WTF???

[SCM \'85]

I meant to say that Providence would have been a #3 seed.

[jd212]

They are never going to please everybody. Before you didn't want them to be too subjective, and now that they went exactly by the numbers and the rules, people are saying that they should have used common sense and decided what would have been the best way to "reward" the #1 seed. It kinda just makes everybody look like a bunch of babies. Granted, maybe they didn't use the best system available to them, in your biased eyes, but they did the best with what they have. They will continue to tweak it, but some teams will continue to think that they have been screwed. And they certainly aren't going to listen to any of us. The fact is, the team has to win four games, and they will prepare for those four teams. If we're the #1 team in the country, we should theoretically be better than all the teams we face, so what's the big deal?

[SCM \'85]

You are right that in theory we should be better than every other team we face, but it's a single elimination tournament and lesser teams can and do knock out better teams in a one and done situation.  This happens, of course, more often when the lesser teams are high quality teams like Mankato.  Yes I am biased and I want to see the Red at least make it to Buffalo, and our chances are  diminished by having to play MSU in the first round.  I can't think of a worst possible draw than a team that went 17-1-6 down the stretch.  I would rather be playing BU or BC in the first round.  Having said that, if Cornell does manage to make the Frozen Four, I think we have a better chance of winning it all riding the experience of two difficult wins on back to back days.

[Lowell '99]

"Hail to those mother f***ers!
Hail to those big c**ks***ers!
Hail! Hail! To Michigan
The cesspool of the west!

Don't forget the second verse:

"To hell, with those masturbators!
To hell, with those fornicators!
To hell, to hell, with Michigan
The team we love to HATE!"

[ugarte]

Lowell Frank '99, '03 wrote:

"To hell, with those masturbators!
To hell, with those fornicators!

Make up your mind!!!



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[marty]

Hail, hail to Michigan the team who steals our cheers!

[arik marks \'91]

Hey Marty '74- we stole some of MIchigan's cheers too...where do you think the aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh C ya! cheer came from?

....we lifted it  from the '91 NCAA series at Michigan...

[marty]

[Q]
Hey Marty '74- we stole some of MIchigan's cheers too...where do you think the aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh C ya! cheer came from?

....we lifted it from the '91 NCAA series at Michigan...
[/Q]

OK, by me.  

Marty, CU '74
aka
Marty, Michigan '75



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[Jim Hyla]

True but it's been "widely" reported that UM learned alot from those Faithful who were at that game, and that their cheering was changed forever.

Jim, UM '77



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[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

Amazing how that stuff works.

Mike Wapner '82 lifted "Which team is the winning team!?" from North Dakota at the 1980 NCAAs.

And reading the newspapers over the introductions I stole from the University of Scranton basketball team.

True originality is rare indeed.

JH

[CrazyLarry]

I actually have newspaper clippings from our game at Michigan in 1997 specifically disucssing Michigan's lifting of our cheers from the '91 NCAA series.

[Jim Hyla]

[Q]I actually have newspaper clippings from our game at Michigan in 1997 specifically disucssing Michigan's lifting of our cheers from the '91 NCAA series.[/Q]Are those from Ithaca or A2 (Ann Arbor)? If they are A2 I'd like a copy, please.:-)

[Rich Stamboulian]

Barraging the committee takes whining to a whole new level, even worse than Schafer did on TV.  Is it going to change their decisions?  Doesn't the team still have to play the games?

Your team is top ranked and would be a large favorite over any of the lowest 4 teams...act like "top ranked" fans.  :-D

[jtwcornell91]

Rich Stamboulian wrote:
Your team is top ranked and would be a large favorite over any of the lowest 4 teams...

There's a big difference between being a 2:1 favorite against Mankato and being a 19:1 favorite against Wayne State.  It's not whining to express displeasure that the top-rated team got a much harder first-round draw than the third-rated team.  It is whining to barrage the committee with complaining emails, especially when those who stop to think about it will realize why it was done.  (Although clearly it points to a failing of the procedure when switching the #12 and #13 teams is considered an unacceptible loss of competitive equity, but switching the #29+ and #14 teams is perfectly fine.  Something the NCAA should work on in the off-season, since the "banding" method is likely to run into similar pitfalls for the forseeable future.)

[Beeeej]

On the other hand, Section B did add "a55hole" to the Seeya cheer... shortly after which, I added "you goon."  Those are somewhat original.  :-}

Beeeej



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