2004-05 men's hockey media guide

[billhoward]

Looking for a link to the 2004-05 hockey media guide from Cornell. There's the basketball media guide and last year's ice hockey media guide, but not this year's that comes up in searches.

And if it's like the others, it appears if you want to save it locally, you have to save and merge about six PDFs.

[Josh '99]

http://cornellbigred.collegesports.com/sports/m-hockey/spec-rel/042304aaa.html

And yes, it's split into 8 PDF files.

[Pete Godenschwager]

that's the 2003-04 media guide, though.  I haven' seen the 04-05 one.

[Doug Dickerson]

Pete
As far as I know the media guide for this year isn't
out yet. Last years wasn't out until I believe after the first
of the year. I heard that they are trying to get this years
out sooner.
Doug

[Josh '99]

Oops...  so it is.   Color me embarassed.  ::worry::

[billhoward]

No offense, Cornell, but a media guide that comes out halfway through the season ...? Ben Mintz, rest in peace.

[KeithK]

[q]No offense, Cornell, but a media guide that comes out halfway through the season ...? Ben Mintz, rest in peace.[/q]No. Please take offense Cornell!  And then fix whatever is causing the late release.  Media guides should be ready before the season starts.

[Jerseygirl]

The thing that is causing the late release is three full-time staff (one of whom is an intern), doing the publications for all of the varsity sports. This is on top of the day to day stuff (game notes, web updates, gameday ops., etc.) they have to do. Student support is notoriously unreliable -- there are usually two good stat crew kids a year, and one or two good writers, if they're lucky. It's hard enough to get the students to type up the swimming releases, let alone write a season recap.

When there were four people, they were all working late hours seven days a week, and while people say it seems to be a bit more organized this year, they're still down a person. It's also hard to do substantial media guide work (scanning pictures, etc) when you're on the road with a team.

If they had two more good people, I'd guess they'd have their guides out waaaaaaaay before anyone was calling for them.  Although if I remember correctly, Cornell isn't the only school to have guides come out midseason. Not saying it's right, just not unique.

And yeah, I worked there (ask me how much fun it is to compile career stats from waterlogged statbooks) , so I am biased and naturally slightly protective of my old co-workers. But then again, I saw how hard they busted their asses.

Carry on...

[madhatter]

Have to agree with jerseygirl ... those guys work extremely hard.  Also, Jeremy Hartigan, the new SID appears to be ahead of last year's schedule in terms of media guide production, with most 04-05 guides coming out much sooner than their 03-04 counterparts.  That includes the "lesser" sports, which -- despite the love and bias on this site -- deserve just as much coverage as men's ice hockey.

[Josh '99]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:
No offense, Cornell, but a media guide that comes out halfway through the season ...? Ben Mintz, rest in peace. [/q]

[CowbellGuy]

No one is saying they don't work hard. A media guide halfway through the season is still not ok. Clearly they need more staff.

[cbuckser]

The new media guide is on line.  
http://cornellbigred.collegesports.com/sports/m-hockey/spec-rel/121704aaa.html

[billhoward]

On my PCs, section six of the 2004-05 media guide, History and Records (P 47-70), returns a Page Not Found error. The other sections are all there. Anyone else have trouble getting section six?

http://cornellbigred.collegesports.com/sports/m-hockey/spec-rel/121704aaa.html

Not to pile on the Cornell sports information people (what understaffed few there are), but too bad the online guide isn't in color (the printed one, if there is, could still be in B&W), and too bad there isn't a single download of the whole guide available. (None of the pages appeared to have a copyright notice; if that's the case some enterprising individual could merge it into a single ~20MB PDF and make it available elsewhere for download, albeit dragging down their bandwidth allocation).

[Bio '04]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

 On my PCs, section six of the 2004-05 media guide, History and Records (P 47-70), returns a Page Not Found error. The other sections are all there. Anyone else have trouble getting section six?



Not to pile on the Cornell sports information people (what understaffed few there are), but too bad the online guide isn't in color (the printed one, if there is, could still be in B&W), and too bad there isn't a single download of the whole guide available. (None of the pages appeared to have a copyright notice; if that's the case some enterprising individual could merge it into a single ~20MB PDF and make it available elsewhere for download, albeit dragging down their bandwidth allocation). [/q]

I had the same problem with section 6.  The "h" is missing from the "http" at the beginning of the link.  Also the (printed) media guide is in black and white with a color cover.  At least it was for the last 2 years...

[ursusminor]

If I am not mistaken, the NCAA has a rule that only the covers of media guides can be in color. It's something about attempting to cut costs.