Clarkson at Cornell postgame

[evilnaturedrobot]

[quote dto]Yeah, I was talking hockey with one of the ushers during warmups, and he said he loves how Cornell "puts" the opposite band against the glass.  Also, Clarkson doesn't travel with their full band due to ticketing limitations, as I'm sure is the case with Cornell too (although I've never seen them at Cheel).[/quote]

Personally, I think that's poor manners on Cornell's part.  Clarkson's band was completely muffled all night, they had no chance.  I wish the ticketing office would just trust that we can drown themout without any help :-D (though I'm sure the real reason has to do with the 'prime seating boxes' or the concern of some other group of ticket holders.)

And do you meen that you've never seen the Cornell band at Cheel or that you've never seen the full band at Cheel?  I was under the impression that the band made the north country trip.

[dto]

I watched Scrivens in warmups ... they were right in front of me in section D and my pizza was already in my belly, so I was pretty much bored.  I was not at all impressed with him and I actually thought he was the backup to the backup.  He got really lucky on the rebounds tonight; he didn't get them to the sides in the game.  The Cornell defense outplayed Clarkson in front of the net though (funny, I remember having this exact conversation about Leggio earlier in the season).

This is a great experience for a freshman and I think he'll serve you well in the future, especially if your defense plays like it did last night.  However, you guys really need to get his hat painted.

[billhoward]

[quote DisplacedCornellian]Aww...you all upset Goldie Knight.  Copied from the roundtable...

"I guess I will forever wonder what it takes to motivate the Golden Knights to play their best against a team whose fans condemn every penalty call made against Cornell and call Clarkson a group of goons. Their arrogant and insulting chant near the end of the game, "overrated", repeated incessantly, was simply sickening to hear. Reading their posts on elynah will provide Clarkson fans the perfect picture of what true cornell fans are actually like."[/quote]

Maybe we ought to chant, "Vic [clap] tim [clap] of circumstance [clap clap clap]," but it doesn't have the same ring.

[redhair34]

[quote dto]Yeah, I was talking hockey with one of the ushers during warmups, and he said he loves how Cornell "puts" the opposite band against the glass.[/quote]


Since a number of people have commented about this I thought I'd throw my two cents in.  I can think of two possible explanations for why the the opposing bands have been pushed down to the glass this year.  When the band stands in the middle of the section it obstructs the view of the high rollers in the box seats.  Or the band doesn't obstruct their view, but athletics just wants to keep the band as far away from the box seats as possible.

[dto]

I went to Clarkson 92-96 and never saw Cornell's band up there (or if I did, I got way too drunk at happy hour to remember).  I watched the game from Cheel this year on the internet and I saw some Red fans, but don't recall seeing or hearing a band.

[ebilmes]

[quote evilnaturedrobot][quote ebilmes]
Cornell had a big win last night--isn't this supposed to be the time on eLynah when we all get along?[/quote]

well Clarkson is the one fanbase, aside from cornell that is, that has a pretty reasonable pressance on elynah, so it makes sense that there would be some contention (which I happen to enjoy, who likes preaching to the choir?)

however, it this case I'd say that most of the Clarkson fans have been pretty respectful and a few of the faithful are overreacting.[/quote]

I was referring more to the grammar issue. It's expected that our Clarkson posters (with the exception of Drew) get contentious whenever we face each other.

[redhair34]

[quote dto]I went to Clarkson 92-96 and never saw Cornell's band up there (or if I did, I got way too drunk at happy hour to remember).  I watched the game from Cheel this year on the internet and I saw some Red fans, but don't recall seeing or hearing a band.[/quote]

They were there.  I'm guessing about one third of the band made the trip?

