RPI 2011-12 Part V: Don't Stop Believing

[hawthr]

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Went to the games this weekend, and I have to say what a hell of a trip (the team has a historically bad record when I follow them on the road)!

Nice hustle in both games, you could see the team's determination to right the ship and prove the naysayers wrong. Our passing was pretty horrid on Friday (routinely 3-4 feet ahead of the player), but we kept winning faceoffs - leading to that EAG Friday. We got many good looks this weekend, and I lost track with how many times I heard the post shots ring out. This team is getting primed for a long playoff run.

One note - to Harvard's rink staff - RENT A POWER WASHER. Your floors and seats are disgusting; I shouldn't have to pry my feet up from sticking to the floors every 30 seconds.

 

[Ralph Baer]

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That year(March 1992) in Boston-when we had St Lawrence beaten late in the third period in the ECAC semifinal-we were the lowest seed. We had upset both Vermont and Harvard after finishing way down(the lowest see-10th place) in the regular season ECAC standings. But we were on a great roll. We were playing just flat out great hockey. I wish I had a camera to record the last 10 minutes of that game in Boston Garden-and the Overtime. It just became obvious to us that they were not going to let us move on to the final.

I guess that, as usual, I wasn't clear. My question was about Fulton's Folly.

 

[AspyDad]

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From Brian Sullivan's ECAC blog:
"RPI and Princeton are each a point ahead of Brown, and either could climb as high as fourth if the dominoes fall just right."

 

[FlagDUDE08]

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Went to the games this weekend, and I have to say what a hell of a trip (the team has a historically bad record when I follow them on the road)!

Nice hustle in both games, you could see the team's determination to right the ship and prove the naysayers wrong. Our passing was pretty horrid on Friday (routinely 3-4 feet ahead of the player), but we kept winning faceoffs - leading to that EAG Friday. We got many good looks this weekend, and I lost track with how many times I heard the post shots ring out. This team is getting primed for a long playoff run.

One note - to Harvard's rink staff - RENT A POWER WASHER. Your floors and seats are disgusting; I shouldn't have to pry my feet up from sticking to the floors every 30 seconds.

Wow, I remember that. I was standing on the promenade when I had gone there 4 years ago (women's game), and those floors WERE sticky!

 

[fr joe]

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From Brian Sullivan's ECAC blog:
"RPI and Princeton are each a point ahead of Brown, and either could climb as high as fourth if the dominoes fall just right."

Big weekend coming up... P & Q @ home. Keep it up!

 

[drshoen]

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I cannot count how many times over the many years that I have followed this that clarkson has played in a game (either aginst us or almost anyone else) and was in a position where something they did would benefit our position. Virtually every time-the result was that they did exactly the opposite of what was necessary to benefit us. Coincidence? Probably.

And here I was so disappointed that we played lousy and lost; turns out it was all a plot to make DrD mad!

 

[DrDemento]

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And here I was so disappointed that we played lousy and lost; turns out it was all a plot to make DrD mad!

Exactly-Clarkson's hockey team seems to have had one mission-to find whatever they have to do to help RPI in the standings-and then do the opposite. Coincidence that it has happened so often? For me they have always been our biggest rival (and truth be told-one of the elite hockey programs of all time that I always respected while trying to beat)

 

[Ralph Baer]

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Exactly-Clarkson's hockey team seems to have had one mission-to find whatever they have to do to help RPI in the standings-and then do the opposite. Coincidence that it has happened so often? For me they have always been our biggest rival (and truth be told-one of the elite hockey programs of all time that I always respected while trying to beat)

I am in complete agreement, but lets face it, SA regards Onion as the bigger rival and so do current students and recent alums.

 

[drshoen]

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I am in complete agreement, but lets face it, SA regards Onion as the bigger rival and so do current students and recent alums.

But to read the most recent discussions, I thought your Coach has no "rivals"?

 

[FlagDUDE08]

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I am in complete agreement, but lets face it, SA regards Onion as the bigger rival and so do current students and recent alums.

