Hockey Off-Season

[Jim Hyla]

Let's start this off with some good news. Maybe this is one reason we like being in the ECAC. Half of the national men's and women's teams that scored over 990 on the NCAA APR rankings were from the ECAC.

I might as well put up CU's post on this and the NCAA press release.

USCHO has a nice interactive table.

[Trotsky]

RIT's march to the top can only be explainbed by John's affiliation with them.  :-)

[Josh '99]

Let's start this off with some good news. Maybe this is one reason we like being in the ECAC. Half of the national men's and women's teams that scored over 990 on the NCAA APR rankings were from the ECAC.

I might as well put up CU's post on this and the NCAA press release.

USCHO has a nice interactive table.

Good to see that so many of the teams scoring above 990 were from the ECAC; less good to see that the Cornell men's team is not among them.

[RichH]

It's the fifth straight 1,000 for the Brown men's team; the women's team has been there three years in a row.

Brown will always get a "perfect score" when all the courses are pass/fail, right?

[profudge]

Rich,   adding kids like:  Ryan Coon  — Taft School;  goalie,  I see as 3rd on depth chart  - but brings good academics might also help our score in the future, He won math prize at graduation at Taft.   I think folks leaving early hits the score some also, no?

[TimV]

We finished behind North Dakota::wow::::wtf::

[KeithK]

Let's start this off with some good news. Maybe this is one reason we like being in the ECAC. Half of the national men's and women's teams that scored over 990 on the NCAA APR rankings were from the ECAC.

I might as well put up CU's post on this and the NCAA press release.

USCHO has a nice interactive table.

Good to see that so many of the teams scoring above 990 were from the ECAC; less good to see that the Cornell men's team is not among them.

I'm so disappointed!  Our men's team didn't reach an arbitrary level on a metric that isn't described in any detail at all!

So what does a score of 988 out of 1000 on the innovative APR mean anyway?

[Weder]

Let's start this off with some good news. Maybe this is one reason we like being in the ECAC. Half of the national men's and women's teams that scored over 990 on the NCAA APR rankings were from the ECAC.

I might as well put up CU's post on this and the NCAA press release.

USCHO has a nice interactive table.

Good to see that so many of the teams scoring above 990 were from the ECAC; less good to see that the Cornell men's team is not among them.

I'm so disappointed!  Our men's team didn't reach an arbitrary level on a metric that isn't described in any detail at all!

So what does a score of 988 out of 1000 on the innovative APR mean anyway?

I'm not sure how you calculate the APR for an Ivy school, because the APR is supposed to be a measure of how scholarship athletes are doing. From the NCAA's site:

How is the APR calculated?
While eligibility requirements make the individual student-athlete accountable, the Academic Progress Rate creates a level of institutional responsibility. The Academic Progress Rate is a Division I metric developed to track the academic achievement of teams each academic term.

Each student-athlete receiving athletically related financial aid earns one retention point for staying in school and one eligibility point for being academically eligible. A team's total points are divided by points possible and then multiplied by one thousand to equal the team's Academic Progress Rate score.

So I guess every athlete counts toward an Ivy team's APR? The APR is a four-year rolling average, so if anyone remembers how many early departures the team had in that time frame you could try to see how accurate the APR is.

[George64]

I've been reorganizing my attic and came across this article from the IJ, October 25, 1969. How prescient of Ned!

[George64]

I apparently sent this clipping to SI for inclusion in Faces in the Crowd, but it was rejected.

[George64]

Who knew that Michael Doonesbury played hockey?  A friend sent me this copy when he was working in Indianapolis.  I suspect that he might have done some editing, using an early version of Photoshop, i.e., White Out and a steady hand.

[RichH]

Who knew that Michael Doonesbury played hockey?  A friend sent me this copy when he was working in Indianapolis.  I suspect that he might have done some editing, using an early version of Photoshop, i.e., White Out and a steady hand.

That's great. For those looking for some sort of connection and/or timeframe, Gary Trudeau is a Yalie through-and-through, enrolling as a freshman in 1966 and even earned his MFA at Yale in 1973. He also was raised in Saranac Lake, NY, which is only a few miles away from Lake Placid.  According to Wikipedia, Doonesbury debuted in the Yale Daily News in September, 1968, and was first syndicated daily in October 1970.

Makes sense, that he would reference the Big Red in a hockey-themed strip.

[jtwcornell91]

Who knew that Michael Doonesbury played hockey?  A friend sent me this copy when he was working in Indianapolis.  I suspect that he might have done some editing, using an early version of Photoshop, i.e., White Out and a steady hand.

That's great. For those looking for some sort of connection and/or timeframe, Gary Trudeau is a Yalie through-and-through, enrolling as a freshman in 1966 and even earned his MFA at Yale in 1973. He also was raised in Saranac Lake, NY, which is only a few miles away from Lake Placid.  According to Wikipedia, Doonesbury debuted in the Yale Daily News in September, 1968, and was first syndicated daily in October 1970.

Makes sense, that he would reference the Big Red in a hockey-themed strip.

I remember one where an opponent tells him off in French and he surrenders the puck thinking it's a Canadian when it's actually a French major from the Bronx.

[Trotsky]

Who knew that Michael Doonesbury played hockey?  A friend sent me this copy when he was working in Indianapolis.  I suspect that he might have done some editing, using an early version of Photoshop, i.e., White Out and a steady hand.

That's great. For those looking for some sort of connection and/or timeframe, Gary Trudeau is a Yalie through-and-through, enrolling as a freshman in 1966 and even earned his MFA at Yale in 1973. He also was raised in Saranac Lake, NY, which is only a few miles away from Lake Placid.  According to Wikipedia, Doonesbury debuted in the Yale Daily News in September, 1968, and was first syndicated daily in October 1970.

Makes sense, that he would reference the Big Red in a hockey-themed strip.

I remember one where an opponent tells him off in French and he surrenders the puck thinking it's a Canadian when it's actually a French major from the Bronx.

"Just a French Major from the Bronx" is the name of one of the collections.

[Trotsky]

That's great. For those looking for some sort of connection and/or timeframe, Gary Trudeau is a Yalie through-and-through, enrolling as a freshman in 1966 and even earned his MFA at Yale in 1973. He also was raised in Saranac Lake, NY, which is only a few miles away from Lake Placid.  According to Wikipedia, Doonesbury debuted in the Yale Daily News in September, 1968, and was first syndicated daily in October 1970.

"B.D." was Yale QB Brian Dowling; in fact in the first few strips he and the rest of the team have Y's on their helmets.