Opponent and other news and results of interest 2024-2025

[ursusminor]

I wonder when the tyranny of scoreboards and video will end.  All hemlines change.  There will come a day when  this is all exposed as obscene and baroque and we go minimalism, or at least some type of nostalgic minimalist revival.  (Yes, I know, likely equally cringe and rancid.)

You actually can have comfortable seats without the incessant idiocy of machine-generated noise and lights, at the same time.  It is conceivable.

I was recently in the Newark Train Station (tee up your jokes) and the video status board was made to resemble the old and now rare flip-flip boards, complete with simulated motion and click-clack sounds. It was branded as a Solari product, which is the company that made the old mechanical boards. But it was actually a giant video screen.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nuRe9NtpNmk

The one in New Jersey or the one in Delaware? :-}

[arugula]

Comfortable seats-good
Video boards-almost always bad.

I would love to see nice clear scoreboard and clock and no video board. And no fan engagement content. I'm plenty content and engaged to watch the game

[Trotsky]

I wonder when the tyranny of scoreboards and video will end.  All hemlines change.  There will come a day when  this is all exposed as obscene and baroque and we go minimalism, or at least some type of nostalgic minimalist revival.  (Yes, I know, likely equally cringe and rancid.)

You actually can have comfortable seats without the incessant idiocy of machine-generated noise and lights, at the same time.  It is conceivable.

I was recently in the Newark Train Station (tee up your jokes) and the video status board was made to resemble the old and now rare flip-flip boards, complete with simulated motion and click-clack sounds. It was branded as a Solari product, which is the company that made the old mechanical boards. But it was actually a giant video screen.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nuRe9NtpNmk

IINM the new Penn Station board is like this too, right?

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I liked the old clicky-clack board in Frankfurt Airport.  It made the time go by back in the days I didn't have lounge access.

[Trotsky]

I liked the old clicky-clack board in Frankfurt Airport.  It made the time go by back in the days I didn't have lounge access.

Go to the old TWA Terminal at JFK they turned into a hotel.  The board is glorious!



Note: This is a serious recommendation for everyone in the NYC area, actually.  Go there and get a drink in their Mad Men-like lounge.  The aesthetics of the place are amazing -- you can see how cool public space used to be before The Great Stupefaction.  

But don't stay the night; the rooms suck for the price.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I liked the old clicky-clack board in Frankfurt Airport.  It made the time go by back in the days I didn't have lounge access.

Go to the old TWA Terminal at JFK they turned into a hotel.  The board is glorious!



Note: This is a serious recommendation for everyone in the NYC area, actually.  Go there and get a drink in their Mad Men-like lounge.  The aesthetics of the place are amazing -- you can see how cool public space used to be before The Great Stupefaction.  

But don't stay the night; the rooms suck for the price.

It's JFK.  Everything sucks.

[dbilmes]

Yale upgrading Ingalls.

https://yalebulldogs.com/news/2025/8/7/general-yale-athletics-unveils-3-million-upgrade-at-ingalls-rink.aspx?fbclid=IwY2xjawMB_S9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFob1BMU2NSZkxZTjg4enVrAR5vyNn6IoZPdSz0TwaL9j200rYnyXR07LNNoQ8TrSp_rsvMeKsN1lrQvaSpJA_aem_KS2k4Oym2FPSyuQ6sUmoew

Their sound system was terrible. This now means, though, that the piped-in music will be louder and played more often.
Too bad Cornell isn't doing anything about its useless video board in Lynah. They should just have it removed.

[ursusminor]

I liked the old clicky-clack board in Frankfurt Airport.  It made the time go by back in the days I didn't have lounge access.

Go to the old TWA Terminal at JFK they turned into a hotel.  The board is glorious!



Note: This is a serious recommendation for everyone in the NYC area, actually.  Go there and get a drink in their Mad Men-like lounge.  The aesthetics of the place are amazing -- you can see how cool public space used to be before The Great Stupefaction.  

But don't stay the night; the rooms suck for the price.

It's JFK.  Everything sucks.

Not as much as if they named an airport after his nephew RFK, Jr.

[Ben Rocky '04]

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2025/08/08_Allain-Steps-Down-After-19.php

This seems like really strange timing to me.

[Will]

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2025/08/08_Allain-Steps-Down-After-19.php

This seems like really strange timing to me.

Makes it seem like the Whale upgrade development came with the added question of "What have you done for us lately, coach?"  The national championship is far enough in the past compared to no winning seasons since the return from COVID.

[Ben Rocky '04]

Makes it seem like the Whale upgrade development came with the added question of "What have you done for us lately, coach?"  The national championship is far enough in the past compared to no winning seasons since the return from COVID.

Maybe.... but y'all the time to ask that question was April, not now. The turmoil from having this happen right before freshman arrive on campus will have impact on this season, not that anyone thinks they were going to be good, but it seems oddly callous for any hope of improvement.

[Will]

Makes it seem like the Whale upgrade development came with the added question of "What have you done for us lately, coach?"  The national championship is far enough in the past compared to no winning seasons since the return from COVID.

Maybe.... but y'all the time to ask that question was April, not now. The turmoil from having this happen right before freshman arrive on campus will have impact on this season, not that anyone thinks they were going to be good, but it seems oddly callous for any hope of improvement.

Also could've been a recent health development for Allain personally on top of everything else.  Maybe dealing with the grief of a rink upgrade while trying to fix a team that's been down for four years is too much when he's also just been given a bad medical prognosis.  Complete conjecture on my part, of course.

[stereax]

Yale upgrading Ingalls.

https://yalebulldogs.com/news/2025/8/7/general-yale-athletics-unveils-3-million-upgrade-at-ingalls-rink.aspx?fbclid=IwY2xjawMB_S9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFob1BMU2NSZkxZTjg4enVrAR5vyNn6IoZPdSz0TwaL9j200rYnyXR07LNNoQ8TrSp_rsvMeKsN1lrQvaSpJA_aem_KS2k4Oym2FPSyuQ6sUmoew

Their sound system was terrible. This now means, though, that the piped-in music will be louder and played more often.
Too bad Cornell isn't doing anything about its useless video board in Lynah. They should just have it removed.

But howwwwwww will we watch the Tompkins Trust Shuffle without a video board that barely shows the score, let alone any important replays of what's going on on the ice???

[marty]

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2025/08/08_Allain-Steps-Down-After-19.php

This seems like really strange timing to me.

Makes it seem like the Whale upgrade development came with the added question of "What have you done for us lately, coach?"  The national championship is far enough in the past compared to no winning seasons since the return from COVID.

He might have been tired of the year long grind like Mike.

There must be some inside Yale source we can tap to find out what really happened.  I don't know why those in the know in New Haven didn't spill the tea here.

What can we do to encourage more inside gossip?  We could lose our cred.

::cry::

[Trotsky]

I just assumed the timing was late enough to trap guys who could not plausibly transfer out this year.  But I have worms in my soul.