Selection Show

[adamw]

I listened to the USCHO special podcast about the brackets and Jim Connelly, who is a smart analyst and bracket guru, stated a few times that the committee put Penn St. in ALB because they travel better than Cornell. This surprised me. We showed great at Springfield, less so in Manchester, and we host that little game in MSG every year in front of 17k.

Maybe I'm looking at it through red tinted glasses, but I was hopeful for ALB, but losing to Princeton sealed our fate as far as making it easy for the committee to send us west.

Hopefully the boys will get on their front foot in CO. Take out the Pios. 

please for the love of good - listen to our podcast instead. I am just not going to comment any further on that first sentence because I need to go throw up.

To clarify just from a factual point of view only ... that is not the reason Penn State is in Albany over Cornell.  Just the fact that someone says that - tells you all you need to know about someone's supposed guru-ness. SMH.

[BearLover]

I listened to the USCHO special podcast about the brackets and Jim Connelly, who is a smart analyst and bracket guru, stated a few times that the committee put Penn St. in ALB because they travel better than Cornell. This surprised me. We showed great at Springfield, less so in Manchester, and we host that little game in MSG every year in front of 17k.

Maybe I'm looking at it through red tinted glasses, but I was hopeful for ALB, but losing to Princeton sealed our fate as far as making it easy for the committee to send us west.

Hopefully the boys will get on their front foot in CO. Take out the Pios. 

please for the love of good - listen to our podcast instead. I am just not going to comment any further on that first sentence because I need to go throw up.

I listened to the USCHO bracketology podcast that they produced following the games this past Saturday night, once all the teams were locked. While predicting the bracket, they said several things that were factually incorrect. They even said their bracket was extremely straightforward and followed typical bracket serpentine seeding, even though it deviated from such seeding in multiple instances. They said it was one of the easiest brackets to predict and that the final bracket would look very similar to theirs. When that didn't happen, I presume they tried to cover their butts by claiming things like that the committee believed PSU would bring more fans than Cornell. There is no evidence of this. Rather, the obvious explanation is that the regionals as constituted best uphold bracket integrity. They required moving the fewest teams around to avoid intra-conference matchups.

[billhoward]

Complaining about ESPN+? All I see is another person who wasn't around in the ILDN days...

ILDN was better than listening in on the radio on account of you could see the game (as long as you didn't trip on the HDMI cable from your laptop to the TV), but it still sucked compared to the video now. Which at Lynah still suffers from poor lighting, no cameras inside the goals, very little use of the cameras over the goals, not much of a reverse angle camera, filthy glass, failure the raise the main cameras 3 to 5 feet even if that means remote controlling them (a snap for anybody's who played a video game with joysticks).

[BearLover]

Complaining about ESPN+? All I see is another person who wasn't around in the ILDN days...

ILDN? The ILDN was in 4K compared to Redcast...

[adamw]

I listened to the USCHO special podcast about the brackets and Jim Connelly, who is a smart analyst and bracket guru, stated a few times that the committee put Penn St. in ALB because they travel better than Cornell. This surprised me. We showed great at Springfield, less so in Manchester, and we host that little game in MSG every year in front of 17k.

Maybe I'm looking at it through red tinted glasses, but I was hopeful for ALB, but losing to Princeton sealed our fate as far as making it easy for the committee to send us west.

Hopefully the boys will get on their front foot in CO. Take out the Pios. 

please for the love of good - listen to our podcast instead. I am just not going to comment any further on that first sentence because I need to go throw up.

I listened to the USCHO bracketology podcast that they produced following the games this past Saturday night, once all the teams were locked. While predicting the bracket, they said several things that were factually incorrect. They even said their bracket was extremely straightforward and followed typical bracket serpentine seeding, even though it deviated from such seeding in multiple instances. They said it was one of the easiest brackets to predict and that the final bracket would look very similar to theirs. When that didn't happen, I presume they tried to cover their butts by claiming things like that the committee believed PSU would bring more fans than Cornell. There is no evidence of this. Rather, the obvious explanation is that the regionals as constituted best uphold bracket integrity. They required moving the fewest teams around to avoid intra-conference matchups.

All of a sudden I love BL.

This is exactly what happened.

I usually talk to the Committee chair every year to get it straight from the horse's mouth, which is how I know the trends in how they're thinking, since it's like an organic beast that evolves in one direction or another, a little bit every year. I didn't do so this year for the first time in about 15 years or more, because it's the Harvard asst. AD, who is so milquetoast, the conversation is pointless.

[RichH]

Complaining about ESPN+? All I see is another person who wasn't around in the ILDN days...

ILDN was better than listening in on the radio on account of you could see the game (as long as you didn't trip on the HDMI cable from your laptop to the TV), but it still sucked compared to the video now. Which at Lynah still suffers from poor lighting, no cameras inside the goals, very little use of the cameras over the goals, not much of a reverse angle camera, filthy glass, failure the raise the main cameras 3 to 5 feet even if that means remote controlling them (a snap for anybody's who played a video game with joysticks).

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

[BearLover]

because it's the Harvard asst. AD

Huh, maybe Cornell *did* get screwed

[stereax]

because it's the Harvard asst. AD

Huh, maybe Cornell *did* get screwed

cornell always gets screwed. see: rule 1.