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Quote from: TrotskyCan I choose 20 in 2525?  I want to see how this ends but I don't want to live through it.

Yes but you won't get any credit for your answer.

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I'll take 25 and snowy over 35 and rainy any time.

 " ... but, oh, to be 20 and back at Cornell ..."

I'd rather be

a) 20 at Cornell in 1972
b) 20 at Cornell in 2025
c) a) or b)
d) a) and b)
e) None of the above.

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Quote from: upprdeckTickets are cheap, I dont think selling them for $10 vs $20 makes a difference. Its not like lowering the price is going to bring in twice as many people.

$400 season tickets is a lot for most locals.

Ah yes. The local poors from down the hill. If only we had cake to eat.

Yawn. What is the point of this dumb post? You're welcome to face the reality of 2025 America, particularly in Ithaca and surrounding towns with low average family income. $400 is a lot for most people. Not everybody who attends the games is a Cornell grad with a white collar job. Why don't you ask some  townies if $400 is a meaningful amount to them? Which is a not a judgment, by the way, even though you seem to think it is.

The point seems to be that you have begun your seasonal bloviating.  How many townies have you talked to?  Ditto your dopey post about dope.  How the hell would any of us know the number of dopes that use weed?  At least some of your hockey posts make sense.::whistle::

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Quote from: stereaxNext week student tickets come out. Already setting my alarm for 5:30 am Tuesday.

Quote from: stereaxWoke up at 5:30 today to ensure I'd be alive by 6 to begin the Eternal Refresh for season tickets. Plaace your bets on what time between 6 and 10 am they will drop.

Whoa! When you first said you were setting your alarm for 5:30, I thought you were doing so to get in line and sleep overnight, to be able to buy tickets that wouldn't be sold yet for a few days.

Are you saying that now it's just done remotely?

Refreshing isn't it?

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Quote from: TrotskyWhat do you think of that?  I gotta say, when the RPI student experience comes to mind, based on alumni I have known, "happy" isn't the first word association I'd have made.

I know several RPI alums and current students, and I concur with that assessment.

There is a reason there were "Tute, Love It or Leave It" tankards and glasses well into the 70's.  Maybe the Love It crowd is more vocal than the rest.

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Quote from: fastforwardhttps://www.cornellsun.com/article/2025/08/why-you-should-apply-to-the-hockey-beat

Great article-fabulous opportunity
I know who I would recommend but I think her hands are full with law school
Sorry - for those not on X, Jane wrote a great article and they're looking for after she graduates

Jane has done a great job covering the hockey team the past few seasons. She's given Cornell hockey the best coverage it's had in the Sun in years. She's done so while also being a member of the Cornell field hockey team. She's been a backup goalie and has hardly played over her first three years. Kudos to her for putting in all the time even though she has mostly sat on the sidelines.

What exactly is the point of highlighting Jane's lack of playing time? She reads this forum btw

To me it meant she's not a quitter. If she's on a team she sacrifices for it regardless.

Exactly. Complimentary.

I get it, but seems pretty backhanded.

Anyway, just registering here my appreciation for Jane's coverage. My suggestion for this year's coverage is the more interviews/quotes of the team and coaches, the better. When Brandon Thomas worked for Cornell we'd get in-depth interviews with the freshmen each season. Would be great to recreate that, as one example.

I have mentioned in the past how author and NCAA wrestler wannabe John Irving wrote in a memoir about how hard it was to be second string on the wrestling team at Pitt. Imagine being the punching bag for a wrestler with NCAA title aspirations.  Keeping in shape and getting the snot beat out of you while doing it for pride or being part of the team or whatever is at least honorable. The character needed to work your butt off and yet hardly play is something that most would do well to emulate.  And Irving couldn't take it.  He dropped out of Pitt.::twak::

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Quote from: RichHWith the Four-Letter announcing their new standalone streaming service at something like $30/month, and the NFL taking 10% ownership, I'm on alert. It could mean nothing. But ESPN may not have a need to produce some ECA-whatever hockey content as they move even further down the "football/basketball are all that matter" road.

In the meantime, the new service includes ESPN+.

