Season's Over

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

My honest, no-joke, opinion is that a banner acknowledging that we finished The Season of The Plague in #1 in the polls is a reasonable hearkening back to the pre-playoffs college football era. This year's teams - men's and women's - deserve to be remembered, even if it's just a second accolade on the ECAC regular season championship banners.

Maybe just a banner with our record. Don't claim a championship or a title or a ranking. Just the record.

It's too good a year to not be honored at all.

Ivy Title banner.  They're honored.

And ECAC regular season champs.

[BearLover]

My honest, no-joke, opinion is that a banner acknowledging that we finished The Season of The Plague in #1 in the polls is a reasonable hearkening back to the pre-playoffs college football era. This year's teams - men's and women's - deserve to be remembered, even if it's just a second accolade on the ECAC regular season championship banners.

Maybe just a banner with our record. Don't claim a championship or a title or a ranking. Just the record.

It's too good a year to not be honored at all.

Ivy Title banner.  They're honored.

The implication is that "Ivy League Champions"--a title you can win as the 20th best team in the country--is too weak and too run-of-the-mill an honor for the season this team has had. The Pats' 16-0 banner is only embarrassing because they couldn't finish it off in the playoffs. We never got that chance. It is bizarre to me that some on this forum would prefer to act as though this season reached a real conclusion rather than honor the players whose season was cut short.

[Trotsky]

It is bizarre to me that some on this forum would prefer to act as though this season reached a real conclusion rather than honor the players whose season was cut short.

::wank::

But to be honest I am all for burning one fan in effigy to honor the team.  As long as we can vote.

Hint: this year it aint you.

[nshapiro]

It is bizarre to me that some on this forum would prefer to act as though this season reached a real conclusion rather than honor the players whose season was cut short.

::wank::

But to be honest I am all for burning one fan in effigy to honor the team.  As long as we can vote.

Hint: this year it aint you.

Maybe if we did it as a sacrifice to the Hockey Gods a few weeks ago, it could have done some good.

[Trotsky]

Maybe if we did it as a sacrifice to the Hockey Gods a few weeks ago, it could have done some good.

A pandemic is a bit above the pay grade of the Hockey Gods.::panic::

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Maybe if we did it as a sacrifice to the Hockey Gods a few weeks ago, it could have done some good.

A pandemic is a bit above the pay grade of the Hockey Gods.::panic::

Apparently.::whistle::

[jtwcornell91]

My honest, no-joke, opinion is that a banner acknowledging that we finished The Season of The Plague in #1 in the polls is a reasonable hearkening back to the pre-playoffs college football era. This year's teams - men's and women's - deserve to be remembered, even if it's just a second accolade on the ECAC regular season championship banners.

Maybe just a banner with our record. Don't claim a championship or a title or a ranking. Just the record.

It's too good a year to not be honored at all.

This.  The circumstances of this season were unique, and it's appropriate to commemorate the teams' great seasons without trying to invent a special title for it.  Just a simple banner with the year and the men's and women's W-L-T records.  It could hang at the end of the rink next to the Olympians banners.

[Tcl123]

My honest, no-joke, opinion is that a banner acknowledging that we finished The Season of The Plague in #1 in the polls is a reasonable hearkening back to the pre-playoffs college football era. This year's teams - men's and women's - deserve to be remembered, even if it's just a second accolade on the ECAC regular season championship banners.

Maybe just a banner with our record. Don't claim a championship or a title or a ranking. Just the record.

It's too good a year to not be honored at all.

This.  The circumstances of this season were unique, and it's appropriate to commemorate the teams' great seasons without trying to invent a special title for it.  Just a simple banner with the year and the men's and women's W-L-T records.  It could hang at the end of the rink next to the Olympians banners.

I'm usually against banners unless they are for legitimate honors, but I kind of like this idea.

[abmarks]

Is Cornell going to claim a national championship? Not that I want us to do it but given how Alabama claims hilarious National Championships I could somehow see it.

I'd like to think we're better than that.

I would like to see Cornell commemorate this season in some way, including hanging a banner that recognizes we were the #1 team in the country when the season concluded.

He's back on the checking line folks...

It'd be one thing if they were undefeated at this point, but cmon, a banner would be absolute weaksauce, and I can't imagine the players and coaches would feel good about it.  NHL players know not to even touch the cup unless and until they've won it, right?

