Devil at the crossroads

[Towerroad]

From my perspective Cornell Men's Hockey, with its great traditions and the best fans in college hockey will over the long haul be ranked at the end of the season #10 with a standard error of +/-3. This means that we will make the NCAA tournament most years and on a rare occasion the Frozen 4 but, like Moses, the Promised Land will elude us.

For the sake of this discussion take the above as given, I know it is a completely debatable topic.

It is midnight at the crossroads, you are desperate for another NCAA banner,  there is a hint of sulfur in the air and a well dressed gentleman approaches and says "I can guarantee that your program will have a long term rank of 5 +/-3 (yes I know there are problems with this stat). You will be among the elite college hockey programs, a regular at the Frozen 4 and a national champion 1 to 3 times per decade. What aside from your worthless soul can you offer me?"

Would you:

Offer to name the coach of his choice?
Offer to leave the ECAC for Hockey East?
Leave the Ivy League and offer big athletic scholarships?
Sacrifice the Pep Band?
Build a 6000 seat hockey pleasure palace?
Decline because you are happy with what we are?

[Trotsky]

We already made this deal to get to 10 +/-3.  How do you think we wound up with Andy?

[Towerroad]

Touche

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I saw the title and thought "Charlie Daniels meets Eric Clapton!"

[Towerroad]

I was thinking of the delta blues man Robert Johnson.

[Trotsky]

I was thinking of the delta blues man Robert Johnson.

The man himself.

To paraphrase Tom Lehrer, it is indeed humbling to realize that by the time Robert Johnson was my age... he had been dead for 20 years.