CU Women's Hockey-Preseason

[Ben]

6-2 Final. Lots of penalties in the second period and Mazz will probably be annoyed at her save percentage, but we totally controlled the game and Saulnier looks like ROTY material already.

[Trotsky]

Aside from the bad commentary, this video feed is great. Ten times better than RedCast.

Do we have any commentary on home games?  IIRC we did for the ECACs, but I don't remember anything for the RS.

It would be a great opportunity for students who would like to try their hand at PBP.  Throw in a non-dressing team member or an alumna for color.  I'm sure it would be very rough at first, but that's what college is for, right?

[RichH]

Aside from the bad commentary, this video feed is great. Ten times better than RedCast.

Do we have any commentary on home games?  IIRC we did for the ECACs, but I don't remember anything for the RS.

It would be a great opportunity for students who would like to try their hand at PBP.  Throw in a non-dressing team member or an alumna for color.  I'm sure it would be very rough at first, but that's what college is for, right?

For the women's games, that's a fine idea, so long as they don't select stammering/shrieking homers like Colgate, Dartmouth, and Harvard employ for their Men's hockey broadcasts.  Let the kids take a shot at providing the streaming video, too.

[Ben]

Aside from the bad commentary, this video feed is great. Ten times better than RedCast.

Do we have any commentary on home games?  IIRC we did for the ECACs, but I don't remember anything for the RS.

It would be a great opportunity for students who would like to try their hand at PBP.  Throw in a non-dressing team member or an alumna for color.  I'm sure it would be very rough at first, but that's what college is for, right?

For the women's games, that's a fine idea, so long as they don't select stammering/shrieking homers like Colgate, Dartmouth, and Harvard employ for their Men's hockey broadcasts.  Let the kids take a shot at providing the streaming video, too.

The main problem is that there aren't many students who know the team well enough to do it. I don't know what the interest level is like this year (I'm abroad), but last year there were only about five of us who knew the roster.

[Josh '99]

Aside from the bad commentary, this video feed is great. Ten times better than RedCast.

Do we have any commentary on home games?  IIRC we did for the ECACs, but I don't remember anything for the RS.

It would be a great opportunity for students who would like to try their hand at PBP.  Throw in a non-dressing team member or an alumna for color.  I'm sure it would be very rough at first, but that's what college is for, right?

For the women's games, that's a fine idea, so long as they don't select stammering/shrieking homers like Colgate, Dartmouth, and Harvard employ for their Men's hockey broadcasts.  Let the kids take a shot at providing the streaming video, too.

If you're hiring a student to do a broadcast, I think realistically you have to just hope for no shrieking or stammering and accept that you'll probably get a homer.

[Trotsky]

If you're hiring a student to do a broadcast, I think realistically you have to just hope for no shrieking or stammering and accept that you'll probably get a homer.

If somebody's serious about it, they will do their best to restrain their homerism and shrieking.  Stammering is a normal part of being inexperienced -- the more they do it the more confident and poised they'll become, like anything else.

(This also goes for PA announcing.  It was a hard to understand Arthur's replacement on the broadcast during the Carleton game, and it's going to basically be impossible to match his level of quality, but someone should write on the lintels of the announcer's door-post, Calm.)

[CowbellGuy]

You know you've made it as a college hockey announcer when you've been zinged as a "shrieking homer" by a poster on @Elynah.
http://twitter.com/JohnMcGrawPBP/statuses/129220507089375232

[Weder]

Looks like there will be audio of this weekend's games, and possibly more this season.
http://rlmsports.net/schedules-home.html

Appears to be free and separate from Redcast.

[Ben]

Looks like there will be audio of this weekend's games, and possibly more this season.
http://rlmsports.net/schedules-home.html

Appears to be free and separate from Redcast.

All three of this weekend's games (the two women's games and the men against Mercyhurst) are at Lynah, so there should be RedCast video for all of them.

[Weder]

Looks like there will be audio of this weekend's games, and possibly more this season.
http://rlmsports.net/schedules-home.html

Appears to be free and separate from Redcast.

All three of this weekend's games (the two women's games and the men against Mercyhurst) are at Lynah, so there should be RedCast video for all of them.

Yes, I should have clarified that. It'll be nice if the audio and video are in synch. Or if Redcast can simply pick up the audio.

[RichH]

You know you've made it as a college hockey announcer when you've been zinged as a "shrieking homer" by a poster on @Elynah.
http://twitter.com/JohnMcGrawPBP/statuses/129220507089375232

Oo. I've been showed up by the voice of 2CW wrestling.  (I kid, I kid.)

To be fair, I was specifically thinking of the kids they had on when Colgate beat Cornell in '03. I recall them barking like dogs and general screeching and wailing. One of them actually used the line "Do you believe in miracles!?"  If they've hired an adult since then, I'm happy. That's one thing they've addressed in that horrible building.

[RaiderPuckVoice]

For the longest time the Internet video broadcast was handled by students - there is no Communications or J-school program at Colgate so these were kids that were "working" for the campus TV station at the time. Several years ago, we plugged the radio feed into the video webcast however the audio quality was hit or miss, most often it was miss so we gave up on that after last year. Currently we have our radio back-up calling the men's games for All-Access and then you heard a student (our women's hockey announcer) on Tuesday night.

That said, I am glad that people enjoyed the video portion of our broadcast - I've been producing most of our events for the last two years. I'm not sure what type of equipment Cornell uses but we employ a NewTek TriCaster which is essentially a do-it-all broadcasting computer that has a built-in switcher and graphics program. Then we have student workers operating cameras and sometimes producing depending on my availability. I know one can broadcast to ICS without a TriCaster (because I don't remember seeing one at Lynah), probably just by using Adobe Flash Media Encoder (or possibly even Windows Media Encoder) on a laptop with several cameras and a board. The feed may not be as crisp but it works all the same. Your feed issues, in terms of it dropping out and being slow, could also be caused by low bandwidth on the campus Internet server; just because the game stream (or multiple streams on some nights) being pushed to ICS is so large.

On a side note, your women's hockey audio should be solid. Your new announcer, Kevin Mooney, called games at Oswego State and we worked together when I was calling games at Cortland.

[Rosey]

Haven't seen you post before, RaiderPuckVoice, but welcome: it's always nice to have college hockey enthusiasts (posters and lurkers) from other schools here.

[CowbellGuy]

I think all the problems are with the third party handling it for Cornell, either software or hardware locally or at their broadcast server (which is not on campus, to my knowledge). Cornell's redundant OC3s aren't the problem. It's too bad my bid wasn't accepted because I'm sure the quality would have been far superior. Maybe they wanted to go with a package deal for all sports. Maybe my mail went straight to the shredder (highly likely).

[mattj711]

Just saw this on facebook:

Cornell University Women's Hockey via Cornell Athletics
Our REDCast coverage will now include play-by-play thanks to the folks at RLM Sports. Here we go Red!
http://rlmsports.net/