Lynah Attendance

[marty]

Maybe in Hanover they feel as if they're marooned.

[BearLover]

Good crowds this weekend of course. Particularly impressed we sold out Sunday. It was a fortunate way to cap off a weak year for attendance and atmosphere. Though, I have to say, it looks very strange how empty A is, even vs Harvard. I guess kids move over to other sections (?) but A used look completely full on a nightly basis so IDK

[Chris '03]

Good crowds this weekend of course. Particularly impressed we sold out Sunday. It was a fortunate way to cap off a weak year for attendance and atmosphere. Though, I have to say, it looks very strange how empty A is, even vs Harvard. I guess kids move over to other sections (?) but A used look completely full on a nightly basis so IDK

This weekend was my first time back at Lynah in +/- 15 years. The DJ has to go.  Painful and repeatedly kills the organic energy.  Nobody needs random music blaring in the fifteen seconds before a faceoff after a goal for example.  Or during the handshakes after a playoff series.  Or... almost any time. It seemed worst in the back half of the game yesterday.

[andyw2100]

The DJ has to go.  Painful and repeatedly kills the organic energy.  Nobody needs random music blaring in the fifteen seconds before a faceoff after a goal for example.  Or during the handshakes after a playoff series.  Or... almost any time.

I couldn't agree more. Pretty sure most here agree. I just don't know what it would take for us to convince the powers that be to stop it.

[BearLover]

The DJ has to go.  Painful and repeatedly kills the organic energy.  Nobody needs random music blaring in the fifteen seconds before a faceoff after a goal for example.  Or during the handshakes after a playoff series.  Or... almost any time.

I couldn't agree more. Pretty sure most here agree. I just don't know what it would take for us to convince the powers that be to stop it.

Probably a few of us emailing the Lynah staff/AD staff would be enough to do it

[Trotsky]

Such things are the bane of our world.  Lynah needs an advocate on the AD board who has the veto and can kill this malignance.  All venues do it, so maybe it has become "durr, that's what you do to be serious, durr" for Cornell.  In the actual world of commerce, it is not mindless fuckwittery, it is active malevolence.  Constant noise overwhelms critical thinking and reduces fans to purchasing farm animals.  Stadiums are rendering presses to squeeze out all the livestock's money.  But there is no reason for Cornell to do that.  The press operates at the tuition and fees level.

[Trotsky]

The DJ has to go.  Painful and repeatedly kills the organic energy.  Nobody needs random music blaring in the fifteen seconds before a faceoff after a goal for example.  Or during the handshakes after a playoff series.  Or... almost any time.

I couldn't agree more. Pretty sure most here agree. I just don't know what it would take for us to convince the powers that be to stop it.

Probably a few of us emailing the Lynah staff/AD staff would be enough to do it

Depends on motive.  If they are innocently imitating, yes.  If they are driven by profit, every fan could protest vociferously and the ROI would still demand they do it.  MBAs cannot help themselves.

Profit seekers are the world's apex predator.  We need to band together and hunt them to extinction, except a few exemplars to hobble and display in zoos so we never forget.

[andyw2100]

The DJ has to go.  Painful and repeatedly kills the organic energy.  Nobody needs random music blaring in the fifteen seconds before a faceoff after a goal for example.  Or during the handshakes after a playoff series.  Or... almost any time.

I couldn't agree more. Pretty sure most here agree. I just don't know what it would take for us to convince the powers that be to stop it.

Probably a few of us emailing the Lynah staff/AD staff would be enough to do it

It's certainly worth a try!

I'd be happy to start a thread here, where we can all post the emails we are sending. Wondering if it would be better to do it now, while the iron is hot, so to speak, or wait until after the season ends.

[Chris '03]

The DJ has to go.  Painful and repeatedly kills the organic energy.  Nobody needs random music blaring in the fifteen seconds before a faceoff after a goal for example.  Or during the handshakes after a playoff series.  Or... almost any time.

I couldn't agree more. Pretty sure most here agree. I just don't know what it would take for us to convince the powers that be to stop it.

Probably a few of us emailing the Lynah staff/AD staff would be enough to do it

I'm happy to write to whomever is the appropriate audience at the appropriate time. Having not been to Lynah at all in years, it was especially jarring. 

[Jim Hyla]

The DJ has to go.  Painful and repeatedly kills the organic energy.  Nobody needs random music blaring in the fifteen seconds before a faceoff after a goal for example.  Or during the handshakes after a playoff series.  Or... almost any time.

I couldn't agree more. Pretty sure most here agree. I just don't know what it would take for us to convince the powers that be to stop it.

