Polls 12/14

snert1288 · December 14, 2009, 03:42:31 PM

Cornell moves up to 4 in USCHO after a weekend off! And up one to 3 in the INCH poll

http://www.uscho.com/rankings/
http://www.insidecollegehockey.com/5Polls/0910/polls_0812.htm

edit: #4 in the USA Today Poll as well. And women drop to #8.

margolism · December 14, 2009, 04:25:14 PM

We're off for a couple more weeks, so maybe we'll close in on #2 before Florida.

billhoward · December 14, 2009, 04:42:03 PM

The voters are impressed by the players' academic credentials. Insert Harvard joke here. Plus, when you play a game, there are 3 outcomes and 2 are not good for a top 10 team. We will not lose a game for 3 weeks, at the very least. (Apologies to Texas football coach that "there are three things that can happen when you pass the football ... and two of them are bad.")

drs48 · December 14, 2009, 07:31:41 PM

....I think that Woody Hayes said that....

munchkin · December 14, 2009, 08:12:09 PM

The elusive first place vote is gone though. Whichever writer gave it to us should have more faith and give it back.

Jim Hyla · December 14, 2009, 09:08:30 PM

Quote from: munchkinThe elusive first place vote is gone though. Whichever writer gave it to us should have more faith and give it back.

Well if you remember last weeks thread on the polls:

Quote from: Jim Hyla
Quote from: munchkinWe got the elusive first place vote this week. I wonder how long it'll stick around.
Well, since we're not playing, it'll probably be gone next week.::twitch::

B-]

munchkin · December 14, 2009, 10:49:04 PM

Quote from: Jim Hyla
Quote from: munchkinThe elusive first place vote is gone though. Whichever writer gave it to us should have more faith and give it back.
Well if you remember last weeks thread on the polls:
Quote from: Jim Hyla
Quote from: munchkinWe got the elusive first place vote this week. I wonder how long it'll stick around.
Well, since we're not playing, it'll probably be gone next week.::twitch::
B-]

I'm sticking with that writer should continue to give it to us until he/she has a reason to take it away. I'm looking forward to going to the UNH game to see how well they fare against the top team in Hockey East, hopefully a win in that game will resecure the vote.

Rosey · December 14, 2009, 11:10:44 PM

Quote from: munchkinI'm sticking with that writer should continue to give it to us until he/she has a reason to take it away.

Here's a good reason: maybe he thought some other team was more deserving?

I have successfully kept myself from bitching about this for years, but I'm finally fucking sick of it. The reason Cornell moves in the polls even when it doesn't play is that the voters are adjusting the positions of the other teams that are playing. This is not fucking rocket science, people. Good lord, get over it already.

munchkin · December 14, 2009, 11:45:24 PM

How serious do you think I'm being? Because it's not very... this is a distraction for me while in the midst of grad school finals. These polls don't mean much, especially several months away from championship time. It's the PWR where Cornell is tied for 16th that makes a bigger difference when trying to analyze where teams lie in relationship to each other. I'm more mocking the writers for the random first place votes that seem to jump around at the beginning of the season, although with this week's poll the votes seem to have settled as only two teams got first place votes.

Johnny 5 · December 15, 2009, 07:19:04 AM

Quote from: Kyle Rose
Quote from: munchkinI'm sticking with that writer should continue to give it to us until he/she has a reason to take it away.
Here's a good reason: maybe he thought some other team was more deserving?

I have successfully kept myself from bitching about this for years, but I'm finally fucking sick of it. The reason Cornell moves in the polls even when it doesn't play is that the voters are adjusting the positions of the other teams that are playing. This is not fucking rocket science, people. Good lord, get over it already.

Easy, Kyle!
Have an eggnog, dude!!
Maybe the Ithaca Journal will give us that vote back next week??

::wtf::

Rosey · December 15, 2009, 09:19:11 AM

Quote from: Johnny 5
Quote from: Kyle Rose
Quote from: munchkinI'm sticking with that writer should continue to give it to us until he/she has a reason to take it away.
Here's a good reason: maybe he thought some other team was more deserving?

I have successfully kept myself from bitching about this for years, but I'm finally fucking sick of it. The reason Cornell moves in the polls even when it doesn't play is that the voters are adjusting the positions of the other teams that are playing. This is not fucking rocket science, people. Good lord, get over it already.

Easy, Kyle!
Have an eggnog, dude!!
Maybe the Ithaca Journal will give us that vote back next week??

::wtf::

LOL. Sorry, I'm just sick of reading the same fallacious argument week to week during the regular season. It would be fine if people recognized it as an obvious joke (e.g., Jerk/Typical), but it's clear that some people take it seriously, as if they really don't understand why Cornell moves around when they don't play.

ftyuv · December 15, 2009, 03:50:56 PM

Quote from: Kyle Rose
Quote from: Johnny 5
Quote from: Kyle Rose
Quote from: munchkinI'm sticking with that writer should continue to give it to us until he/she has a reason to take it away.
Here's a good reason: maybe he thought some other team was more deserving?

I have successfully kept myself from bitching about this for years, but I'm finally fucking sick of it. The reason Cornell moves in the polls even when it doesn't play is that the voters are adjusting the positions of the other teams that are playing. This is not fucking rocket science, people. Good lord, get over it already.

Easy, Kyle!
Have an eggnog, dude!!
Maybe the Ithaca Journal will give us that vote back next week??

::wtf::
LOL. Sorry, I'm just sick of reading the same fallacious argument week to week during the regular season. It would be fine if people recognized it as an obvious joke (e.g., Jerk/Typical), but it's clear that some people take it seriously, as if they really don't understand why Cornell moves around when they don't play.

Jerk ::rolleyes::

billhoward · December 15, 2009, 08:08:06 PM

Man, you unleashed a vipers' nest here. It's like the black & white-era war movies: Before the GIs (the farmboy, the kid from Jersey, the Southerner, the poet from California) land on hostile shores to fight the dirty Hun, they fight among themselves. We've got three weeks here with no enemy action. All we're missing is, "It's quiet here, Sarge." "Yep, too quiet."

Jeff Hopkins '82 · December 15, 2009, 11:51:14 PM

Quote from: billhowardMan, you unleashed a vipers' nest here. It's like the black & white-era war movies: Before the GIs (the farmboy, the kid from Jersey, the Southerner, the poet from California) land on hostile shores to fight the dirty Hun, they fight among themselves. We've got three weeks here with no enemy action. All we're missing is, "It's quiet here, Sarge." "Yep, too quiet."

So which one of us is going to get killed during the Florida tournament?

Swampy · December 16, 2009, 12:12:30 AM

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82
Quote from: billhowardMan, you unleashed a vipers' nest here. It's like the black & white-era war movies: Before the GIs (the farmboy, the kid from Jersey, the Southerner, the poet from California) land on hostile shores to fight the dirty Hun, they fight among themselves. We've got three weeks here with no enemy action. All we're missing is, "It's quiet here, Sarge." "Yep, too quiet."

So which one of us is going to get killed during the Florida tournament?

"Killin pigs ain't kosher, Sarge" said Silverberg as he refused to go over Pork Chop Hill.::nospam::