause them any trouble with any federal affirmative action / equal opportunities commission. Right now that benefits Harvard but in a couple years, maybe us, too. Related to this: why is it that the Ivy champion can'tby Swampy - Hockey
Re: ECAC Inferiority - 13 years ago
billhoward Jim Hyla ebilmes Cornell needs revenue from home games. Hence, teams like Niagara and Wayne State come to Lynah, instead of Cornell traveling to Madison or Ann Arbor or BC or whatever for the kinds of games that would really make us better.Under the present Ivy restrictions, I don't know if the games you suggest would necessarily make us better. With our game and practice restrictionsby Swampy - Hockey