Lynah remodel - keeping up with the Joneses

[ben03]

[Q]Jim Hyla Wrote:
Personally I hate the rinks with the opposite benches. I always think they are a bunch of losers trying to give themselves an edge that they can't get with their players or coaches.[/q]
well then we could just call coach ... jack parker:-P

[abmarks]

Students had section C up until around 1987 or so. Blame Laing Kennedy and possibly coach McCutcheon for the changeup.  At the time the ywere intentionally splitting up the student section for either behavior/language/drinking and the like.  You could go back and read old Sun articles with McCutcheon bitching about the language in the stnads and that he wouldn't bring his kids...eerily similar to Shafer's current stand. (Not to go off-topic but having talked to him at the time when he was an assistant coach here he thought the crowd was quite funny.  See what getting old does to your sense of humor?)  At the time noone had started standing yet so it wasn't an issue - that tradition was yet to come.  

They also moved the band over to G at the same time in an attempt to "unify" the rink.  (I think we even changed ends of the ice for a year or two at thetime?) The band was moved back to A when McCutcheon 1 was hired as the coach.  Evidently he knew from his days as a player that the band in section A often rendered between period conversation in the visiting locker room anywhere from dificult to impossible with al the noise right next to it.

So basically, 1) the students were a bunch of drunks (what's new) who were not that much different from the ones now in terms of "offensive language" and 2) I have  always thought Laing Kennedy was an a**.   Add in a little chance to make the boosters happy and there you have the section C takeover.


Anyone who was around at the time feel free to correct any possible fuzzy memory problems in my post....


--Arik

p.s. Winning team, losing team worked alot better when conducted from the front and center of the student section in C

[billhoward]

[OT] A tangental thread and we've passed 2,000 hits in six days. What a hockey mad place this is.

[ithacat]

[Q]Jim Hyla Wrote:

 Well, the lastest renovation proposal that I've heard is to expand on the south side of the rink for new locker rooms, etc.. They would also redo the benches moving ours to the south side with the penalty box and keeping the opposition across the rink. They could add some seats, or stands if they are for students, at the top of those sections. No wrap arround on the west side.[/q]

New locker rooms, yes. Move Cornell's bench to the student side?

Why the hold up on adding seats to the west end?

[andyw2100]

[Q]abmarks Wrote:
 (I think we even changed ends of the ice for a year or two at thetime?)

Anyone who was around at the time feel free to correct any possible fuzzy memory problems in my post....
[/q]


OK, I'll (try to) correct this part.

Through at least the '85-'86 season Cornell shot towards the east end of the rink in the first and third periods, making Section D the premier student section. I believe it was McCutcheon who changed that, for, I believe, two reasons. If my memory serves, the stated reason was that he wanted the players to be able to be facing the scoreboard twice as much. The other reason was because of the potential for bad bounces off the boards at the west end of the rink, where all the doors are.

To the best of my knowledge, once the change was made, that was it. We've been shooting towards the West end of the rink in periods 1 and 3 ever since.
                                 Andy W.

[upperdeck]

I dont think the west end seats can get added anymore.. the dynamics of the new life sciences building doesnt allow for building out the west end side anymore.. it may also removed the teagle/lynah parking lot since they have to allow for semi's to park in that area somehow.  they are still arguing though so things may still change..

[billhoward]

Hmm. Unless an academic building actually cuts into where the dressing rooms and refrigeration equipment are right now (or is that *all* moving to the south side?), there'd be room for expansion overtop that area. Just no money for it now and no active plans.

It would be terrible if Cornell built so close to Lynah that it precluded ever expanding to the West if only expanding to the extent of the current Lynah west end footprint.

[Josh '99]

If, in theory, you wanted to un-split the student section, and also wanted to keep the people with tickets in C and M happy, and also didn't want to do any significant renovation, couldn't you put the students in E-F-G-H-J-K and have Cornell shoot at that end twice a game?

[ithacat]

Are you saying semis would need the parking lot during construction or that the parking lot would become a road? Isn't the space between the existing Biotech Bldg & Lynah (on the NW) rather narrow?

[David Harding]

[Q]jmh30 Wrote:

 If, in theory, you wanted to un-split the student section, and also wanted to keep the people with tickets in C and M happy, and also didn't want to do any significant renovation, couldn't you put the students in E-F-G-H-J-K and have Cornell shoot at that end twice a game?[/q]

There are other reasons to shoot at the west end and defend the east.

[billhoward]

>>> There are other reasons to shoot at the west end and defend the east.

Coriolis Effect shooting westward in the northern hemisphere? In-house jetstream?

[nyc94]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

 >>> There are other reasons to shoot at the west end and defend the east.

Coriolis Effect shooting westward in the northern hemisphere? In-house jetstream?

[/q]

Clock.

[jeh25]

[Q]nyc94 Wrote:

 [Q2]billhoward Wrote:

 >>> There are other reasons to shoot at the west end and defend the east.

Coriolis Effect shooting westward in the northern hemisphere? In-house jetstream?

[/Q]
Clock.[/q]

Feng Shui.

[David Harding]

Until spectators fill the west end, the goalie has a less cluttered view of the incoming puck.
View of the clock.

[upperdeck]

current plans show a 3-4 bay loading dock between biotech and lynah. to fit that into that corner it needs to replace that existing outdoor stairway from the parking lot to the athletic fields.. there wont be much room left in the parking lot..