ncaa selection show party 5pm 3/13 at newman arena

[Rita]

Says our most telegenic ELFer ;-).

There's a difference.  I'm not the one seeking out a camera.  I only know I'm on by the avalanche of txts I get afterwards. You'll never catch me mugging or waving or woo-ing for a camera.  Or a t-shirt toss, for that matter.

Sorry. I didn't mean to imply that you do or would be "mugging for the camera", just that the camera always seems to find you in the stands or walking by during a post-game interviews with coaches.

[billhoward]

It's a thin line between sports fan involvement and wasting-your-life craziness. You drive five hours to see a game and back. Normal? You wait (used to have to wait) overnight or tickets. Normal? I got up a 4 a.m. a couple weeks ago outside San Diego to be in Boston for the Harvard game because someone gave me a $15 ticket some Cantab had no use for (it not being for Yale football). Normal? Hey, I thought so. So you wait an hour with friends to get in and learn our seeding, that's not abnormal in the scheme of deviant sports fan behavior.

[RichH]

I figure if someone isn't enthusiastic about the Cornell basketball team, they're not going to trek up to Newman on a weekend to cheer on the team.

If there are no cameras, I agree.  With cameras, you will get more of a "camera whore" contingent.  And upon further thought, I'm kinda impressed that Athletics is doing this now in giving students a chance to congregate in one place to watch and do the nets thing. I showed up for the banner-raising thing at Lynah in 2003, and it was really nice.  I'm glad they're doing the same for a special moment in the basketball team's history.  I apologize for my earlier cynicism & douchebaggery about this.

the team "prompting" the crowd to cheer for sticks-in-the-air,

Do you really think that gesture is the team saying "everybody get up and cheer for us?" It's a mutual salute.  The team thanks the fans for their support and the crowd normally responds with a cheer for the team's effort.  I think the team would still salute if there were no cheers, and I think the cheers would still happen if there were no stick salute.  Before that started, there were still large, spontaneous cheers from the fans as the team skated to the locker room. There still are at road games as well when they can't do a formal salute.

The "townies up!" chant is more along the lines as being contrived, and I dislike that.  The townies rarely need prompting to know when something excites them.

the stage manager at a television show (e.g. Daily Show) "prompting" the audience to cheer coming back from commercial.  It's not as if a disinterested, bored crowd is being tricked to display fake enthusiasm.

This is similar, and to tell you the truth, I dislike that a great deal as well.  I know why they do it: because the audience has been waiting for 3 boring hours just to get in. They try to keep the energy up by using a warm-up comic as well.  Look, I'll laugh and clap if the material merits it (and it usually does for TDS), but when the producer tells me before the show to make sure I exaggerate my laughter during the taping, well, I just roll my eyes.  I prefer that my own laughter and applause be genuine, and even though this is why they even let in an audience in the first place, I'd rather not be used as a prop for some television marketing hype.  (This is where you use your zinger, Rita!)  :-)

[Jacob 03]

the stage manager at a television show (e.g. Daily Show) "prompting" the audience to cheer coming back from commercial.  It's not as if a disinterested, bored crowd is being tricked to display fake enthusiasm.

This is similar, and to tell you the truth, I dislike that a great deal as well.  I know why they do it: because the audience has been waiting for 3 boring hours just to get in. They try to keep the energy up by using a warm-up comic as well.  Look, I'll laugh and clap if the material merits it (and it usually does for TDS), but when the producer tells me before the show to make sure I exaggerate my laughter during the taping, well, I just roll my eyes.  I prefer that my own laughter and applause be genuine, and even though this is why they even let in an audience in the first place, I'd rather not be used as a prop for some television marketing hype.  (This is where you use your zinger, Rita!)  :-)

I've been to Daily Show tapings with RichH.  His back-from-commercial cheering rates in the bottom quintile.

He did high-five Colbert once, though.

[RichH]

the stage manager at a television show (e.g. Daily Show) "prompting" the audience to cheer coming back from commercial.  It's not as if a disinterested, bored crowd is being tricked to display fake enthusiasm.

This is similar, and to tell you the truth, I dislike that a great deal as well.  I know why they do it: because the audience has been waiting for 3 boring hours just to get in. They try to keep the energy up by using a warm-up comic as well.  Look, I'll laugh and clap if the material merits it (and it usually does for TDS), but when the producer tells me before the show to make sure I exaggerate my laughter during the taping, well, I just roll my eyes.  I prefer that my own laughter and applause be genuine, and even though this is why they even let in an audience in the first place, I'd rather not be used as a prop for some television marketing hype.  (This is where you use your zinger, Rita!)  :-)

I've been to Daily Show tapings with RichH.  His back-from-commercial cheering rates in the bottom quintile.