One of the best years in the history of Cornell Hockey cut short due to no fault of the team. They could have won the ECAC, they could have won it all. Other programs can, and do, put up whatever banners they want. If you finish the season #1 in the country, you deserve to be recognized. This team is deserving of recognition and appreciation and a banner is one way of showing it. And one for the women's team too while we're at it.

Rebuttal:

Ok, so that banner isn't really needed by the Pats  

However, bad example.  The analog to Cornell hanging a "best on the polls at the end of regular season" or even worse a " best winning percentage 2019-2020" would be a banner saying 16-0, best winning percentage in the NFL before they cancelled the playoffs (had playoffs been cancelled that year).  That'd be a bullshit banner.

But at least that banner denotes an all-time NFL record and never matched feat- undefeated in the 16 game regular season.
It's not a participation trophy.

 If we ran the table to an undefeated regular season, then I wouldn't object to a banner saying "undefeated season" because that shit is unique.

[abmarks]

My honest, no-joke, opinion is that a banner acknowledging that we finished The Season of The Plague in #1 in the polls is a reasonable hearkening back to the pre-playoffs college football era. This year's teams - men's and women's - deserve to be remembered, even if it's just a second accolade on the ECAC regular season championship banners.

Maybe just a banner with our record. Don't claim a championship or a title or a ranking. Just the record.

It's too good a year to not be honored at all.

All this banner nonsense has nothing to do with the team themselves.  It's about your butthurt feelings from losing out on the chance to watch and possibly experience *your* dreams of celebrating a winner. You want a banner to make you feel better.

Next time someone bumps into one of the coaches or one of the players, ask them what they think and report back what you find out. I can't believe any of them want a banner.

P.s.  while you're at it, how about agitating for banners or whatever for the wrestlers that had a great chance of hitting the All American mark.

[BearLover]

My honest, no-joke, opinion is that a banner acknowledging that we finished The Season of The Plague in #1 in the polls is a reasonable hearkening back to the pre-playoffs college football era. This year's teams - men's and women's - deserve to be remembered, even if it's just a second accolade on the ECAC regular season championship banners.

Maybe just a banner with our record. Don't claim a championship or a title or a ranking. Just the record.

It's too good a year to not be honored at all.

All this banner nonsense has nothing to do with the team themselves.  It's about your butthurt feelings from losing out on the chance to watch and possibly experience *your* dreams of celebrating a winner. You want a banner to make you feel better.

Next time someone bumps into one of the coaches or one of the players, ask them what they think and report back what you find out. I can't believe any of them want a banner.

P.s.  while you're at it, how about agitating for banners or whatever for the wrestlers that had a great chance of hitting the All American mark.

So much vitriol from you, man. You have no idea what we want, what the players want, what anyone other than you wants. The team just played one of the best seasons in program history and some of us think it should be commemorated in some way. I'd think many of the players and coaches would agree. And "butthurt"? Did the governor in your state shut down your elementary school yet?

[Trotsky]

We're all friends here, folks.  Everybody take a little break.

[The Rancor]

Can't they play the tournament in the summer, when this dies down a bit?

[Dafatone]

Can't they play the tournament in the summer, when this dies down a bit?

I wondered that, too. A friend pointed out that for graduated seniors, it may be difficult to get them on the ice if they're either the property of a pro team or off working at an actual job.

But even if that's the case, maybe they could swing something together. If you told me that we'd play the NCAAs in August but our seniors (and almost assuredly Barron) were gone, I'd take it.

I do know keeping ice frozen in the summer can be tough, and that's setting aside the question of whether things will have died down.

[redice]

Can't they play the tournament in the summer, when this dies down a bit?

I wondered that, too. A friend pointed out that for graduated seniors, it may be difficult to get them on the ice if they're either the property of a pro team or off working at an actual job.

But even if that's the case, maybe they could swing something together. If you told me that we'd play the NCAAs in August but our seniors (and almost assuredly Barron) were gone, I'd take it.

I do know keeping ice frozen in the summer can be tough, and that's setting aside the question of whether things will have died down.

Not to mention that re-creating the chemistry that has us on a nine game winning streak would be difficult.   And, imagine the muscle-strains....  UGH!!