Andy Noel

[Curious]

After reading all these posts declaring the evils of Cornell Athletics, I am wondering if someone has something positive to say about Andy Noel or the current Athletics crew.

If not, well.. silence speaks volumes.

[nshapiro]

Well, Laura always posted (and i hope continues to post)  the satellite coordinates for the television feeds here at elynah, so I know how to tune the games even though I dont have DirectTV.

[rhovorka]

I know one of the ushers in Lynah, and is one of the nicest people I know.  I always go talk to him during intermissions, and he always give me and my friends candy.  Technically, he's an athletics employee, right?

If you can't say something nice...

[Josh '99]

Rich Hovorka '96 wrote:

I know one of the ushers in Lynah, and is one of the nicest people I know.  I always go talk to him during intermissions, and he always give me and my friends candy.  Technically, he's an athletics employee, right?

Are you sure that's not Jim Hyla?  ;-)   (Well, he's nice and he gives people candy, anyway...)

Of course, Schafer is an athletics employee, and we like him, so they're not ALL bad.

[Adam \'01]

Richard Wallding, the Assistant Manager of the bowling alley, is great.  He also teaches the bowling phys ed class.  There are newspaper clips on the walls there proclaiming Rich to be "one of the finest instructors in the northeast!"  

Whenever you are having a bad day, I highly recommend you go have a beer with Rich at the bowling alley.  And when bowling a bad game, just remember what he says during his class, "Nine issss GOOD!"

:-P

[Greg Berge]

We shouldn't be knee-jerk about condemning the whole Athletic Department.  Instead, we should be specific about what we don't like.  And I suggest no ad hominum attacks, unless -- well -- you really don't like somebody in general (personally I don't know any of 'em except Laura).

Bonehead stuff we hate:

1. The petty pay per listen netcasts.
2. The ugly new emblem *
3. The inane "spirit of the red" motto.

* for that somebody needs to be ritually disembowled between periods.


What else?

[Lindsey 05]

I have played golf with Andy Noel on a couple of occasions and personally I think he's a great guy. He truly loves Cornell athletics and supports the programs as much as he can. I have been impressed with him every time I have gotten a chance to talk to him.

[Beeeej]

I happen to like Andy as a human being, too.  Of course he and others in Athletics make decisions differently from the ones we would make - and we can judge them for it, but we can't say we know all of the factors that went into their decisions or all of the competing pressures they were under when they made them.  I wonder how many of us would do as good a job managing such a large organization with so many competing interests and audiences?

Beeeej

P.S. The new logo and the paid subscription webcasts suck.

[Ben Doyle 03]

. . .but Age's new logo is awesome. . .maybe we should send it to Athletics and see what they think??? ::nut::

[Tom Tone]

I'm sorry the billboard on 13 N in Dryden is absolutley terrible.  Just look at it.   A guy in a teddy bear hat in a Heisman pose.

[Ben Doyle 03]

 ::uhoh:: there exists such a billboard?!?!? ::uhoh::

[Josh '99]

Tom Tone wrote:

I'm sorry the billboard on 13 N in Dryden is absolutley terrible.  Just look at it.   A guy in a teddy bear hat in a Heisman pose.

You think that billboard is bad, you should see the one on 13N coming into Ithaca through Newfield.  It's this woman who looks like Ellen DeGeneres with her face painted red.  It's scary.

[Jim Hyla]

Me, work for the Athletic Dept.? Well, let me think about that.  ::help::

[Al DeFlorio]

Well, their decision-making processes are arthritic.;-)

[Jim Hyla]

Good one Al. For the rest of you, he was taking off on the fact that I'm a rheumatologist.