It was only a matter of time...

[Beeeej]

If you read a bit further into that paragraph, you'll see that they actually do address the question of "I only want to listen to one game."  There's a 14-day free trial available.  So if you really do want to listen to only one game, you should be able to take advantage of that opportunity.

Beeeej

[ugarte]

This is the message I sent (via the webmaster - the comments form wasn't working):

$6.95 a month is much more than I am willing to pay to listen to Cornell sports.  I was able to listen to all Major League baseball games this year for $14.95.  One year of Cornell sports broadcasts will cost over four times as much.

I have no interest in the non-Cornell games that will be made available to me.  I don't care about the geegaws that are included in addition to the actual broadcast. (For the record, past broadcasts have traditionally been choppy - every time the announcer raised his voice during lacrosse broadcasts, the feed cut out.  In other words: every shot, every goal and every exciting play did not go out over the web.)  What you are offering is a bundle of things I don't want and charging me too much for the only thing that I do want.

I assume that some time in mid-season, when the subscriber base is so low as to be an embarrassment, Cornell will rethink its policy and come up with a reasonable pricing scheme.  I promise not to say I told you so.

Sincerely,
Charles D. Star ILR '92, MPA '94

I'm not about to sign letters to the AD "big red apple".  I want them read, after all. I also should have read it once more before hitting send.

Beeeej - this site requires square brackets for tags.  This is the first, and probably will be the last, time this techno-zero is in a position to give such advice.

[vicb]

Look at it in these terms $6.95 per month, if you figure 28 hockey games over some 5 months that is $1.24 on a per game basis or only $0.31 per period or $0.155 per minute of hockey action.  Pretty cheap ::nut:: .  

You can always listen to Clarkson Hockey for free at least for this year :-D .  But alas I figure that will stop in the next few years.

[Greg Berge]

Or, since many other teams have free broadcasts, you can listen to their broadcasts.  It's interesting to hear another point of view.

[Adam \'01]

You might consider getting your local Cornell Club chapter to sponsor a group feed somewhere.  Sort of like they do when the team is on satellite TV.  Everyone could get together at some local place or other at gametime and listen to the feed together...Cornell Club dues should be good for something after all.

[ugarte]

A group of people getting together to gather 'round an audio webcast.  Fantastic.  The internet has thrown us headlong into the 1940's.

[Beeeej]

Heh... I knew that, too.  I think it's just something about the ridiculous workload in the first year of law school that makes you be less careful about everything except classwork.  I'm lucky I've had two days in the last three weeks when I felt I could visit eLF.

I will be at the Hahvahd games, though.  I do have my priorities.:-D

Beeeej

[jason]

Agreed. If the free ride is over, at least give me a cheaper price option to buy school specific access -- a couple of bucks a month but I only can hear feeds for games in which a Cornell team is playing is a more attractive scheme to me.

[kaelistus]

Well I wrote a letter to the athletic department, but I decided to wait until I find out if its actually true that no one will carry hockey broadcasts.

Basically I said I will sign up, but only at the expense of my yearly (bigger) donations to the school.

In all honesty, how many subscriptions do they expect? I bet less than 20. This is probably not worth the subsequent loss in school spirit.

[jtwcornell91]

Felix Rodriguez wrote:

In all honesty, how many subscriptions do they expect? I bet less than 20. This is probably not worth the subsequent loss in school spirit.

Especially because, if they really couldn't come up with a way to provide a free feed without spending money they don't have, at least 10 of those 20 people, plus people like me who won't sign up on principle, would have made donations to make it possible.

[DeltaOne81]

Coach Schafer came out against this today, stating in the Coach's chat "I don't agree with having to pay $7/mo", also saying this was the first he heard of it. Maybe we have an ally on the inside now.

[JordanCS]

I will be signing up...for one reason only: I have no choice.  I will be living a continent away, and aside from the first game of the season at OSU, I'll have to catch every game online...which makes me bummed....

Jordan

[jtwcornell91]

Remember, about 80% of our opponents will have free webcasts, so if you can put up with listening to Jayson Moy, Bob Ahlfeld, etc instead of Adam (sorry Adam), you'll still be able to get most of the games.

Alternatively, you can shell out the $7/month, but inform the Athletic Department that you'll be reducing your annual donations to Cornell by the corresponding amount.  (Yes, I know it's not the University's fault, but if enough people do this, it will send a message to Athletics about what a bad move they made switching to the pay service.)

[CowbellGuy]

How does one donate -$7 a month? :-D

[Al DeFlorio]

According to the pre-game article on CornellBigRed, you need to be a "CollegePass" subscriber to listen to the Internet broadcast of Saturday's Cornell-Yale football game.

Only a nitwit would put a program in place that requires you to pay money to listen to a radio broadcast of a Cornell football game.