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Discussions about the Cornell men's and women's hockey teams
Re: Mike Schafer retiring 2025 - 7 months ago
marty Troyfan Leaving Mike and Casey aside for the moment, all I can say is it's straight out of Bizzaro World that Clarkson and RPI admit well over half of their applicants. Things have obviously progressed much worse than I ever could have imagined! One issue at RPI is that like many financially successful schools -including Cornell- class size increased over the past 30 years to boost revenby Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Mike Schafer retiring 2025 - 7 months ago
Leaving Mike and Casey aside for the moment, all I can say is it's straight out of Bizzaro World that Clarkson and RPI admit well over half of their applicants. Things have obviously progressed much worse than I ever could have imagined!by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Mike Schafer retiring 2025 - 7 months ago
marty Troyfan Clarkson academics are up there with RPI. This is almost as silly a what used to be thrown about in Troy. "RPI is right up there with MIT." I don't buy Clarkson being overall near RPI academically - even after Shirley Jackson jacked off and pissed off the majority of the RPI faculty. I can't say there aren't excellent programs at Clarkson and there are some clinby Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Mike Schafer retiring 2025 - 7 months ago
Dafatone Casey's done a lot with a team that I can't imagine is easy to recruit for. And good for Coach Schafer. When Jones went to Clarkson some kids he had recruited for Cornell must have gone with him. The following year, maybe 2, must have Mike's worst. I saw them play RIT, I believe, in a Christmas tournament in Albany and get shut out, 4-0. They were awful. Clarkson's had good plby Troyfan - Hockey
Re: NCAA ruling impact on hockey - 7 months ago
BearLover Troyfan Cutting sports that aren't profitable might prove to be a backdoor benefit for Cornell. The $$$ to compete in football and basketball might get to be so huge that programs like Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin will be forced to choose between them and minor sports. Even schools like Minnesota-Duluth and Denver might get squeezed. Women's sports will have to be reckoned withby Troyfan - Hockey
Re: NCAA ruling impact on hockey - 7 months ago
Cutting sports that aren't profitable might prove to be a backdoor benefit for Cornell. The $$$ to compete in football and basketball might get to be so huge that programs like Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin will be forced to choose between them and minor sports. Even schools like Minnesota-Duluth and Denver might get squeezed. Women's sports will have to be reckoned with, too. It's one tby Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 9 months ago
This puts a loss and a win we had in a different light: the loss to Denver and the win over BU. I didn't see BC doing anything against DU better than we did. They had a great pp chance and a few other solid ones but they weren't better at getting through center ice or forechecking or controlling the puck than we were. Our play against DU was that of a team that is DU's near equal. I didnby Troyfan - Hockey
Re: ECAC Early and Grad Departures 2024 - 9 months ago
Trotsky Players who have entered the portal: 4 Brown 2 Clarkson 6 Colgate 0 Cornell 2 Dartmouth 2 Harvard 5 Princeton 1 Quinnipiac 6 RPI 6 St. Lawrence 3 Union 4 Yale NMU has 11 guys in the portal. Stonehill has 12. That has to be encouraging for Cornell, that on a roster where there are more good players than playing time, they all want to stay (if I understand portal businessby Troyfan - Hockey
Re: ECAC 2024 Discussion Thread - 11 months ago
ursusminor Give My Regards ursusminor After Friday, you will know that RPI doesn't have much power, and the penalty kill is at the bottom of the NCAA. In other words, exactly the kind of team that Cornell fans should be worried about at this point. RPI is due to upset someone. The only real upset so far this year was beating Clarkson in Potsdam, but RPI doesn't have the talent it had on 12/by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 1 year ago
This article say Cornell has more legacy students than black students! (Notre Dame and USc, too.) It's about Wesleyan University dropping them. MIT and Johns Hopkins already have. Maybe Cornell needs the $$$ more than they do? It's bad policy and they should drop it as soon as they are able to.by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 1 year ago
Did the decision refer to how U of Texas does admissions? Admission is pretty much guaranteed to Texas applicants who graduate in the top 10% of their HS class. This does a lot to level the playing field for disadvantaged kids. So it boosts diversity without resorting to racial quotas. The great majority of black and hispanic kids admitted under Harvard's approach were from the top 20% of theby Troyfan - Hockey
Re: RIP John Hughes - 1 year ago
This sorry thread makes Ariana Dumbledore's wake look like a model of decorum. John Hughes was a great Cornellian and a great hockey player. His contributions to Cornell, the memories he helped make for those of us old enough to have them are more than enough to concern us at the moment.by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others, 2022-23 - 2 years ago