Probably a few of us emailing the Lynah staff/AD staff would be enough to do it

It's certainly worth a try!

I'd be happy to start a thread here, where we can all post the emails we are sending. Wondering if it would be better to do it now, while the iron is hot, so to speak, or wait until after the season ends.

Both! Now and if no response, again later.

Now is important because "the iron is hot" as they say. We just had the 3 best attendance nights in a while. And while it's ECAC and not all CU, they have to have seen the enthusiasm of the crowds.

As an aside, I'd also like to end the "Wegman's" power play. Yeah they may donate to a good cause, but to me it cheapens the result. I'd rather donate than hear it.

[andyw2100]

The DJ has to go.  Painful and repeatedly kills the organic energy.  Nobody needs random music blaring in the fifteen seconds before a faceoff after a goal for example.  Or during the handshakes after a playoff series.  Or... almost any time.

I couldn't agree more. Pretty sure most here agree. I just don't know what it would take for us to convince the powers that be to stop it.

Probably a few of us emailing the Lynah staff/AD staff would be enough to do it

It's certainly worth a try!

I'd be happy to start a thread here, where we can all post the emails we are sending. Wondering if it would be better to do it now, while the iron is hot, so to speak, or wait until after the season ends.

Both! Now and if no response, again later.

Now is important because "the iron is hot" as they say. We just had the 3 best attendance nights in a while. And while it's ECAC and not all CU, they have to have seen the enthusiasm of the crowds.

Ok. I will get on it today. Look for a new thread later that will include my email as well as who I sent it to, (will do a little research on that first) as well as the call to action, suggesting that others write and possibly also share in the thread.

[ugarte]

Depends on motive.  If they are innocently imitating, yes.  If they are driven by profit, every fan could protest vociferously and the ROI would still demand they do it.  MBAs cannot help themselves.

This is didactic to the point of incoherence! Organic and sincere fan outrage is an indicator of where the profit lies! This is why you speak up! It's not like there is some payola involved that gets Cornell a fee to play certain songs during the break; if anything there's an expense to playing canned music. I am plenty anticapitalist but what's the point of doomsaying action?

[The Rancor]

Depends on motive.  If they are innocently imitating, yes.  If they are driven by profit, every fan could protest vociferously and the ROI would still demand they do it.  MBAs cannot help themselves.

This is didactic to the point of incoherence! Organic and sincere fan outrage is an indicator of where the profit lies! This is why you speak up! It's not like there is some payola involved that gets Cornell a fee to play certain songs during the break; if anything there's an expense to playing canned music. I am plenty anticapitalist but what's the point of doomsaying action?

I would not be at all surprised to learn that some Cornell donor profits in some way from the licence fee for playing the canned music during games. Such is the world.

[Weder]

Depends on motive.  If they are innocently imitating, yes.  If they are driven by profit, every fan could protest vociferously and the ROI would still demand they do it.  MBAs cannot help themselves.

This is didactic to the point of incoherence! Organic and sincere fan outrage is an indicator of where the profit lies! This is why you speak up! It's not like there is some payola involved that gets Cornell a fee to play certain songs during the break; if anything there's an expense to playing canned music. I am plenty anticapitalist but what's the point of doomsaying action?

I would not be at all surprised to learn that some Cornell donor profits in some way from the licence fee for playing the canned music during games. Such is the world.

Semi-tangent that I've always wondered -- is the pep band covered under some sort of university- or athletic-department-wide licensing agreement?

[Beeeej]

Depends on motive.  If they are innocently imitating, yes.  If they are driven by profit, every fan could protest vociferously and the ROI would still demand they do it.  MBAs cannot help themselves.

This is didactic to the point of incoherence! Organic and sincere fan outrage is an indicator of where the profit lies! This is why you speak up! It's not like there is some payola involved that gets Cornell a fee to play certain songs during the break; if anything there's an expense to playing canned music. I am plenty anticapitalist but what's the point of doomsaying action?

I would not be at all surprised to learn that some Cornell donor profits in some way from the licence fee for playing the canned music during games. Such is the world.

Semi-tangent that I've always wondered -- is the pep band covered under some sort of university- or athletic-department-wide licensing agreement?

Pep bands and marching bands generally pay a licensing fee per song directly to the song's publisher in return for the right to rearrange it, and that includes performance rights. So there's no need for separate payment to, or inclusion in someone else's agreement with, an aggregator like ASCAP or BMI.

And for what it's worth, to my knowledge, neither the organization of composers that owns ASCAP nor the PE firm that owns BMI has a Cornell alum in a high-level position.