He did high-five Colbert once, though.

It was more of a quick, but firm post-show handshake.

It should be noted for on-topicness that the first time I was in the Daily Show audience coincided exactly with the Stanford-Cornell NCAA game. I had on a CU sweatshirt, and thought about asking Jon Stewart if he was sticking with his Cornell selection in his pool from a few years prior, but didn't have the nerve or the opportunity.  After the taping, we were allowed to turn on our phones, and I had messages from JTW about where to go in Anaheim to drink.  I had no idea if that was good or bad news.

[Josh '99]

the stage manager at a television show (e.g. Daily Show) "prompting" the audience to cheer coming back from commercial.  It's not as if a disinterested, bored crowd is being tricked to display fake enthusiasm.

This is similar, and to tell you the truth, I dislike that a great deal as well.  I know why they do it: because the audience has been waiting for 3 boring hours just to get in. They try to keep the energy up by using a warm-up comic as well.  Look, I'll laugh and clap if the material merits it (and it usually does for TDS), but when the producer tells me before the show to make sure I exaggerate my laughter during the taping, well, I just roll my eyes.  I prefer that my own laughter and applause be genuine, and even though this is why they even let in an audience in the first place, I'd rather not be used as a prop for some television marketing hype.  (This is where you use your zinger, Rita!)  :-)

I've been to Daily Show tapings with RichH.  His back-from-commercial cheering rates in the bottom quintile.

He did high-five Colbert once, though.

It was more of a quick, but firm post-show handshake.

It should be noted for on-topicness that the first time I was in the Daily Show audience coincided exactly with the Stanford-Cornell NCAA game. I had on a CU sweatshirt, and thought about asking Jon Stewart if he was sticking with his Cornell selection in his pool from a few years prior, but didn't have the nerve or the opportunity.  After the taping, we were allowed to turn on our phones, and I had messages from JTW about where to go in Anaheim to drink.  I had no idea if that was good or bad news.

It isn't either.  Win or lose...

[jtwcornell91]

After the taping, we were allowed to turn on our phones, and I had messages from JTW about where to go in Anaheim to drink.  I had no idea if that was good or bad news.

It isn't either.  Win or lose...

I was gonna say, that was just an indication that the game was over...

[phillysportsfan]

Especially after that year, I think all of us and the team has even admitted they were just happy to be there. Foote did not have the physical strength he has now to even compete with the Lopez twins. He says that game really motivated him to really start building on his physical strength.

[Jim Hyla]

It's a thin line between sports fan involvement and wasting-your-life craziness. You drive five hours to see a game and back. Normal? You wait (used to have to wait) overnight or tickets. Normal? I got up a 4 a.m. a couple weeks ago outside San Diego to be in Boston for the Harvard game because someone gave me a $15 ticket some Cantab had no use for (it not being for Yale football). Normal? Hey, I thought so. So you wait an hour with friends to get in and learn our seeding, that's not abnormal in the scheme of deviant sports fan behavior.

How'd you know? That's exactly how long it takes to get to Boston.:-}

[ebilmes]

Guess not too many people grabbed tickets yesterday. You can now get them online.

http://cornellbigredtickets.universitytickets.com/user_pages/event_listings.asp

[phillysportsfan]

Guess not too many people grabbed tickets yesterday. You can now get them online.

http://cornellbigredtickets.universitytickets.com/user_pages/event_listings.asp

Yeah I was thinking the same thing, it would have been nice to get a good crowd there but since it is probably not on tv having only the true fans there isnt a bad thing

[phillysportsfan]

Someone posted on the basketball forum that CBS was "considering having Cornell as one of it's live sites for Selection Sunday, depending on how many tickets they give out, or how full they predict the arena to be."

[Al DeFlorio]

Brian Delaney reports that CBS is coming to Newman: http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=PluckPersona&U=3c20d864c8e24693b008d3b9cb33035e&plckPersonaPage=BlogViewPost&plckUserId=3c20d864c8e24693b008d3b9cb33035e&plckPostId=Blog:3c20d864c8e24693b008d3b9cb33035ePost:3314c014-d9af-4a6d-aa93-fede5e0deed6&plckController=PersonaBlog&plckScript=personaScript&plckElementId=personaDest

[RichH]

The party will be viewable online on Redcast beginning at 5:45, according to the Athletics website:

http://www.cornellbigred.com/news/2010/3/14/MBB_0314103427.aspx

[Trotsky]

Redcast actually picked up about 5:20.  Barry Leonard did a nice little player intro.