Cornell vs Quinnipiac postgame

[calgARI '07]

[quote redice]

Has it ever been confirmed why Evan was not playing?   He is such a vast improvement over Kevin McLeod, that it's hard to imagine that the coaching staff would "healthy scratch" Evan in favor of playing Kevin.   Perhaps the coaching staff was (too) eager to play  McLeod because of his size.[/quote]

It's pretty ridiculous how Salmela's career has gone, just could never crack the lineup.  He had the "opportunity" early in the year but was seeing like 10 minutes of ice time a game and never once was on the powerplay.  In fact, a guy who was looked at a powerplay specialist coming into Cornell after being a point-a-game defenseman in juniors has never really seen a regular shift on the powerplay until last Saturday night.  I can understand that for the first three years of his career when the powerplay was consistently strong, but it is frustrating to think he has been in the pressbox for most of this season when the powerplay has lost the team several games.  

It took the coaching staff until game 26 to take Bitz off the point on the first powerplay unit.

[Beeeej]

[quote KP '06][quote jtwcornell91][quote Robb]
Well yes, that would have certain advantages... I was just quoting the song:

We are the alumni, we write out the checks.
We deplore campus violence, pot smoking, and sex.
We're summa cum laude, we're doing quite well -
But, oh, to be 20, and back at Cornell!
[/quote]

Isn't that "our careers are progressing, we're doing quite well"?  The part about magna cum laude (but still unemployed) is in the Senior verse.

Do these kids today even know Song of the Classes?[/quote]

It lives on within the band, where a "1" is usually amended onto the "20" :-)[/quote]

Each instrument gets its own verse.  I also wrote one for the band's P.A. announcer way back when right on the spot while everyone else was singing theirs, but I can only remember the last line: "And I just pulled this verse right out of my ass."

[sen '08]

The way I learned it (and have heard it) is "it's work like a jerk."

[Killer]

[quote sen '08]The way I learned it (and have heard it) is "it's work like a jerk."[/quote]

I remember first singing it back in '71-'72, and we had it as 'turk".  From the looks of things, there are some subtle and some not-so-subtle changes to a number of the verses.  But, hell, who cares?  It's like rugby songs - they always change a bit from team-to-team and sometimes party-to-party, but everyone gets the idea.

[David Harding]

[quote Robb]There have been many, many other ad hoc verses for various Cornell groups over the years (I know I've heard "We are the co-eds..." but I don't remember it).  [/quote]

Here's a Glee Club recording of "The Song of the Classes." http://www.gleeclub.com/experience/music/soc/08.mp3 It's a live performance and the mix - solos vs choruses - is such that you need to keep your finger (or cursor) on the volume control.  (More Cornell songs from the Glee Club at http://www.gleeclub.com/experience/songs_of_cornell.php?SUBSECTION_TITLE=Recordings&SUBSECTION_LINK=%2Fexperience%2Fsounds.php )

The song has definitely evolved over the years.  When I was an undergraduate they were singing
"I date only girls from Elmira and Wells,
For in my opinion they all beat Cornell's."

A few years later, with the great increase in the number of women on campus, the Glee Club version, a de facto standard, flipped it to
"I used to date girls from Elmira and Wells,
But in my opinion the best are Cornell's."

It was also around then that the junior stopped smoking his pipe and started smoking his pot, and the senior started being still unemployed

I, too, remember hearing a coed version but can't remember any verses.  I'd wager that someone from the Cornell Chorus would have it on the tip of her toungue.  One year, trying to loosen the tension during a certain week in late January, I wrote a version about fraternity rush.

Regarding 20 vs 21:  Aside from how it scans, when that verse was written the drinking age in New York was still 18.

[Killer]

Didn't the co-ed verse start something like, "We are the co-eds, we're smarter than most..."?  Can't remember what comes after that, but I think there was something about "...don't like to boast.."

[French Rage]

That was the best game I've seen in person this year. ::crazy::

[Beeeej]

http://www.uscho.com/recaps/20062007/m/02/16/qu-cor.php

"There was a lot of clutching and grabbing going on out there, and it slowed us down," said Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold.

