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Schafer has become a better coach with age. The team has become more consistent and dynamic over the past few years. COVID robbed us of a real shot at the championship, and the last 2 years were special circumstances, but we powered through.

I have high hopes for us.

Quote from: George64Headline in today's NYT - After a Year of Turmoil, Harvard's Applications Drop.

Cornell's 5139 admitted students represent 50 states plus Washington, D.C., Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Puerto Rico, as well as 93 countries. Based on citizenship, admitted students represent 107 countries outside the United States.

UG admissions office decided a few years ago to stop releasing application numbers and acceptance rates this time of year to discourage the focus on this statistic. Instead, they only release how many acceptances (and the final number will be a bit higher with waitlists being processed later). Actual numbers will eventually be posted on IRP's website here: Undergraduate admissions

Quote from: ERThat seems to be all anyone cares about. We haven't lost a game since December 2. What other team can say that?

LONGEST UNBEATEN STREAKS TO OPEN CALENDAR YEAR
Program History
• 21 games — 21-0-0 — 1970
• 18 games — 18-0-0 — 1969
• 16 games — 16-0-0 — 1968
• 12 games — 10-0-2 — 2024

It's not good enough! Still 9 away from the record! Jk

We are having a great run. Like mike said, just keep winning and it will solve everything.

Any word from the ticket office on how to purchase Cornell section seats in Manchester?

FYI - we move down 1 spot on PWR with this OTL

Edit: I guess we already did from the QPac loss? We are at 13 on PWR after factoring in this game.

Quote from: DafatoneHave I mentioned that Dartmouth is my least favorite ECAC team because they are constant goons?

Speaking of goons, their prison mate sweaters fit the role. They are sooooo ugly.

Quote from: arugulaTrue. Just love the accents.

Say "Jahk Pahkah Arener" 3 times fast

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Quote from: nshapiroIf I am reading the CHN pages correctly, RPI uses weighted winning percentage, so it is better to lose an OT game on the road (.45 * 1.2) than win an OT game at home (.55* .?  That can't be correct can it?

Wouldn't surprise me.::screwy::

0.45*1.2 = 0.54 -> road tie loss
0.55*0.8 = 0.44 -> home tie win

This disparity is pretty significant. So by tying at home, you're already "losing".

Also I doubt 99% of the poll voters know this.

Poll are basically 90% wrong this point in the year, and RPI was abysmally bad this weekend.

We probably should be somewhere lower like where we are on Pairwise. We also haven't played Quinnipiac, Clarkson, and ND.

That said, the performance has been above expectations so far. This is still among the top half of teams under Schafer era.

Maybe we should hire someone to help drive revenues here if Ivy League allows this.

$1.5m profitability is not a crazy sales profitability target even if we can't find a rich alumnus.

Quote from: Jim Hyla

Quote from: ajh258All the team has to do is take the revenue they make from merchandise and attribute it to players' likeness. That money used to go to the team and cannot be directly used to subsidize tuition and school costs due to Ivy League rules while the other schools have been doing it for years.


$50k tuition x 30 players = $1.5m to completely cover athletes' cost of attendance.

$1.5m can easily be raised between MSG, Harvard games, and various events given the popularity.

Easily? You're going to have to show me how that would be easy.

Ask some rich alumnus to establish a trust of $50m to "buy" athlete merchandise, and make the coaches the trustees.

We can all contribute to the trust as well. $1,500,000 / 15 home games / 4500 = $22 per ticket per game. That's not crazy if we can get half there, half from donations.

All the team has to do is take the revenue they make from merchandise and attribute it to players' likeness. That money used to go to the team and cannot be directly used to subsidize tuition and school costs due to Ivy League rules while the other schools have been doing it for years.


$50k tuition x 30 players = $1.5m to completely cover athletes' cost of attendance.

$1.5m can easily be raised between MSG, Harvard games, and various events given the popularity.

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Quote from: ajh258This came out a while ago and was mainly about football and basketball, but I think it could have major implications for hockey recruiting as well.

If student athletes are allowed to profit from their image, could that tip the scale more in favor of Cornell?

I thought a big issue historically was Ivy League did not give athletics scholarships, so even the smart kids went to BU/Minnesota/Penn State because they could attend for free.

Would this help us get more quality players down the road? We definitely have a fan base that could financially support this if we can pack MSG every year.



NCAA Permit Athletes to Profit

I think an athlete in the Boston or Minneapolis area would have a better chance to make money from their likeness or from endorsements than one in Ithaca.

I beg to differ. Cornell has more engaged and more wealthy fans across the Northeast vs BU hockey is not even top 5 sports in Boston.

Plus, once you get better players than before, you create a virtuous cycle: more success = more fans = more money.

Those who lose out are smaller schools with niche alumni base and lack of branding (think most ECAC and Hockey East peers). They used to be able to get around it by giving scholarships, but that advantage is being eroded away.

This came out a while ago and was mainly about football and basketball, but I think it could have major implications for hockey recruiting as well.

If student athletes are allowed to profit from their image, could that tip the scale more in favor of Cornell?

I thought a big issue historically was Ivy League did not give athletics scholarships, so even the smart kids went to BU/Minnesota/Penn State because they could attend for free.

Would this help us get more quality players down the road? We definitely have a fan base that could financially support this if we can pack MSG every year.



NCAA Permit Athletes to Profit

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Quote from: ajh258Wow. 40 top place votes from USCHO poll at the end of February.

I knew the drugs would catch up with me eventually.  Time sense goes first.  :-/

Sorry. Been running on little sleep past 48 hours.

But this is giving me a boost.