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sigmanu@CU · December 01, 2009, 10:45:57 AM

Hello gang, frequent reader, new member/poster...don't hold my forum name against me!?!

Did anyone feel that we were "out marketed" Saturday night? The reason I ask is that in my section (88) there seemed like quite a few boys dressed like recruits :-) I thought if you looked at the big picture, BU "sold" themselves better. The opening video compared to ours was laughable. We have a rich(er) history and they were presenting all their HE championships and NCAA Championships...they have an alum (granted it was a Ranger) show up on the big screen getting the crowd riled up....we have some Dean of Students who giggles like a school girl on the screen. We have some staged (looked like it) pep rally video with the football team running through, a quick hoop mention about the back to back NCAA apperances ( no small feat!!) How about a little love from Joe N. and Kenny Dryden if not Moulson? We were not creative in my mind.

Digital video production highlighting our sports teams should have been an easier thing to achieve....maybe in 2011 we'll be better prepared!

Overall, it was a great experince for my daughter and I, but aside from the crowd, the band, and the result, were we losers on the overall stage? Just my $.02.

Robb · December 01, 2009, 11:01:19 AM

Quote from: sigmanu@CUWe have a rich(er) history ...

Really? 5 > 2.

/USCHO

ftyuv · December 01, 2009, 11:08:23 AM

Quote from: Robb
Quote from: sigmanu@CUWe have a rich(er) history ...

Really? 5 > 2.

/USCHO

Not in binary, though. Nyuck nyuck.

sigmanu@CU · December 01, 2009, 11:34:51 AM

The "rich" history is outlined on the right margin of this forum. If you mean all history is measured only by NC's and not overall success then its a good thing Boehiem got his 2 at SU and Elway got his SB. The 11 ECAC's and 19 Ivy titles would lead one to believe that Cornell has a pretty rich one. Some of those ECAC titles were over the Terriers....

HeafDog · December 01, 2009, 12:06:27 PM

Our video up on the jumbotron was embarrassingly bad, just like the other Cornell marketing videos I've seen while watching hockey over the past several years. There was one played during a televised game a few years ago (the only part of which I am unlucky enough to remember being some bespectacled kid saying, "I'm a lifer" ) that was just as bad as this one. Ezra may have said, "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study," but I'd probably have to add, "and that makes a halfway decent marketing video, too."

The CU hoops video was pretty good, though, I have to say. Cornell hoops, w00t.

TimV · December 01, 2009, 12:31:45 PM

I agree we were out-marketed in terms of the videos prepared by BU. Still, I prefer Cornell's Giggling Schoolgirl to The Tweeting Dean of BU...::doh::

Trotsky · December 01, 2009, 12:32:51 PM

Quote from: sigmanu@CUThe "rich" history is outlined on the right margin of this forum. If you mean all history is measured only by NC's and not overall success then its a good thing Boehiem got his 2 at SU and Elway got his SB. The 11 ECAC's and 19 Ivy titles would lead one to believe that Cornell has a pretty rich one. Some of those ECAC titles were over the Terriers....

BU hasn't even made the ECAC tournament since 1985.

sigmanu@CU · December 01, 2009, 01:00:03 PM

Quote from: TrotskyBU hasn't even made the ECAC tournament since 1985.

That's hilarious! Not really.

Jim Hyla · December 01, 2009, 01:04:25 PM

Quote from: sigmanu@CUThe "rich" history is outlined on the right margin of this forum. If you mean all history is measured only by NC's and not overall success then its a good thing Boehiem got his 2 at SU and Elway got his SB. The 11 ECAC's and 19 Ivy titles would lead one to believe that Cornell has a pretty rich one. Some of those ECAC titles were over the Terriers....

Wow, I know they are doing better than expected this year, but to predict another NC for this year already, wow.:-}

sigmanu@CU · December 01, 2009, 01:18:30 PM

Oops. The Indiana game in '87 still stings. ::blush::

billhoward · December 01, 2009, 01:39:03 PM

As for hockey success, BU's video kicked our butts. Especially nice was all the graphics showing championships, and the NCAA hockey championships 4 rolls over to a 5. Impressive. The line that BU hockey won every tournament they entered last year, if I heard it right, that was impressive, too. Point is, when you talk about hockey greatness, we are the class of the Ivy League and the ECAC, but it's BU that's gotten the job done the last 35 years.

BU's Tweeting Dean was pretty cool after a fashion. Twitter is a great way to reach large numbers of people when you've got nothing to say and can do it in 140 bytes. What can you say about Susan Murphy? Put up a graphic that says, "Cornell grad. Competent"?

This is sexist so of course I'll say it: The crowd shots showed hordes of Cornell fans. An early in the game shot of two women with BU sweatshirts elicted a near-gasp from our section and the remark, "They are hot."

If Earl [correction: John] Silber were still BU president and he was introduced at the same time as Skorton, the boos from the BU section would have probably drowned out any noise from the Cornell fans. There's a man who kicked BU into being a better school by making enemies of huge constituencies within BU. Still, you gotta admire somebody who tells the faculty that a bunch of them are mediocre. Just don't try that at Harvard.

If there were recruits in the building, Cornell won the hearts and minds battle. No matter the score or the videos, this was Cornell's night for attendance and fan spirit.

Trotsky · December 01, 2009, 01:51:44 PM

Quote from: billhowardIf Earl Silber were still BU president and he was introduced at the same time as Skorton, the boos from the BU section would have probably drowned out any noise from the Cornell fans. There's a man who kicked BU into being a better school by making enemies of huge constituencies within BU. Still, you gotta admire somebody who tells the faculty that a bunch of them are mediocre. Just don't try that at Harvard.

If there were recruits in the building, Cornell won the hearts and minds battle. No matter the score or the videos, this was Cornell's night for attendance and fan spirit.

IIRC, that was John Silber. He ran for MA governor as a party hack and went nowhere.

RichH · December 01, 2009, 02:56:29 PM

Quote from: billhowardEspecially nice was all the graphics showing championships, and the NCAA hockey championships 4 rolls over to a 5. Impressive.

Yeah, that's the video that NESN airs for commercials for upcoming BU games they broadcast. One advantage of being in a major media market is that you get glitzy videos. Whoopie.

Quote from: heafdogOur video up on the jumbotron was embarrassingly bad, just like the other Cornell marketing videos I've seen while watching hockey over the past several years.

Actually, I thought all our videos were pretty good, certainly not "embarrassingly bad." At least it didn't look like it was done by a high school A/V club, like some of them in the past. Probably the best ones yet, but I guess that's part of your point.

Rosey · December 01, 2009, 03:03:08 PM

Quote from: RichHActually, I thought all our videos were pretty good, certainly not "embarrassingly bad."

They were inappropriate for the venue: too syrupy. It's a hockey game, which means more ass-kicking and less glee club.

RichH · December 01, 2009, 03:22:00 PM

Quote from: Kyle Rose
Quote from: RichHActually, I thought all our videos were pretty good, certainly not "embarrassingly bad."
They were inappropriate for the venue: too syrupy. It's a hockey game, which means more ass-kicking and less glee club.

Yeah. And then there was that one that made our football program look like a place for excellence.