ELynah Forum

Quote from: sah67 on January 09, 2026, 09:02:51 PMAnother 5x3 PPG! Walsh with the tip I think?

please let hiscock get one with the tip...

Quote from: BearLover on December 08, 2025, 03:36:08 PMEh, I missed the boat by a few years on the overnight campouts, but I don't really buy that it should be so difficult to fill a 4,000-person rink (maybe 1,500 of which are student seats?). College football and hoops sell out giant arenas to the same kids who are evidently obsessed with their cell phones and staying in. I think it's doable for Cornell hockey to sell 1/25 as many tickets as Clemson football, given both schools have the same number of students.

Again you make a statistical comparison error by comparing sellouts of clemson hoop and football to cornell.

Here are the Cornell mens's hoop home game attendance figures for the last 3 years. That's what you ought to compare to the Hockey attendance.

Year        Home Games      avg attendance
24-25          14             983
23-24          11           1,129
22-23          13             822

Attendance figures make it clear:
-almost nobody cares about sports at Cornell, period.   
-more people seem to care about hockey than basketball.

If sold-out sporting spectacles in the three major men's sports (football, hoop, ice-hockey) are your big thing and you want top-tier academics, then you've got only one choice, and that's Michigan.

But you didn't go to Michigan, mr. bearlover, you went to Cornell.  Nothing short of a generational shift in american culture or Cornell leaving the IVY league for the Big ten is going to change the slow decline in sporting attendance.  So get over it already since the only way you could possibly influence this is if you were to open your wallet and give students a free ticket plus a per-game stipend of something like $50 a head ($75 if they participaite in at least 1 mass cheer per period) to show up and guarantee a sellout.
Kids aren't even having sex at anything near historical rates these days, and you want to get them to a cold arena for a sport they don't give a fuck about?

find a time machine, go back to 2019 and make sure the pandemic never happened.  It's not the entire reason for people going out less, we've still got our cell phones, but the world is a fundamentally different place pre-and post pandemic.

Quote from: stereax on November 29, 2025, 08:46:52 PMI need to stick my head in a paper bag and scream, this game is going to KILL me.

plastic would be more effective then...

Quote from: BearLover on November 29, 2025, 04:06:29 PM

Quote from: ugarte on November 29, 2025, 03:12:31 PMWatching the repetitve bonding over hating one guy on the forum is as frustrating as a reader as it is seeing the same guy build a stack of assumptions into a barely-qualfied thesis.

It's so cringe-inducing to watch. Same few people every time too. The theses are great though. If I weren't confident in my assumptions, I wouldn't make them.

while you are researching parasocial relationships, let's introduce you to another concept:  see dunning-krueger effect.

Quote from: marty on November 29, 2025, 06:43:55 AM

Quote from: Trotsky on November 28, 2025, 09:58:26 PM

Quote from: BearLover on November 28, 2025, 09:22:44 PMThis is the softest sports forum I've ever seen lmao. People literally rooting for a player who ditched our team 

Please do not reproduce.

Pleases me to imagine who would partner without a paid transaction.

I worry for the prospective single mothers by choice who end up at the sperm bank...

Quote from: BearLover on November 28, 2025, 09:22:44 PMThis is the softest sports forum I've ever seen lmao. People literally rooting for a player who ditched our team 

If we miss the NCAAs by a couple of games his leaving will be THE biggest cause 

The real ones root against players who ditch Cornell

You should read up on parasocial relationships.  You're in one that you'll never leave.

News Flash:  CHN with the scoop - straight from the horse's mouth:    Robertson: "flying on a private jet to away games"

Quoting only the main couple sentences. Don't want to cost Adam the ad revenue.

QuoteA big factor in his decision was cost. Ivy League schools do not offer full-time athletic scholarships, so he felt that it was a lot to ask for his parents to pay for another full season of school. Meanwhile, the tuition kept increasing.

...

"I could probably say it was the hardest decision I've had to make in my life. The success I had, the friendships that I made there, obviously going into college there as a freshman. I made a ton of great memories there with the older guys that we had," Robertson said.

Quote from: BearLover on November 24, 2025, 10:28:08 AMWith 6 Ivies starting late and playing a smaller number of games, it's not surprising if one of them happens to start 6-0, particularly when they've played an easy schedule as Dartmouth has.

Harvard is also boosting our NPI.  They're 5-1-1 so far, though make that 5-3-1 after their upcoming games with Michigan

Quote from: stereax on November 22, 2025, 06:52:02 PM

Quote from: sah67 on November 22, 2025, 06:51:24 PM

Quote from: stereax on November 22, 2025, 06:45:43 PMT-15. Where the hell is OUR band?

I heard someone  who went to find out report they were told "it's senior night and they should be there by 7:30." 

Bro...

Historically, the pep band is made up almost entirely of students who are also in the marching band, and for the marching band their senior night is a pretty big deal.   Pep band is an easy gig by comparison. Four years of being outdoors in the late fall ithaca weather for games and rehearsals both isn't easy.

Cut them some slack.

Quote from: Trotsky on November 22, 2025, 10:02:33 PM

Quote from: Iceberg on November 22, 2025, 06:42:23 PMHarvard up 3-1 at Vermont after 1. UVM defense is unimpressive and prone to giveaways

Harvard won, helping the conference in NC play some more.

