Season tickets

[French Rage]

The players were there, giving out pizza.

OH GOD WE'VE BECOME COLGATE!

Not by a long shot!

Colgate had to give out pizza to get their students to come to actual games.

Cornell was giving out pizza in an attempt to make the pretty boring process of coming to Lynah and waiting around for your chance to pick your seat a little less boring.

So not even close!

But this is how it starts!  When I was a student we didn't need no pizza to get us to wait in line!  Damn kids!

[andyw2100]

But this is how it starts!  When I was a student we didn't need no pizza to get us to wait in line!  Damn kids!

Well, from that standpoint I agree things are bad, but not because of the pizza.

As I mentioned, my daughter was involved in selling season tickets. All the students who were purchasing the tickets had the process explained to them, and should have understood that they'd need to come to Lynah at the appointed time to actually select their seats. I believe the students were also sent email messages explaining the process. Apparently not only did a huge number not bother to do that (resulting, of course, in students with lower seniority getting better seats than they did), but many still had not selected their seats by the Red/White game!

[nshapiro]

half of section A was empty for Niagara on Saturday night.  And don't try to make excuses for the kids today by saying it was Halloween. My son was happy to go with us to the game because the parties wouldn't even be starting until after the game was over.

[redice]

But this is how it starts!  When I was a student we didn't need no pizza to get us to wait in line!  Damn kids!

Well, from that standpoint I agree things are bad, but not because of the pizza.

As I mentioned, my daughter was involved in selling season tickets. All the students who were purchasing the tickets had the process explained to them, and should have understood that they'd need to come to Lynah at the appointed time to actually select their seats. I believe the students were also sent email messages explaining the process. Apparently not only did a huge number not bother to do that (resulting, of course, in students with lower seniority getting better seats than they did), but many still had not selected their seats by the Red/White game!

All of the evidence keeps coming back to the same unpleasant (to us) truth:  Cornell Men's Hockey is just Not that important to today's students!!

[ithacat]

half of section A was empty for Niagara on Saturday night.  And don't try to make excuses for the kids today by saying it was Halloween. My son was happy to go with us to the game because the parties wouldn't even be starting until after the game was over.

If you counted the number of newpapers during Niagara's introduction you would have needed to borrow one hand, maybe another finger or two.

[Trotsky]

All of the evidence keeps coming back to the same unpleasant (to us) truth:  Cornell Men's Hockey is just Not that important to today's students!!

Just.   Win.

[redice]

All of the evidence keeps coming back to the same unpleasant (to us) truth:  Cornell Men's Hockey is just Not that important to today's students!!

Just.   Win.

I truly believe that it will take more than just winning....   I believe they just don't care.......   Winning would likely make little difference...

[Trotsky]

All of the evidence keeps coming back to the same unpleasant (to us) truth:  Cornell Men's Hockey is just Not that important to today's students!!

Just.   Win.

I truly believe that it will take more than just winning....   I believe they just don't care.......   Winning would likely make little difference...

Win and test the hypothesis.  

[Rosey]

All of the evidence keeps coming back to the same unpleasant (to us) truth:  Cornell Men's Hockey is just Not that important to today's students!!

Just.   Win.

I truly believe that it will take more than just winning....   I believe they just don't care.......   Winning would likely make little difference...

Yeah, I agree. Winning would definitely improve attendance and crowd volume relative to where these things would be without winning, but the "magic" of Lynah that was the constant noise and rink-wide clever cheers in-unison isn't coming back.

[Trotsky]

We can't know that it will never come back.  Probably after a few decades of the little numb nuts fellating their smart phones there will be a reaction against it by their kids.

[upprdeck]

why is section a the one thats the most empty?

[ithacat]

Someone appeared to make newspaper dispersal a priority before tonight's game. 3rd star worthy...

[andyw2100]

Someone appeared to make newspaper dispersal a priority before tonight's game. 3rd star worthy...

I sit in C, on the aisle with D.

D was far and away the best it has been in a long time tonight. The students were louder than they have been of late, they all had paper before the game, and they actually stood for the Alma Mater!

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Someone appeared to make newspaper dispersal a priority before tonight's game. 3rd star worthy...

I sit in C, on the aisle with D.

D was far and away the best it has been in a long time tonight. The students were louder than they have been of late, they all had paper before the game, and they actually stood for the Alma Mater!

Mind you, they were probably looking up the lyrics in their cell phones  ::deadhorse::

[Jim Hyla]

Someone appeared to make newspaper dispersal a priority before tonight's game. 3rd star worthy...

I'll take credit for that. Sec. D is supposedly (second hand info) a general admission All-Freshman section. Some of the students I talked to didn't even know the tradition. Partially I blame the start of Sec. C for that. It's tough when you break up the student sections. When you're in D, B is not obvious to you. Having said that, I was impressed at how enthusiastic the "freshman' were. We can hope, after as exciting a game as it was, that we have captured a few of them.