Frozen Four Results

[Rosey]

Wow.  This is embarrassing.  I won't be back to this thread.  Ever.  If this type of posting spreads, I won't be back to eLynah, a forum I have always admired for the wit and wisdom of the posters, even when I disagreed with them.

Thank you. Although I won't go as far as you, the drift of this thread has been atrocious. I don't know which is worse, those that proclaim without any data (...that far majority..., ...most of us...) or those that respond by classic putdowns. Neither of these add anything to good discussion, but if it was a flame war you wanted, you got it. Going back to another poster's parental response, "You guys should be ashamed of yourselves".

I'll take that under advisement, gramps. :-)

[rep2]

Quinnipiac is in deadspin again: http://deadspin.com/how-quinnipiac-tore-up-and-rewrote-new-havens-hockey-h-472545033

Want to learn how to spell Quinnipiac correctly? Do what I did and write it on $50,000 checks for four years in a row, my daughter is a graduate. Their facility is simply amazing.

Look at it this way, you're some 19 year old kid and you go see the old referb'ed barn that Cornell plays in and someone is telling you how full of history it is. Then you go to Quinnipiac and see a state of the art place with luxury dorms across the parking lot. QU has a hell of a coach with a 17 year win streak as well. QU has good academic programs and they can give you a scholarship as well. Where would you choose?

QU is an emerging school and yes there is no long tradition. I've been to a dozen games over the past five years and they are starting to get it with a pep band and Boomer the Mascot. If they win this they will have their tradition. They still need some decent cheers and a fight song.

How many of you were even alive in when Cornell last won a national championship? When I was there (Class of '83) at least I remembered watching Dryden play for the Canadians. QU's rise over the past 7 years is pretty damn impressive.

[RichH]

QU is an emerging school and yes there is no long tradition. I've been to a dozen games over the past five years and they are starting to get it with a pep band and Boomer the Mascot. If they win this they will have their tradition. They still need some decent cheers and a fight song.

Without mentioning (by mentioning) all the free yellow t-shirts they've been throwing around town (Sharp Edge Bistro is their "home" bar and the whole staff were wearing "Gold Rush" shirts pre-game) and the thunderstix and the cheerleaders, there was a surprise from the QU contingent yesterday, and that was that the QU band actually played a song after they scored.  No idea where that came from, but it's welcome.  For those of you who have never been there, their "goal song" in Hamden is one of the standard jock jamz blasted over the loudspeaker.

For all the love that the QU arena gets, I'm not on board.  They've clearly decided that they want to give the community more of a pro-game, ECHL experience than a collegiate experience.  Watching a game there, surrounded by all of the concrete suitable for a fallout bunker.  Terrible atmosphere. Terrible transit in/out.  Blah.

[Robb]

Here's how I see it: Since 2000, the WCHA has won 7 NCAA titles, and just one of those teams also won the MacNaughton Cup (first place in the league) - and that one was shared between CC/Denver in '05.  The strength of their league lifted all their boats so far that even their 3rd and 4th place teams were capable of getting to the tournament and going on a 4-game run.  Yale's and Q's runs this year may very well make it harder for Cornell to finish in first place and to win the ECAC tournament (glass half empty) but it should improve Cornell's chances of making the NCAA tournament AND being able to compete once there (glass half full).  It all depends whether you value the conference or NCAA accolades more highly.

[KeithK]

It all depends whether you value the conference or NCAA accolades more highly.

Even if you value the conference accolades more highly (or most likely value the higher frequency) I think it's more fun when your rivals are good and you have to work hard for the titles.

[Trotsky]

Look at it this way, you're some 19 year old kid and you go see the old referb'ed barn that Cornell plays in and someone is telling you how full of history it is. Then you go to Quinnipiac and see a state of the art place with luxury dorms across the parking lot. QU has a hell of a coach with a 17 year win streak as well. QU has good academic programs and they can give you a scholarship as well. Where would you choose?

Pepperdine.



Q is having a nice run.  Enjoy it.  If they can parlay it into multiple classes of great recruits and titles, good for them.  Nearly every team in the ECAC (sorry, Brown) has at one time or another been "undeniably the next great hockey dynasty!!!11!"  And of course, as we have seen it's been true every time.

[gatefan]

Hey, just put yourselves in Clarkson's shoes. Quinnipiac or Yale will have won a national championship before them. They'll still have the "best program to never win a national title" moniker attached to their name.

[Weder]

"Quinnipiac spokesman John Morgan said a shuttle service that typically brings students to New Haven will be canceled Saturday night to keep students safe."

[Insert New Haven joke here.]

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-yale-quinnipiac-hockey-reaction-20130412,0,5516537.story

[billhoward]

Every time I drive past Pepperdine I think "How can you get through in four years with the beach across the street [faith in the Lord to draw you away from temptation?]?" and "That is the best housing most students will live in until they're 30 or trust-fund babies."

[jtwcornell91]

Look at it this way, you're some 19 year old kid and you go see the old referb'ed barn that Cornell plays in and someone is telling you how full of history it is. Then you go to Quinnipiac and see a state of the art place with luxury dorms across the parking lot. QU has a hell of a coach with a 17 year win streak as well. QU has good academic programs and they can give you a scholarship as well. Where would you choose?

Pepperdine.



Q is having a nice run.  Enjoy it.  If they can parlay it into multiple classes of great recruits and titles, good for them.  Nearly every team in the ECAC (sorry, Brown) has at one time or another been "undeniably the next great hockey dynasty!!!11!"  And of course, as we have seen it's been true every time.

Meh.

[RichH]

Look at it this way, you're some 19 year old kid and you go see the old referb'ed barn that Cornell plays in and someone is telling you how full of history it is. Then you go to Quinnipiac and see a state of the art place with luxury dorms across the parking lot. QU has a hell of a coach with a 17 year win streak as well. QU has good academic programs and they can give you a scholarship as well. Where would you choose?

Pepperdine.



Q is having a nice run.  Enjoy it.  If they can parlay it into multiple classes of great recruits and titles, good for them.  Nearly every team in the ECAC (sorry, Brown) has at one time or another been "undeniably the next great hockey dynasty!!!11!"  And of course, as we have seen it's been true every time.

Meh.

Goleta!

[Larry72]

I like our view better! Talk about thread drift!!! :-)

[ugarte]

I like our view better! Talk about thread drift!!! :-)

Let's remember that it is 14 degrees in that picture.

[Jim Hyla]

I like our view better! Talk about thread drift!!! :-)

Let's remember that it is 14 degrees in that picture.

celsius

[Trotsky]

I like our view better! Talk about thread drift!!! :-)

Let's remember that it is 14 degrees in that picture.

celsius

In September.