Clarkson's band

[Josh '99]

The Cornell band has been reprimanded numerous times about playing after the puck drops and as a result it rarely happens.  (See:  a capella Rock and Roll Part II.  You don't think that shit just happens spontaneously, do you?)  Other bands, including Clarkson's band, do it all the time and rarely if ever get called on it.  (I don't care if it's just one asshole with a trumpet and if the rest of you were telling him to stop.  Playing is playing.)

Don't get me wrong.  Other bands add to the atmosphere.  Other bands who play when it's not their turn in an effort to drown out cheers (I'm looking squarely at you, Colgate) are assholes.

[aznxjz]

[Q]jmh30 Wrote:

I'm looking squarely at you, Colgate[/q]

It's not their fault.  Clearly an effect of improper breeding....

I went to a game at Colgate last year.  They remind me of fans at IC for some reason....

[jeh25]

[Q]Jim Hyla Wrote:

 [Q2]Will Wrote:I wonder, can a complaint somehow be made to the referee about a band playing past the drop of the puck?  Maybe get the other team a bench minor out of it?[/Q]
Reminds me of a game in Potsdam many, many years ago, when Ref Pierre Belanger (spell?) heard the CLK band play too long and then skated right up to them and reprimanded them.

Well, too late, SU lost, so good night. Will this be the first year that SU Lax doesn't make the fianl four?[/q]

Don't worry, the smokey backroom deals are still alive in college Lax. SU will get in by being a "quality program" or some other BS. Couple of years back they took Hofstra rather than Yale even when a head to head comparision using their own published criteria showed they should have taken Yale.

Out of the 20+ straight FF appearances for SU, how many were a direct result of undeserved byes?

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]jeh25 Wrote:

Don't worry, the smokey backroom deals are still alive in college Lax. SU will get in by being a "quality program" or some other BS. Couple of years back they took Hofstra rather than Yale even when a head to head comparision using their own published criteria showed they should have taken Yale.
[/q]

That was the year that the Swami correctly predicted the "surprising" selection of Duke over Johns Hopkins, but wondered why they didn't choose Yale as well, right?

The Lax criteria are just fucked up anyway.  Makes you thankful for the PWR.

[jtwcornell91]

Over the webcast the Clarkson band definitely seemed not to be up to their usual standards, presumably due to being short-handed.  What's with Techers leaving the state for Spring Break instead of going places like Ithaca and Lake Placid, anyway?

[Drew]

[Q]jtwcornell91 Wrote:

 Over the webcast the Clarkson band definitely seemed not to be up to their usual standards, presumably due to being short-handed.  What's with Techers leaving the state for Spring Break instead of going places like Ithaca and Lake Placid, anyway?[/q]

Poor bastards, haven't seen weather over 30 degrees or a good looking girl since they left their homes in August.....can't fault them.......the alumni has to pick up the slack.

[Will]

[Q]jtwcornell91 Wrote:

 Over the webcast the Clarkson band definitely seemed not to be up to their usual standards, presumably due to being short-handed.  What's with Techers leaving the state for Spring Break instead of going places like Ithaca and Lake Placid, anyway?[/q]

Maybe they want to spend their Spring Break in a place even colder, more remote, and with less attractive women than Potsdam?  I hear Point Barrow is nice this time of year. :-P

[Brian Deerr '04]

[Q]jtwcornell91 Wrote:

 Over the webcast the Clarkson band definitely seemed not to be up to their usual standards, presumably due to being short-handed.  What's with Techers leaving the state for Spring Break instead of going places like Ithaca and Lake Placid, anyway?[/q]

Through my four years as a Cornell percussionist, I don't think I've ever heard the Clarkson band being up to anyone's standards.  I'd put them at the bottom of the pack for other bands in the league (with the possible exception of the SLU(t) rent-a-band incident).  RPI has had a good band in recent years, as has Yale.  Harvard checks in a little bit below them.  I've played with the RPI and Harvard bands at Placid/Albany and they've been good musicians and people in general.  The Yale band gets the nod for their full length version of November Rain and for the fact that their percussion section calls themselves Kappa Banga Banga.

I don't blame the Clarkson band for this, though - I blame whoever arranged their music and forgot to make sure that all the parts are in the same key at the same time.

Brian '04

[BCrespi]

Drunk stupid frat guys look, smell, and sound alike.

[atb9]

[Q]BCrespi Wrote:

 Drunk stupid frat guys look, smell, and sound alike.[/q]

30% of the Cornell population is greek.  It's about the same at Colgate.  Don't blame it on the fraternities at Colgate, nerd.  ;-)

[BCrespi]

::laugh:: I don't blame it on the fraternities or the members themselves.  I blame it on a population that allows its persona to be totally taken over by one (often regrettable) segment of the group.  And also, "drunk, stupid[/B] frat guys," is what i said.  

[Pace]

[Q]Brian Deerr Wrote:

 [Q2]jtwcornell91 Wrote:

 Over the webcast the Clarkson band definitely seemed not to be up to their usual standards, presumably due to being short-handed.  What's with Techers leaving the state for Spring Break instead of going places like Ithaca and Lake Placid, anyway?[/Q]
Through my four years as a Cornell percussionist, I don't think I've ever heard the Clarkson band being up to anyone's standards.  I'd put them at the bottom of the pack for other bands in the league (with the possible exception of the SLU(t) rent-a-band incident).  RPI has had a good band in recent years, as has Yale.  Harvard checks in a little bit below them.  I've played with the RPI and Harvard bands at Placid/Albany and they've been good musicians and people in general.  The Yale band gets the nod for their full length version of November Rain and for the fact that their percussion section calls themselves Kappa Banga Banga.

I don't blame the Clarkson band for this, though - I blame whoever arranged their music and forgot to make sure that all the parts are in the same key at the same time.

Brian '04[/q]

I never knew there was an accepted key in which one is supposed to rape a cow...

[Josh '99]

[Q]Brian Deerr Wrote:
...and for the fact that their percussion section calls themselves Kappa Banga Banga.[/q]Eh, you drummers are all the same.  "ME BANG DRUM!  BANG BANG BANG!"  :-P

[Beeeej]

[Q]atb9 Wrote:
 [Q2]BCrespi Wrote:
 Drunk stupid frat guys look, smell, and sound alike.[/Q]
30% of the Cornell population is greek.  It's about the same at Colgate.  Don't blame it on the fraternities at Colgate, nerd.[/q]

As he clarified, he was talking about drunk stupid frat guys.  And I'll back him up on this, to the point of saying that I'm a KDR, and the guys who were in KDR at Colgate when I was an undergrad were complete assholes.  They came to our house, drank our beer, urinated on our house, stole some of our stuff, then got arrested in Ithaca for urinating on other people's houses.  "Sacred bond" my ass.

Syracuse and RIT KDRs, however, were (and I hope still are) exceedingly cool.

Beeeej

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]Drew Wrote:

 [Q2]jtwcornell91 Wrote:

 Over the webcast the Clarkson band definitely seemed not to be up to their usual standards, presumably due to being short-handed.  What's with Techers leaving the state for Spring Break instead of going places like Ithaca and Lake Placid, anyway?[/Q]
Poor bastards, haven't seen weather over 30 degrees or a good looking girl since they left their homes in August.....can't fault them.......the alumni has to pick up the slack.[/q]

We do have good-looking girls at Cornell, you know...