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Discussions about the Cornell men's and women's hockey teams
Re: Cornell vs Colgate 12/6 - 7 days ago
chimpfood is the one time of year that they play away in front of a big crowd and the one time that their fans actually come out to their barn. The new Class of 1965 rink is not a barn if that implies old, rustic, drafty, low-ceilinged. It's gorgeous. 2,222 seats is a good size for Colgate and the huge concours up top might get them to 3,000 for a really big game calling for standing room. Noteby billhoward - Hockey
Re: THE FROZEN APPLE 2024 - 7 days ago
JohnF81 Attendance was 16,593 according to CHN 16,593 of 18,006 ice hockey seats is 92% of capacity. FWIW, Cornell-BU Red Hot Hockey 2023 drew worse, 15,289. I worried that with Cornell and Q having played 8 days earlier, the Garden would have been lucky to see attendance of 12,000. It got to 92% full because: * Students love their parents but by Saturday they want to get the hell out of thby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell Varsity Football at Columbia, November 23, 2024 - 20 days ago
CNN takes interest in The Game Columbia-Cornell style: The most infamously bad college football team may win its first league title in 63 years ... like Cornell, Columbia's only title was shared, with Harvard.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell soccer 2024 - 22 days ago
chimpfood Game moved to 2 because of a winter storm watch. I’m going to have to miss some of the action because of class now. In life, you have choices to make. Fifty-five years ago, it was: Go to class versus Join the Class Struggle against the war. The 2024 choice is harder. Because: Cornell made the choice for you and called off classes back then. Your choice became March Against thby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell at Harvard 11/16 - 26 days ago
BearLover chimpfood Not a good weekend but could’ve been way worse. Sweep next weekend will fix it all. Well, it couldn’t have been that much worse. Well, it could have been worse. That youth team in yellow jerseys, sitting up and to the right of the player benches, suppose one of the Cantabs exposed himself in a different form of post-game handshake. #lossmanagementby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Harvard 11/16 - 27 days ago
Without seeing a replay, i say the puck came out of the zone before the gosl was scored. Killer if we lose by 1.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Harvard 11/16 - 27 days ago
Cameras pan the center ice area after Cornell scores. Noticed the guy behind the bench in the black Harley T-shirt. One of our people? Does Harvard interim president ride?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Harvard 11/16 - 27 days ago
Sporting gods want equalization after Cornell football successby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Harvard 11/16 - 27 days ago
You saw the camera that panned rink to stands to concourse to refreshment stand. The sound level started way low. I thought I’d hit the mute button. The color guy seems like the mike is behind home. They deserve to be moved down by USNews.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2025 (preseason) - 27 days ago
My browser blocked FanLax but gave me the choice to ignore and click through.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Dartmouth at Cornell Varsity Football, November 16, 2024 - 27 days ago
Story in the Cornell Daily Sun: Football Upsets Dartmouth in Triumphant Salute to Seniors It's nice to have an additional view of the game beyond the Cornell PR story.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell at Harvard 11/16 - 27 days ago
I watch the stands at Bright Center to see how many empty seats there are at the yet-again sold-out game. That is an other victory for Cornell in addition to the final score. Speaking of poor attendance at New England rinks: Friday's Cornell at Dartmouth game shows an attendance of 2801. Thompson Arnea capacity is 3,500 seated, 4,500 with standing room because there is an incredibly deep concby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Dartmouth at Cornell Varsity Football - C49 D22 - 27 days ago
Ken711 Beating Columbia will be no easy task. They are a balanced team offensively and defensively. Swanstrom has the Cornell Big Red Football program headed in the right direction regardless of the outcome of the Columbia game. Absolutely true. If you want to be paranoid, and who isn't when it's our own team: If Cornell gets too good in football, too quickly, some mid-level D1 teams will come sby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Dartmouth at Cornell Varsity Football - C49 D22 - 27 days ago
Incredible. Cornell, with a win next Saturday over Columbia, has a chance, maybe, to finish in a multi-way tie for second. Requires only one team in first, Harvard, no other ties for first, and the 4-2 teams, Dartmouth and Columbia, to lose. Team Ivy Finale Time Harvard 5-1 Yale 12:00 Dartmouth 4-2 Brown 12:00 Columbia 4-2 Cornell 1:00by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Ivy League ponders FCS football playoffs - 28 days ago
More games are being played in many or most sports. Football in the Marinaro era was 7 Ivy plus 2 non-Ivy opponents. Now it's `10 games. Hockey in the unbeaten 1970 season was 29 games; last year we played 35 games including 2 regional NCAA games and had we advanced past Denver, we could have played 37. It also feels as if players spend more time in the off-season staying in shape. In the seventiby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Ivy League basketball 2024-25 - 28 days ago
mountainred'nova hasn't been NOVA since Wright left, but that is a helluva win for the Lions. If the Wildcats are shopping, Villanova is the dream job for Steve Donahue (Cornell coach 2000-2010, 125–112 (.527) and 72-21 (.774) last 3 seasons). He's 125–112 (.527) at Penn. He's 62, perhaps a dozen years too old to be the perfect hire for the Wildcats. People may wonder why he couldn't do more forby billhoward - Other Sports
Ivy League ponders FCS football playoffs - 28 days ago
