Cornell-sponsored webcast Maine game 12/30 - not to be

[billhoward]

If Cornell really was on the ball, it would get Craig Brush '72 (GM of the Everblades) to bring in one TV camera guy and stream the feed out through the rink's high speed connection for a free webcast. Then solicit donations. I'd pay $25 to see the game, maybe $50, so long as it was voluntary and not preceded by those repeating CSTV commercials you see before learning the game is not available. I bet a lot of Maine fans would do the same, also. If Age was down there (?), he could probably make it happen with $100 in parts from Radio Shack and somebody's camcorder. (Remember the Syracuse U games we watched 2-3 years back where the time-of-day and tape-remaining indicators were part of the webcast?)

This is the biggest sports event so far of the 2006-07 season (am I missing a key wrestling match maybe? Okay, there was also the volleyball NCAA playoff game) and we have to follow it on audio. Audio-only Cornell hockey is like Baywatch on radio.

This from a university that was seminal in getting the Internet rolling.

[Beeeej]

Bill, you start a lot of threads with rambling, nearly pointless posts on this board, but at least most of them don't have subject lines that cruelly and stupidly get people's hopes up.

[DisplacedCornellian]

Dammit, Bill.  I come in here expecting miraculous news about an actual webcast, and it's just more of your rambling.  DIAF.

[billhoward]

You're right that the subject teaser raised hopes beyond reality. It's been changed. I still can't think of anything that would bring more happiness to more Cornellians in the last week of the year than if Cornell had arranged for video of this weekend's games once CSTV decided not to carry the tournament it had covered in past seasons.

[jtwcornell91]

You know, if you proposed something like this more than TWELVE HOURS before the game, it would be more likely to happen.