alumni game

[Al DeFlorio]

Melissa'01 wrote:

link about joe's day with the cup from the cup journal ...


http://www.hhof.com/html/exSCJ_16.shtml

Terrific article.  Thanks for posting the link, Melissa.



Post Edited (07-14-03 13:11)

[REDhead]

Melissa, great article, but (duh....) I can't figure out how to get to future (or past) entries in the Cup journal..could you help? thanks!

[dsr11]

http://www.hhof.com/html/exSCJ_main.shtml

That's the main page for the journal...some of them are pretty good reading.

[True Blue]

I agree completely with Cup on all points.  The amount of people who showed up is no excuse, especially when they advertised in several central NY communities.  Besides, this is central NY and Ithaca....there isn't anything else to do on a Friday night!  You bring in a celebrity type and the Stanley Cup to a small town where the most exciting thing to do on any given weekend is drink until the ridiculously early last call, and you are bound to get a big turnout.  At the very least, those handling the event at Lynah Friday night should have come to a consensus about what lines were for what purpose.  Giving out conflicting information only harmed the event and made those patiently waiting in the $20 line angry.

 The picture taking was just short of a fiasco, and Cornell Athletics in general is incompetent to handle any sort of large athletic event.  Probably because hockey is the only sport this school has going for it, and the school thinks anything related to the hockey program can do no wrong.  I hate to break it to them, but the student season ticket process is asinine, Cornell hockey is not the greatest thing on earth (evidenced by their poor showing at the Frozen Four when faced with a real opponent for the first time all season), and don't even get me started on the restrictions placed on fan speech at games.  Why exactly is the word "suck" offensive?  I challenge the Athletic Department to sit in on a hockey game at a real sports school if they want to hear something offensive (yet extremely entertaining).

The problems with the incompetence of Cornell Athletics are fairly easy fixes.  If large, Div. I schools can handle selling 100,000+ football tickets, 40,000+ basketball tickets, and 6,000+ hockey tickets, while keeping the fans happy, allowing them to enjoy the game, and maintaining integrity of the sporting event, Cornell Athletics can put their Ivy League brains together to sell student hockey tickets without "the line," and ensure that everyone gets a picture with Joe and the Cup in a timely manner.

[DeltaOne81]

I think this tool's username says all we need to know about his loyalties... please ignore the @$$hole, nothing to see here.

[ugarte]

I wish I could have been there.  It sounds like it was a hell of a weekend.