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Quote from: CU77 on Today at 01:10:30 AMWhy is it blue?? 

I'll direct you to the sticky/pinned thread on the hockey sub-forum.

In short: Age had to quickly respond to issues and got it up & running with a default rudimentary theme. Aesthetic changes will be coming. In the meantime there are color choices in the footer for you.

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Quote from: stereax on September 30, 2025, 01:29:30 PMYet another thought - could we put the old ELynah logo at the top, where it says ELynah Forum?

Yes, this template is just a placeholder until I can make one. Or modify this one or something, but I'm going to need some time for that.

Request that first template you make is a dark mode, so we have at least one option for that.

Clicking on the sun icon in the upper left corner may delight you.

It wasn't obvious to me.

Quote from: Trotsky on September 29, 2025, 02:27:45 PMOh shit not IMs tho, please keep them.

PM me for details

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I'll take 25 and snowy over 35 and rainy any time.

 " ... but, oh, to be 20 and back at Cornell ..."

I'd rather be

a) 20 at Cornell in 1972
b) 20 at Cornell in 2025
c) a) or b)
d) a) and b)
e) None of the above.

Twenty - ONE (in the case of choice b)

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Quote from: stereaxGot an email blast from Coach Jones announcing the news.

Press release.

Here's Coach Jones's wording:

Now I've got some exciting news - In case you haven't heard, Mike Schafer will be inducted into the Cornell University Athletics Hall of Fame! Read the press release here. It's a huge honor for Mike and for the Men's Ice Hockey program. The Inductee Class of 2025 will celebrate on campus the weekend of November 21-22 while we are home versus Union and RPI.

One other key date to put on your calendars will be our Cornell Hockey reunion weekend which this year will be January 23/24 with Dartmouth and Harvard coming to town.  We will honor the '86 and '96 ECAC Championship teams that weekend.

So circle those dates

So no recognition at homecoming in two weeks?

Not for the Hall of Fame. They might do a different recognition at homecoming tho.

I was under the impression it was homecoming every year. Here's last year: https://cornellbigred.com/news/2024/7/29/general-cornell-athletics-elects-11-into-hall-of-fame-as-class-of-2024.aspx

Ah. Then no. This year it's November 22.

What?  Who the hell wants to come back to Ithaca in November?

Ithaca in November is pretty spectacular, actually.  Post grape-harvest and everyone is taking a breath. Leaves are at their crunchiest and the academic world is most studious.

QuoteThat weekend isn't even the Penn game any more either.

It should be, but Penn got too self-important and game-the-rankings to try to re-brand as the new Princeton or some-such and didn't want to associate with an Ag school anymore..  Eh, basically, fuck Penn.

You never know. My freshman year it snowed October 1st.

And May 1st, just to rub it in.

...and that's a bad thing?  First, it doesn't stick around if you think snow is horrifying on the extreme shoulders of the season. I have photos of trick-or-treating in the snow in my childhood, and I think I was walking past Kennedy Hall on May 10th during a brief snow squall one year.

I'd be willing to bet that fall semester snow becomes more of a rare occurrence in the upcoming decades...everywhere, since we made sure to push climate disinformation.

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Quote from: stereaxGot an email blast from Coach Jones announcing the news.

Press release.

Here's Coach Jones's wording:

Now I've got some exciting news - In case you haven't heard, Mike Schafer will be inducted into the Cornell University Athletics Hall of Fame! Read the press release here. It's a huge honor for Mike and for the Men's Ice Hockey program. The Inductee Class of 2025 will celebrate on campus the weekend of November 21-22 while we are home versus Union and RPI.

One other key date to put on your calendars will be our Cornell Hockey reunion weekend which this year will be January 23/24 with Dartmouth and Harvard coming to town.  We will honor the '86 and '96 ECAC Championship teams that weekend.

So circle those dates

So no recognition at homecoming in two weeks?

Not for the Hall of Fame. They might do a different recognition at homecoming tho.