Well, at least there wasn't any, say, sitting on people and elbowing them in the facemask until they're forced to do something that gets them called for a penalty, too.

[calgARI '07]

[quote Beeeej]http://www.uscho.com/recaps/20062007/m/02/16/qu-cor.php

"There was a lot of clutching and grabbing going on out there, and it slowed us down," said Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold.

Well, at least there wasn't any, say, sitting on people and elbowing them in the facemask until they're forced to do something that gets them called for a penalty, too.[/quote]

I loved that comment about the clutching and grabbing.  Coaches all over at every level love to use that excuse after losing games.  I didn't think there was much clutching and grabbing at all.  That stuff has gotten called pretty consistently.  There were plenty of things not called last night, but they weren't clutching and grabbing type penalties like Pecknold's comments suggest.  Thought the officiating was pretty even for the most part.  

Quite frankly, I think the officiating has been much better this season and than last and the quality of games has increased as a result.  The only two games that I have thought the officials ruined/determined were the games at Brown and Union.

[Giffy]

[quote Beeeej]http://www.uscho.com/recaps/20062007/m/02/16/qu-cor.php

"There was a lot of clutching and grabbing going on out there, and it slowed us down," said Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold.

Well, at least there wasn't any, say, sitting on people and elbowing them in the facemask until they're forced to do something that gets them called for a penalty, too.[/quote]

From the same article:

Bates checked Cornell freshman Tony Romano into the boards, leaving Romano shaken up on the ice and drawing a contact to the head penalty.

Did Kennedy and Romano switch jerseys?

[Killer]

[quote calgARI '07]Quite frankly, I think the officiating has been much better this season and than last and the quality of games has increased as a result.  The only two games that I have thought the officials ruined/determined were the games at Brown and Union.[/quote]

There were officials at the Brown game?  Damn, I thought there was just some timer that caused a whistle to blow every 2-3 minutes and they'd randomly throw some player off the ice.  You mean there was supposedly some sort of rationale as to how that was happening?  Coulda fooled me.

[jtwcornell91]

[quote Killer][quote sen '08]The way I learned it (and have heard it) is "it's work like a jerk."[/quote]

I remember first singing it back in '71-'72, and we had it as 'turk".[/quote]

It was still "Turk" in from '87 to '91.

[quote Killer]From the looks of things, there are some subtle and some not-so-subtle changes to a number of the verses.  But, hell, who cares?  It's like rugby songs - they always change a bit from team-to-team and sometimes party-to-party, but everyone gets the idea.[/quote]

The words to "Itsy Bitsy Spider" (aka "Don't Send My Boy To Hahvahd") have also changed around a bit, e.g., Syracuse vs Yale or Brown and whether we have anything nice to say about Princeton.

FWIW, I recall Song of the Classes with different verses being sung by different groups.  I think NBT got Sophomore and Junior, so the verses changed around a bit, like keeping the boys away from Elimira and Wells and frequenting bartenders rather than barmaids.

The freshman verse was also sung in the squeakiest voice possible.

[jtwcornell91]

[quote ugarte][quote las224][quote jtwcornell91][quote Robb]
We're summa cum laude, we're doing quite well -
[/quote]

Isn't that "our careers are progressing, we're doing quite well"?  The part about magna cum laude (but still unemployed) is in the Senior verse.

Do these kids today even know Song of the Classes?[/quote]

Graduating senior here, and I've never heard it. Where can I find it?[/quote]Class of '92 and I've never heard it.[/quote]

It was sung at Cornell Night during orientation week (and again Senior Week), which I seem to recall sneaking into as an upperclassman, even when I wasn't an OC.

[Dafatone]

The officiating was alright last night, except the ref had a habit most bad refs have, that being calling matching minors whenever the game got chippy to keep the teams "behaving".

I was alright with some of the matching calls, and I even didn't think Bates' hit warranted a 5 minute penalty, but the matching call where someone was pinning one of our players down for ten seconds was lame.

[oceanst41]

I think it warrants mentioning for those alumni watching the game on the computer, but did I see some semblance of a replay for highlights or was I just really tired while watching the game?

Would that mean that Cornell and All-Access may have had their best nights of the year on the same night?