Iceberg Trotsky Iceberg Yale also leading at Merrimack 3-1 well into the 3rd. That would be a huge upset to the benefit of the rest of the ECACMerrimack 2 third period goals, now 3-3. And that's how it ends...without a shootout. Meanwhile, Harvard comes back from 3-0 down and wins late in overtime 4-3 We did the exact same thing to Harvard in the Lance Nethery era. Down 3-0 midway in tby Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Duluth (10.28 and 10.29) - 2 years ago
Al DeFlorio Troyfan Cornell's 1st 2 games vs. MD's 7th and 8th. I know, UND situation was same last year. Still, 6 more games means mid-season form for them, just out of the gate for us. Cornell had played 13 games before UND. Guess I was righter than I thought but for the wrong reason.by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Duluth (10.28 and 10.29) - 2 years ago
Cornell's 1st 2 games vs. MD's 7th and 8th. I know, UND situation was same last year. Still, 6 more games means mid-season form for them, just out of the gate for us.by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: AI coming to a hockey rink near you soon - 2 years ago
Oops, I thought it was American International.by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Congress allows Ivy League antitrust exemption to expire - 2 years ago
I don't have a problem with using ability to pay as an admissions criterion provided it doesn't get carried to extremes. For one thing, it leaves more money to be distributed among kids who need aid. Also, except for Harvard, which could eliminate tuition entirely and not miss a beat, every college has to be aware that, hey, we can get this kid for free and his parents might have a little leftby Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Congress allows Ivy League antitrust exemption to expire - 2 years ago
billhoward IIRC, among the Ivies, they collud—sorry, came to agreement, with the best interests of students in mind—that if the Ivies provided equal or equivalent aid packages to those admitted to more than one Ivy, this was a great advantage to the admitted applicant because he or she then could choose the best fit based on academic reasons. Critics and free-market types made the point thatby Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Congress allows Ivy League antitrust exemption to expire - 2 years ago
osorojo I doubt the welfare of a legitimate institution of higher education depends upon the success of its amateur college sports teams. On the flip -side, not one successful sports team has spawned an institution of higher (or even lower) education! I've heard or read that good but small schools, like Union and Colgate, use athletic success to increase their visibility. Williams and Oberlin,by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Congress allows Ivy League antitrust exemption to expire - 2 years ago
Why don't they just keep colluding? Is anyone outside or inside the Ivies likely to care? Applicants, I guess...Non-Ivy schools compete for hot applicants. So they might feel Ivies should too. But does competition have to penetrate every niche of the market? So what if a handful of colleges go off and do their own thing? Isn't there enough competition to go around? Even if worse came to wby Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Congress allows Ivy League antitrust exemption to expire - 2 years ago
The Ivy League is a sports conference where members aren't allowed to give athletic scholarships. Is that a condition that is subject to anti-trust persecution?by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: ESPN+ price increase - 3 years ago
That's nothing. Grape Nuts were $4.29 yesterday vs. $2.69 a year ago.by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Attendance policies in ECAC - 3 years ago
Why are vaccinated people required to wear masks? Doesn't the shot prevent the virus from entering cells and replicating? The vaccinated shouldn't have viruses to spread except for what they may have just inhaled.by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: The Future - 3 years ago
Prediction is difficult, especially about the future.by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Sun rehashes 1969-70 season - 3 years ago
This is absolutely the best post on any thread on any board that I have ever seen! Thank you jkhan!by Troyfan - Hockey
Re: 2020-21 Season *Officially* Delayed - 4 years ago
Noneya Business It doesn't fundamentally matter where they have gone. As a reader here forever, the typical response from the exalted members will certainly indicate the boorish stupidity to play anywhere but CU. However, these kids at CU will all be paying for 4 years of school to play only 3, when they could all receive a quality education elsewhere on scholarship and still play 4. Tby Troyfan - Hockey
Re: Greatest Game? - 4 years ago
I heard it on the radio, Cornell Providence ECAC 1979 quarterfinal. My candidate would be the 1970 National Championship vs. Clarkson. I don't remember the details even though, or because, I was there. But I think Cornell was down a goal when Dan Lodboa scored while Clarkson was on a 5 - 3 power play. He got 2 more goals to win it. The semi was great as well. Cornell was down 1by Troyfan - Hockey