Tix at Colgate

[A-19]

someone please make a cornell rejects sign

[calgARI '07]

[Q]Mer Wrote:

 Any idea what section most of the Cornell fans will be in? (Or is the seating there more open than at Lynah?) From what I hear about 'Gate, it sounds like safety in numbers is a good idea....   [/q]

Almost all the Cornell fans are placed like they are at RPI, in the section behind the net.  They oversell the game by several hundred and as a result every fire code in the book is violated.  There were no aisles last year at all, just people standing everywhere.  Get there as early as possible so you can get a good place to stand.

[Will]

[Q]calgARI '07 Wrote:

Almost all the Cornell fans are placed like they are at RPI, in the section behind the net.  They oversell the game by several hundred and as a result every fire code in the book is violated.  There were no aisles last year at all, just people standing everywhere.  Get there as early as possible so you can get a good place to stand.[/q]

Indeed.  As much as I love the band, it's no fun having to stand behind the tubas, to which I can personally attest.

[Lauren '06]

[Q]Will Wrote:

 [Q2]calgARI '07 Wrote:

Almost all the Cornell fans are placed like they are at RPI, in the section behind the net.  They oversell the game by several hundred and as a result every fire code in the book is violated.  There were no aisles last year at all, just people standing everywhere.  Get there as early as possible so you can get a good place to stand.[/Q]
Indeed.  As much as I love the band, it's no fun having to stand behind the tubas, to which I can personally attest.[/q]
Better than standing in front of the percussion.

[Will]

[Q]Section A Banshee Wrote:

Better than standing in front of the percussion.[/q]

Did you at least get to see the game clearly?  I didn't.  I had to keep shifting left and right to see around the tubas.  I don't blame the band at all; they gotta do what they gotta do.  I'm not blaming anyone, really.  I'm just saying, get there early and get a good seat.

[Greg Berge]

I have a good friend among the Colgate fan base, so this does not hold for 100% of the crowd.  But.  Lots of drinking in the Colgate crowd, before and during the game.  Also, lots of behavior copied from Beneath the Planet of the Apes.  Without the irony.  

Root hard, stick together, don't linger.

[Josh '99]

[Q]Greg Berge Wrote:
 I have a good friend among the Colgate fan base, so this does not hold for 100% of the crowd.  But.  Lots of drinking in the Colgate crowd, before and during the game....[/q]You say this like you're discovering something new.   ::screwy::

[Ben Rocky '04]

After last year's Mapquest debacle on the way to Hamilton, my crew has now realized we need better directions.  What is the simplest and best way to get from Ithaca to Hamilton?

[Will]

[Q]Ben Rocky 04 Wrote:

 After last year's Mapquest debacle on the way to Hamilton, my crew has now realized we need better directions.  What is the simplest and best way to get from Ithaca to Hamilton?[/q]

I think we also need to remember to bring the proper maps, and lots of them, just in case. ;-)

[ben03]

[Q]Will Wrote:
I think we also need to remember to bring the proper maps, and lots of them, just in case.[/q] and/or a baseball bat, a golf club, maybe a lacrosse stick, or ... well you get the picture::smashfreak::
for those who have never been please do not think i am joking

[jtwcornell91]

Greg, you got the directions from the old Hitchhiker's Guide handy?

[Avash]

[Q]ben03 Wrote:

 [Q2]Will Wrote:
I think we also need to remember to bring the proper maps, and lots of them, just in case.[/Q]
and/or a baseball bat, a golf club, maybe a lacrosse stick, or ... well you get the picture
for those who have never been please do not think i am joking[/q]


Everyone, he isn't joking. I'm hoping the Colgate fans are going to be more well-behaved than they were last year, but last year, I was physically confronted (i.e. shoved, taunted, etc.) by 4 different fans - 2 in the stands, 1 in the lobby, and 1 by my car when I was leaving. And I know I wasn't the only one.

[jeh25]

[Q]Avash '05 Wrote:
ast year, I was physically confronted (i.e. shoved, taunted, etc.) by 4 different fans - 2 in the stands, 1 in the lobby, and 1 by my car when I was leaving. And I know I wasn't the only one.
[/q]

Two words: Pepper Spray.

Not exactly legal in NYS but hey...

[RichH]

[Q]Avash '05 Wrote:

 [Q2]ben03 Wrote:

 [Q2]Will Wrote:
I think we also need to remember to bring the proper maps, and lots of them, just in case.[/Q]
and/or a baseball bat, a golf club, maybe a lacrosse stick, or ... well you get the picture
for those who have never been please do not think i am joking[/Q]
Everyone, he isn't joking. I'm hoping the Colgate fans are going to be more well-behaved than they were last year, but last year, I was physically confronted (i.e. shoved, taunted, etc.) by 4 different fans - 2 in the stands, 1 in the lobby, and 1 by my car when I was leaving. And I know I wasn't the only one.
[/q]
That could be a very interesting thread by itself...horror stories from Starr.  Besides the usual shoving, shoulder-checks, threats of fisticuffs that have happened every time I've been there, I know of bandies who got hit with a glass liquor bottle (during a game), and of course there's the time some Colgate punks were trying to blind our goaltender Jason Elliot during play with a laser pointer.  That was the only time I've ever seen Colgate security actually do anything.  I got spit on with a juicy loogie from the window of the yellow school bus Colgate sent to Lynah one year....I really should've tipped over the keg they had hanging out the back door.  I'm so sick of the harrassment that I've sworn not to go to Starr anymore.  It just isn't worth it.

Just take a look under the benches of the Colgate student section after the game.

[Greg Berge]

To be fair, the worst offenders may not be entirely or even primarily Colgate students.  There's a large townie contingent, many of them Young Bored Males, and there aint a lot to do in the dark months in Hamilton.  Like they say about my own adopted hometown: "hills, whores, and liquor stores."