[dto]

Now you know why we don't have names on the road jerseys.  Ivy League fans are too cheap to buy programs and thus can't harrass our players. ::nut::

Speaking of harrassment, several of the fans in the student section I was near were upset that you don't have any "special" chants for Clarkson.  I was upset that we don't rate well enough for our own chant.  (Personally, I like "Around the bowl, down the hole, go Brown go." or "Brown's the color of dog @#$%")

[dto]

As an outsider, the conversation about grammar is just killing me.  Then again, Clarkson is an engineering school, so we aren't expected to have good grammar.

[ebilmes]

[quote dto]Now you know why we don't have names on the road jerseys.  Ivy League fans are too cheap to buy programs and thus can't harrass our players. ::nut::

Speaking of harrassment, several of the fans in the student section I was near were upset that you don't have any "special" chants for Clarkson.  I was upset that we don't rate well enough for our own chant.  (Personally, I like "Around the bowl, down the hole, go Brown go." or "Brown's the color of dog @#$%")[/quote]

"Disco Tech" didn't exactly catch on. Nor did "Inbred...Big Red..." It takes a certain level of awareness to know that "Tech" is Clarkson and to understand the "inbred" comments. Kudos to the guy at the top of B singing the Addams family stuff.

[evilnaturedrobot]

[quote dto]Now you know why we don't have names on the road jerseys.  Ivy League fans are too cheap to buy programs and thus can't harrass our players. ::nut::

Speaking of harrassment, several of the fans in the student section I was near were upset that you don't have any "special" chants for Clarkson.  I was upset that we don't rate well enough for our own chant.  (Personally, I like "Around the bowl, down the hole, go Brown go." or "Brown's the color of dog @#$%")[/quote]

well we would if Matt Nikerson hadn't gone pro, but alas...even so, I was sort of suprised that syphilis wasn't mention in some capacity, I thought the assumption was that he had spread it to the rest of the team and student body? ;-)

As for the programs, that's really our fault for not printing out a roster in the first place.  I was particuarly dissapointed because it meant that noe one knew which player was Grant Clitsome, thus preventing a 'clitsome got licked' chant from starting.

[redhair34]

[quote dto]I was upset that we don't rate well enough for our own chant.[/quote]

George Roll has his own.

[mttgrmm]

THROW YOUR CLIPBOARD

[RichH]

[quote dto]I went to Clarkson 92-96 and never saw Cornell's band up there (or if I did, I got way too drunk at happy hour to remember).  I watched the game from Cheel this year on the internet and I saw some Red fans, but don't recall seeing or hearing a band.[/quote]

I was in the Cornell band from '92-'96 and we made that trip every season (and an extra time in '95 for the ECAC QF series).  That era was great time because both bands partied together often and were excellent musically.  Far and away the best bands in the league.  

Cornell has always treated opposing bands like crap.  I can remember only 2-3 times where they weren't put right on the glass.  While the Lynah ushers are known to be grouches in general, it's about 3x worse towards the visiting band.  It was embarrassing to me, since I knew people in other bands.  I wanted to be a good host to our counterparts, but the band really has no control over that.

To be honest, there are other inhospitable arenas in the league.  A few have tried to impose the "25 instrument limit" rule that's for NCAA tournament games.  Yale has started doing that.  Harvard has usually been accomodating, but tries to keep the band in 2 rows, by the glass.  Clarkson is very accomodating, and gives us seats at the top of the section, ditto St. Lawrence.  Princeton puts us against the wall in the corner, which isn't bad.  RPI is horrible, because even with an empty hangar-sized arena and about 7 empty sections between us and actual people, they force us into the rafters in the furthest section from the ice.  Vermont was always bad too, crammed way down in a corner against the glass.

Oh, and every arena with a DJ that insists on playing Jock Jams over any bands, including their own, can suck it.  Hard.  Brown, Colgate, Union, I'm looking at you.

[dto]

Ahh yes, I did hear that clipboard chant.  Honestly, I would like to see the names on the backs of the jerseys too... I follow Clarkson hockey, but I don't see every game and I forget the second level players.  Poor Grant, that had to be a tough name to live through high school with.