Opponents and Others, 2022-23

[Trotsky]

LOL.

He'll be suspended to the second week of October.

[billhoward]

Union Rink.

Good to know there are no important problems in the Capital District.

White home ownership is ~2X that of Blacks in the region. Be good to also compare home ownership ratios by ethnicty and then by income level. There probably still is inequity, some of it may be by income levels.

[billhoward]

>>> The System (TM).

Good one. Have you used this before?

[Swampy]

Union Rink.

Good to know there are no important problems in the Capital District.

White home ownership is ~2X that of Blacks in the region. Be good to also compare home ownership ratios by ethnicty and then by income level. There probably still is inequity, some of it may be by income levels.

Research on the subject finds differences at all income levels, and not just for ethnicity. Gender: at all income levels, female-headed households have lower home ownership rates than male-headed. Class: at all income levels, employer-headed households have higher home-ownership rates than employee-headed households, etc. In fact, in many cases persons in particular inter-sectional categories (e.g., black, female employers) are so rare that, in all but the largest social surveys (i.e., with sample sizes of several hundred thousand or more), one cannot even make statistically useful comparisons.

[marty]

RPI's Ture Linden opts for PSU as scouts need eyeballs, too.

[marty]

AHCA.

[Weder]

AHCA.

I can't find it right now, but I read something the other day that they were supposed to discuss increasing the maximum number of games in a season -- the logic being that this would encourage teams to schedule the new D1 programs. If they did that, would that be the tipping point for the Ivies to finally go beyond 29?

[Trotsky]

AHCA.

I can't find it right now, but I read something the other day that they were supposed to discuss increasing the maximum number of games in a season -- the logic being that this would encourage teams to schedule the new D1 programs. If they did that, would that be the tipping point for the Ivies to finally go beyond 29?

The purpose of the lower Ivy game limit is, like the scholarship ban, the late start, and graduating players losing eligibility, to market a discriminator between the Ivies and The Commoners to preserve The Brand.  So, on the one hand, if the NC$$ increases the number of games by 4 we could too and still maintain that luxury niche.  On the other, increasing the number at all works against the premium of handicapping oneself for noblesse oblige.

If, in 1860, the average professional athlete salary jumps from $1000 to $2000, the amateur playboy athlete could start demanding $1000 and still be able to lord it over "those mere tradesmen."  But the fact of taking any filthy lucre at all would subvert the image.

The courts killing the scholarship ban as a restraint of the athletes' fair value could be a best case for Ivy athletes.  The schools have painted themselves into a corner.  They can't shitcan the heraldry of privilege themselves; it brings in the cash.  But if they are forced to, legally, well, a terrible shame the Olde Club has been desegregated by those meddling courts, but (sigh) I suppose we must move with the times, my dear.

[Trotsky]

This would be interesting to do for all the NC$$ teams (or at least the ECAC).

Some guesses (IMO)

Cornell:
1. Harvard
2. Clarkson
3. Quinnipiac

Harvard:
1. Yale
2. Cornell
3. Princeton

Clarkson:
1. SLU
2. Cornell
3. RPI

[Swampy]

This would be interesting to do for all the NC$$ teams (or at least the ECAC).

Some guesses (IMO)

Cornell:
1. Harvard
2. Clarkson
3. Quinnipiac

Harvard:
1. Yale
2. Cornell
3. Princeton

Clarkson:
1. SLU
2. Cornell
3. RPI

No BU for Cornell? Or, is this only in-league or frequent opponent?

[Trotsky]

This would be interesting to do for all the NC$$ teams (or at least the ECAC).

Some guesses (IMO)

Cornell:
1. Harvard
2. Clarkson
3. Quinnipiac

Harvard:
1. Yale
2. Cornell
3. Princeton

Clarkson:
1. SLU
2. Cornell
3. RPI

No BU for Cornell? Or, is this only in-league or frequent opponent?

I would not say BU is a factor over the range of all fans anymore.  It's been 40 years.  But by all means, nobody is DQed.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

This would be interesting to do for all the NC$$ teams (or at least the ECAC).

Some guesses (IMO)

Cornell:
1. Harvard
2. Clarkson
3. Quinnipiac

Harvard:
1. Yale
2. Cornell
3. Princeton

Clarkson:
1. SLU
2. Cornell
3. RPI

No BU for Cornell? Or, is this only in-league or frequent opponent?

I would not say BU is a factor over the range of all fans anymore.  It's been 40 years.  But by all means, nobody is DQed.

I think I'd put Colgate in instead of the deerticks.  But YMMV.

[Trotsky]

This would be interesting to do for all the NC$$ teams (or at least the ECAC).

Some guesses (IMO)

Cornell:
1. Harvard
2. Clarkson
3. Quinnipiac

Harvard:
1. Yale
2. Cornell
3. Princeton

Clarkson:
1. SLU
2. Cornell
3. RPI

No BU for Cornell? Or, is this only in-league or frequent opponent?

I would not say BU is a factor over the range of all fans anymore.  It's been 40 years.  But by all means, nobody is DQed.

I think I'd put Colgate in instead of the deerticks.  But YMMV.

Yeah, I think #3 is always fluid. I said Q right now because of the power implications, in the way that it was Yale for a while.  My personal 3 will always be SLU but, again, that's just frozen in amber from the 80s.  There may be people who would stick Union or Princeton there.

It aint Brown, anyway.

[Dafatone]

Most hated for me is Dartmouth in a landslide, but I don't know that I'd call them a top three rival.

[dbilmes]

If you listen to the Big Red Sports Network podcasts from this season, nearly every current or recent alum player they talk with lists Q as one of their biggest/most hated rivals, right up there with Harvard.