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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
Re: Cornell 1 at Yale 3 (3rd period) - 15 years ago
TrotskyMSE09Coach Schafer experimenting with a new system by recruiting small, highly talented, fast, offense-minded, non-headcase players? Such a team would have unquestionable success! FYP FYP?by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Cornell 3 RPI 0 Postgame - 15 years ago
Scersk '97Swampy How about them apples? If we had a few more players like this, we would have a chance at the NCAA title. In fact, some of them did. I was thinking much the same thing when I was making my list. It's striking how often great Cornell teams have had one (or two) of these "top" penalty performers. They are the kind of player that provides an "edge" that, well,by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Cornell 3 RPI 0 Postgame - 15 years ago
Scersk '97 But don't you kind of miss having players like him? (Well, not exactly like him, but you'll get the idea here.) Mike Schafer Sr 1986 91 Rob Levasseur So 1987 95 Dan Dufresne So 1994 80 Matt Cooney Jr 1996 104 Steve Wilson Jr 1996 83 Greg Hornby Jr 2003 98 All of them great performances of a kind. Not to mention: Kevin Pettit Sr 1971 111 Doby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Hockey no more popular now than last year - 15 years ago
hypotenuseAs someone who was on campus 1969-73, I doubt the poll results would have been much different then, at least as to hockey. Football, with Ed Marinaro, would have been second, with Richie Moran's lacrosse team. Basketball would have been subsumed in"other". On the other hand, if "hatred of Nixon" had been a varsity sport, it might have challenged hockey. Sort of likby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Uh Oh.... - 15 years ago
Chris '03SwampyRitakfishUm, both Hahvahd grads messed up...bipartisanship at its best or just sucks^2? ATC on NPR takes its jab at the former members of the Harvard Law Reveiw. Audio available after 7 pm EST. Ruthie Ginsburg would never have screwed it up this way! Even though she too was on law review at harvard? Crap! I knew I should have checked her bio before posting that!by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Uh Oh.... - 15 years ago
RitakfishUm, both Hahvahd grads messed up...bipartisanship at its best or just sucks^2? ATC on NPR takes its jab at the former members of the Harvard Law Reveiw. Audio available after 7 pm EST. Ruthie Ginsburg would never have screwed it up this way!by Swampy - Hockey
Re: TUCs - 15 years ago
KeithKJeff Hopkins '82SwampyBeeeejOatJim Hylalynah80Dartmouth tied Holy Cross tonight, which didn't help. Anyway, the current predicted brackets look like this: I'd take it. Let's start the NCAAs this weekend. C'mon ECAC. We're gonna step it up and have more than two teams there right? All other things being equal, with the current numbers that would require someone other than Cornell oby Swampy - Hockey
Re: TUCs - 15 years ago
BeeeejOatJim Hylalynah80Dartmouth tied Holy Cross tonight, which didn't help. Anyway, the current predicted brackets look like this: I'd take it. Let's start the NCAAs this weekend. C'mon ECAC. We're gonna step it up and have more than two teams there right? All other things being equal, with the current numbers that would require someone other than Cornell or Princeton to win the ECACby Swampy - Hockey
Re: Regionals - 15 years ago
hypotenuseIs it true that one of the NCAA Regionals will be held in Bridgeport, Ct? Assuming we make it that far, is there any sense as to whether Cornell will be playing there, as opposed to say, Madison or Minneapolis? If you're really interested in this, follow the Bracketology Blog on USCHO. Each week they prognosticate who will go where.by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Polls 1/19 - success vs. donations - thread drift - 15 years ago
billhowardA lot of the scholarly research focuses on impact on money coming in. One area where there is a clearer benefit is a smarter entering class: Post-season success translates into an uptick in applicants. Statistically, one is much more likely to notice this with a school like Davidson than Cornell. Serious applicants to Cornell and actual Cornell admissions are already such a narrow banby Swampy - Hockey
Re: WCHA Expansion Moratorium Lifted - 15 years ago
jtwcornell91ugarteBeeeej... the mathematical aggregation of what fifty individuals had for breakfast on any given Sunday. Whelan's got a chart for that, right? I was sitting by the pool of our conference hotel this evening debating the BCS with a colleague, and said "But with Bayesian statistics we can solve the problem!" My former boss was walking towards us, and turned around and waby Swampy - Hockey