Why the hate/dislike of Cornell?

[Robb]

I bet some of you folks think "third place team, fourth place team" during the consy is classless too.

I'm shocked - SHOCKED - by such a chant toward the end of a consy.

Lol - good one.

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[Trotsky]

We're Ivy League assholes in their view and the first two words render the third redundant, to them. Just as teens see no difference between an adult who's 40 and another who's 70 (actually, they say they can, but why bother), they see us and Harvard as the same pondscum who'll move their dad's blue collar job offshore and ruin their lives. We caused the financial meltdown, not them. We marry the trophy wives and live in Larchmont. IIRC correctly, that was the prevailing view of Penn in the 1979 tournament when Michigan State finally deflated the Ivy League bumble and that was the origin of the cheer, "That's all right, that's okay, you're gonna pump our gas some day."

All of which might be puzzling to a Kentucky student who considers Kentucky to be the premier (at least public) school in Tennnessee and all of a sudden in the company of Cornell or Wofford or Cal they find they're not flying first class but premier coach. If we taunt back, it needs to be erudite. They could punch us out in a bar, but if the weapon of choice is words, the Wilcats are dead.

[Point to appropriate players] Graduating...Not graduating...Graduating...

Very nice!

I'll bet John Wall makes more without a degree than John Jacques does with...

A scale on which Kate Gosselin ranks higher than Steven Hawking might have some subtle flaws.

[Give My Regards]

If only there was a way they could stop the pain of having to listen to us chant winning team losing team.

Which reminds me... the first time Cornell and Union met in an ECAC game, back in January '92 at Union, the Big Red swamped 'em by something like 8-1, and the Cornell fans didn't do "winning team, losing team."  Oh no, no, they (all right, all right, WE) did, "Which team is Division I?  Which team is Division III?"  I will concede that rated rather low on the classiness meter.  The next time the two teams met, at Lynah a month later, Union scored a stunning 6-4 win.  And they proceeded to beat the Big Red with annoying regularity for about the next five years.

[mnagowski]

If only there was a way they could stop the pain of having to listen to us chant winning team losing team.

Which reminds me... the first time Cornell and Union met in an ECAC game, back in January '92 at Union, the Big Red swamped 'em by something like 8-1, and the Cornell fans didn't do "winning team, losing team."  Oh no, no, they (all right, all right, WE) did, "Which team is Division I?  Which team is Division III?"  I will concede that rated rather low on the classiness meter.  The next time the two teams met, at Lynah a month later, Union scored a stunning 6-4 win.  And they proceeded to beat the Big Red with annoying regularity for about the next five years.

Karma.

[Scersk '97]

If only there was a way they could stop the pain of having to listen to us chant winning team losing team.

Which reminds me... the first time Cornell and Union met in an ECAC game, back in January '92 at Union, the Big Red swamped 'em by something like 8-1, and the Cornell fans didn't do "winning team, losing team."  Oh no, no, they (all right, all right, WE) did, "Which team is Division I?  Which team is Division III?"  I will concede that rated rather low on the classiness meter.  The next time the two teams met, at Lynah a month later, Union scored a stunning 6-4 win.  And they proceeded to beat the Big Red with annoying regularity for about the next five years.

Karma.

No, McCutcheon.

[cbuckser]

If only there was a way they could stop the pain of having to listen to us chant winning team losing team.

Which reminds me... the first time Cornell and Union met in an ECAC game, back in January '92 at Union, the Big Red swamped 'em by something like 8-1, and the Cornell fans didn't do "winning team, losing team."  Oh no, no, they (all right, all right, WE) did, "Which team is Division I?  Which team is Division III?"  I will concede that rated rather low on the classiness meter.  The next time the two teams met, at Lynah a month later, Union scored a stunning 6-4 win.  And they proceeded to beat the Big Red with annoying regularity for about the next five years.

Karma.

No, McCutcheon.

I'm still pissed that Brian McCutcheon didn't yank Parris Duffus until it was too late.  It was Parris's worst game at Cornell, and both his play and body language showed that it wasn't Parris's night.  I remain mystified that McCutcheon failed to detect the defeated look on Parris's face that was obvious from the 13th row of Section G.

[Josh '99]

If only there was a way they could stop the pain of having to listen to us chant winning team losing team.

Which reminds me... the first time Cornell and Union met in an ECAC game, back in January '92 at Union, the Big Red swamped 'em by something like 8-1, and the Cornell fans didn't do "winning team, losing team."  Oh no, no, they (all right, all right, WE) did, "Which team is Division I?  Which team is Division III?"  I will concede that rated rather low on the classiness meter.  The next time the two teams met, at Lynah a month later, Union scored a stunning 6-4 win.  And they proceeded to beat the Big Red with annoying regularity for about the next five years.

Karma.

No, McCutcheon.

Union having our number did stretch into the Schafer years, though.

[Scersk '97]

No, McCutcheon.

I'm still pissed that Brian McCutcheon didn't yank Parris Duffus until it was too late.  It was Parris's worst game at Cornell, and both his play and body language showed that it wasn't Parris's night.  I remain mystified that McCutcheon failed to detect the defeated look on Parris's face that was obvious from the 13th row of Section G.

Well, the alternative was Andy Bandurski, of the flopping.  A freshman at the time, he was an unknown quantity and, therefore, seemed a viable alternative; in retrospect, Duffus, even at half capacity, was probably the better goalie.

[jtwcornell91]

Andy Bandurski, of the flopping.

Watch it; you're talking about someone whose uniform number was just retired!
:-}

[RatushnyFan]

I'm still pissed that Brian McCutcheon didn't yank Parris Duffus until it was too late.  It was Parris's worst game at Cornell, and both his play and body language showed that it wasn't Parris's night.  I remain mystified that McCutcheon failed to detect the defeated look on Parris's face that was obvious from the 13th row of Section G.

[fingers in ears] lalalalalala, I can't hear you, that game never happened.

Speaking of Duffus, he came out of retirement to play 31 SECONDS of shutout hockey for the Fort Wayne Komets (P.C. Drouin plays there as well) this year.  Weird.

Duffus Strikes Back

[cbuckser]

Andy Bandurski, of the flopping.

Watch it; you're talking about someone whose uniform number was just retired!
:-}

Parris wore #1, and Andy wore #31.

[jtwcornell91]

Andy Bandurski, of the flopping.

Watch it; you're talking about someone whose uniform number was just retired!
:-}

Parris wore #1, and Andy wore #31.

Oops, my bad.  I thought http://www.tbrw.info/players/cornellUniformNumbers.html indicated that Andy Bandurski wore #1 some seasons.

[TimV]

Interesting responses all.  Now, just for fun,  is there any irony at all in the part of the Tuba Cheer when we say "DIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE" complete with the sound fading in the distance effect?::uptosomething::

[cbuckser]

Andy Bandurski, of the flopping.

Watch it; you're talking about someone whose uniform number was just retired!
:-}

Parris wore #1, and Andy wore #31.

Oops, my bad.  I thought http://www.tbrw.info/players/cornellUniformNumbers.html indicated that Andy Bandurski wore #1 some seasons.

Believe me, John, I wish my memories of the last four years of the McCutcheon regime were cloudier.

[sweetrevenge]

Winning team, losing team ......