2006-7 Schedule

RatushnyFan · March 29, 2006, 10:04:31 AM

[quote nyc94]Get SC Johnson to donate the corporate jet again (I think it was '02 that they used the jet to ferry recruiters to the Johnson school).[/quote]I've actually been on one of their planes (as a Michigan MBA)! Weird feeling, it was me and maybe three other kids. I didn't take the job. The jack in i-banking is too hard to turn down. Racine is kind of an interesting town, though.

ugarte · March 29, 2006, 10:24:36 AM

[quote jtwcornell91]I suppose a home-and-home with MTU wouldn't do much for our schedule strength, but at least we have connections there.[/quote]And if we don't screw it up, it would be good for COpp.

Winnabago · March 29, 2006, 01:02:25 PM

So when is the OOC schedule announced? If the teams are already set for 06-07 and 07-08, then what's the big secret?

Robb · March 30, 2006, 12:10:49 AM

[quote ugarte]And if we don't screw it (game against MTU) up, it would be good for COpp.[/quote]
Exactly. If we go 1-0 vs MTU, then every time their skating blind squirrels find a WCHA nut, bully for us.

jtwcornell91 · March 30, 2006, 08:34:35 AM

[quote Robb][quote ugarte]And if we don't screw it (game against MTU) up, it would be good for COpp.[/quote]
Exactly. If we go 1-0 vs MTU, then every time their skating blind squirrels find a WCHA nut, bully for us.[/quote]

OTOH, if we go 1-0, we only get one win on our ComOpp and every WZHA team that doesn't screw it up gets four.

ugarte · March 30, 2006, 09:44:34 AM

[quote jtwcornell91][quote Robb][quote ugarte]And if we don't screw it (game against MTU) up, it would be good for COpp.[/quote]
Exactly. If we go 1-0 vs MTU, then every time their skating blind squirrels find a WCHA nut, bully for us.[/quote]

OTOH, if we go 1-0, we only get one win on our ComOpp and every WZHA team that doesn't screw it up gets four.[/quote]Damn you and your blasted mathematics!

Jacob '06 · March 30, 2006, 10:18:37 AM

[quote jtwcornell91][quote Robb][quote ugarte]And if we don't screw it (game against MTU) up, it would be good for COpp.[/quote]
Exactly. If we go 1-0 vs MTU, then every time their skating blind squirrels find a WCHA nut, bully for us.[/quote]

OTOH, if we go 1-0, we only get one win on our ComOpp and every WZHA team that doesn't screw it up gets four.[/quote]

But we tie with a 1.000 winning percentage

ugarte · March 30, 2006, 10:23:48 AM

[quote Jacob '06][quote jtwcornell91][quote Robb][quote ugarte]And if we don't screw it (game against MTU) up, it would be good for COpp.[/quote]
Exactly. If we go 1-0 vs MTU, then every time their skating blind squirrels find a WCHA nut, bully for us.[/quote]

OTOH, if we go 1-0, we only get one win on our ComOpp and every WZHA team that doesn't screw it up gets four.[/quote]

But we tie with a 1.000 winning percentage[/quote]JTW's point was that if the two teams have only one other COpp, and each lose that lone game, we will be at .500 but the WZHA teams will be .800.

ursusminor · May 23, 2006, 04:28:44 PM

RPI has released its schedule http://www.rpiathletics.com/schedules.asp?path=hockey RPI is playing SLU, not Cornell, in the Freakout!

