Lynah

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Re: the band.  The band is in A because it's close to the visiting teams locker room.  (Told that by Schafer back in the days of his assistantship)  Made it very hard to hear in the visiting locker room evidently

I'd bet they put the bacn in whatever position they find the most advantageous (in whatever way they find advantageous.....)

Arik

[Pace]

I too really doubt that it could ever happen, but damn would that be awesome! Unfair too, but hey, we deserve revenge. Ideally they'd send Minny to us. But this is all wishful thinking really.

[Greenberg \'97]

[Q]CowbellGuy Wrote:

 [Q2]KeithK Wrote:

the penalty boxes end up on the side of the home bencj, giving the home team an advantage in getting the right personnel on the ice after a penalty expires.[/Q]
As I understand it, this is precisely why Schafer wants it. I don't like it either, FWIW.[/q]


Of the two formats, having the benches on opposite sides of the ice is the design recommended by the NCAA.

[Trotsky]

I'm all for creating the "short skate / long skate" home advantage, but I'm shocked the NCAA will let a team *change* to that.  Grandfathering in an old structure I could see (i.e,  the old Gahden, which gave the Bruins a unique home advantage for decades).

[ursusminor]

[Q]Andy Wrote:

 While I'll agree that with the 16 team tournament, a tourney appearance banner is a little much, this pales in comparison to banners at Colgate.  A friend and I made the trip up there for the first time this year and they have banners for everything imaginable, which still amounts to not very much.  If I recall they have one for ECAC final four and final five, 3rd place, all that stuff, and it still only covers the higest point in Starr.  Having not travelled extensively, is this the norm around the ECAC or is Colgate just "special"?[/q]
RPI has six banners plus one towel. The six banners are for two NCAA Championships, three ECAC Tourney championship, and one Women's Club championship. Then there is what looks like a towel honoring Adam Oates that hangs from the 1985 NCAA banner. http://www.rpihockey.net/041105/48.jpg

[Will]

Ralph, is Oates' number retired?

[ursusminor]

[Q]Will Wrote:

 Ralph, is Oates' number retired?[/q]

No, thankfully. RPI put up that banner for Oates as the first player on the Wall of Honor (or some such name). I think that RPI will be similarly honoring one former player every year on Black Friday. Next season, that will apparently be the Quinnipiac game on 11/11. It wouldn't surprise me if the next one so honored will be Joé Juneau.

Oates' number, 12, is currently being worn by Kevin Croxton.

[ithacat]

[Q]Will Wrote:

 [Q2]mjh89 Wrote:

 Yea, I've been thinking that too. A team with Cornell's history doesn't need to hang a banner everytime we play in the NCAA tournament.[/Q]

Perhaps, but I think it should still be noted within the rink, like keeping the NCAA Tournament listing on the wall.[/q]

Absolutely. The more I think about second place NCAA banners the more "eh" I get. I do, however, think that Frozen Four banners should fly. What are there 8 or 9?

[Steve M]

[Q]Free11Skier Wrote:

 Giving C back to the students is quite appealing.  As a first year resident in D, I was dissapointed by the level of enthusiasm at that end.  It's not bad, but it could be much better.  Five continuous sections of standing students will be more intimidating than the current setup and allow for more people to join in on individual cheers.

I'm all for it![/q]


I agree.  I think today's fans are great, and I know I'm biased, but I think Lynah was even more intimidating 20 years ago than it is today.  Part of it was that we could say anything we wanted, but I think an even bigger part of it was that Section C was a student section, which kept cheers unified.

[Josh '99]

[Q]ursaminor Wrote:
Oates' number, 12, is currently being worn by Kevin Croxton.[/q]Is he out of that slump yet?  :-D

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]Greenberg '97 Wrote:

Of the two formats, having the benches on opposite sides of the ice is the design recommended by the NCAA.[/q]

Wow, that's really dumb.  Of course, the NCAA didn't even know that olympic ice was recommended, so...

[KeithK]

[q]I have never seen any rink that put the band at center ice. Personally, I'd love it for the view of the game we'd get, but there's got to be some reason bands always get stuck in the corner... probably noise control.[/q]How about the fact that (home) bands get in free?  Give the freebies the cheap seats and save the good ones for the paying customers?

(No offense intended here - this just seems to make good business sense.)

[RichS]

Changing an existing structure to create an advantage is "gamesmanship" of the lowest order and should be expressly forbidden at ALL rinks.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I don't want a regional at Lynah.  I could handle one at Rochester or Syracuse, but it's not fair to have home ice for the NC$$ tourney.  I don't want us lowering ourselves to Minnesota's level.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

They had "NCAA Runner-Up" banners hanging at Mariucci.  I thought they looked weak.  Kind of like saying "Me too!"