I was under the impression it was homecoming every year. Here's last year: https://cornellbigred.com/news/2024/7/29/general-cornell-athletics-elects-11-into-hall-of-fame-as-class-of-2024.aspx

Ah. Then no. This year it's November 22.

What?  Who the hell wants to come back to Ithaca in November?

Ithaca in November is pretty spectacular, actually.  Post grape-harvest and everyone is taking a breath. Leaves are at their crunchiest and the academic world is most studious.

QuoteThat weekend isn't even the Penn game any more either.

It should be, but Penn got too self-important and game-the-rankings to try to re-brand as the new Princeton or some-such and didn't want to associate with an Ag school anymore..  Eh, basically, fuck Penn.

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Quote from: TrotskySerious write-in potential here.

Form's been closed since July, lol.

Too bad, still nominating "Trophy McTrophace" here.

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Quote from: Trotsky... my aims for the Casey Jones Era, whether that is 5 years or 25:

1. Fill Lynah.  Our discriminator is our crowd.  It all begins there.  This also means the AD encouraging the students and not getting in their way.  Don't overwhelm them with loud piped in garbage and ads and gimmickry.  This is Cornell.  The fans lead the rink, the band supports.  The administration's job is to clear obstacles and allow the fans to intimidate the visitor while amusing themselves.

2. Beat Quinnipiac. Harvard, for all their bullshit, is still an academic institution.  Q is everything wrong with the last 50 years: commerce without standards and aggressive enshittification.  In a just world we drive Q into the sea and they finish behind Brown every year.  Well, if you aint up on things, it is not a just world. So we need to do ourselves and the free world a favor and destroy these punks whenever possible.  Sic semper numbskullus.

3. Win a National Championship.  It's just a jump to the left.  We have climbed the mountain so often, and we have seen RPI, Harvard, Yale, Union, and Q get there.  There is no reason that Cornell can't win it all.  So, win it all.

Re Fill Lynah: We are the best draw among the ECAC and I suspect among most or all Hockey East teams. Cornell has ~2X as many students as in 1970. But they seem to have more things to do including, ah, study. Maybe there's less excitement and desire to be there than when your team just won an NCAA title. (If so, lax will draw more in 2026.) We can have contests, give away tickets, have more entertainment in the dead 30 seconds before the next puck drop, but we have to steel ourselves for games where it's not full and games where it's noticeably not full although always > 50% full.

Re Beat Quinnipiac: We want to beat them because they have been the best / highest-ranked ECAC team the last decade. A lot of us still get more of a thrill beating Harvard because they are the #1 university in most eyes. Plus I was there the year in Cambridge when they first attached a chicken to the Cornell goalpost; I love that we are perpetuating the feud the way the South believes the Civil War remains unsettled. We also want / need to beat BU in the odd-year MSG games. I would not rag on the academic strengths of a Quinnipiac or some of the other not-top-50 schools. Not everyone will go to an Ivy and run a venture capital fund or become a federal judge or cure cancer. Q has a good nursing school and RNs can make $75K a year not long after graduation.

Re Win National Championship: Gonna be tough. Since that 1970 title, the number of D1 teams doubled from 32 to 65, and 7 of the championships have gone to the new teams: Quinnipiac (ECAC team), Union (ECAC team), UMass-Amherst, Maine twice, Northern Michigan this year, Bowling Green. More realistic goals are to win the ECAC championship (and make the NCAAs), get to the Frozen Four, and ultimately win the title again. Cornell lacrosse did it after a 48-year gap. Remember the Covid year ended hockey in 2020 with Cornell ranked #1; that could have been a title year.

I disagree on this: Loud music from the scoreboard (not band) plus video animation, we can live with if not love. We're just getting old. #suckitup  Cornell fans coming late, it's a little rude, but they do show up. Compare this to Saturday night games at Quinnipiac where maybe a third of the students have left after the second period for parties. We did have a soft turnout hosting Q last fall, but it was also a week before we played them at MSG. Sheesh, how do we manage these oddly timed matchups. Also: The video board is newish, but it's not very high-res.