I would say Onion is a rival, but the last time I checked, this isn't a D-III football forum.

 

[REDRocket]

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I found it humorous that Friday night was "Community Night" in Cambridge, where you got in free if you were a resident, yet the place still didn't "sellout". Telling.

Oh, and.... SUCKS!!

 

[Ralph Baer]

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I would say Onion is a rival, but the last time I checked, this isn't a D-III football forum.

My first receollection of Onion fans is seeing a bunch of people with negative IQs running rampant in the RPI Quad celebrating a Onion football victory in the mid-1960s, as if that was an accomplishment in those days.

 

[DrDemento]

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My first receollection of Onion fans is seeing a bunch of people with negative IQs running rampant in the RPI Quad celebrating a Onion football victory in the mid-1960s, as if that was an accomplishment in those days.

Please do not remind me of RPI football during the early to mid 60's-I just ate. I waited for years for a single victory-then we scheduled Nichols College especially for that reason-we led something like 20-6 with 4 minutes or less left and gave up 2 quick TDs and ended up with a tie at 20-20. We celebrated anyway since at least it was not a loss. The younger posters on here have no idea what it felt like to go years without a victory. At least i was able to stay long enough at RPI to finally see a victory in my last year (Middlebury 28-14).

 

[DrDemento]

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But to read the most recent discussions, I thought your Coach has no "rivals"?

I wonder what the previous 8 coaches would say?

 

[uniontrack]

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I honestly debated long and hard about whether or not to jump into this forum.....

However, I see RPI folks in the Union thread constantly, so I decided I might chime in here......

FD, you are absolutely right.....Union is not a rival with Rippy



Schools Pts Conf All
Union 26 11-3-4 17-6-7
Cornell 25 10-3-5 13-6-6
Colgate 23 11-6-1 17-10-3
Harvard 20 6-4-8 7-7-10
Clarkson 19 8-7-3 14-13-5
Quinnipiac 18 7-7-4 15-10-5
St. Lawrence17 8-9-1 12-15-3
Dartmouth 15 6-9-3 9-12-4
Yale 15 7-10-1 10-13-2
Princeton 13 5-10-3 7-12-6
Rensselaer 13 5-10-3 8-19-3
Brown 12 5-11-2 8-14-3

and may they continue to not being rivals.....

Apparently, the body of water that runs by Troy, NY is no longer called the Hudson. Now, it's denial.......

Be well.

Keith

 

[FlagDUDE08]

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I honestly debated long and hard about whether or not to jump into this forum.....

However, I see RPI folks in the Union thread constantly, so I decided I might chime in here......

FD, you are absolutely right.....Union is not a rival with Rippy



Schools Pts Conf All
Union 26 11-3-4 17-6-7
Cornell 25 10-3-5 13-6-6
Colgate 23 11-6-1 17-10-3
Harvard 20 6-4-8 7-7-10
Clarkson 19 8-7-3 14-13-5
Quinnipiac 18 7-7-4 15-10-5
St. Lawrence17 8-9-1 12-15-3
Dartmouth 15 6-9-3 9-12-4
Yale 15 7-10-1 10-13-2
Princeton 13 5-10-3 7-12-6
Rensselaer 13 5-10-3 8-19-3
Brown 12 5-11-2 8-14-3

and may they continue to not being rivals.....

Apparently, the body of water that runs by Troy, NY is no longer called the Hudson. Now, it's denial.......

Be well.

Keith

National Championships:
RPI: 1954, 1985
Union:

ECAC Championships:
RPI: 1984, 1985, 1995
Union:

Be ****ed. FlagDUDE08, you are fined one credit for a violation of the Verbal Morality Statute.

 

[Ralph Baer]

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I honestly debated long and hard about whether or not to jump into this forum.....

However, I see RPI folks in the Union thread constantly, so I decided I might chime in here......

