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Quote from: CU77 on April 11, 2026, 07:39:47 PMMassey gives Dartmouth an under 10% chance of winning each of their two final games (against Cornell and Princeton) and Brown an under 30% chance of winning each of their two final games (against Penn and Yale). So assuming these four games go to the favorites, here are the remaining games and the resulting ILT seedings:

Pr>H C>H  C Pr Y H
Pr>H H>C  Pr Y H C
H>Pr C>H  C Y H Pr
H>Pr H>C  H Y C Pr

Pretty sure I got these right but please do double check ...

In short, assuming we beat Dartmouth, if we beat Harvard, we host!

Quote from: marty on April 05, 2026, 05:26:22 PM

Quote from: Iceberg on April 05, 2026, 01:30:33 PMAnyone's guess with those people. Goldstein is from one of the main line suburbs (Radnor or Malvern I think), so the game at Penn is basically a homecoming for him and it wouldn't surprise me if his parents and others were in attendance. Maybe those fans were bitter he didn't stay closer to home? Who knows.

So his parents wanted him to go to Penn?

JK 

Maybe I'm missing sarcasm, but you do know both his parents are Cornell grads and former lacrosse AA's, don't you?

Quote from: Ken711 on March 02, 2026, 10:45:42 PMLatest NCAA top ten rankings USA Lacrosse magazine.

1. Notre Dame
2. Richmond
3. Princeton
4. Harvard
5. Duke
6. North Carolina
7. Ohio State
8. Cornell
9. Army
10.Syracuse

Quote from: arugula on March 03, 2026, 03:00:39 PM

Quote from: CU77 on March 02, 2026, 06:17:19 PMCoaches were already trying different combos of o mids during the Richmond game. This is not a coaching issue, this is a talent on the team issue. We've not seen effective o-mid replacements for last year's Kelleher, Dalton, Sheehan, Firth (who moved to attack).

Yes, but.  They lost by a goal to an excellent team, a team which they beat twice last year by one goal.  No shame there.  Let's see a good bounce back.  We have a sufficiently difficult schedule both OOC and league that we can survive a few losses. 

Also, consider this:

• We were playing what's now the #2 team in the country. As an Ivy, we've had substantially less time to practice so far this season.
• We lost one of the best classes in Cornell history from last year. Consequently, we are quite young as a team. Youth affects players individually and as a team. They have to learn to play together. This makes shorter practice even more significant.
• Lacrosse is a sport that is taught and learned. Individual players can improve tremendously during a season or over a four-year career. The good news is Coach Buczek is proven to be one of the best, if not the best, young coaches in the world. We did lose coach Stevens, but we have an excellent replacement in  Coach Ciferri, who I believe is taking Coach Stevens' place. But he too must grow into the job.

Quote from: arugula on 3/3/2026, 3:00:39 PMQuote from: CU77 on 3/2/2026, 6:17:19 PMCoaches were already trying different combos of o mids during the Richmond game. This is not a coaching issue, this is a talent on the team issue. We've not seen effective o-mid replacements for last year's Kelleher, Dalton, Sheehan, Firth (who moved to attack). Yes, but.  They lost by a goal to an excellent team, a team which they beat twice last year by one goal.  No shame there.  Let's see a good bounce back.  We have a sufficiently difficult schedule both OOC and league that we can survive a few losses.  We also should note three things:
• • We were playing what's now the #2 team in the country. As an Ivy, we've had substantially less time to practice so far this season.
  • We lost one of the best classes in Cornell history from last year. Consequently, we are quite young as a team. Youth affects players individually and as a team. They have to learn to play together. This makes shorter practice even more significant.
  • Lacrosse is a sport that is taught and learned. Individual players can improve tremendously during a season or over a four-year career. The good news is Coach Buczek is proven to be one of the best, if not the best, young coaches in the world. We did lose coach Stevens, but we have an excellent replacement in  Coach Ciferri, who I believe is taking Coach Stevens' place. But he too must grow into the job.

Quote from: jjanow99 on February 14, 2026, 03:39:13 PMCascadden 7-7 in 4th qtr faceoffs

Maybe he shouldn't be our only FOGO for the entire game.

Four 3-stars in the class. In this, football is beginning to resemble lacrosse. Now all we need is 1-2 five stars + 7-9 four-stars, and we can start thinking seriously about a NC. 

Quote from: dbilmes on January 31, 2026, 12:47:03 PM

Quote from: JasonN95 on January 31, 2026, 11:43:17 AMQuestion for someone that was there: About what percentage of the crowd would you guess were Cornell fans?

It seemed like there were more Cornell than Yale fans there. In any case, the Cornell fans definitely made more noise, especially since there was no Yale pep band present and the only Yale students in the rink appeared to be the ones on the ice.

I'd say the Cornell side was maybe 80% - 90% full; the Yale side was perhaps <50% full. As Sus says, end zones were barren.

OK. I'm sure this has been asked before. Friday, 19:00, Cornell plays Yale in New Haven. If I arrive in New Haven around 17:00, what's the best place for a pizza?

I have the Disney Bundle and a Google Chrome device hooked up to my television. But when I start the ESPN app, select last night's  Cornell/Princeton game, and try to start it, I just run into corporate blather. Instead of the game starting, the screen shows a QR code and a 6-character PIN. The instructions only say: (1) go to https://espn.com/stream and enter the PIN. and (2) Follow the steps and allow your TV to refresh.


So, on my computer I go to https://espn.com/stream and enter the PIN. It then shows a screen of icons, and I choose HULU. I then see a screen saying "Ready, Set, Stream" with an area, "Link to your provider." So, I choose HULU again, and come to an instruction page with this entry for HULU: 
Hulu + Live TV

Steps to Activate:

Sign in to your ESPN app or via ESPN.com using your My Disney credentials.
That's it!  Your ESPN Unlimited entitlement is included with your Hulu + Live TV subscription.
But there's no place for My Disney credentials.


And exactly how does a TV "refresh"? I tried shutting it off and restarting it, but that didn't work.


I can't believe I'm the only one having such problems.


(Oh, BTW, on a different TV I can watch the game without issue.)

Quote from: George64 on October 22, 2025, 03:54:11 PMTribute to Ken Dryden

This made me appreciate how fortunate I was to watch him play almost every week for 3 years.

Quote from: BearLover on October 13, 2025, 10:43:47 AMStill, how much of his USHL success is due to him being 20?

Overall, he looks like a strong recruit. But as always, there's a lot of uncertainty in recruiting.

Unless his age decreases, his current performance suggests his potential going forward.

I like the new L&F, although I switched to the reddish color.

Any idea why if:

• I'm reading the third-level listing (subjects like "Hockey")
• and choose an individual topic (like "Alumni in the Pros") by clicking the "NEW" button,
• then read what's new,
• and finally choose "Hockey" again to go up one level in the hierarchy,

"NEW" persists next to "Alumni in the Pros"?   

Quote from: Trotsky on September 29, 2025, 02:52:26 PM

Quote from: Beeeej on September 29, 2025, 02:43:33 PM

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on September 29, 2025, 02:31:22 PMJust an FYI, my username includes an apostrophe, which is apparently an illegal character.  Fortunately, I just deleted the apostrophe and it let me log in.

I think we call them "undocumented characters" now.

Surely "TERRORIST characters." 

They're not sending their best. They're not sending U. They're sending special characters that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems here. They're bringing dipthongs. They're bringing ßs. They're punctuation.  And some, I assume, are good characters."

Only if they're left apostrophies, etc.

Quote from: Chris '03

Quote from: BearLoverThere's a strange fixation on this forum about Q's questionable academic standards when in reality almost every school in the country, including almost every D-1 hockey school and some in our own conference, has a similar lack of standards, especially for those on the hockey team.

I think it is born, at least in part, from the ECAC's traditional positioning as a conference of schools that take academics seriously. Adding Q rather than RIT or Holy Cross undermined that positioning.*

That's at least in part because Q is so insufferable in it's marketing of itself. If the university positioned itself more as a serious school and not as a boarding school for wealthy kids to drink in new haven (or was quieter generally), it'd probably be less of an issue too.  My experience in fairfield county is that it's not taken super seriously and is wildly too expensive.  They run billboards bragging that they were included in USNWR rankings. Not where they rank just that the magazine includes them. It's be great if they improved their academic profile but for a lot of folks they'll always be seen as the diploma mill Trotsky sees.

*- yes I know it wasn't strictly a choice of those three at the time to replace UVM. But the perception at the time was that RIT and HC would be better cultural fits for the conference than Q.

From Chatgpt:

ECACHL Schools:

Ivies:

| School               | Approximate Recent Acceptance Rate                     |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Brown University** | \\~5.6% for Class of 2029 ([The Brown Daily Herald][1]) |
| Yale University      | \\~3.7% (Class of 2028) ([Crimson Education][2])        |
| Harvard University   | \\~3.6% (Class of 2028) ([Crimson Education][2])        |
| Columbia University  | \\~3.85% (Class of 2028) ([Crimson Education][2])       |
| Princeton University | \\~4.62% (Class of 2028) ([Crimson Education][2])       |
| Dartmouth College    | \\~5.3% (Class of 2028) ([Crimson Education][2])        |
| Cornell University   | \\~8.41% (Class of 2028) ([Crimson Education][2])       |

[1]: https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025/03/brown-admits-565-of-applicants-to-class-of-2029?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Brown admits 5.65% of applicants to class of 2029 - The Brown Daily Herald"
[2]: https://www.crimsoneducation.org/ge/blog/ivy-league-acceptance-rates/?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Ivy League Acceptance Rates For The Class of 2028 - Crimson Education GE"

Non-Ivies:
| School                                 | Approximate Acceptance Rate           |
| -------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- |
| Clarkson University                    | \\~77% ([U.S. News & World Report][1]) |
| Colgate University                     | \\~12% ([U.S. News & World Report][2]) |
| Quinnipiac University                  | \\~77% ([U.S. News & World Report][3]) |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) | \\~58% ([Niche][4])                    |
| St. Lawrence University                | \\~58% ([U.S. News & World Report][5]) |
| Union College (NY)                     | \\~44% ([U.S. News & World Report][6]) |

[1]: https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/clarkson-university-2699?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Clarkson University - Profile, Rankings and Data | US News Best Colleges"
[2]: https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/colgate-university-2701?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Colgate University - Profile, Rankings and Data | US News Best Colleges"
[3]: https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/quinnipiac-university-1402/applying?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Quinnipiac University Admissions - US News Best Colleges"
[4]: https://www.niche.com/colleges/rensselaer-polytechnic-institute/admissions/facts/?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Admissions & Acceptance - Niche"
[5]: https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/st-lawrence-university-2829?utm_source=chatgpt.com "St. Lawrence University - Profile, Rankings and Data | US News Best Colleges"
[6]: https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/union-college-new-york-2889?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Union College (NY) - Profile, Rankings and Data | US News Best Colleges"


Notes:
1. Sorry for the formatting. I'm still working my way into the 21st Century.
2. I realize admission rates are not a very good measure of academic quality. And there may be considerable self-selection. E.g., Clarkson's emphasis on technology may screen applicants without considerable STEM backgroun in high school.

Quote from: TrotskyThey each missed out on the top job.  They each would have been better than the one who took it.

+1