Cornell-Colgate 11/29

[CU2007]

Thought the announcer was great - very professional compared to some of the garbage we've been forced to listen to (Dartmouth comes to mind). Also thought the production was good - crisp camera changes, succinct replays. But, I did keep getting weird clips from The Office in the middle of the play. What was that?

[RichH]

I did think he was the antithesis of a homer. He's looking at Colgate with sadness I think.

He's pretty active online, from what I remember. IIRC, he was pretty responsive to lots fans on the USCHO board. According to his twitter profile, he's an IC grad: https://twitter.com/JohnMcGrawPBP

His timbre and pacing isn't my favorite, but he is quite the card in using flowery phrases.

[scoop85]

I did think he was the antithesis of a homer. He's looking at Colgate with sadness I think.

He's pretty active online, from what I remember. IIRC, he was pretty responsive to lots fans on the USCHO board. According to his twitter profile, he's an IC grad: https://twitter.com/JohnMcGrawPBP

His timbre and pacing isn't my favorite, but he is quite the card in using flowery phrases.

With some minor quibbles, certainly one of the better PBP guys in the ECAC

[ugarte]

Thought the announcer was great - very professional compared to some of the garbage we've been forced to listen to (Dartmouth comes to mind). Also thought the production was good - crisp camera changes, succinct replays. But, I did keep getting weird clips from The Office in the middle of the play. What was that?

The Office clips were always jokes about Andy Bernard's Cornell connection.

I thought the announcer was very good technically too but that didn't mean there wasn't also a clearly detectable disappointment in his voice. Even without sugarcoating, most home announcers try not to suck the hope out of the listeners.

[andyw2100]

The Office clips were always jokes about Andy Bernard's Cornell connection.

I wondered about these too. Perhaps they were a little "hack", inserted by one or more Colgate students involved in the video production, in an attempt to poke fun at Cornell?

[Chris '03]

The Office clips were always jokes about Andy Bernard's Cornell connection.

I wondered about these too. Perhaps they were a little "hack", inserted by one or more Colgate students involved in the video production, in an attempt to poke fun at Cornell?

I assumed we were seeing what was on the video board in the building.

[Trotsky]

I assumed we were seeing what was on the video board in the building.

That was my impression, too.  Those kind of video clips reek of the kind of "haw haw" comedy you get when it comes down from corporate. Anodyne and 10 years out of date.

Speaking of which, why is rink music still from the 80s?  That's the equivalent of Mitch Miller and Guy Lombardo being played when I was a student.

I know Boomers stubbornly refuse to die, but why do we have to keep listening to the same crap that has been filling rinks since 1983?  Don't the little numb nuts of today want to throw all that stuff in a lime pit and make the big move to, say, 1997?

[billhoward]

I know Boomers stubbornly refuse to die, but why do we have to keep listening to the same crap that has been filling rinks since 1983?  Don't the little numb nuts of today want to throw all that stuff in a lime pit and make the big move to, say, 1997?

"Don't Stop Believing" will be planned at your grandchildren's weddings and funerals.

On the plus side, some mainstream TV commercial this week had Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" (ca. 1970) as background music.

[ugarte]

I know Boomers stubbornly refuse to die, but why do we have to keep listening to the same crap that has been filling rinks since 1983?  Don't the little numb nuts of today want to throw all that stuff in a lime pit and make the big move to, say, 1997?

Is this argument going to resonate on the board that was defending Swanee? Those songs aren't old enough!

And come on "Cornell is easier to get into than Phyllis" is a decent version of "safety school".

[Jim Hyla]

The Office clips were always jokes about Andy Bernard's Cornell connection.

I wondered about these too. Perhaps they were a little "hack", inserted by one or more Colgate students involved in the video production, in an attempt to poke fun at Cornell?

I assumed we were seeing what was on the video board in the building.

Yes, they were on the video board.

[Trotsky]

And come on "Cornell is easier to get into than Phyllis" is a decent version of "safety school".

As in Cloris Leachman?  Lars Lindstrom's widow?

That is what I call a quality reference.

Edit: no it isn't.  I crossed wired between The Office and the songs are too old topics.  As you were.

[cth95]

Does anyone know why some schools like Colgate have piped in music and a band?  Between the jock rock and our visiting band, the home band has to spend most of their time twiddling their thumbs (or drumsticks).

[RichH]

Does anyone know why some schools like Colgate have piped in music and a band?  Between the jock rock and our visiting band, the home band has to spend most of their time twiddling their thumbs (or drumsticks).

"Some schools?" Try ALL schools. This is my biggest complaint about college hockey these days. Other than Clarkson (I hope) and Cornell, there's not a rink in the country I've been to that doesn't have terrible piped in DJ crap. In fact, I'm willing to say that I think that the ECAC is the only league (OK, I'm allowing my imagination to consider that Atlantic Hockey does this) that allows visiting bands anymore. And when the CU band goes into opposing rinks, take a look. Most arenas give the CU pep band conductor some sort of headset to communicate with the press box.  The fact that some idiot in completly-empty-Meehan thinks that it's pretty important that someone absolutely needs to press play on some device to blast some bullshit Katy Perry* song rather than have one of the two bands full of eager students in the building play for the crowd makes me SICK.

ECAC RINKS: LET THE BANDS PLAY. STICK YOUR PLAYLISTS UP YOUR ASS.

*No offense to Ms. Perry. She is welcome over anytime for some apéritifs and engaging conversation.

[Jim Hyla]

Does anyone know why some schools like Colgate have piped in music and a band?  Between the jock rock and our visiting band, the home band has to spend most of their time twiddling their thumbs (or drumsticks).

Is this only with hockey? I no longer go to many other sporting events, so I don't really know what happens in other sports. I do know I hate it. At least at Colgate it wasn't so loud that you couldn't talk to people around you. Some others are much worse. And let me throw in that SLU doesn't have a band, so maybe they have some reason, but...

[Beeeej]

Does anyone know why some schools like Colgate have piped in music and a band?  Between the jock rock and our visiting band, the home band has to spend most of their time twiddling their thumbs (or drumsticks).

Is this only with hockey? I no longer go to many other sporting events, so I don't really know what happens in other sports. I do know I hate it. At least at Colgate it wasn't so loud that you couldn't talk to people around you. Some others are much worse. And let me throw in that SLU doesn't have a band, so maybe they have some reason, but...

I miss the brief halcyon days at SLU when they had a lone, incompetent keyboard player up on a platform. I think we hurt his feelings pretty badly.