Men’s Basketball 23-24

[rss77]

Kudos to Isaiah Gray.  He is a one man clinic on defense.  As in past years Cornell struggles to guard near the rim.

[chimpfood]

The Ivy League is looking really good this year, Princeton and penn especially have some big wins. Not too concerned yet because all out of conference games are basically just ramping up to Ivy play but we are certainly going to have to play better than we did tonight if we want to win the Ivy or even make the Ivy League tournament

[ugarte]

The Ivy League is looking really good this year, Princeton and penn especially have some big wins. Not too concerned yet because all out of conference games are basically just ramping up to Ivy play but we are certainly going to have to play better than we did tonight if we want to win the Ivy or even make the Ivy League tournament

I think this is easily an ILT team tbh but things can go awry. It is a good year for the league, though.

[rss77]

Harvard and Yale looking good too.

[scoop85]

The top 6 Ivy teams (excluding Dartmouth and Columbia) all look solid. Yale and Princeton are likely a cut above, so it appears likely to be a 4-team battle for the the other 2 spots in the Ivy tournament. But a lot of basketball left to be played.

[scoop85]

I wonder how much longer they'll keep running out Nix in the starting lineup. He's just not hitting any shots right now.

[billhoward]

Re barns: Appleton Arena at St. Lawrence got a refurb in 2020. It's still dark wood seats (photo) for the olde barn feel. But now a spiffy facade, entry concourse, meeting rooms / video rooms on the outside of the concourse. They probably tuned up the bleeping siren to make it even louder. Just the right feel for a school of 2,100.

The new Colgate rink is the benchmark for small schools. I know we all love Lynah to a fault. But Colgate's huge, wide concourse at the top of the bowl allows an extra 500? more? attendees beyond the seating capacity of 2200. And the higher roof allows for better video angles than Lynah affords.

Appleton Arena fall 2023 (capacity 3200):

[Chris '03]

And the higher roof allows for better video angles than Lynah affords

Low roof crowd noise > high roof video angles every day of the week.

[upprdeck]

considering you could run all the video off remote cameras I dont think High angles are really an issue if you use the right equipment,

[RichH]

considering you could run all the video off remote cameras I dont think High angles are really an issue if you use the right equipment,

Nevermind that, can we talk about the assault on the senses every venue seems to want? Even the modest & thin video scoreboard I can see in the photo of Appleton is entirely too many blazingly bright photons to completely ruin the setting.

And don't get me started on the apparent need to have thumping DJs blasting tweeter-tearing music in (nearly) every arena at every stoppage. If ADs want to trim budgets, start by firing the DJs.

At the Cornell-Penn football game, there was a large home band, a larger visiting band, and a half-broken speaker. Guess which of the three was allowed to play most of the time?

[Trotsky]

considering you could run all the video off remote cameras I dont think High angles are really an issue if you use the right equipment,

Nevermind that, can we talk about the assault on the senses every venue seems to want? Even the modest & thin video scoreboard I can see in the photo of Appleton is entirely too many blazingly bright photons to completely ruin the setting.

And don't get me started on the apparent need to have thumping DJs blasting tweeter-tearing music in (nearly) every arena at every stoppage. If ADs want to trim budgets, start by firing the DJs.

At the Cornell-Penn football game, there was a large home band, a larger visiting band, and a half-broken speaker. Guess which of the three was allowed to play most of the time?

Some time ago some Harvard MBA figured out if you pummel people they but more shit.  Same reason every baseball stadium ruins the experience with piped in garbage music and noise.

Nobody ever went broke racing to the bottom.

[billhoward]

considering you could run all the video off remote cameras I dont think High angles are really an issue if you use the right equipment,

Remote cameras at center ice could be placed only a couple feet higher (than they are now a couple feet higher than the upper press table) before you run into the flags. But a camera high-ish up in the corner, and a second placed diagonally across at the other end, they'd capture better angles, including puck battles in the corners. Broadcasts from Lynah also doesn't provide access to the cameras mounted directly over the goals.

This photo is from Section M, center ice, two-thirds of the way up; the flags obscure more when you get to the level of the upper press box. Soft attendance? Early in the Minnesota Duluth game.

[billhoward]

I'm not a huge fan of the music during play stoppages and of the Tokyo-by-Night graphics on the video scoreboard. But I'm old. If it brings younger fans and keeps them coming, well, more power to them.

[Trotsky]

I'm not a huge fan of the music during play stoppages and of the Tokyo-by-Night graphics on the video scoreboard. But I'm old. If it brings younger fans and keeps them coming, well, more power to them.

I'm not convinced it appeals to younger fans either.  It's just stupidity.

I guess you can argue that stupidity will appeal to more people.  But I imagine the decisions at the Consulting Firm go like this:

1. How do I know what the common man likes?
2. I am not common.
3. I hate this.
4. Therefore, the common man must like this.

But I don't know of anyone who wants garbage noises smashed into them at 120 dB.  The keeeds' music is music, it isn't crap.  And playing little out take blurbs of songs people like isn't music, it's annoying and pandering.

The reduction of people to Homo Derpus Commercia is not for their benefit.  It's lab rats being given electroshock.

[billhoward]

The reduction of people to Homo Derpus Commercia is not for their benefit.  It's lab rats being given electroshock.

I just want to see Cornell not hit the post.