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Quote from: Willy '06Just got this e-mail:

Quote from: ICSUnfortunately, we cannot issue partial refunds however we are upgrading your account to a full season pass. This means you can view all events for any sport and have full access to all archives and special features on the site. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused this evening.

I already have a full season pass, so this does me no good. I told them that.

Oh, and we're really sorry you couldn't watch it live but you can at least watch it in the archive.  What an effing joke.  If you can't tell, I'm about ready to crack.  Class action anyone?

Quote from: Willy '06Just got this e-mail:

Quote from: ICSUnfortunately, we cannot issue partial refunds however we are upgrading your account to a full season pass. This means you can view all events for any sport and have full access to all archives and special features on the site. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused this evening.

I already have a full season pass, so this does me no good. I told them that.

We can't handle one sport, but you get FREE access to every sport, none of which consistently work? Are they serious???

Quote from: upperdeckthe schools are losing money on this deal, from what i have heard we are lucky there is any video at all.

say 100 people watch hockey and pay $7.. is that enough to cover the cost of producing the game, sending someone(1-3?) to the game say 4-5 hrs of time and equipment costs on top of the other costs of bandwidth, CU says it costs them money for the video feed so somehow they are paying for something..

on the other hand its the same cost for gymnastics which might have 10 people watching..

Sorry but this is W-R-O-N-G, and I can prove it.  We used to have a FREE video feed.  Other schools still do it for free. A webcam, a laptop, and a single ethernet connection are perfectly capable of doing the job.

  If it is not profitable to send out a three person camera crew then DON'T DO IT.  They are charging people money, being negligent, and then whining "actually, we're losing money."  Then they are a failure of a business,  someone put a stake through these shysters and let the engineering students do it for free.  

Food for thought: if they are "losing money" then how did they redesign their entire site in Flash over the past year?  Couldn't they have used that money to buy better servers?  Or an effing clue?

The part of it that is extremely disturbing to me is that (at least on my machine) I'm seeing the same amount of uptime (like 1-2 minutes) and then the same amount of downtime (7-10 mins.)  What this indicates is that it's almost as if someone is sitting there rebooting a single computer, it works for a couple minutes until it "melts," and it repeats over and over.

 It reeks of poor design, and if we're lucky they will fix it for tomorrow night but I would place a very strong bet they are incapable of fixing it for the third period tonight, unless they do something crazy like cripple one sport to give bandwidth to another.  Of course, someone would have to be watching 2 or 3 sports at a time to notice this, and who does that, really ::whistle::

Well if they do the sports for dozens of teams then they definitely should have the cash to do this.   The students cell phones take better quality video, a transistor radio has better audio quality, and the interface looks like it was created by a retarded failure of a graphic designer.  It is simply outrageous that they can charge for this.   It's no wonder the technology is called sidearm, apparently they need an extra one because both thumbs and arms are already jammed way up their butts.  Brainless incompetents, the lot of them.

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Quote from: The good news is we get that goaltender next year. The bad news is we still have to deal with Scrivens for another year.

Yeah fuck Scrivens! It's not like he ever played well in a game like that one time he stopped 43 shots in Princeton last year. Oh wait...[/quote]

This one time, our goalie had a good game, so that makes him good.  Oh wait...

The good news is we get that goaltender next year.  The bad news is we still have to deal with Scrivens for another year.

Federline going to the box.

Gimme a W...Gimme an A...Gimme a T...Gimme another T....
What's that spell?
WATT?
What's that spell?
WATT?
What's that spell?
WATT?
What's that spell?
WATT?
What's that spell?
WATT?
What's that spell?
WATT?

WATT..THE..F***
WATT..THE..F***
WATT..THE..F***
WATT..THE..F***

As everyone else is already pointing out, its difficult to beat a team every single time you play them, and we played pretty hard tonight, etc. etc.

  But honestly, I think Scrivens fell asleep on that goal, and in a 0-0 game it is just inexcusable to lose focus with ~3 minutes left and let in an off angle shot like that.

  I don't mean to start a flame war but I think there is a huge discrepancy between his numbers (which are very good) and his skills.  At least to me, I can clearly see it deflate the team to play such a hard fought game and then to have him give up a goal like that.

  Hopefully we will score 4-5 tomorrow night and all will be well

[quote Jim Hyla][quote PAthologicalLynah][quote KeithK][quote PAthologicalLynah]You're right, I don't get it.  He's saying that no team under .500 should be in the tournament, but then says it's an autobid so that somehow makes it OK?   Those two things together don't make sense.[/quote]
I would greatly prefer that the league tournaments didn't let everyone in.  Making the league playoffs should mean something.  If the tourney were only 4 or 6 teams you wouldn't have much chance of an under .500 team getting an autobid.

In fact, I'm on record as saying that I'd prefer to give the autobid to the RS winner since that's a better judge of conference champ than a tourney.  (Please, let's not have that argument again.)

Lets just say I am resigned to the fact that an autobid could go to a sub .500 team but an at large bid should not.[/quote]

I definitely agree about limiting the number of teams in the league tournament, if everyone makes it then the regular season games lose something.[/quote]

So then take away our '80 ECAC. 8 beats 1,2,3.::banana::[/quote]

Yup, them's the breaks, you lose an upset every once in a while, but I still think it's worth it.  By that line of thinking, all conference auto-bids are worthwhile since Holy Cross beat Minnesota once

[quote KeithK][quote PAthologicalLynah]You're right, I don't get it.  He's saying that no team under .500 should be in the tournament, but then says it's an autobid so that somehow makes it OK?   Those two things together don't make sense.[/quote]
I would greatly prefer that the league tournaments didn't let everyone in.  Making the league playoffs should mean something.  If the tourney were only 4 or 6 teams you wouldn't have much chance of an under .500 team getting an autobid.

In fact, I'm on record as saying that I'd prefer to give the autobid to the RS winner since that's a better judge of conference champ than a tourney.  (Please, let's not have that argument again.)

Lets just say I am resigned to the fact that an autobid could go to a sub .500 team but an at large bid should not.[/quote]

I definitely agree about limiting the number of teams in the league tournament, if everyone makes it then the regular season games lose something.

[quote Jim Hyla][quote Trotsky]According to Gate cast, the already small Clarkson crowd thinned out over the fourth intermission.[/quote]

Yeah, I have to laugh. The 3 games at gate last weekend had crowds of 816,814, & 687 and that was before they started to thin out.[/quote]

To be fair though, some of those people came back, they were just using the restrooms.

OK, I read his post wrong, my bad.  It didn't make sense that you wouldn't get a bid if you won your tourney.

But back to the original problem with allowing sub .500 teams in at large bids.  With the current PWR, Wisconsin would not be eligible for the tournament since they are under .500, and would be replaced by....
Princeton.

To each his own, I guess.

You're right, I don't get it.  He's saying that no team under .500 should be in the tournament, but then says it's an autobid so that somehow makes it OK?   Those two things together don't make sense.