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Hi all,

I'm looking for a ride from Ithaca to MSG on 11/28, the day of the game. Gas and good company offered in exchange. Ideally, I'd like to get to the city with enough time to drop my bag off at my friend's place in Brooklyn, so, early afternoon? Please post here or PM me if you're able to help out. No return ride needed.

Thanks!
Jers

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Quote from: Kyle RosePersonally, I'd say problems #1 and #2 are (in no particular order) the difficulty the coaching staff has had in adjusting to the faster, less physical game dominant now, and discipline/confidence/cohesion problems with the personnel. Sure, Cornell will lose to Yale more often now than it would have 10 years ago because Yale is so much better; but does anyone (Bueller? Bueller?) actually think Cornell is playing like the well-oiled machine it used to be? Cornell used to be like the Terminator: emotionless and efficient at dispatching their opponents, with every player an interchangeable component of the machine. I simply don't get that feeling anymore. They struggle now to get their shit together in a way they never did even against superior out-of-conference teams. I contest that this is a problem with the competition: this feels way more like internal issues to me.

What you said. From what (relatively little) I've seen, it seems like these guys don't mesh well in that intangible way a team needs to in order to be great, or even play at a level beyond what, on paper, they're capable of achieving. Who knows whether it's unchecked egos, lack of discipline, or just a group of young men who don't like each other much and haven't figured out the best way to rise about that and come together as a team. In the games I was able to see live last season (which included the game where Bardreau got his neck broke), I felt like talented guys were far too eager to get scrappy and risk taking stupid penalties.  

Kyle, thank you for being the far more credible poster here on whose opinion I'm piggybacking to express something I've sensed for a while.

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Quote from: TrotskyQ just lost a blue chip freshman to the CHL.

I guess the "going to class" part of college didn't work for him.

Since when did Quinnipiac start holding classes?

Cornell claims to be the place where you can find instruction in any study. But can you take pole dancing as a for credit course? And that just points out an advantage schools like that have over Ivy Tower Cornell: better career preparation.

Since early this year I have been more worried about learning to execute on the ice than on the pole.

Pole dancing is great for strengthening one's core. Maybe Coach Howley can get on that, although I doubt there are many college-age male contact sport athletes secure enough with their masculinity and willing to eschew traditional gender constructs in order to don the patent-leather boots essential to keeping beginners from sliding off the pole when learning to do hands-free inversions.

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Quote from: martyRPI's Kasdorf likely out for season.

Times Union 11-7-13

Come on Marty, Ken Schott reported that a day earlier.:-D

And if my newspaper wasn't under the forcythia I wouldn't have been a day late posting the TU article myself.

Forsythia isn't leafed out this time of year. No excuse.

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Quote from: JerseygirlEhhhhhhhhhhh, I wouldn't call recruiting a 6'5"/233 goaltender wedging a fat kid in net (well, I would, if I were employing a dry sense of humor I guess?).

Fine, let's talk light.

QuoteIf you think Anas is light at 150 — and he could be the lightest to actually play Division I this season — Pecknold says you should have seen him when he recruited him as a senior in high school.  "Maybe, 140 pounds," said Pecknold, pausing. "I might be high. You better ask him. I know he wasn't highly recruited because of his size." "Senior year, high school?" Anas said. "Oh, 130 pounds. I tried not to let that faze me."

And the postscript quotes a tweet from Anas:

QuoteNov. 2: "Despite what Cornell cheering section was saying my last name isn't pronounced anus. #classicmixup."

http://www.courant.com/sports/hc-jacobs-col-1107-20131106,0,3160416.column

So what they're saying is he's 150 at 5'8" (sigh, I remember when I weighed that...), which really means he's 150 at 5'5".

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Quote from: Kyle RoseAnd for the record, yes, I agree that the ushers are mostly the messengers interpreting and delivering the mandates of the higher-ups. I have no lever that high in University management, however, so I provide feedback where I can. The ushers can go fuck themselves if they target behavior that isn't directly in danger of harming someone else or interfering with the game. Billy will survive hearing some college kids cursing in unison. The Lynah atmosphere has not survived the chilling effect of capricious ejections. The damage has already been done.

Several years ago, I got to Lynah before the doors opened before a Harvard game, and just waiting around in the Bartels linking hallway near the usual ticket-taking spot, I was able to observe the pre-game pep-talk/meeting that Gene held with all the ushers.  The general message communicated was along the lines of "Assume every single one of those students is up to No Good. If you aren't finding any Bad Things they're doing/saying, you aren't doing your job. You have the power to remove anybody, and we'll have your back if there's resistance." My interpretation from witnessing that is that they're requiring the usher staff to have an adversarial mindset from the start, and then empowering and expecting them to act on that.

So in other words, Gene was being Gene. /shudder

Ehhhhhhhhhhh, I wouldn't call recruiting a 6'5"/233 goaltender wedging a fat kid in net (well, I would, if I were employing a dry sense of humor I guess?). I believe Baby was about 225 at the same height and he was definitely long and lean and could have put on 15-20 lbs. and still been unfat. Semi-related, I'm realizing I need to start watching and learning more about more recent Cornell players in order to bring my frame of reference more up to date...

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Quote from: JerseygirlDo the kids these days still do the remote control goalie? I liked that. Good way to get into opposing goalies' heads. I vaguely remember Nick Boucher getting scored upon when responding to such taunting from Sections A & B when the Big Red FINALLY beat Dartmouth at home my senior year (2003). That really happened, right? It's not just me creating that memory because Boucher was the woooooooooooooooooooorst?

I thought Boucher's antics were in '99-'00? Finally beating Dartmouth was definitely '03...

Conflation on my part indeed. Have we publicly acknowledged that he bears a striking resemblance to The Sherminator from American Pie?

Do the kids these days still do the remote control goalie? I liked that. Good way to get into opposing goalies' heads. I vaguely remember Nick Boucher getting scored upon when responding to such taunting from Sections A & B when the Big Red FINALLY beat Dartmouth at home my senior year (2003). That really happened, right? It's not just me creating that memory because Boucher was the woooooooooooooooooooorst?