Cornell 3 Princeton 2 Post Game Thread

[dbilmes]

[quote Brian Deerr]  The alumni band is planning on bringing about 25 for tonight's game, so we'll be able to make some noise.[/quote]

That's good news! The only games I've seen in the past 5/6 years without the pep band have been the games down in Florida. The band really adds a lot to the atmosphere, even when they stick it way up in the rafters, like at RPI!

[DeltaOne81]

[quote Rita][quote billhoward][quote gatitita '05][quote ugarte]First of all, a game at Princeton without a pep band is like a Princeton game against Harvard. Booooo, pep band priorities! The football season ended over a month ago! (Good luck tomorrow, gridders!)[/quote]

again, the band has limited funds (and most are generated from band alumni!).  It's not because of football.  There are plenty of times where we have taken busses in the middle of the night to make hockey and football in the same weekend.  I hope the alumni band makes up for it tonight![/quote]
That's the spirit: Outscource the music to local talent. If it's alumni musicians, at least you're keeping it in the family. Didn't an NCAA hockey team 2-3 years back rent a local high school band for the playoffs?[/quote]

Wasn't it Mercyhurst when the made the NC$$'s in 2005, in Worcester?[/quote]

Yup, Mercyhurst with the Shrewsbury High band.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Mercyhurst+Shrewsbury+band

[Jim Hyla]

[quote billhoward]It's probably better, academically, if the alumni band takes up the slack on the road - most probably have only one or two papers still due.

But seriously: Once you see the band (marching, pep, alumni) at many events, you really do take them for granted.[/quote]We can help by donating to the pep band.

[Robb]

I was going to provide the link, but I couldn't find a direct link for how to donate.  Presumably some of the email addresses on this page can tell you how.

I've donated in the past when there were specific calls (e.g. "help us get to Wisconsin!"), but I really should make that an annual gift...

[redhair34]

oops

[Liz '05]

[quote dbilmes]
That's good news! The only games I've seen in the past 5/6 years without the pep band have been the games down in Florida. [/quote]

Though last year there were a few random instruments to give us pep

[Jim Hyla]

This should work. https://www.alumni.cornell.edu/secure/giving/online_giving.cfm Just list the Pep Band under "other gift designation". None of the links on Pep Band site work for me.

[Lauren '06]

Uh, that website stuff's all on me.  I'm fixing it this week.

[Jim Hyla]

[quote Section A Banshee]Uh, that website stuff's all on me.  I'm fixing it this week.[/quote]Good, when you get it up post it on a new thread so it's not lost. You guys deserve it. Hear that all you readers, donate, even it's just $5, everything helps.::banana::

[billhoward]

[quote Jim Hyla][quote billhoward]It's probably better, academically, if the alumni band takes up the slack on the road - most probably have only one or two papers still due.

But seriously: Once you see the band (marching, pep, alumni) at many events, you really do take them for granted.[/quote]We can help by donating to the pep band.[/quote]
Especially if your $100 donation doesn't just lead Cornell to reduce its magnificent funding by $100.

[heykb]

My thoughts after seeing us survive that 3rd period at Princeton...

-Greening played very well. I noticed several times when he was in the right place doing the right thing.

-Romano is fun to watch. Very fun.

-Troy did indeed make a spectacular save late in the 3rd that would have been called "no way to do anything about it" if he hadn't actually pulled it off. It was really that good.

-How come Princeton, of all teams, is outchecking us? I'm not saying we have to spend the whole game trying to have our 5'9" waterbugs ramming into people, but I saw VERY FEW hits by our big guys. We were terrible at playing the body last night.

-Similarly, our defense was borderline dreadful. We didn't stand them up at the blue-line, we never played the body, and we had some bad miscommunications and misplays.