For the sake of all fans including those at home: Cornell needs to improve its video with higher placement of cameras (it can be done with remote-operator cameras), cameras over the goals, a center ice reverse-angle camera, in-goal cameras. Wouldn't hurt to clean the Plexiglas for side/end cameras (RIT has the glass buffered after every game). I think the better video also helps recruiting and certainly benefits parents and siblings who live far away.

Casey Jones did a lot at Clarkson with a lower-profile program and smaller student body. He is regarded as a good recruiter. If he can entice players to go to Clarkson, he can get them to apply to Cornell as well. I was about to say, "...and Cornell alone among the Ivies has the Ag School," but a goodly number of current players are in the Dyson School in the ag college and that is tougher to get into than Arts or Engineering.

And also: Women's hockey is a legitimate title threat. They're Cornell hockey, too. They starting playing just after the men's 1970 title, in 1972, using beat-up, cast-off equipment.  Title IX became law in 1972, but it didn't really get rolling for a while.

Western.

Quote from: dbilmesHarvard just released the remaining tickets for Lynah East this morning. Apparently, they weren't able to sell out the rink forcing fans to buy tickets to other games as well. Tickets are $50 a pop! Harvard has to make up the federal funding it lost.

Their ticket office really can't hide the flat-out extortion for this game at this point. Capitalism at its finest.

Quote from: chimpfoodI'm less confident, I just hope we can sneak our way into Ivy madness after losing so many key pieces. Noard isn't a guy that I see being able to take on most of the volume scoring that we're losing from Naz, AK, etc so I think we're gonna need to see some other guys step it up. If Beccles can become a bona fide point guard or Hinton can become a 10/5/5 guy with good defense I love our odds though.

Didn't know about the Michigan state game, that's exciting.

We're really falling into the "ivy madness" marketing, eh?  The ILT does seem all that, but what do I know?

Quote from: dbilmesAccording to an article in the Sun, the ECAC women's semifinals and finals will now be held in Lake Placid.

*If* it's the same weekend as the Men's tournament, I think this is a very savvy move. That would be fun weekend, honestly and has the potential to be really great for the Lake Placid & Saranac Lake community, as well as fans of this level of hockey.

Edit: it probably won't be, considering the timing of the women's NCAA tournament in past years.

Quote from: TrotskyLiberty the derpy bible thumper degree mill?  They have a hockey team?

JFC.  Literally.

Yeah, they're often listed first on ESPN+ under the "college hockey" category, probably because of conservative $$$

Quote from: TrotskyMy vote goes to my daughter's school, Sea Gull Stadium, Salisbury Maryland.  It's a cathedral for lacrosse.

1) That's a football field.
2) it just looks like the now gone West Stands, but maintained.

Quote from: upprdeckI havent been able to get the WHCU signal  20 min from campus for years

Certainly a directional transmitter. When I lived in Rochester, I could pick it up in Victor after sunset, but during my time in Corning, driving in from the South on 13 I couldn't pull it in at Alpine Junction just 20 miles away.

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Quote from: BearLoverJack Cascadden (previously class of '26) is listed on his LinkedIn as graduating in 2027. Presumably he has taken/will take off two semesters to preserve eligibility after he tore his ACL. I wonder if AJ Nikolic will do the same after missing last season.

With Cascadden having two more years of eligibility I am bullish on the next two seasons. We'll be winning faceoffs and getting the ball to Goldstein/Firth/Nurry (incoming freshman), which should be one of the best attacks in the country. Our D and midfield were so deep last year that we should still be solid there despite all the graduations.

I would not be surprised at all if we're seeded in next year's NCAAs despite losing more talent to graduation than any other team in the country. In two years I predict we will be competitive for another national title.

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Some "experts" are even more optimistic: Brown: My Top 10 NCAA Men's DI Contenders For 2026

I don't see how it is possible to know where teams truly rank until around the middle of the season.

It's not, but CONTENT for the off-season. Gotta keep the clicks.