DeltaOne81 · May 24, 2006, 10:39:09 PM

[quote ursaminor]RPI has released its schedule http://www.rpiathletics.com/schedules.asp?path=hockey RPI is playing SLU, not Cornell, in the Freakout![/quote]

Well we *are* there the second to last Saturday, which was the basis for the speculation. Whats the reason for changing the Freakout timing?!? I know... they're just chicken :-P

ursusminor · May 25, 2006, 06:11:29 AM

[quote DeltaOne81][quote ursaminor]RPI has released its schedule http://www.rpiathletics.com/schedules.asp?path=hockey RPI is playing SLU, not Cornell, in the Freakout![/quote]

Well we *are* there the second to last Saturday, which was the basis for the speculation. Whats the reason for changing the Freakout timing?!? I know... they're just chicken :-P[/quote]

The Freakout! has been on other weekends in the past, however recently it seemed to have settled down to the same weekend. Here is the history courtesy of Kurt Stutt: http://www.augenblick.org/rpi/h_brf.html. As to being afraid of Cornell, RPI did take 3 of 4 points last year, although clearly Cornell had the superior team.

Josh '99 · May 25, 2006, 11:19:37 AM

[quote DeltaOne81][quote ursaminor]RPI has released its schedule http://www.rpiathletics.com/schedules.asp?path=hockey RPI is playing SLU, not Cornell, in the Freakout![/quote]

Well we *are* there the second to last Saturday, which was the basis for the speculation. Whats the reason for changing the Freakout timing?!? I know... they're just chicken :-P[/quote]Redhawks, chickens, same difference. :-}

Trotsky · May 25, 2006, 05:32:45 PM

[quote DeltaOne81][quote ursaminor]RPI has released its schedule http://www.rpiathletics.com/schedules.asp?path=hockey RPI is playing SLU, not Cornell, in the Freakout![/quote]

Well we *are* there the second to last Saturday, which was the basis for the speculation. Whats the reason for changing the Freakout timing?!? I know... they're just chicken :-P[/quote]

It's tempting to make a snotty comment about them not wa nting to break their whatever-year-long unbeaten streak, but it isn't as if Cornell would have busted it up last year, at least. :`(

Edit: Ursa beat me to it. ;-)

billhoward · May 26, 2006, 04:57:44 AM

[quote Trotsky][quote DeltaOne81][quote ursaminor]RPI has released its schedule http://www.rpiathletics.com/schedules.asp?path=hockey RPI is playing SLU, not Cornell, in the Freakout![/quote]

Well we *are* there the second to last Saturday, which was the basis for the speculation. Whats the reason for changing the Freakout timing?!? I know... they're just chicken :-P[/quote]

It's tempting to make a snotty comment about them not wa nting to break their whatever-year-long unbeaten streak, but it isn't as if Cornell would have busted it up last year, at least. :`(

Edit: Ursa beat me to it. ;-)[/quote]

There's little mystery to it:
a) Cornell is the tougher opponent in most years, recent results notwithstanding
b) Freakout more or less fills the RPI blimp hangar and so does Cornell, so RPI makes them separate events

ursusminor · May 26, 2006, 05:42:47 AM

[quote billhoward][quote Trotsky][quote DeltaOne81][quote ursaminor]RPI has released its schedule http://www.rpiathletics.com/schedules.asp?path=hockey RPI is playing SLU, not Cornell, in the Freakout![/quote]

Well we *are* there the second to last Saturday, which was the basis for the speculation. Whats the reason for changing the Freakout timing?!? I know... they're just chicken :-P[/quote]

It's tempting to make a snotty comment about them not wa nting to break their whatever-year-long unbeaten streak, but it isn't as if Cornell would have busted it up last year, at least. :`(

Edit: Ursa beat me to it. ;-)[/quote]

There's little mystery to it:
a) Cornell is the tougher opponent in most years, recent results notwithstanding
b) Freakout more or less fills the RPI blimp hangar and so does Cornell, so RPI makes them separate events[/quote] The first statement is true, but how does one explain recent Freakout! games vs. Clarkson if the reason is to increase attendance at poorly attended games?

Just for the record, although it is widely rumored that the HFH was once a blimp hangar, indeed that is what I heard when I was a student, it actually had a more mundane first life as a Navy warehouse in Rhode Island http://www.lib.rpi.edu/dept/library/html/Archives/buildings/houston_fieldhouse.html.