TBRW? Awards

[jtwcornell91]

Greg should be announcing these, but they seem to be out already...

http://www.spiritone.com/~kepler/awards/tbrw_awards.html

[Al DeFlorio]

Excellent choices all.  

Scuderi, I'd say, ran unopposed. ::uhoh::

[jtwcornell91]

How about Poapst?  O'Flaherty?  Murley?  (I suspect Murley or Palahicky would be Clarkson's least respected opponent.)

[Jordan 04]

No Hornby for scrappiness and effort? :`(

[Greg Berge]

Well, I was going to formally announce them tomorrow, but John pre-emptively struck.  I wasn't planning on any changes, anyway.  Thanks to everyone who gave their input.  Any criticism should be directed solely at me.  "It's my party..." and all that.

[melissa \'01]

ANY criticism? :-D

[Keith K]

The TBRW awards are terrible! Clearly, any system of awards is flawed if it could honor Andy Bandurski two years in a row.  My vote would have gone to an orange cone those years!!!

(Sorry, had to be said... :-D )

[jtwcornell91]

Yeah, my only disappointment with the way the awards turned out was that Hornby didn't win anything.  (Maybe Greg should institute a Dan Dufresne Award.)

[Anne 85]

Certainly Hornby's name springs to mind when you think about "scrappiness and effort" or perhaps "determination in a supporting role."  The "problem" is there were too many players who deserved recognition this season.

I'm not sure a Dan (penalty-box) Dufresne award is the answer, however.  I for one felt that Hornby was much more selective with his hitting this year, although he did have a few penalty minutes (all minors).

I've been thinking that we should have a Damian Rocke award -- for noteworthy (or legendary) accomplishment during the season.  This could be a flexible, loosely defined award; maybe not awarded every year.  This would allow us to acknowledge players like Hornby (the unguided missile), Big Dave Francis, or Jiri Kloboucek (Mr. October).

[Give My Regards]

The purist in me cringes at the idea of a potentially negative award for a member of our own team.  Which is not to say that the accomplishments of players like Damian or Jiri aren't worth remembering ::rolleyes::

[jtwcornell91]

Of course, the title "Damian Rocke Award" has already been used.  See http://slack.net/~whelan/RMCHAawards.shtml

[Josh '99]

Is the Levi Clegg who you named MVP of said RMCHA Tournament the same Levi Clegg who appeared in five games for Cornell in 1996-97?  Certainly it's not a very common name...

[jtwcornell91]

As I was going to add in a footnote: Yes, it's the same Levi Clegg.  He was a local boy who was passing through on his way from Cornell to (I believe) Stanford.

[Anne 85]

Sorry, John.  I didn't mean to step on your toes.  I don't think you need to worry about competition for the name, though.  Greg hasn't shown any interest in adding the Rocke award to TBRW.

And Bill, I don't think of the proposed award as negative.   Rocke single-handedly made an otherwise dreadful game somewhat entertaining (and fortunately no-one was injured).  As for Jiri, the point isn't that he failed to produce during the regular season, but rather that he was so spectacular during Red-White (and exhibition?) games.

[Beeeej]

John (and, more to the point, Greg),

The link under Damian Rocke's name on slack.net leads to a non-existent page at TBRW, "97goons.html" or some such thing.

Beeeej