Money: Cornellians lost to (and gained from) the portal

[Snowball]

Sidenote - the ? ? ? -> emoji pisses me off

Well sorry, but I actually typed four "?"  and somehow that emoji auto inserted, so I don't even know what

? ? ? -> emoji

means. Please tell me.

[marty]

Sidenote - the ? ? ? -> emoji pisses me off

Well sorry, but I actually typed four "?"  and somehow that emoji auto inserted, so I don't even know what

? ? ? -> emoji

means. Please tell me.

When I chose it above it inserted 3 question marks - meaning I assume "what?"

More posters should consider using it - sorry stereax.

[stereax]

Sidenote - the ? ? ? -> emoji pisses me off

Well sorry, but I actually typed four "?"  and somehow that emoji auto inserted, so I don't even know what

? ? ? -> emoji

means. Please tell me.

When I chose it above it inserted 3 question marks - meaning I assume "what?"

More posters should consider using it - sorry stereax.

It's a good emoji! Just the keybind pisses me off, because I can't be like "THEY'RE CHALLENGING IT???" without the emoji showing up.

[marty]

Sidenote - the ? ? ? -> emoji pisses me off

Well sorry, but I actually typed four "?"  and somehow that emoji auto inserted, so I don't even know what

? ? ? -> emoji

means. Please tell me.

When I chose it above it inserted 3 question marks - meaning I assume "what?"

More posters should consider using it - sorry stereax.

It's a good emoji! Just the keybind pisses me off, because I can't be like "THEY'RE CHALLENGING IT???" without the emoji showing up.

OK then,

? ? ? ?

!!!!

[Trotsky]

Must almost be summer at eLF.

[stereax]

Must almost be summer at eLF.

Just wait until finals are over and we can peer at who has under a 3.0 GPA 😭

[ugarte]

I'm glad you have an exit strategy from CHN because I fear your material interest in the ongoing vitality of college sports is clouding your judgment on who gets to pick the winners and losers and why they should.

What??

That feels like shooting the messenger. Adam has spent a lot of time walking us through what these changes mean for college hockey. You can disagree, but reducing it to self-interest is unfair.

1. He's a big boy, he can handle criticism.
2. I don't think I reduced it to self-interest.
3. @adamw is incorrect about the meaning of Dartmouth's unionization effort. There was not a judicial ruling that the players were employees; there was a 2024 ruling by an NLRB regional office recognizing the bargaining unit. Dartmouth did not accept that decision and was refusing to bargain. Dartmouth's actions were setting up an unfair labor practice hearing backstopped by a battle in federal court if they lost. This isn't nitpicking, it's a significant difference. The case wasn't likely to get to federal court. The NLRB didn't get a quorum until December 2025 and once it had a quorum a Trump NLRB was never going to uphold that decision. Dartmouth's players knew it and withdrew their attempt to unionize.

We are a very, very long way from the Amherst shortstop being considered a school employee.

[BearLover]

Pretty impressive lack of loyalty displayed by both Cournoyer as well as well as Wisconsin, which reached the national title game with a goalie with 3 years of eligibility remaining and then immediately kicked him to the curb for Cournoyer.

[stereax]

Pretty impressive lack of loyalty displayed by both Cournoyer as well as well as Wisconsin, which reached the national title game with a goalie with 3 years of eligibility remaining and then immediately kicked him to the curb for Cournoyer.

Official, as per McNally.

I like the term that he "signed" with Wisc.

[BearLover]

Now that he is officially gone, I will say that it is my suspicion that Cournoyer was one of the worst students to ever don a Cornell uniform.

[Cornell troll]

I wish him all the worst

[BearLover]

I wish him all the worst

careful, if you say stuff like this a bunch of folks on here are going to stalk your elynah posts for the next 15 years

[stereax]

Now that he is officially gone, I will say that it is my suspicion that Cournoyer was one of the worst students to ever don a Cornell uniform.

I assume you mean academically, lol. We'll have some inkling of that once the academic lists come out. Wasn't literally like, everyone but Charlie Major on it last year?

[Cornell troll]

I wish him all the worst

careful, if you say stuff like this a bunch of folks on here are going to stalk your elynah posts for the next 15 years

ngl I thought this courn guy was the start of something beautiful akin to dryden but man it sucks. I hope the McNally report shows some kind of academic struggle or financial issues having forced him to look elsewhere (I doubt any of these could have been the cause though).

[BearLover]

I wish him all the worst

careful, if you say stuff like this a bunch of folks on here are going to stalk your elynah posts for the next 15 years

ngl I thought this courn guy was the start of something beautiful akin to dryden but man it sucks. I hope the McNally report shows some kind of academic struggle or financial issues having forced him to look elsewhere (I doubt any of these could have been the cause though).

His year wasn't anything special by Cornell goaltending standards but it was a very good year for a freshman with further room to grow. Most of all it totally screws us going forward, as we have no starter next year. Unfortunately I doubt McNally is really going to dig into what happened, the Sun's sports coverage never wants to rock the boat but it would be great to at least get Casey on record.