Links to free audio broadcasts by Cornell's opponents

[jason]

Well, I don't want to be the only one not to say something about the CornellPass situation... :-)

I am disappointed that Cornell hockey will not be available for free, not so much that I'll have to fork out some money, but rather because it means that basically casual Cornell fans and diehard college hockey fans whose allegiances lie with other schools will miss out on listening to Cornell games. They simply will not bother with the burden/cost that is CornellPass. (Mainly for this reason (and as a service to the eLF regulars that have been so helpful over the years) I put together the links to opponents' free broadcasts --I'm hoping that this will make it easy enough that some listeners that would otherwise not tune in will now do so.) And it's happening when Cornell arguably has its best team in the past 10+ years –who knows when we'll be so blessed again.

The other reason for my disappointment is how HockeyCam will be negatively impacted, i.e., no more synced audio and video.  Obviously, my personal viewing pleasure will be diminished. But I'm also concerned that the Cornell hockey program is losing a possible recruiting enticement. For a school saddled with many recruiting disadvantages, what advantages it has are precious and should be guarded. I doubt that HockeyCam is very influential in recruiting, but if nurtured it could have been a genuine plus (imagine Coach being able to tell a recruit that "Your friends and family can watch every home game no matter where they live.") to help set Cornell apart from other hockey programs. (And from what Age says, it's likely to get worse for HockeyCam next year (next year's problem is completely unrelated to CornellPass).)

The exasperating thing is that this all could have been so easily avoided, whether by a simple inquiry with Age or by coming to this forum (which has had posts by Cornell Athletics representatives in the past and I hope does so in the future despite the current bad blood) and asking for our help/thoughts. I gladly donated to help put hockey broadcasts online the first time and I would have done so again. I could be way off, but I wouldn't be surprised if more money would have been generated by seeking donations rather than instituting CornellPass.

Finally, Although I did put together the audio links page and was pleasantly surprised at just how many games would be available for free, I still may nonetheless subscribe to CornellPass for the simple reason that I like the notion of listening to "our" guy, so that whatever bias/slant/familiarity/etc. that comes through, however small, is towards the Cornell squad. The biggest hurdle is the aggravation of signing up and the potential aggravation of canceling (why do I think that trying to cancel is going to be like trying to cancel AOL –your requests go ignored and they just keep charging your credit card every month while you exhaust yourself with numerous calls/threats/pleas to (nonexistent) customer service).

[jy3]

bump

[Beeeej]

Why don't you bookmark the page Jason set up?  There's no reason to make the rest of us believe something else useful has been said here just to keep the list convenient.

Beeeej

[jtwcornell91]

Note that Age has also added a link to Jason's page in the menubar at the left.

[jason]

I will update the links page as I become aware of changes/problems. (E.g., Yale's link last night had routine music programming --I suspect that they may only broadcast Yale home games (it's student run radio, I believe).) You can email me with any problems you discover and I will update accordingly.