Maybe Cornell football gets good in time for Ivy League football to play in the FCS competition. There is a glimmer of hope for Ivies to play in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs: Haven't seen anything on this yet in the Daily Sun. So, see this in the Harvard Crimson. (I am curious to why The Crimson had to get a quote from a Brown football player to cover the odds of an Ivyby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Goodbye Alumni Fields... - 28 days ago
As field hockey moves from Alumni Fields to off campus, I hope Cornell invests an extra $10,000? $100,000? to get the field hockey stands 10 feet off the ground (first row) so spectators have a better view. A lot of schools including Cornell stint on initial expenditures for their sports facilities. My personal sense is Cornell's Berman/Kane soccer / track complex would be a better facility withby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Goodbye Alumni Fields... - 28 days ago
As field hockey moves from Alumni Fields to off campus, I hope Cornell invests an extra $10,000? $100,000? to get the field hockey stands 10 feet off the ground (first row) so spectators have a better view. A lot of schools including Cornell stint on initial expenditures for their sports facilities. My personal sense is Cornell's Berman/Kane soccer / track complex would be a better facility withby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 24-25 - 5 weeks ago
Some are perhaps thinking: Young alumni coach takes Cornell to greater heights in hockey. Some are thinking young alumni coach well-regarded by the players can't turn the football team around given a decade. And wondering which star Jon Jaques '10 will hitch himself to. Despite Cornell's mixed basketball history over the last century, only three Ivy schools have seen Sweet Sixteen teams since 197by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: NIL money sucks outside the top athletes - 5 weeks ago
Despite WaPost said and what I believe(d), I'm hearing there are some special challenges to the Ivies, most of all in basketball. A top twenty school with a good academic reputation uses the Ivies as a secondary recruiting poll. The kid plays really well freshman year in the Ivies and gets offered serious money to a Duke, Stanford, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Tulane, Rice, Michigan (actually, the topby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2025 (preseason) August top 20 - 5 weeks ago
ThunderDomePlus, the service academies are getting higher ranked players where the education is comparable and the cost is free. We have a niece playing at Army West Point (saying that is kind of like saying The Ohio State). It's a free ride. There is a 4-6 year no-cut pro contract attached.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Mike Schafer retiring 2025 - 5 weeks ago
Better to walk away on an up note. Plus, somewhere on the high side of 60, a lot of people think about when is the right time to step back from work. Schafer is ~62. Sometimes you think about whether you'd rather enjoy a slower pace of life and you factor in your health, how long your ancestors lived, do you have enough to retire early, etcetera. Sometimes you get tired of being in a place whereby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Polls 11/04 Cornell 6th - 5 weeks ago
Cornell's first two games and a sweep of North Dakota pushes Cornell from 9th to 6th in the coaches poll. One first-place vote (48 to Denver, 1 to Minnesota, 1 to Cornell). (ND falls 6th to 10th.) Coaches poll, via USCHO. Every other top twenty team has played at least six to eight games save Cornell with two and Western Michigan with four. Other ECAC teams in the poll: Quinnipiac (3-3) is 15th,by billhoward - Hockey
Re: NIL money sucks outside the top athletes - 6 weeks ago
Match and raise (same story, different names): We had friend on our block got a full-ride baseball scholarship to a Big Ten school and a football offer from an Ivy. He went Ivy, worked his way through school, after graduation 5-8 years working up the ladder, took a smallish media company public then merged it with a bigger media company (or maybe it was the other way around and did a spinoff) andby billhoward - Other Sports
NIL money sucks outside the top athletes - 6 weeks ago
Here's the best story so far on how Name Image Likeness money trickles down, and it is trickle-down as in, "When the horse eats, so too shall sparrow." It's in the Washington Post (10/21/24), headlined "The hidden NIL economy of college sports." Some top lines: * The majority of NIL payments are small-money deals — less than $500, and often much smaller. * "Privateby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell wrestling recruiting… - 6 weeks ago
NIL payments fall off quickly after the top 250 or so players across all sports especially the not basketball and football sports.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2025 – 2025 PLL mock draft Kirst No. 1 - 6 weeks ago
CJ Kirst will the first pick of the 2025 Premier Lacrosse League. Six of the top 10 are projected to be Ivy League players. This per the Inside Lacrosse 2025 PLL Mock Draft as of Oct. 29, 2024, by Kevin Brown, Premier Lacrosse League Draft 1st Round 1. Philadelphia Waterdogs: CJ Kirst, A, Cornell 2. California Redwoods: Chris Kavanagh, A, Notre Dame 3. Denver Outlaws: Andrew McAdorey, M, Duby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: 11/1 vs North Dakota - 6 weeks ago
upprdeck They travel to big events. Do they want to travel to upstate NY though? Other than Clarkson and few playoff games, how many fans ever travel to Lynah? if all the players families came to a game we are talking 20-30 people. We were in Rochester to see an RIT game last weekend, woke up at the something something Marriott in Victor, and half the car license plates read Ontario. Thereby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell soccer 2024 - 7 weeks ago
chimpfood College soccer RPI is a funny thing. While hockey uses a 25-25-50 ... Sounds like an all-season motor oil. The 50 number is for global warming seasons.by billhoward - Other Sports