From my perspective Cornell Men's Hockey, with its great traditions and the best fans in college hockey will over the long haul be ranked at the end of the season #10 with a standard error of +/-3. This means that we will make the NCAA tournament most years and on a rare occasion the Frozen 4 but, like Moses, the Promised Land will elude us.
For the sake of this discussion take the above as given, I know it is a completely debatable topic.
It is midnight at the crossroads, you are desperate for another NCAA banner, there is a hint of sulfur in the air and a well dressed gentleman approaches and says "I can guarantee that your program will have a long term rank of 5 +/-3 (yes I know there are problems with this stat). You will be among the elite college hockey programs, a regular at the Frozen 4 and a national champion 1 to 3 times per decade. What aside from your worthless soul can you offer me?"
Would you:
Offer to name the coach of his choice?
Offer to leave the ECAC for Hockey East?
Leave the Ivy League and offer big athletic scholarships?
Sacrifice the Pep Band?
Build a 6000 seat hockey pleasure palace?
Decline because you are happy with what we are?
We already made this deal to get to 10 +/-3. How do you think we wound up with Andy?
Touche
I saw the title and thought "Charlie Daniels meets Eric Clapton!"
I was thinking of the delta blues man Robert Johnson.
Quote from: TowerroadI was thinking of the delta blues man Robert Johnson.
The man himself (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/RobertJohson.png).
To paraphrase Tom Lehrer, it is indeed humbling to realize that by the time Robert Johnson was my age... he had been dead for 20 years.