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Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on April 07, 2026, 03:33:56 PM

Quote from: stereax on April 07, 2026, 03:26:14 PMCashman got the Penrose for Coach of the Year.

We need a puking emoji again.

Agree. And what a terrible photo, he looks like he is arguing with a ref mid-game in that shot. Maybe there is a mixed message in there.

Quote from: stereax on April 01, 2026, 06:37:13 PM

Quote from: marty on April 01, 2026, 03:45:59 PM

Quote from: stereax on April 01, 2026, 03:42:17 PMhey anyone want some half finished poetry i wrote in my head caught in a thunderstorm in cortland waiting for the bus, or are we just gonna talk in circles about debate 101 all day?

I vote for the poem.

ask and you shall receive

still VERY much a work in progress lol and not even done but. the first line came to me trudging through a Severe Thunderstorm Warning and trying to flag down a Centro Cortland lmao

Promising, but I feel like Jesus is more of a Rosé kind of guy.

Wow! Impressive research. Do you work for the CIA?

Seriously I also remember that the operator we were talking to seemed like a stoner (do people still use that term??). So that sealed the deal for us. Back to observing sheep.

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on March 30, 2026, 09:56:05 PM

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Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on March 30, 2026, 07:39:44 PM

Quote from: stereax on March 30, 2026, 07:23:36 PM

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on March 30, 2026, 07:22:12 PM

Quote from: stereax on March 30, 2026, 07:14:16 PMMakes sense when you put it that way. No skydiving, no bungee jumping, no braving the Slope after midnight...

Bungee jumping isn't that dangerous.

If the cord doesn't snap.

A quick google turned up only two incidents of cords breaking - one in Africa and one in Thailand.  FWIW, I've done the jump in Africa and felt perfectly safe. 

I've also jumped in New Zealand and was told that their operation is monitored by the NZ Government.  Also they change the cords out much more frequently than mandated by the gov't just to be extra safe.

Interesting coincidence: when I was in New Zealand, my sister and I almost went bungee jumping off a bridge. We backed out after finding out that the week before, someone had died—not because the cord snapped, but because they forgot to attach it.

Whaaaaat? 

You're sitting there watching everything they do.  How could the customer not notice that they hadn't attached the cord?

No idea. This was in the 90s and that was the story. It was likely exaggerated, but it was enough to stop us.

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on March 30, 2026, 07:39:44 PM

Quote from: stereax on March 30, 2026, 07:23:36 PM

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on March 30, 2026, 07:22:12 PM

Quote from: stereax on March 30, 2026, 07:14:16 PMMakes sense when you put it that way. No skydiving, no bungee jumping, no braving the Slope after midnight...

Bungee jumping isn't that dangerous.

If the cord doesn't snap.

A quick google turned up only two incidents of cords breaking - one in Africa and one in Thailand.  FWIW, I've done the jump in Africa and felt perfectly safe. 

I've also jumped in New Zealand and was told that their operation is monitored by the NZ Government.  Also they change the cords out much more frequently than mandated by the gov't just to be extra safe.

Interesting coincidence: when I was in New Zealand, my sister and I almost went bungee jumping off a bridge. We backed out after finding out that the week before, someone had died—not because the cord snapped, but because they forgot to attach it.

I did laugh

HOW do u do all that so quickly? Do you have a whole staff behind you?

Very funny.

I don't think we should panic. If Fegaras leaves, I'm confident Casey can recruit another elite talent capable of logging one penalty minute per game.

Quote from: stereax on March 29, 2026, 10:42:39 PMCan Casty and Walsh put our underclassmen through Faceoff Bootcamp over the summer? 🤔

Bootcamp's great... but they already get time each year with someone who's basically a rock star at the dot.


I'll bet we have good centers next year.

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replace Pecknold after the inevitable auto-erotic asphyxiation tragedy,

LMAO

Quote from: adamw on March 28, 2026, 12:48:08 PMOne of the differences between Mike Schafer and Casey Jones is that Casey is more willing to be forthcoming and introspective in his thoughts. Coach Schafer was usually more guarded - publicly - if not defiant sometimes.

They are both GREAT coaches. That doesn't mean they never make a mistake. And hindsight is 20/20. Casey shouldn't be looked at as a lesser coach just because he's more honest about what MAYBE were mistakes. It just means he's more willing to contemplate those things publicly. Praise him for that.

So set all of that aside in order to judge performance.

Fact is, this team was always going to be in transition, and shouldn't have been expected to be as good as last year's team. A lot younger, more skilled in many ways, lots of turnover, including behind the bench. Those are big deals. It's frankly remarkable they made the NCAAs at all.

Going forward, they are set up for a great future. And we'll see. Get back to me if this turns into an annual thing where Cornell wilts a bit in the last month.

Casey's coaching style is also different than Mike's ... not as much cycling, more making plays in transition. Sometimes when that doesn't work with a young team, it can look uglier. Turnovers, hard to set up in the zone.  It's not like the coaches don't know this.  It's a transition year.  They got that far despite that.  Again, if it continues to look messy for years on end, then you can criticize.  But a transformation was taking place this year.  Let's see how it goes.  I think people should be excited.

I'm completely with you on this.

One of the things I actually respect most about Casey is exactly what you pointed out: the willingness to be self-reflective in public. That's not weakness, that's confidence.

Honesty about what might not have worked isn't a knock on Casey. If anything, it should be praised. It shows he's thinking critically and planning for the future.

And Casey's  not Rand, he's not Rand, he's not Rand. Thank God!

Stepping back, the bigger picture matters. This was always a transition year, yet the team exceeded everybody's expectation. The fact they had the wins that they did and made the tournament again is impressive.

Plenty of reason to be optimistic.

Quote from: BearLover on March 28, 2026, 10:03:58 AM[ But he also deserves some of the blame for the fact we did not improve down the stretch. At the end of the day, we went 2-3 in the most important games of the season and didn't play very well in them.

And Casey is accountable to that, right?  He almost there literally said that:

"I thought we might have peaked maybe a month too early," Jones said. "I'm not sure if we hit a wall a little bit with our youth. I'm not sure. ... But we were trying to find our A-game down the stretch. We were really trying."

To me, that quote is accountability.

Natyshak - O'Brien
MacFarlane - Major
Gage - Stanley
Shippel - Kraft
Schaefer - Walsh
Oates - Wyttenbach
Dadswell - Veilleux / Cato tie
Nieuwendyk - Castsgna

Quote from: andyw2100 on March 27, 2026, 10:17:01 PM

Quote from: stereax on March 27, 2026, 10:09:54 PMCasey Jones on his team's play down the stretch:

"I thought we might have peaked maybe a month too early. I'm not sure if we hit a wall a little bit with our youth. I'm not sure. ... But we were trying to find our A-game down the stretch. We were really trying."

Unlike some other coaches in our league, Casey is never going to throw our guys under the bus.

Agree. I am disgusted at the way Rand talks about his guys when they lose.

Let's get one.

Charlie was close

Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor???