Frozen Four Results

[Rosey]

2-0 Q, 14:53 left first period.

[quickrabbit5]

Has anybody found free streaming audio (or video) for the Q game?  The Q radio station is currently playing what we'll charitably call "an eclectic mix."

http://www.dialglobalsports.com/player/frozenfour.html

[Trotsky]

3-0.

How can I tell if I'm hallucinating this?

[Rosey]

3-0 Q. Keep em coming!

[Trotsky]

The fascinating / weird / terrifying thing is that the ECAC teams aren't just winning these games, they are COMPLETELY dominant so far.

WTF?

[Trotsky]

We were 64 seconds from knocking these guys off in a best-of-three at their barn.

Maybe we actually didn't suck this year?

[Rosey]

We were 64 seconds from knocking these guys off in a best-of-three at their barn.

aybe we actually didn't suck this year?

Now you're hallucinating. Wake up.

[BearLover]

It's been so long since we have been the best (in 2010 we only won the ECAC because Yale got upset earlier) that we have much bigger things to worry about than how well our rivals are doing.

Exactly.

I was 50% sure you were going to post exactly this.  My sentence was badly phrased, but I obviously meant that we have far more pressing concerns than that the ECAC is not strong enough.  In 2003, maybe that was the case.  In 2013, our concern is that we aren't strong enough.  But the difference in these past 10 years illuminates exactly how flawed your logic is.  That the ECAC has gotten stronger recently has only weakened our chances.  We haven't since gotten as far as we did in 2003 when the ECAC sucked.  Now the ECAC is better and we can't even get in the tournament.  There is no evidence to suggest otherwise that as the ECAC continues to grow stronger, we grow weaker.  That rising tide surely lifted some boats; ours is sinking.  

I don't speak for every Cornell fan apparently, but I definitely speak for that far majority of them when I say that Yale or Q winning it all is the closest thing possible to being punched in the balls short of Harvard winning.  I simply cannot fathom how you people can actively root for these teams.  If it's all based on the premise that it will indirectly help Cornell, I would argue that a)these teams absolutely do not need to win a championship for the ECAC to get recognition, and more importantly, b)it won't help Cornell anyway.  When better recruits start going to Yale and Q and stop coming to Cornell because they aren't as good, that doesn't help Cornell.  When Cornell does not make the NCAA's as often, that does not help Cornell.  When the teams that have ended your seasons in (estimating) 4 of the past 6 years are playing for the national championship, that does not leave a good taste in your mouth.  It honestly makes me want to throw up.

[Jordan 04]

An all-ECAC final is a nice shove-it in the face of HE and WCHA fans, but it's definitely a tough pill to swallow that a non-Cornell ECAC team will win the title after all we've been through the last 10 years.

[Rosey]

An all-ECAC final is a nice shove-it in the face of HE and WCHA fans, but it's definitely a tough pill to swallow that a non-Cornell ECAC team will win the title after all we've been through the last 10 years.

Play better. "All we've been through" (oh, the humanity!) does not win games.

[Trotsky]

I simply cannot fathom how you people can actively root for these teams.  If it's all based on the premise that it will indirectly help Cornell, I would argue that a)these teams absolutely do not need to win a championship for the ECAC to get recognition, and more importantly, b)it won't help Cornell anyway.  When better recruits start going to Yale and Q and stop coming to Cornell because they aren't as good, that doesn't help Cornell.  When Cornell does not make the NCAA's as often, that does not help Cornell.  When the teams that have ended your seasons in (estimating) 4 of the past 6 years are playing for the national championship, that does not leave a good taste in your mouth.  It honestly makes me want to throw up.

It's not only that it will help us (which it will).  I learned during the height of the losing streak against Harvard that it was still impossible for me not to back an ECAC team in the NCAAs -- I found myself unconsciously rooting for them.

I have no problem rooting hard for Yale and Q and if an ECAC team wins I'll love it.  This tournament has rocked.

[BearLover]

An all-ECAC final is a nice shove-it in the face of HE and WCHA fans, but it's definitely a tough pill to swallow that a non-Cornell ECAC team will win the title after all we've been through the last 10 years.

Play better. "All we've been through" (oh, the humanity!) does not win games.

That's not the point at all...

[Rosey]

I simply cannot fathom how you people can actively root for these teams.  If it's all based on the premise that it will indirectly help Cornell, I would argue that a)these teams absolutely do not need to win a championship for the ECAC to get recognition, and more importantly, b)it won't help Cornell anyway.  When better recruits start going to Yale and Q and stop coming to Cornell because they aren't as good, that doesn't help Cornell.  When Cornell does not make the NCAA's as often, that does not help Cornell.  When the teams that have ended your seasons in (estimating) 4 of the past 6 years are playing for the national championship, that does not leave a good taste in your mouth.  It honestly makes me want to throw up.

It's not only that it will help us (which it will).  I learned during the height of the losing streak against Harvard that it was still impossible for me not to back an ECAC team in the NCAAs -- I found myself unconsciously rooting for them.

I have no problem rooting hard for Yale and Q and if an ECAC team wins I'll love it.  This tournament has rocked.

I don't think we've ever been in such violent agreement.

[Trotsky]

An all-ECAC final is a nice shove-it in the face of HE and WCHA fans

Not really.  They don't care and if I were they I wouldn't either.

That's the kind of "beggar your neighbor" motivation that rooting against ECAC teams amounts to, so I think somebody motivated by that would have some pretty serious schizophrenia right now.  

[marty]

It's been so long since we have been the best (in 2010 we only won the ECAC because Yale got upset earlier) that we have much bigger things to worry about than how well our rivals are doing.

Exactly.

I was 50% sure you were going to post exactly this.  My sentence was badly phrased, but I obviously meant that we have far more pressing concerns than that the ECAC is not strong enough.  In 2003, maybe that was the case.  In 2013, our concern is that we aren't strong enough.  But the difference in these past 10 years illuminates exactly how flawed your logic is.  That the ECAC has gotten stronger recently has only weakened our chances.  We haven't since gotten as far as we did in 2003 when the ECAC sucked.  Now the ECAC is better and we can't even get in the tournament.  There is no evidence to suggest otherwise that as the ECAC continues to grow stronger, we grow weaker.  That rising tide surely lifted some boats; ours is sinking.  

I don't speak for every Cornell fan apparently, but I definitely speak for that far majority of them when I say that Yale or Q winning it all is the closest thing possible to being punched in the balls short of Harvard winning.  I simply cannot fathom how you people can actively root for these teams.  If it's all based on the premise that it will indirectly help Cornell, I would argue that a)these teams absolutely do not need to win a championship for the ECAC to get recognition, and more importantly, b)it won't help Cornell anyway.  When better recruits start going to Yale and Q and stop coming to Cornell because they aren't as good, that doesn't help Cornell.  When Cornell does not make the NCAA's as often, that does not help Cornell.  When the teams that have ended your seasons in (estimating) 4 of the past 6 years are playing for the national championship, that does not leave a good taste in your mouth.  It honestly makes me want to throw up.

Let me buy you a drink,