2005-06 Schedule

[Lauren '06]

[Q]KeithK Wrote:

 [Q2] Some of the travel pair contests are backwards. For some unknown reason, they are all listed in alphabetical order..[/Q]
Sounds like the weekends are right but the details of which game is which may not have been settled back in November when the original post went up. [/q]
Does this create the possibility that the Lynah East game could be on Friday?  (pleasepleasepleaseplease)  ::help::

[Trotsky]

Mine (http://www.tbrw.info/2006/2006Schedule.html) adapted from here also has partnerships in alpha order.  I have seen this in previous years.  I think the league sets up the weekend pairings and then lets the teams fight it out for who plays who on which day.

[Andy]

Does anyone else think it would have been nice to leave the ECAC at 11 teams, and give us two more open dates to improve the all-important strength of schedule?  I mean we can schedule better games than home and away with quinnipiac (I hope).

[KeithK]

While two more non-conf games might be nice, having an 11 team league would totally destroy the elegance of the ECAC travel partner system.  You'd either have to scrap it entirely (a dismal prospect) or deal with the whining of the one team who didn't have a partner and had to play two teams every weekend while their opponents played one.  We have experience to show that Bob Gaudet would whine about this.

BTW - don't be too surprised if Q ends up being decent in a few years once they get to full scholarships.  I'm not saying national top 10 or even challenging for the top of the league.  But they should do better over the long haul than the last entrant to the league has.

[Trotsky]

[Q]Andy Wrote:

Does anyone else think it would have been nice to leave the ECAC at 11 teams[/q]

No. :-)

[ursusminor]

[Q]Trotsky Wrote:

 Mine (http://www.tbrw.info/2006/2006Schedule.html) adapted from here also has partnerships in alpha order.  I have seen this in previous years.  I think the league sets up the weekend pairings and then lets the teams fight it out for who plays who on which day.[/q]

I received a complete ECAC schedule by email back in January (except for the games between travel partners [e.g., Cornell vs Colgate]). I suspect it is correct. It's a PDF file. Is there a way to post it?

[Trotsky]

The problem isn't a lack of NC dates.  Cornell had 7 NC dates to play with this year and included Army, Sacred Heart, and Canisius on their schedule.

The problem is that, for reasons gone into ad infinitum on other threads, we can't get reciprocal agreements with strong teams.  Strong teams tend to have huge buildings, sacrificing a game date to travel to Ithaca costs them a lot of cash.  So there is no reason to believe this will ever change.

A (perhaps the only) way out would be for Mike to schedule one-way road trips to hostile barns.  Is this a good idea?  On the one hand, Cornell would likely lose a disproportionate number of those road games, which would hurt their PWR.  On the other hand, they would gain a lot of experience playing tough opponents under the worst possible conditions, which could only help them come NCAA time, unless it eroded their confidence.

[ursusminor]

[Q]Section A Banshee Wrote:

 [Q2]KeithK Wrote:

 [Q2] Some of the travel pair contests are backwards. For some unknown reason, they are all listed in alphabetical order..[/Q]
Sounds like the weekends are right but the details of which game is which may not have been settled back in November when the original post went up. [/Q]
Does this create the possibility that the Lynah East game could be on Friday?  (pleasepleasepleaseplease)[/q] Yes, it is on Friday 11/11.

[Trotsky]

[Q]ursaminor Wrote:

I received a complete ECAC schedule by email back in January (except for the games between travel partners ). I suspect it is correct. It's a PDF file. Is there a way to post it?[/q]

You mean this?: http://www.tbrw.info/2006/2005-06ECACHLMen'sSchedule.pdf

[Trotsky]

Crap, pdf files won't post at my office.  Somebody tell me if that worked.

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]Trotsky Wrote:

 Crap, pdf files won't post at my office.  Somebody tell me if that worked.[/q]

Yes, it did.  Can you incorporate the Fri/Sat info into your Cornell schedule?

[Trotsky]

[Q]jtwcornell91 Wrote:
Yes, it did.  Can you incorporate the Fri/Sat info into your Cornell schedule?[/q]
Yep.  I should have already.  I am suck.

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]Jim Hyla Wrote:
Fri    Dec-30   Florida
Sat    Dec-31   Florida
[/q]

Maine, tUMD, and Northeastern all apparently have the Florida tournament as Dec 29-30 on their schedules.

ETA: if they stick to the pattern, we're due to play Maine in the first round.

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]ursaminor Wrote:

 [Q2]Section A Banshee Wrote:

 [Q2]KeithK Wrote:

 [Q2] Some of the travel pair contests are backwards. For some unknown reason, they are all listed in alphabetical order..[/Q]
Sounds like the weekends are right but the details of which game is which may not have been settled back in November when the original post went up. [/Q]
Does this create the possibility that the Lynah East game could be on Friday?  (pleasepleasepleaseplease)[/Q]
Yes, it is on Friday 11/11.

[/q]

Aw, geez, that means Harvard is Senior Night.  My head may explode.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

[Q]Al DeFlorio Wrote:

 [Q2]Jeff Hopkins '82 Wrote:

 One exception is the University of Pittsburgh (aka Pitt) which is public.[/Q]
Scranton and Dayton, both Catholic.[/q]

I grew up a half a block from the U of Scranton.  VERY Catholic.