FD, you are absolutely right.....Union is not a rival with Rippy



Schools Pts Conf All
Union 26 11-3-4 17-6-7
Cornell 25 10-3-5 13-6-6
Colgate 23 11-6-1 17-10-3
Harvard 20 6-4-8 7-7-10
Clarkson 19 8-7-3 14-13-5
Quinnipiac 18 7-7-4 15-10-5
St. Lawrence17 8-9-1 12-15-3
Dartmouth 15 6-9-3 9-12-4
Yale 15 7-10-1 10-13-2
Princeton 13 5-10-3 7-12-6
Rensselaer 13 5-10-3 8-19-3
Brown 12 5-11-2 8-14-3

and may they continue to not being rivals.....

Apparently, the body of water that runs by Troy, NY is no longer called the Hudson. Now, it's denial.......

Be well.

Keith

IMHO, "rivalry" is a longterm phenomenon. It is not something that begins or ends because the two parties have or have not roughly the same record in a single year or short period of time. Union is RPI's primary rival over all sports and has been since before I attended starting in 1964. At sometime, Williams must have been considerd a rival of RPI's also because its name is featured in a couple of RPI songs (which one rarely hears by the way).

In the early part of the 20th century RPI and Union may also have had a rivalry in hockey. I don't know. However, modern RPI hockey started with Ned Harkness in the late 1940s, and until after I left RPI, Union did not have a program. There is no doubt that Clarkson and secondly SLU were our main rivals while I was there. Those were the tickets that were most in demand. Cornell was also considered a rival in my era, but that was purely due to Harkness leaving for Ithaca. Cornell fans did not share that rivalry.

I still regard Claksson as our primary rival, and I admit to living in the 60s and 70s, but I have to also admit that Union is also a rival now. It just doesn't suck in the manner that Clarkson does.

 

[FlagDUDE08]

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My first receollection of Onion fans is seeing a bunch of people with negative IQs running rampant in the RPI Quad celebrating a Onion football victory in the mid-1960s, as if that was an accomplishment in those days.

Onion fans have positive IQs? I count Wholin1, a car dealer back where I grew up, and that's pretty much it.

 

[FreshFish]

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I have to give Union fans credit when it is due....they can be quite good at taunting people. In fact, one might say they are master baiters.

 

[DrDemento]

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IMHO, "rivalry" is a longterm phenomenon. It is not something that begins or ends because the two parties have or have not roughly the same record in a single year or short period of time. Union is RPI's primary rival over all sports and has been since before I attended starting in 1964. At sometime, Williams must have been considerd a rival of RPI's also because its name is featured in a couple of RPI songs (which one rarely hears by the way).

In the early part of the 20th century RPI and Union may also have had a rivalry in hockey. I don't know. However, modern RPI hockey started with Ned Harkness in the late 1940s, and until after I left RPI, Union did not have a program. There is no doubt that Clarkson and secondly SLU were our main rivals while I was there. Those were the tickets that were most in demand. Cornell was also considered a rival in my era, but that was purely due to Harkness leaving for Ithaca. Cornell fans did not share that rivalry.

I still regard Claksson as our primary rival, and I admit to living in the 60s and 70s, but I have to also admit that Union is also a rival now. It just doesn't suck in the manner that Clarkson does.

We are from the same era. Clarkson and ST Lawrence were the top of the list back then with Cornell close behind. They were the schools i wanted our boys to play well against and beat if they could (which was not often). The other Ivies and the other ECAC schools were on the list of rivals but much further down. Union? They were just the football team that we lost to 9 times out of 10. Their hockey program has made some amazing progress-and the schools are in close proximity. But I am an old time hockey guy and it just will take some more time for me to feel that their is the same level of rivalry there. Years from now this could all change and we may not even have yearly games between any of these teams-who knows what conference we or any other teams will be in let alone what schedules will look like. But for me-the North Country trip is still what it was way back when we had guys playing named Brinkworth, Knightley, Kitchen, and Sack. Just my usual 2¢