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Re: Suggestions for eLynah Forum - 22 years ago
"New Scan" was going to be on my wish list as well, since it's the old CHDF feature I've missed the most. The frames interface did have one thing going for it: you didn't have to wait for the whole thread to re-draw when you went to the next message. On a modem connection, with a long thread, this can take like 10 or 15 seconds, which adds up after a while. Remembering read messagesby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: dartmouth - 22 years ago
I think we have to grudgingly admit that the transformation of Dartmouth coincided with the arrival of your favorite coach at his alma mater. Still, I hope someone clips (prints out) that article and tacks it up in the Cornell locker room. After reading that, I want to lace 'em up (learn to skate a lot better, learn to play hockey on skates), go out there and kick some Big Green Butt.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: dartmouth - 22 years ago
It's actually good when their fans are into it like that and they're getting on Boucher. I know Boucher likes to play in that rink just for that reason. I guess Nicky doesn't mind giving up the occasional goal when he's busy taunting Section B.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: dartmouth - 22 years ago
There was a "clippings" section on the Big Red Pep Band page including the Burlington Free Press's famous "Hooligans with Horns" piece. Is that still there?by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: NCAA Brackets - 22 years ago
Yeah, that would be Lowell. But if Lowell, Maine, and BU are all in the NCAAs and none of them has a bye, they need to send someone to the West to avoid an all-Hockey-East first round game. BU can't go because they're hosting the East Regional. And if it comes down to a choice between Lowell and Maine, well, you see why Lowell always ends up getting the shaft. (Actually, they're behind Maineby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: NCAA Brackets - 22 years ago
As long as Mercyhurst and three non-bye HE teams are in the NCAAs, I have a hard time seeing Cornell get sent West.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: New ECAC Playoff Format - 22 years ago
We have to call it the Cleary Cup because the ECAC Championship is the one associated with the Whitelaw Trophy. (Besides, "Clea-ry Tro-phy" makes a better chant.)by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Boston to Vermont - 22 years ago
How's this for a direction: give Erica a ride.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Felice compleanno - 22 years ago
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura ché la diritta via era smarrita. But don't worry about that; just have a happy birthday.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: NCAA Brackets - 22 years ago
Greg Berge wrote: That's actually a pretty good draw. For us or in general?by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Olympic Officials - 22 years ago
Interesting ECAC note: the referee for the Switzerland-Ukraine match was Scott Hansen.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: NCAA Brackets - 22 years ago
As far as I know, just intraconference games. Also, they have at times rationalized second-round intraconference games as more acceptible when the teams had split their season series, so I think a Cornell-BU matchup might actually be attractive.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Plurals - 22 years ago
I'm sure you'll all be relieved to learn I decided to take a postdoc at Penn State rather than in Potsdam, Germany.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
NCAA Brackets - 22 years ago
I just did another "If The Season Ended Today" column (indexed under and available directly at The brackets I got look like this: 5W Mass-Lowell (H) 6E Cornell (E) 4W Michigan (C) 3E Boston Univ (H) 1W Denver U (W) --+--2E Minnesota (W) |by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
1996 - 22 years ago
By the same token, UVM would have faced Cornell in the ECAC final the previous weekend if they'd gotten past Harvard. That was the year of unfinished business for Cornell and UVM. BTW, a better analogy for choice (a) would probably be Clarkson in 1999, since that team won both the RS and the ECACs and was the ECAC's top representative in the NCAAs.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Olympic hockey allegiances - 22 years ago
So is rooting against Canada kind of like rooting against Clarkson in the NCAAs? I am pulling for Joe Nieuwendyk and Canada in the men's competition and Dana Antal and Canada in the women's. I'll also pull for the US teams in their brackets. I'm too bitter about the Swiss being eliminated to root for the qualifying round surviviors. Of course, I may be bleeding from the ears after a hockeby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: If you could choose... - 22 years ago
Wow, I'm surprised at the near-unanimity here, so I'd better speak up with my dissent: I choose (a) without hesitation. This team deserves a championship! (And do we really want to emulate the 1996 UVM team?)by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Plurals - 22 years ago
What they said. I first got exposed to the collective plural when I lived in Cambridge (the real one) for six months in 1994, and then came back and drove all my Californian friends crazy with it.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: 2 NCAA bids for the MAAC - 22 years ago
Although the flaws in the selection criteria do inflate Cornell's PWR, I suspect they would still get an at-large bid if the comparisons indicated it for the following reason: Niagara finished #5 in the PWR and got an at-large bid in 2000, even though they played a relatively weak conference schedule in the CHA. I can't imagine the committee would judge the 2002 ECAC more harshly than the 2000 Cby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: New ECAC Playoff Format - 22 years ago
The extra best-of-three series will take place over the weekend, increasing the playoffs from two to three weekends. (Eliminating the week off between the NCAA Regionals and Frozen Four will create an extra week which was going to be used to give Harvard more Beanpot relief, but which will now accomodate the longer playoffs.)by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: The fastest way for Ithaca to Hanover... - 22 years ago
I think in the Boston to Ithaca thread we determined that the best way to Albany was 79->206->I-88, so by extension that should apply here. But you might want to stick to the interstates if weather becomes a factor.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: 2 NCAA bids for the MAAC - 22 years ago
Good to see that MAAC supporters' supply of crack has not run low over the past few years. The writer conveniently ignores the fact that Quinnipiac was denied an at-large bid, not because of expected performance in the NCAAs, but because their stellar record against a weak schedule gave a misleading picture of their performance over the year. On some level, I hope the scenario described comes aby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Olympic sports - 22 years ago
Ah yes, NBC's prime time stupidity. At least the CNBC and MSNBC coverage is live in all continental time zones.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: venting - 22 years ago
Well, this does lend credence to the opinion of my Canadian colleague that any sports which require judging rather than being settled according to objective criteria should be removed from the Olympics. Of course, I'm just bummed that the Swiss got eliminated in men's hockey. In the late game I started off rooting for a tie to preserve Switzerland's incredibly slim chance of advancing, then decby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Cleary Cup - 22 years ago
What's really scary is that all we need to do to be guaranteed a first-place finish is go 3-3 or better in our last three league games. Incidentally, I hope everyone appreciates the irony in the new trophy named after Bill Cleary potentially being awarded to the team that ended his career as a head coach.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
ECAC Tiebreakers - 22 years ago
The ECAC did resolve the "infinite loop" situation a few years ago, and it was on the website back when Tim Danehy was running it and it was called ECAC HockeyNet. Here it is (and yes, this is implemented in my ECAC playoff possibilties scripts): If there is a tie involving 5th/6th that requires application of the third tie-breaker, record against Top 10, and there is also a tie iby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Music - 22 years ago
You mean other than "KRZYSZ-TOF WIE-CKOW-SKI (clap-clap clap-clapclapclap)"?by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Penn wants in- Wouldn't it be great... - 22 years ago
Of course, bringing Penn back into the fold and the problems of scheduling a 14-team league might inspire the ECAC to let Niagara and Canisius in after all to get an easier-to-schedule 16-team league. The natural thing would then be to have the Ivies plus Colgate in one division ('cause, you know, Colgate was invited to join the Ivies and turned them down ) and everybody else in the other, with,by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Home Ice - 22 years ago
Surely Age has a smiley which is rolling on the floor laughing.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey