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Quote from: sah67 on November 15, 2025, 09:11:12 PMCan they just put a traffic cone and a "lane closed" sign on that spot?

Oh -- that's what y'all meant by Pylon weekend.

I'm having unpleasant flashbacks to the 96 (I think) Frozen Four, where maintenance drilled a hole in the ice for the goal moorings and oopsie, went a little too deep and hit a pipe, spewing coolant all over the place.

Quote from: Tom Lento on November 12, 2025, 07:22:38 PMFun fact, within the last 10 years Cornell has advanced to the NCAAs as an at large with a 4-4-0 start (2022-23), a 5-5-0 start (2018-19), and a 4-3-1 start (2016-17). They've also failed to advance with an 9-2-2 start (2015-16, and they were up to 11-2-2 before the wheels came off the bus that year) and a 9-1-0 start (2021-22).

Not to mention the season that they started 10-0, got to 14-1-4, and still didn't advance to the NCAAs.  (2019-20)

Cournoyer with the solo victory lap.  Well, why not, he earned it.

DiGiulian and Veilleux both lifted shots into the top of the net on their goals. I swear the Big Red went pretty much the entirety of last season without doing that.

Not that it matters that much in an exhibition, but Katz did not play tonight.  Keopple played into the second, with Cournoyer taking over for him.

I'm old enough to remember Frank Deford's daily sports paper, which only lasted about 18 months.

On the other hand, I'm far too un-hip to know anything about these guys.

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Quote from: TrotskyWatching the transition of college sports from the prior time-honored form of hypocrisy to the next is heart-warming.  The green shoots of new corrupt life.

Academia truly is the world in microcosm.  Apes shivving each other for sex and money, all the while blatting on about Core Values.

We love you Trotsky, never change! : )

I dunno, he used to be a lot more cynical ::rolleyes::

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82Don't forget "Youngblood."

No, really, forget "Youngblood"

Quote from: 617BigRedGuys, this thread has kinda gone off-topic on '25-26 schedule issues lol...

Hot Truck used to ALWAYS be part of the hockey schedule.

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Quote from: The RancorLooking forward to the extra 2 games in 26-27 (assuming we travel to Alaska next year)

The NCAA will permit the bonus two games, but I doubt the Ivy League will.

My admittedly not great and getting progressively worse brain tells me Princeton visited them in the last decade and was granted the 2 extra games.  Or maybe it was Europe.  Fuck aging.

The Alaska site seems to think they've never played Princeton before, but they did host Yale for a tournament back in 92-93.  It was a three-game tournament and that season, Yale played 29 regular-season games, above the then-Ivy limit of 26.

I recall hearing third-hand that Alaska had originally intended to invite a non-Ivy ECAC team (I think RPI?), and the extra games would have put them over the then-ECAC limit of 30 but not the NCAA limit of 34 (and the NCAA would have exempted the games anyway).  Whoever it was had to petition the ECAC to allow the extra games, and with the six Ivies voting against it, they didn't get the exemption.  Then Yale was invited, petitioned the league for the exemption, and they got it.  I have no way of confirming or disproving this story, but I do remember hearing it.

Quote from: DafatoneI was actually talking about this recently with someone. New York also qualifies, but so does every state with an island, which is less exciting.

How about "non-contiguous states that look like a mitten"?

Hobart has been coached for the last 25 seasons by Mark Taylor. That name might sound familiar to, er, long-term Big Red fans like me -- he was hired as an assistant coach at Cornell in 1990, after Mike Schafer took an assistant coaching job at Western Michigan. Taylor worked with fellow assistant Casey Jones for a couple seasons and was with the Big Red until 1995, after which he coached at UMass-Lowell before landing the head coaching job at Hobart in 2000.

Quote from: TrotskyJesus.  Trotsky realizing he's not the most deeply cynical person in a thread for once: ::scared::

I think the Ivies may eventually "do the right thing after exhausting all other possibilities."  The grad student restriction is even more pathetically stupid Dignity Theatre than what we usually do to burnish the Pick Me academia knob, so they may quietly let it expire.

Ivy football is finally, begrudgingly, allowing its champ to participate in the FCS (Div. I-AA) playoffs, starting with the 2025 season.  It only took 47 years, so yeah, there's hope.

Fan favorite of the fucking century Jack O'Leary!