Frozen Four Results

[RichH]

I expect all the ECAC supporters on this board will be heading here to pick up the appropriate swag.

There's a difference between being happy for your conference/league/division and being an all-out fan. I wished several Yale fans I met luck before the game, and congratulated others after the game.  While a group of us were leaving the arena, we passed by some obviously exuberant Yale students, and they shouted "yeah, Ivy League!"  That's what it's about. There are bonds and camaraderie that is important to some of us. We all dream of us winning some year, and I guarantee you that the same support from peers would make the experience that much sweeter.  When you're here, you can either choose to be miserable or choose to enjoy the experience, and I know for a fact for me, it is much more fun to do the latter.  That's what makes the college hockey community so addictive: when it comes down to it, we all love the same game, so find comfort in this awesome experience, and hope someday we get fortunate enough to experience the euphoria too.

Can't wait for October.

[Ben]

I expect all the ECAC supporters on this board will be heading here to pick up the appropriate swag.

There's a difference between being happy for your conference/league/division and being an all-out fan. I wished several Yale fans I met luck before the game, and congratulated others after the game.  While a group of us were leaving the arena, we passed by some obviously exuberant Yale students, and they shouted "yeah, Ivy League!"  That's what it's about. There are bonds and camaraderie that is important to some of us. We all dream of us winning some year, and I guarantee you that the same support from peers would make the experience that much sweeter.  When you're here, you can either choose to be miserable or choose to enjoy the experience, and I know for a fact for me, it is much more fun to do the latter.  That's what makes the college hockey community so addictive: when it comes down to it, we all love the same game, so find comfort in this awesome experience, and hope someday we get fortunate enough to experience the euphoria too.

Can't wait for October.

I like that making a joke turns me into a miserable git. I neither want nor expect support from the fans of any other team. If no one likes us, I won't care (like Millwall, without the hooliganism). I'll just enjoy the hockey.

[DL]

Better an East team than not.
Better an ECAC team than not.
Better an Ivy team than not (ok, with the exception of Harvard).

That was a great game. Any team that can play that cleanly, with such a "short memory", and run the gauntlet that Yale did deserves what they got.

[billhoward]

Better an East team than not.
Better an ECAC team than not.
Better an Ivy team than not (ok, with the exception of Harvard).

That was a great game. Any team that can play that cleanly, with such a "short memory", and run the gauntlet that Yale did deserves what they got.

Throw "New York State" into the equation. Better Union wins than a non-NYS non-Ivy team which would mean better Union than Q. You'd sort of have to root for Syracuse against Hopkins in an NCAA lax final, or Syracuse not Michigan in a hoops final excepting that Louisville-Michigan was darned entertaining.

[billhoward]

It's past midnight.  The moment's over.  Fuck Yale, let's go Red.

The feeling you get when you've had enough of the Kelly Clarkson-Dick Clark-Guy Lombardo New Year's Eve Special and it's time to move into the New Year, like around 12:10. How much Andre Champagne can one party drink?

[RichH]

I like that making a joke turns me into a miserable git.

Ha, I'm sorry. I recognize it now, but getting in at 3 am after a night of...let's say "tournament reflection," I wanted to get my thoughts on this whole thread debate down, and yours was the easiest thing to grasp in my state without lobbing any real grenades.

[Killer]

Alas, in the end, the Deer Ticks succumbed to Eli(me) disease.

[RichH]

It's past midnight.  The moment's over.  Fuck Yale, let's go Red.

I believe I said something like "my support of Yale ends the second I step out of this building."

[TimV]

...tired of seeing the best forum in college hockey be denigrated by a small group of whiners. So, in a word, we've had enough,  If you want to flame, taunt, and hurl personal insults -- that's what the USCHO "Fan" Forum is for -- go there!  If you stay here and can be civil and be productive even if you disagree, then fine!  

::rock::::rock::::rock::

[jtwcornell91]

Interesting that you picked the west-coast campus that rivals Cornell in its macabre obsession with its natural terrain (Cornell's gorges vs. UCSB's bluffs). Do the people who post pics of UCSB actually go to the beach in IV?

Well, the real beach is on the other side of campus, and when I was there was very popular with grad students for having a free parking lot closer to the Physics building than our designated parking, as long as a cop didn't see you park and walk to campus rather than the beach.  (A friend of mine once got a ticket for being parked at the beach with Physics books in the back seat of his car.)  The cliffs on Del Playa were similar to the gorges in that people notoriously fell off them, although in UCSB's case it was typically drunken partiers from the Halloween grope-fest doing an accidental header rather than post-exam suicides.

[jtwcornell91]

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

Unfortunately, you can't see the gorgeous view of our campus from our campus. Score a big one for IC's tower dorms though.

The view of the lake from the 6th floor conference room in Space Sciences is pretty nice, tough. B-]

[Jim Hyla]

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

Unfortunately, you can't see the gorgeous view of our campus from our campus. Score a big one for IC's tower dorms though.

I'd rather have it that way than the other way around.

[billhoward]

Quinnipiac T-shirts said Beat Yale. Yale T-shirts said Yale. Far fewer Yale alums wore jerseys or sweatshirts than Cornell alums. There is the argument you shouldn't wear a team jersey past age 29 or chest size 48.

[jtwcornell91]

Better an East team than not.
Better an ECAC team than not.
Better an Ivy team than not (ok, with the exception of Harvard).

That was a great game. Any team that can play that cleanly, with such a "short memory", and run the gauntlet that Yale did deserves what they got.

Throw "New York State" into the equation. Better Union wins than a non-NYS non-Ivy team which would mean better Union than Q. You'd sort of have to root for Syracuse against Hopkins in an NCAA lax final, or Syracuse not Michigan in a hoops final excepting that Louisville-Michigan was darned entertaining.

I'd be inclined towards any of the other NYS teams in the ECAC except Union, but then I think this actually manifests itself in supporting the other teams that have been in the ECAC since before the Great Divorce, which is now down to Colgate, RPI, CCT, SLU, and the other five ivies.

BTW, if Hockey Least wants to poach Quinnipiac, I'm sure RIT would love to take their spot, although it would probably leave Princeton and Colgate as travel partners...

[Jim Hyla]

So (I use that word a lot), one of the things that seems to distinguish some of the disagreements, on a couple of these threads, (I also use a lot of commas) is offense versus defense. That also seems to hold with awards. Why is it that the offense always seems to get the awards. To me giving Miller the MVP yesterday epitomizes that. I would have picked Malcolm in a landslide. He was spectacular in stopping a couple of goals. Yales defense falls apart without him, and they lose the game. Yeah they scored 4 goals, but the first 2 were totally becaue of Q's defense and goalie going asleep, not because of Yale's great offense. Don't get me wrong, Yale has a great offense, but without Malcolm playing as well as he does, they lose. He's the MVP.