Scoreboard

[Section H]

The new scoreboard makes me want to rip my eyes out.  "Stomp"?!?  "Tearing up the ice"?!?  What is this RPI? The only redeeming quality that scoreboard could have if we get out of town scores on it.

[Ben Doyle 03]

we should just leave the away teams name blank

[Jordan 04]

Upon seeing the scoreboard before, I commented that I really hope they don't put up lame cheers and words of encouragement on the text portion of the scoreboard.

Unfortunately, to no avail  ::help::

[Will]

I kinda liked the new scoreboard.  Yeah, it was cheesy and different than the good ol' board of yesteryear, but it made me laugh.  Even more than the York players. :-D

[Al DeFlorio]

Sounds really bush.  Courtesy of the same dorks who gave us the new bear and CornellPass.  Yuck.

What's next?  A bell or a siren?

[Ben Doyle 03]

there are some idiots in section B with those stupid horns that you see when you go to a soccer game. Very, very, very annoying ::help::

[jy3]

well i actually dont mind it. yeah the text is silly but it is nice to have sog and the ads make the team some money. sometimes things have to change and it could be much worse. they could play songs over the speakers ;-)

[Adam \'04]

[q]A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.[q]
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

[Josh '99]

It's not that bad.  Who looks at the scoreboard for long enough to get distracted by the cheesy graphics, anyway?

[Greg Berge]

You know, I would never be one to suggest it, but perhaps if the cheers provoked an extremely tasteless response from the crowd, eventually they would be removed.

The whole idea of scoreboard-led cheers at Lynah should be enough to get every person at sports marketing fired, if not pendulated.  But that's their job -- to be moronic.  The crowd has it in their power to eliminate this little problem effectively.

As for having a new scoreboard -- I think that's great.  It just doesn't need to make us look as lame as fans with no tradition.

[Al DeFlorio]

Bravo, Greg.  Well said.

The key word in Sir Winnie's quote is "forward."  The initial usages of the scrolling characters feature appear to be taking us in the opposite direction.

[DeltaOne81]

I agree with Greg. It adds an NHL-feel to the rink, and NHL rinks (from personal experience) are not nearly as loud, passionate, or exciting places as Lynah, except maybe-kinda-sorta during the Cup Finals.

I'm wondering, if Arthur was reading this, that maybe he could pass the idea to the power that be that we don't like being told when to "make some noise".

The scoreboard can be useful - I like the recapping of the goals, penalties, even the "Big Red" puck graphic is cute it's own right - but, it should never attempt to lead cheers. That's just pathetic.

-Fred

[kaelistus]

Do they really have the "Make Some Noise" cheer in Lynah now? Please tell me its not true.

I can't think of a better way to silence the crowd.

[Give My Regards]

[Q]Do they really have the "Make Some Noise" cheer in Lynah now? Please tell me its not true.[/Q]

Everything you've heard is true.

The crowd, to its credit, ignored the prompts and continued to make noise whenever it damn well pleased.  The only acknowledgement of the new scoreboard came in the second period, with a "scoooore-boooard" cheer (or prompt) when the operator was a bit late posting Cornell's sixth goal.

The goal and penalty recap is a nice feature, although second assists kept getting reported as "goal by" instead of "assisted by".  I expect that'll get worked out.

[atb9]

::help::  What about updating the shots on goal during the period?  During the game the SOG were only updated on the scoreboard after each period.  Can't a "guesstimate" be created during the period and then be updated with the official SOG at the end of each period?  Just thinking out loud...