If the uvm defense was unimpressive, that doesn't say much for Harvard's offense.  5 goals, but they had only 14 shots total, 7/4/3 by period.

Quote from: marty on November 15, 2025, 07:48:38 PM

Quote from: stereax on November 15, 2025, 03:53:03 PMAlso, whoever is complaining about the ice - it looks AWFUL rn.
Yeah.

I am wondering if the look is due to the decision to make it thinner this year.

Why'd they do that?   Is there a technical reason?

Quote from: sah67 on November 14, 2025, 09:17:49 PMAshton is fun to watch, but he has also made a few boneheaded turnovers right in front of our net.

Def. He seems lost at times

Quote from: BearLover on November 13, 2025, 02:29:26 PMI was surprised CJ deviated from the goalie platoon and Cournoyer got both games last weekend. Cournoyer and Keopple were evidently close enough for a platoon the first weekend, and Keopple wasn't bad in his start the first weekend, so I'm not sure how the coaching staff received enough new information to give the nod to Cournoyer both nights. Cournoyer looks really good, and the coaching staff may well think he is slightly ahead of Keopple, but this saga is surprising to me more from a fairness/team camaraderie perspective. This plus the fact Cournoyer was added so late in the recruiting cycle with three goalies already on the roster makes it feel like a win-at-all-costs type of move.

Really?  You responded to ugarte that you were just matter of fact commenting about this and not being critical. 

You've written before about how you've learned that your attempts at humor seem to fall completely flat because people don't realize you were kidding around. If we take your later comments sincerely, and you were just commenting on the facts here, then it's not just the joke tone that falls flat.  It's like you're on the spectrum vis-a-vis forum posts.

Look at your closing sentence saying "...makes it feel like a win-at-all-costs type of move".

Based on your history, everyone reads that as a critical shot at the staff.  But I'll give you this, I can picture that when you were writing it, you imagined yourself saying it out loud in more of a questioning, skeptical tone, where you are wondering "damn, that feels cold. did we really just hit the cutthroat button?".   And if that was your intent, no one would realize it, because you didn't add anything that might be a clue as to your intended tone.  Even a confused face emoji might've been a clue. 🤔.

And on the keopple front...oy.
Just because they split the first weekend between keopple and Cournoyer doesn't mean it was a platoon.   Pretty sure you'd need to to be doing that for a while before it qualified.  There are a bazillion possibilities as to why they did that.   Maybe they decided to see how each of them performed in a meaningful game to better determine.   Maybe Cournoyer was supposed to go both nights but had a little knock so the ran keopple out, but didn't feel the need to announce to the world. Etc etc.

If anyone has been watching, Cournoyer would have to go into a big slump to lose the job.  He's simply better.  Just look at that amazing economy of movement the kid has. And then recall those hideous pads koepple wore freshman year. Yikes. 🤪


The whole fairness and camaraderie comment is ridiculous. Had they cut keopple from the team, that'd be unfair.  But this isn't a union shop where all that matters is seniority.  CJ had the chance to bring in a #1 not just for this year, but hopefully 3 or 4. It seems fair to assume that CJ evaluated Cournoyer as a significant upgrade vs the other three guys, because bringing in a 4th goalie who was only backup material would seem way more likely to mess with the locker room.

And I'll close with a personal experience that basically had me in koepples shoes.  Tennis was my sport in high school. The top couple guys on the team graduated at the end of my sophomore year so going into Junior year, I was going to play the #1 singles slot, which at the time felt like a big deal.   As luck would have it, some kids family moved from arkansas to my school district in Vermont, and that kid turned out to be an almost dead heat with me ability-wise.   

Come tennis season in the spring, coach decides me and the other guy will play best of 9 sets (across a week, not 1 day!) to decide who plays 1 and who plays 2.   We ended up needing all 9 sets and I lost the last one 7-5.   

So I played #2.   Not happy.

Senior year, we did it all over again, same result. 9 sets and we got to 4-4 in the 9th set as even as you could be.  I lost 6-4 that time.  If we played 29 sets it would have been 15-14 for someone, the point being that there was only the tiniest difference.

What reminded me of this story was the conversation I had with the coach right after just missing again like that the 2d time.  There was a brief bit of him asking how the match had played out on that day because he only saw the end.  But right after that I will never forget saying to him "but what about loyalty?"

I don't recall his answer other than it was clear that loyalty, or being the guy in waiting, didn't matter.  And this is high school sports where the coach has no risk of getting fired for a bad record (we were something like 49-2 over 4 years) unlike CJ, who's living is at stake and who also owes it to his players to put out the best lineup possible.

Having been essentially koeppled, I feel for the guy, but that's how that stuff goes.

Quote from: Trotsky on November 14, 2025, 12:04:06 PMUni-wise, Michigan does less with more than any school.  Superior colors (get it?) but their uniforms have always been shit in every sport.  And god those cringe helmets.

Agreed that the  current yellow is totally fugly and I don't think it's maize, technically.  But the more goldish yellow version that was the 3rd jersey In the late '90s and certainly for a long time after was HOF-worthy