ELynah Forum

It was also interesting that Coach Schafer offered some very high praise for Athletic Director Andy Noel.

They say that a 4-seed is a 4-seed is a 4-seed. But why does this year's 4th place finish feel very different from that 4th place finish back in 1996, during Coach Schafer's first season? Why do I still feel depressed?

I'm sure many of you receive these emails from Coach Schafer during the hockey season as well, but I was wondering whether the author of these emails is really him. I ask because sometimes the game recaps do not sound like him at ll.

Witness the first two paragraphs of this week's email:

QuoteUNH 7, CORNELL 4
RIT 5, CORNELL 3

Obviously, this was not the way we wanted to begin the season.  Maybe
the results from the two exhibition games gave our players a sense of
security, but the coaching staff knew from the beginning that we had
to work on our defense.  We also knew that we had only practiced for
a few days before the first two exhibitions.  With a week of practice
before the regular season, things didn't get much better, although
the competition was stiffer.  UNH had beaten us in the first round of
the NCAAs last spring, and RIT had knocked off the Wildcats the
following day.

UNH scored just 23 seconds into the game as we came right out on
their heels.  We turned the puck over 15 seconds into the game, and
'bang' it was 1-0 against a team in our own rink, and all the young
guys were looking around like, "Oh my God, how can we start the game
that way?"  However, we did regroup and five minutes later sophomore
defenseman Nick D'Agostino fired a puck from the right circle that
hit the stick of the netminder and caromed up underneath the cross
bar for a 1-1 game.

The second paragraph caught my attention/suspicion. Or am I reading too much into this? ::crazy::

I don't mean to open a can of worms, but can someone remind me again why Cornell and the other Ivies don't offer athletic scholarships? It can't all be about academics and student standards. Other "smart" schools (Stanford, Cal, Duke, Michigan, you name it) offer them, and I don't believe their academic reputations have suffered one iota (at least in the minds of the general public) as consequence.

To borrow another Star Wars analogy, do athletic scholarships necessarily represent the "dark side"? ::innocent::

The amount of manipulation is obviously in the eye of the beholder, but my concern is more about precedence setting. As many of you have pointed out, for the first time in years (maybe ever) the committee has ZERO intra-conference games in the first round, and what did they do? They had to mess with it. So we have #8 plays #12, #5 plays #9, and etc.

It's Final. Cornell wins!

18.4 seconds

I think Temple has given up. Go Big Red!

Record vs common opponents:


                Cornell             Temple
St. Joseph's      W                  W,W
La Salle          W                  W,W
Pennsylvania     L,W                  W
Kansas            L                   L
Massachusetts     W                   W
Seton Hall        L                   W
St John's         W                   L


Quote from: Josh '99

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82

Quote from: nshapiroSounds like you are describing 1980.  Underperformed all year...squeaked into ECAC playoffs (when 8 out of 17 made playoffs)...Won ECAC Tourney, and lost NCAA semi-final and consolation (when NCAAs had 4 teams).

That's what I thought of, too.

But for me, that playoff run reminds me of harassing Bob Gaudet.  In Boston, he tried to wing a puck at us during warm-ups.  In Providence, he skeated over during warm-ups and asked us if we'd "give it a rest."  Definitely inside his head.

That, and the first occurrence of the "Screw BU, XXX too" version of the cheer.

I was not aware that Gaudet's douchebaggery had such a long history.

The more relevant question here is whether douchebaggery is born or learned behavior.

Quote from: TrotskyFor anyone unaware, the Cornell women beat Clarkson in overtime tonight to win their first ECAC championship. ::cheer:: ::cheer:: ::cheer::

Thanks for the lead. I don't follow the women's game, but looking at the box scores of both SF and F gave me pause. In both instances Cornell gave up 3 unanswered goals late in the game: in the SF, that allowed RPI to cut Cornell's lead to one goal, and in the final, that allowed Clarkson to tie the game. In any case, much congrats to the women's team on making the NCAAs for the first time in history!

Perhaps you've seen this video from yahoo's puck daddy blog (or from the Ellen show, apparently):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CdJTfGiRCI

And the yahoo story is here: http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/How-4-year-old-boy-mastered-Miracle-speech-in-?urn=nhl,193765

It made my day.

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/94/colleges-09_Americas-Best-Colleges_Rank.html

To find Cornell's ranking, just keep on clicking 'next'...:-/

oh no!

my bad....