Letter from MetaEzra

[Rosey]

(At the few Lynah games I've been able to make the last few years, the crowd has actually seemed better than at any time since at least the mid-80's)

I completely disagree.  When I was a student (first in D, then in A, then in B), we made a lot more noise a lot more often than these kids ("Get off my lawn!!" ) do today.

[Towerroad]

Why back in my day we had to walk 5 miles up hill to and from a game and we counted ourselves lucky if the team didn't drown in Beebe Lake. (Well to tell the truth we kind of hoped for it when we played Sucks)

If students have more choices that is a good thing. During my stay on the hill the Basketball team was a joke. With the cost of a CU education crossing the $200k line I suspect that a lot of them are spending more time in Uris and Mann trying to get good grades so they can get a job and pay off the student loans. I for one have been impressed with the students I have met recently.

[CowbellGuy]

Arriving late/student participation is one thing, but the center of section D has never filled in except for perhaps Harvard this year. There's a big, gaping hole during every game. Student season tickets didn't sell out, but I wouldn't have expected the unsold tickets to be in D, so I'm guessing it's more of an issue of people just not showing up.

[statenaurora]

Student season tickets didn't sell out

If student tickets did not sell out, do they sell them as part of the release on Thursday morning?

[phillysportsfan]

Arriving late/student participation is one thing, but the center of section D has never filled in except for perhaps Harvard this year. There's a big, gaping hole during every game. Student season tickets didn't sell out, but I wouldn't have expected the unsold tickets to be in D, so I'm guessing it's more of an issue of people just not showing up.

I dont understand how you can get season tickets and not go to the games as expensive as they are.

[Josh '99]

One thing I am curious about with attendance is if freshman season ticket holder numbers are down this year because the basketball team is less likely to sway upperclassmen who have had tickets before. But for freshman, basketball makes a great case considering it is free, general admission, they are good, and the ushers dont bother us at all except for Matt Coats occasionally throwing someone out for cursing

That could also result from incoming freshmen's attitudes towards sports being more influenced by the national milieu where basketball is king rather the Cornell one, where it's hockey.

That's no different now than it was ten years ago, though, is it?

[ugarte]

One thing I am curious about with attendance is if freshman season ticket holder numbers are down this year because the basketball team is less likely to sway upperclassmen who have had tickets before. But for freshman, basketball makes a great case considering it is free, general admission, they are good, and the ushers dont bother us at all except for Matt Coats occasionally throwing someone out for cursing

That could also result from incoming freshmen's attitudes towards sports being more influenced by the national milieu where basketball is king rather the Cornell one, where it's hockey.

That's no different now than it was ten years ago, though, is it?

Ten years ago basketball sucked. Even if you come to Cornell caring about basktball rather than hockey, a dead arena and a lot of losing sucks the fun out of it.

[ajh258]

it's the high ticket prices that ensure people in the student sections are the most dedicated fans ... I know some freshmen who have season tickets but simply stopped coming.

This seems like a contradiction?

Fans come late / aren't involved / don't know the cheers / are sorority facetimers is an annual thread.  Does anybody think it's become qualitatively worse, or is this the same lament?  (At the few Lynah games I've been able to make the last few years, the crowd has actually seemed better than at any time since at least the mid-80's)

I didn't notice that when I typed it, but ya, I guess I'm wrong about the high ticket prices. Maybe Mitch was right in last year's article where he argued that Athletics should lower ticket prices and make tickets general admission so it's first come first serve. Ticket prices should react to fans' supple & demand and demand is definitely lower at this point. Someone start calling Andy Noel, I know I will tomorrow.

[Rosey]

Ten years ago basketball sucked. Even if you come to Cornell caring about basktball rather than hockey, a dead arena and a lot of losing sucks the fun out of it.

I think Homecoming should be made the weekend of the first home men's hockey series.

[mnagowski]

Ten years ago basketball sucked. Even if you come to Cornell caring about basktball rather than hockey, a dead arena and a lot of losing sucks the fun out of it.

I think Homecoming should be made the weekend of the first home men's hockey series.

Or just invent a new weekend, "winter homecoming".

[Chris '03]

Ten years ago basketball sucked. Even if you come to Cornell caring about basktball rather than hockey, a dead arena and a lot of losing sucks the fun out of it.

I think Homecoming should be made the weekend of the first home men's hockey series.

Or just invent a new weekend, "winter homecoming".

Can the team skate out of a giant inflatable bear head too?

[sockralex]

Can the team skate out of a giant inflatable bear head too?

HAHA.  Kill me now. If we resort to that or thunderstix then I will cry myself to sleep after every game.

[ajh258]

Can the team skate out of a giant inflatable bear head too?

HAHA.  Kill me now. If we resort to that or thunderstix then I will cry myself to sleep after every game.

Oh god... thunderstix... winter homecoming... questionable use of mascot... sounds like Quinnipiac to me. All we need is to spend $30 mil on a new stadium with crazy lights and annoying PAs - then we'll really fit in!

[KeithK]

Can the team skate out of a giant inflatable bear head too?

HAHA.  Kill me now. If we resort to that or thunderstix then I will cry myself to sleep after every game.

Oh god... thunderstix... winter homecoming... questionable use of mascot... sounds like Quinnipiac to me. All we need is to spend $30 mil on a new stadium with crazy lights and annoying PAs - then we'll really fit in!

Don't forget the video of a giant brown bear rampaging through Cambridge.

(I know, different school. But still.)

[Josh '99]

One thing I am curious about with attendance is if freshman season ticket holder numbers are down this year because the basketball team is less likely to sway upperclassmen who have had tickets before. But for freshman, basketball makes a great case considering it is free, general admission, they are good, and the ushers dont bother us at all except for Matt Coats occasionally throwing someone out for cursing

That could also result from incoming freshmen's attitudes towards sports being more influenced by the national milieu where basketball is king rather the Cornell one, where it's hockey.

That's no different now than it was ten years ago, though, is it?

Ten years ago basketball sucked. Even if you come to Cornell caring about basktball rather than hockey, a dead arena and a lot of losing sucks the fun out of it.

Granted, but that wasn't JTW's point.  :-}