Poll: Rooting for Harvard?

[imafrshmn]

Simple question.

[imafrshmn]

I am frankly surprised how many are going to root for Harvard and how few will be rooting against. This is what you get with such an intellectual bunch of hockey fans!

[Hooking]

There is a difference between "rooting for Harvard" and "rooting for the Harvard Hockey Team". Rhetoricians call this a "synecdoche" - where the user confuses the part for the whole. This is a serious error in logic, love, and hockey fans.

[BearLover]

Also worth noting that these forums aren't representative of the average Cornell Hockey fan.  I bet if you polled 100 recent graduates you wouldn't find more than a couple rooting for Harvard.

[billhoward]

There is a difference between "rooting for Harvard" and "rooting for the Harvard Hockey Team". Rhetoricians call this a "synecdoche" - where the user confuses the part for the whole. This is a serious error in logic, love, and hockey fans.

As relates to Harvard, isn't there a u missing?

[Trotsky]

There is a difference between "rooting for Harvard" and "rooting for the Harvard Hockey Team". Rhetoricians call this a "synecdoche" - where the user confuses the part for the whole. This is a serious error in logic, love, and hockey fans.

As relates to Harvard, isn't there a u missing?

UD beat you to it.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

There is a difference between "rooting for Harvard" and "rooting for the Harvard Hockey Team". Rhetoricians call this a "synecdoche" - where the user confuses the part for the whole. This is a serious error in logic, love, and hockey fans.

As relates to Harvard, isn't there a u missing?

UD beat you to it.

I wondered what it had to do with Univ. of Delaware.  ::dribble::

[madAgaskar07]

I chose "irreconcilably conflicted", but the visceral relief I feel at this moment suggests otherwise.

[marty]

I chose "irreconcilably conflicted", but the visceral relief I feel at this moment suggests otherwise.

I felt that too, but it was because Janice told me we weren't staying for overtime, i.e. United Center Uber for me.

In her defense we did double overtime plus an after midnight game in Albany at the regionals.  We weren't always senior citizens.

[jtwcornell91]

I chose "irreconcilably conflicted", but the visceral relief I feel at this moment suggests otherwise.

My ambivalence was related to the fact that I wanted to see Harvard represent the ECAC well but not win the title, and on the other hand, I would much rather see UMD win it than either of the other two semifinalists.  (I.e., I would have liked Harvard to lose to UMD on Saturday rather than tonight.)

[ugarte]

gotta admit in the end i was kinda pulling for them and i was disappointed when i checked the score

[Al DeFlorio]

gotta admit in the end i was kinda pulling for them and i was disappointed when i checked the score

Same here.

[Jim Hyla]

gotta admit in the end i was kinda pulling for them and i was disappointed when i checked the score

Same here.

Same for me. I still can't understand all the hatred for Harvard.

[scoop85]

gotta admit in the end i was kinda pulling for them and i was disappointed when i checked the score

Same here.

Same for me. I still can't understand all the hatred for Harvard.

Yeah, I was pulling for them too.  Not so jazzed for the UD-UMD final; having Harvard there would've been more interesting to me.

[Trotsky]

I'm all in for Denver.  I like small schools winning when possible, and we have a connection to them from those titanic NCAA games.