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Yes, 5-year eligibility is here to stay and those who can't benefit from it will get left behind.

I'll let someone else comment on Cornell lacrosse's freshman class since I prefer positivity.

I'm not sure exactly when, but sometime in the last six-ish months Ryder Cali decommitted from Harvard, committed to Providence, and was taken in the second round of the NHL draft. Likely due to the coaching change at Harvard. I would expect Harvard to continue to recruit extremely well in the coming years.

Quote from: Ken711 on August 21, 2026, 06:59:45 PM

Quote from: BearLover on August 21, 2026, 05:30:19 PMSo we have one more season before we're at a big disadvantage. Hurrah!

I think this will end up being a permanent ban on 5th year eligibility.

How do you figure?

So we have one more season before we're at a big disadvantage. Hurrah!

Quote from: stereax on August 20, 2026, 11:46:13 PM

Quote from: BearLover on August 20, 2026, 04:52:36 PMRPI student season tickets cost $50, or $3.30 per game. How many more students would attend Cornell hockey games if they were that cheap?

RPI, famously a really good team right now,

Yes but, this is mostly an exercise to see how many more students we could get to come just from reducing prices

RPI student season tickets cost $50, or $3.30 per game. How many more students would attend Cornell hockey games if they were that cheap?

In determining how optimistic we should be, for these twins, just like most of our 16- and early-17-year-old commitments, there's no real information to rely on. It's pure wait-and-see. That's just how it is unless the kid is on the USNTDP or was taking in the first round of a junior hockey draft or something to that effect.

It's not hard to end up with a 3.0 GPA if you take mostly classes where the average grade is an A or A-.

Most players, especially those in the CHL, don't care about school. They care about playing pro hockey. Every school, including RPI, markets itself to recruits as an important developmental step towards pro hockey. Even within the Ivies most hockey players aren't serious students.

In this kid's case, I bet when RPI recruited him, they were his best developmental option. But then he blew up and suddenly a lot of teams wanted him. (He seems to have just started blowing up at the time he committed to RPI.) It was likely never about school. I mean, the fact he'd have to go to class might have contributed to him decommitting, but I doubt he cared about school in the first place.

Not too different from Cournoyer.

Quote from: BearLover on August 17, 2026, 11:33:56 AMThese rankings are meant to predict the future by taking into account incoming/outgoing players. It's perfectly reasonable to expect a team that missed the NCAAs to be really good next season, for example. The rankings aren't ridiculous on their face.

Rather, the issue with these rankings is that I see no reason to believe "College Hockey NXT" is a reputable source. Who, or what, is College Hockey NXT? There's no name (or list of names) on their website. You'd think a site predicting commitments and team outcomes, and ranking recruiting classes, would be run by a former coach or scout or someone involved in college hockey in some way, but there's literally no indication (that I can find) that this website isn't run by a random kid. The emojis are a dead giveaway that this source is not to be taken seriously.

Sorry, I meant "College Puck NXT"

These rankings are meant to predict the future by taking into account incoming/outgoing players. It's perfectly reasonable to expect a team that missed the NCAAs to be really good next season, for example. The rankings aren't ridiculous on their face.

Rather, the issue with these rankings is that I see no reason to believe "College Hockey NXT" is a reputable source. Who, or what, is College Hockey NXT? There's no name (or list of names) on their website. You'd think a site predicting commitments and team outcomes, and ranking recruiting classes, would be run by a former coach or scout or someone involved in college hockey in some way, but there's literally no indication (that I can find) that this website isn't run by a random kid. The emojis are a dead giveaway that this source is not to be taken seriously.

Quote from: ursusminor on August 14, 2026, 04:49:26 PMCornell has two first team and one second team College Puck NXT Preseason ECAC Rookie Team selections.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DcB18GAEUDN/?img_index=1

Among US players. No idea why they break it down this way, other than tho get more content out of it. Also, anybody know why College Hockey NXT should be regarded as a reputable source?

The Ivies had a good season in 2025-26 and I expect them to improve further in the next few years. They're one of the few subsets of schools that isn't in total disarray in the new college hockey environment.

The Ivies are recruiting well, they have young new coaches, and their schools aren't on the verge of going bankrupt like most of the schools playing D1 hockey. Maybe most importantly, almost no one transfers out thanks to the value of the degree.

Whether the other Ivies improving is good for Cornell specifically is hard to say. If Cornell is after the same pool of recruits, then it's probably bad for us.

It'd be interesting to know whether any Cornell athletes are actually getting paid under this. I suspect that, as is the case for most schools, Cornell's NIL exchange is more like a "nil exchange."

Quote from: Beeeej on August 12, 2026, 12:32:03 PM

Quote from: BearLover on August 12, 2026, 12:07:34 PMThere are a couple of months before the hockey year begins. Here is what I'd like to see on this forum before the start of the season. I believe these are reasonable asks.

1. Sign-ups open and operational. A forum needs new members to survive, and it's important to grow the community.
2. A way to weed out spammers. Two options: (i) a multi-step verification signup process; or (2) the ability for mods to ban spammers.
3. Periodic updates from the site owner and/or mods as to progress on the above.

Thank you in advance to Age and the mods for your consideration.

#1 and #2, and therefore functionally #3, are currently only within the admin's purview. I assume you've said this to him as well as posting it.

I haven't, since I assume he doesn't check this forum, so I was hoping someone with a line of contact would communicate it to him. But I'm happy to try DMing him.