Cornell hockey at MSG every year

[Trotsky]

Fingers crossed that if I agree to work Thanksgiving Day and the Friday after that I can get that weekend off. One of the downsides of starting work at a hospital is being low on the totem pole when it comes to days off around holidays. One of the upsides of working 15 minutes from where I grew up is I can work 7a-3p on Thanksgiving and still be home for dinner.

This is why you should never choose a career where if you Ferris Bueller and something bad happens you might feel guilty afterwards.

[Rosey]

Anyone know what happened to the section 104 tickets? Any mention of them disappeared a few minutes before the ticket sale opened. I have not received a response from the ticket office yet.

[David Harding]

Anyone know what happened to the section 104 tickets? Any mention of them disappeared a few minutes before the ticket sale opened. I have not received a response from the ticket office yet.

I notice that very few of the designated Cornell sections are listed for sale, and section 118 is already shown as sold out.  Nothing but end zone are now offered.

[Rosey]

Anyone know what happened to the section 104 tickets? Any mention of them disappeared a few minutes before the ticket sale opened. I have not received a response from the ticket office yet.

I notice that very few of the designated Cornell sections are listed for sale, and section 118 is already shown as sold out.  Nothing but end zone are now offered.

I specifically want the corner section, so I'm just going to wait. I'm not spending $240 on tickets just in case better ones don't appear later.

There may in fact be some good reason for holding back these tickets, but... that doesn't make me hate these people any less. Why does everything to do with the AD have to involve pulling teeth?

[David Harding]

Anyone know what happened to the section 104 tickets? Any mention of them disappeared a few minutes before the ticket sale opened. I have not received a response from the ticket office yet.

I notice that very few of the designated Cornell sections are listed for sale, and section 118 is already shown as sold out.  Nothing but end zone are now offered.

I specifically want the corner section, so I'm just going to wait. I'm not spending $240 on tickets just in case better ones don't appear later.

There may in fact be some good reason for holding back these tickets, but... that doesn't make me hate these people any less. Why does everything to do with the AD have to involve pulling teeth?

We've decided to wait, too.

[BMac]

section 207/208 + 8. Done.

Section 208 was awesome this year- a nice big corner section with its own bathroom on top. Very enjoyable.

[Rosey]

Anyone know what happened to the section 104 tickets? Any mention of them disappeared a few minutes before the ticket sale opened. I have not received a response from the ticket office yet.

I notice that very few of the designated Cornell sections are listed for sale, and section 118 is already shown as sold out.  Nothing but end zone are now offered.

I specifically want the corner section, so I'm just going to wait. I'm not spending $240 on tickets just in case better ones don't appear later.

There may in fact be some good reason for holding back these tickets, but... that doesn't make me hate these people any less. Why does everything to do with the AD have to involve pulling teeth?

We've decided to wait, too.

They appear to be back now. It's like a circus.

(I did get a response from Gene saying that the Garden pulled them at the last minute due to construction concerns, but evidently these concerns must not have been that important.)

[marty]

Anyone know what happened to the section 104 tickets? Any mention of them disappeared a few minutes before the ticket sale opened. I have not received a response from the ticket office yet.

I notice that very few of the designated Cornell sections are listed for sale, and section 118 is already shown as sold out.  Nothing but end zone are now offered.

I specifically want the corner section, so I'm just going to wait. I'm not spending $240 on tickets just in case better ones don't appear later.

There may in fact be some good reason for holding back these tickets, but... that doesn't make me hate these people any less. Why does everything to do with the AD have to involve pulling teeth?

Not even everything with the ADA always involves pulling teeth.

Gerbil Vision

[Josh '99]

Something occurred to me - do the retirement of Jack Parker and his replacement by David Quinn (a BU alumnus, yes, but one who played his entire collegiate career after the Divorce) jeopardize the future of the Cornell-BU series, either at MSG or otherwise?  The income from the MSG ticket sales is great, sure, but if you consider the possibility that Quinn might not have Parker's appreciation about a rivalry that sort of pre-dates his playing career, and that he's surely going to be expected turn the Terriers back into a winning program (or, at least, a program that's competitive with BC) and will want to schedule the strongest possible opposition in order to do that (insert long discussion about the strength and future direction of the Cornell program here), is it possible that these enjoyable matchups will fall by the wayside?  Or am I just being a worrywart?

[Jim Hyla]

Something occurred to me - do the retirement of Jack Parker and his replacement by David Quinn (a BU alumnus, yes, but one who played his entire collegiate career after the Divorce) jeopardize the future of the Cornell-BU series, either at MSG or otherwise?  The income from the MSG ticket sales is great, sure, but if you consider the possibility that Quinn might not have Parker's appreciation about a rivalry that sort of pre-dates his playing career, and that he's surely going to be expected turn the Terriers back into a winning program (or, at least, a program that's competitive with BC) and will want to schedule the strongest possible opposition in order to do that (insert long discussion about the strength and future direction of the Cornell program here), is it possible that these enjoyable matchups will fall by the wayside?  Or am I just being a worrywart?

Certainly the latter for now. If the crowds stay up, I'd suspect the games would continue.

[billhoward]

In its own way, BU students and alumni enjoy filling their third of the arena. I think the BU administration and alumni affairs likes the opportunity for a NYC gathering.

[TimV]

Money aside, where else will they play in front of 19,000 people?  A great experience and a recruiting tool to use against UMass Lowell.::nut::

[cbuckser]

Money aside, where else will they play in front of 19,000 people?  A great experience and a recruiting tool to use against UMass Lowell.

Does the allure of playing biennially in Madison Square Garden have any value to a player who isn't sold by the prospect of playing in the Beanpot Tournament in front of 17,500 people every February?

[billhoward]

Money aside, where else will they play in front of 19,000 people?  A great experience and a recruiting tool to use against UMass Lowell.

Does the allure of playing biennially in Madison Square Garden have any value to a player who isn't sold by the prospect of playing in the Beanpot Tournament in front of 17,500 people every February?

MSG is even more of a national stage. Plus the Beanpot is a given for the four schools. Mike Schafer has to like that players get exposure to several larger-than-college arenas in Estero and New York to condition them for the playoffs.

[Chris '03]

Copy cats:
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2013/05/07/sports/doc51893f011f675175664767.txt

Yale and Harvard will take their ancient rivalry to the bright lights of The Big Apple next season.

The schools have signed a deal to play each other at New York's Madison Square Garden on Jan. 11, the Register has learned.

Edit: with this game, Yale will play all of 4 OOC games next year: UVM, SHU, Merrimack, Holy Cross. Yikes.