ELynah Forum

Quote from: Trotsky on November 15, 2025, 07:44:59 AMThe canned music has got to be stopped now before it settles in and destroys our environment.  I assume it's just incompetence, not malice, but everybody needs to reach out and energize other fans and demand they end this bullshit immediately.

I always assume something so vile must be a profit center, but in this case I can't see it as a cash grab, just thoughtless stupidity.  So let's kill it before it kills us.

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Agreed. The Lynah experience of years past seems to be teetering on an existential cliff.

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Quote from: chimpfood on November 14, 2025, 12:42:31 PMAlso a lot of larger schools just won't schedule basketball games against mid majors that they think they might lose against, hell we've seen it ourselves over the past couple of years.

The Yale coach was complaining about that in a preseason article.
The University of New Haven just went DI in all sports and they hosted Penn State in their campus gym, which seats less than 1,000. The Penn State coach was willing to come there to help promote their program, but in return, UNH has to play at Penn State the next three years and won't receive any money for coming.

Honestly not a terrible deal?

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Quote from: ugarte on November 14, 2025, 04:30:40 PM

Quote from: dbilmes on November 14, 2025, 03:06:11 PM

Quote from: chimpfood on November 14, 2025, 12:42:31 PMAlso a lot of larger schools just won't schedule basketball games against mid majors that they think they might lose against, hell we've seen it ourselves over the past couple of years.

The Yale coach was complaining about that in a preseason article.
The University of New Haven just went DI in all sports and they hosted Penn State in their campus gym, which seats less than 1,000. The Penn State coach was willing to come there to help promote their program, but in return, UNH has to play at Penn State the next three years and won't receive any money for coming.

Honestly not a terrible deal?

Terrible for Yale?

Yale can now tell potential recruits that they'll get to play in a big arena with a ton of fans as opposed to going and playing western Connecticut in front of 200 people. It's not the end all-be all but it helps. Similar to Cornell hockey playing at msg.

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Quote from: stereax on October 28, 2025, 06:42:29 PMBand's here, btw. Nice touch.

From watching on ESPN, it sounds like the pep band gets to play as much as it wants during the women's game. It's too bad they play so much piped-in music during the men's games, cutting in to the amount of pep band time.

My third or fourth hand understanding is that athletics has decided to limit the band more and more at men's games. First killing pregame. Then adding jock jams. Now apparently controlling when they play entirely. Seems gone are the days that the band coordinates announcements with ACM and otherwise uses its own judgment to fill other breaks. A system which... Worked fine?

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That's a damn shame and an awful decision. What benefit would that possibly bring?

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Quote from: upprdeck on October 25, 2025, 10:51:14 AMClarkson has beaten PSU/NDAK and also got dominated by a bad RIT team and lost to Canisius who also beat Colgate, but Colgate has tied BU and beaten Maine?  Canisius lost to LIU which is that teams only win.

Also since NPI has replaced the pairwise. What tweaks were made to make that different?

It's complicated

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/info/?d=npi

Adam - I found the summary useful but noted the following line regarding home and away game weightings: For postseason conference tournament games, there is no weighting.

Is this true if the game is played at the home rink of the higher seed rather than a neutral site? And if so, what is the rationale there?

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yes it's true for all conference tournament games. The rationale stems from conversations with CC coach Kris Mayotte on our podcast a couple seasons ago, after his team barely lost out on an NCAA bid because it lost a best-of-3 home playoff series. He thought the team was getting punished for earning home ice, and then losing a tooth-and-nail 4/5 series. I thought he had a great point and it wasn't just sour grapes - and was glad to see it get taken to the Committee and go from there. Other coaches had said similar things over the years, but none had suggestion that kind of specific solution.  As you know 1.2/0.8 isn't really an accurate home/away split as it is, so to get dinged for it in a 4/5 series in the postseason seems pretty unfair.

Makes sense, thanks

Quote from: adamw on October 27, 2025, 01:07:22 PM

Quote from: upprdeck on October 25, 2025, 10:51:14 AMClarkson has beaten PSU/NDAK and also got dominated by a bad RIT team and lost to Canisius who also beat Colgate, but Colgate has tied BU and beaten Maine?  Canisius lost to LIU which is that teams only win.

Also since NPI has replaced the pairwise. What tweaks were made to make that different?

It's complicated

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/info/?d=npi

Adam - I found the summary useful but noted the following line regarding home and away game weightings: For postseason conference tournament games, there is no weighting.

Is this true if the game is played at the home rink of the higher seed rather than a neutral site? And if so, what is the rationale there?

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Congrats to Casey on his first win as Cornell Head Coach. Here's hoping it's the first of many.

Admittedly I don't really follow the women's team but they have built a hell of a program

I was at Cornell for some of those polo championships and don't even recall hearing about them.

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on October 18, 2025, 09:16:29 PMAnd the women win again, 4-2 over BC.

BC lost 7-1 and 11-0 (!!) to Minnesota for what it's worth.

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Quote from: BearLover on October 17, 2025, 11:19:30 PMSorry showing from the ECAC tonight. If Quinnipiac hadn't come back in the final minutes against Maine, it would have been an oh-for (o-fer?).

It's too early to be saying this but it's looking like another year of just Quinnipiac + tournament champion in the NCAA.

Was thinking the same, which got me thinking - What percentage of OOC games happen very early in the season (when teams are not what they will be come tourney time) and how much does that impact who gets in? I assume greatly, which seems unfortunate.

Right now the ECAC is 10-15-3. That's a 0.411 winning percentage. I can't easily find the record from last year but in 2023-2024 the season ended with the ECAC having a .414 record in non com games. So this isn't a disaster so far, and better news for us is that two of the losses come from BU and Alaska who we play, so those won't hurt us. Also this is just anecdotal but it seems like the ECAC non conference games have been against tough opponents so far this year, but maybe I'm just making that up.

Depends if the league is playing the same quality of teams year to year, which may be true - I honestly have no idea. But, I always cringe when I see an ECAC team lose to a team in Atlantic Hockey.

Quote from: BearLover on October 17, 2025, 11:19:30 PMSorry showing from the ECAC tonight. If Quinnipiac hadn't come back in the final minutes against Maine, it would have been an oh-for (o-fer?).

It's too early to be saying this but it's looking like another year of just Quinnipiac + tournament champion in the NCAA.

Was thinking the same, which got me thinking - What percentage of OOC games happen very early in the season (when teams are not what they will be come tourney time) and how much does that impact who gets in? I assume greatly, which seems unfortunate.

Is this the same team we played on the Euro Trip a few years ago? What was the score of that game?

Starting QB's are like starting goalies. If you have two, you usually don't actually have one.

Quote from: TrotskyI mean it works both bad and good.

Nice one