Fubo also announced that their packages (with ESPN also now include ESPN+ with no additional cost.

Has anyone read the fine print on this?  Does it mean we'll go back to not getting all the NCAA tournament games if we just have the regular ESPN+ bundle?

This is truly in an interesting mess.  Sling is being sued(?) by Disney for offering low cost day and weekend passes.  "You will buy a month and you will like it!"

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Quote from: BearLoverTV ratings would surely be higher for on-campus regionals though? The atmosphere is so bad, it's not a good tv product.

I've yet to see any evidence that seeing the stands full on TV, would make more people watch the game.

There's an argument to be made that it would make TV ratings worse. Since all the people who want to see it but couldn't make it, would be at the arena now instead of watching on TV.

Adam,
Do you know whether the monetary impact of the Regionals is a net positive for the NCAA.  Do the well attended Regionals offset the clunkers? I'm thinking the NCAA would never release the number$.

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Quote from: BearLoverWhy 5 years of eligibility when college is 4 years? That would kill the Ivy League if it happened.

I have some bad news for you.

It's a second chance for hockey message board lurkers.  It's such an easy game - time to get that grad degree and a bit of fame. Offense,  defense or defend the goal.   How hard can it be?

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Quote from: BearLover(But I'm not sure this really helps Cornell win a national title, which is what I care about the most.)

The more games Cornell gets to play at Lynah, the better.  Obviously there's no guarantee Cornell will be in the top 8 or top 4 to guarantee postseason home games, but the risk seems worth it if Cornell can even get a postseason berth.

I'm wondering whether the regionals are generating NCAA money that would work against this type of a change. The "just as good as a Viagra" commercials notwithstanding there is also decent attendance at some of the locations.

Quote from: Old Red-sorry for this "extra" post, but it kept telling me I was refused because I sound like a bot (if only I had that level of even artificial intelligence).  And then it wouldn't let me delete this.

The bot thing happens to me when posting from my Android phone.  Something wonky in the software doesn't consistently handle the communication.

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Quote from: TrotskyAlso I fucked up the rank order, so please note the changes (ursusmajor's reply is now OBE).

Considering that I am even shorter than when I adopted the ursusminor handle, ...

BTW, considering how much turnover RPI had, #12 makes a lot of sense. OTOH, I am optimistic that RPI will get to Lake Placid for the first time in ages. Your algorithm doesn't include a factor for replacing a coach hired by a school administration that wanted RPI hockey to die with a coach who was able to get AIC to the top of the AHA four years in a row.

Did the administration change?

The witch is gone as is her mansion in the Adirondacks that virtually no one knew she had negotiated (demanded?).  

Of course the only reason EVERYONE hated her is because she is a height challenged woman of color.  But yeah, replaced by an alum that actually seems to care about the school and isn't afraid to casually talk to the students ON CAMPUS WITHOUT A SECURITY ENTOURAGE.

Meinig on August 15th

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Quote from: TrotskySo I use Dreamweaver as my html editor and site manager, and when I just abortively went to Windows 11 (expletive deleted) I blew away all my client apps.  Having installed the 2025 DW build to recover, I realized that I had been working with a 2002 build up until, um, last Tuesday?

So the site may improve, or not.  But I have better tools now.

FYP

This sent me down a 3-hour Stooges rabbit hole.

Thank you!

The shorts have allegedly been remastered for their Amazon Prime debut.  I haven't had a chance to check this as of yet.  Also, my circa 1980 checklist was missing a Curly Joe or Joe Besser short or two - not that I want to watch those two.  I may try to find the list which should be creased inside the horrible book that Moe wrote.  This includes the story of Curly shooting himself in the foot somewhere in the Catskills south of Albany. Moe thought it was the beginning of the end for poor Curly.  My mind is also shot so all of this is suspect.

Quote from: TrotskySo I use Dreamweaver as my html editor and site manager, and when I just abortively went to Windows 11 (expletive deleted) I blew away all my client apps.  Having installed the 2025 DW build to recover, I realized that I had been working with a 2002 build up until, um, last Tuesday?

So the site may improve, or not.  But I have better tools now.

FYP