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Quote from: BearLoverBecoming an adult is realizing that none of this actually matters.

Also that it is all manipulated.  A few years ago an article brutally exposed Vandy for marketing to unqualified students with the express purpose of rejecting them, inflating their acceptance rate, and moving up the USnooze rankings.

On matters of finance, universities are the moral equal of car companies, and with the Apotheosis of the MBAs everything in academia since 1980 has been reduced to finance.

Apropos, an interesting opinion piece in today's NY Times.

Quote from: upprdeckThere are 100s of season ticket left, J and H look half empty

What a change from my grad school days, when we lined up at 5 am, and later, spent the night in Barton Hall.
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Quote from: TrotskyI really want guys with local connections to be our announcers.  The pros are Whore Time.  College should be Local Kid Makes Good Time.

I miss Sam Woodside!

Per NY Times, settlement talks with Harvard, Cornell and Northwestern stall.

JFK Jr left a bear cub carcass in Central Park, and look where he is today!

Quote from: ursusminorDare I ask, why you referred to him as RPI Bob?

I was watching the Bills game and it was past my bedtime!
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From 11 years ago —

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Quote from: DFORD '94This is why Ken Dryden is the best...

Stanley Cup With Ken Dryden

Thanks.  Dryden exemplifies what college sports should be about, but rarely are.

His description of the Domain Arena's ice cleaning apparatus reminded me of my introduction to NY Rangers hockey at the old (not the oldest) Madison Square Garden back in the late '50s.  Several high school friends and I would regularly go to Sunday night games.  We'd sit in General Admission seats in the second row of the balcony - $1.25 with our school GO cards.  It seemed that the same group from Queens always got there before us and "reserved" the first row.  Although Zamboni had invented his ice cleaning machine by then, union work rules that still prevailed at MSG prevented its use.  Four men with broad snow shovels working in tandem cleared the ice; two guys with brooms swept the base of the boards.  They were followed by two wheeled contraptions that were each pushed by two skating MSG employees that spread warm water on the ice surface.  If you're keeping track, that's ten people.

He also mentioned Bob McGuinn.  I was at a Cornell game in Toronto (with Jim Hyla, I think) and we had beers with McGuinn afterwards.  He hilariously described how he had finished a basement with wood paneling but didn't account for expansion and contraction and how the walls came crashing down.  It was really funny at the time.  I also recall a radio interview after he had scored a game winning goal on a breakaway.  I expected a jock's usual terse description, but he precisely described how the scouting reports identified the goalie's weakness, how he deked this way and that way, how he chose where he wanted to shoot the puck, and how he drove it home for the win.

That said, I'm now going to look for my 30-year-old copy of The Game.

Quote from: The articleGuinner, not fast, not big, bad shot, couldn't do anything but score. Later, we played together at Cornell where, as defending NCAA champions, we played the University of Toronto, defending Canadian champions. Going into overtime, 0-0, North American and Toronto bragging rights at stake, Guinner scored the winning goal. He is the funniest guy on every team he has played on.

Great memories!  RPI Bob and Ken
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Ken Dryden writing about friend and teammate Bob McGuinn.

Ken Dryden

ESPN story on Ken.  So much more than just a hockey player.

Cornell mentioned tangentially in these NY Times articles: Fight fiercely Harvard and blatant extortion.

Hard to believe.  RIP Ken.  

A couple of memories —  Freshman couldn't play on the varsity when Ken was at Cornell.  In a freshman game, where we completely outclassed our opponent, Pop Harkness (Ned's dad and freshman coach, for you youngsters) had Ken skate as a forward - it was very apparent why he was a goal tender!  A too tall and very ungainly skater, but a lightening quick glove hand in goal.

After our 1967 NCAA Championship, Jim Hyla and I, along with two other friends, put together a scrapbook that we presented to Ned at the hockey banquet.  Ken commented to us that we must be engineers, because we included a game by player matrix showing goals and assists.  BTW, I was a math major (close enough), but my three friends were engineers, although all became physicians.  After the banquet, Ken passed around a hockey stick, got autographs of most of his teammates and presented it to us.

I also remember listening to his first game with the Habs on the radio, while driving someplace.  Just don't ask me what I had for lunch yesterday.

Unfortunately for Rowyn, the circle wasn't quite completed.

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Quote from: George64Rowyn Nurry scores 8 goals in OT win over IMG Nationals.

https://www.usalacrosse.com/magazine/national-teams/usa-men/fathers-homecoming-sons-dream-nurry-familys-journey-jeju

Terrific backstory!  Nice to see his Dad wearing a Cornell lacrosse cap.
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Rowyn Nurry scores 8 goals in OT win over IMG Nationals.