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RPI 2013/14 Part III: Maximum Overdrivel

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Nottme said:
I have plenty of respect for great college hockey programs but not for posters who savage others on these boards, and leave negative rep like "idiot" and "dope".
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Penny's worth of free advice: When others tell you you're acting like an "idiot" and "dope," it might be best to check one's own behavior - especially since your reputation indicates that more people are dissatisfied with the way you're acting than are OK with it.
 
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Dutchman said:
Looks like you will be at full strength .. the engineers should do well this weekend as you have a very solid record at home. Was that a Ph.d in math in 74'?
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Weaver has a Ph.D. in math? I never would have guessed. :D


Yes, you are correct.
 
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Today is February 21, 2014. There are 3 players ahead of Brock Higgs. Did you vote today?

Vote HERE.

Only 4.5 percentage points behind first, but Brown's Dennis Robertson and Clarkson's Matt ****ing Zarbo have snuck ahead.
 
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Would it make sense, since you can vote for 3 people, to vote for Higgs and the two with the lowest vote totals? Would that help bring other percentages down?
 
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Nottme said:
From my post, "My own hockey roots go back to Murray Armstrong and some great DU teams and the old WCHA ( BTW I put Harkness with Murray as an all-time great) . I have found ECAC fans nowadays to be very polite compared to our student "balcony" in DU's old arena.

Obviously Union is a pretty new program in D1 terms, without the history and championships of RPI, but we are close to the top these days."

I was a fan of D1 hockey 40+ years ago. I have plenty of respect for great college hockey programs but not for posters who savage others on these boards, and leave negative rep like "idiot" and "dope".
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The comparison of fans today is apples and oranges due to the socialist initiative of "political correctness" (not trying to make a political slam, it is actually the origin of the term). If that didn't exist, I'm sure there would still be fan fights. One of FlagDUDETTE's friends is an usher at the TUC and didn't see any fighting, but you never know.
 
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Red Cloud said:
Would it make sense, since you can vote for 3 people, to vote for Higgs and the two with the lowest vote totals? Would that help bring other percentages down?
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Not sure that it makes any difference.....assuming that the person with most votes is the winner, voting only for Brock or voting for Brock plus two more who have lower vote totals than him has the same effect on Brock's total relative to those ahead of him, no?
 
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Red Cloud said:
Would it make sense, since you can vote for 3 people, to vote for Higgs and the two with the lowest vote totals? Would that help bring other percentages down?
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It would bring the leaders' percentages down, but so does voting for just Brock. Meanwhile, the increase in Brock's share is less if you vote for three people instead of just him. I think it's better to vote for just the person you want to win, but I'm not sure. All in all, you want Brock to end up with more votes than the other guys, regardless of share. The only way to do that is to vote for Brock. VOTE FOR BROCK.
 
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lugnut92 said:
It would bring the leaders' percentages down, but so does voting for just Brock. Meanwhile, the increase in Brock's share is less if you vote for three people instead of just him. I think it's better to vote for just the person you want to win, but I'm not sure. All in all, you want Brock to end up with more votes than the other guys, regardless of share. The only way to do that is to vote for Brock. VOTE FOR BROCK.
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Duly noted, thank you. Voted twice today, once from work and once from home.
 
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Dutchman said:
Did you play football as an undergrad?
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Thanks for the laugh. RPI's football team was bad back then, but not nearly that bad.

That does make me recall my first encounter with Union students. Either in the fall of '65 or '67 some inebriated preppy types had torn the goalposts down and were stumbling through the RPI quad with one of the posts. I have no idea how they made it up stairs next to the gym.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Thanks for the laugh. RPI's football team was bad back then, but not nearly that bad.

That does make me recall my first encounter with Union students. Either in the fall of '65 or '67 some inebriated preppy types had torn the goalposts down and were stumbling through the RPI quad with one of the posts. I have no idea how they made it up stairs next to the gym.
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That would have been very difficult in that the games were played back then in the Quad. RPI did have a long losing streak in football back then. I think it was 45 or 46 games. Maybe it was a non-winning streak. I remember because it made the New York Times and it was the longest non-winning streak in the country back then. There was less the notion of D-III football and more the notion of big and small. Kings Point played Temple and Lafayette back then. You would have come out of the losing streak in 66-67. We were only 1-6-1 that year but we still beat ya. Losing to RPI was never an option. We had a great freshman football coach, Bruce Allison, who just passed away, who drilled that into our heads.

The preppys were at Williams. We were also playing D-1 lacross back then. I think you were too but I don't recall playing you. We played Syracuse, Army and I think we scrimmaged Johns Hopkins.

I was born in the Bronx and my lifelong hobby is Genealogy. Save that for another time.
 
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Dutchman said:
That would have been very difficult in that the games were played back then in the Quad. RPI did have a long losing streak in football back then. I think it was 45 or 46 games. Maybe it was a non-winning streak. I remember because it made the New York Times and it was the longest non-winning streak in the country back then. There was less the notion of D-III football and more the notion of big and small. Kings Point played Temple and Lafayette back then. You would have come out of the losing streak in 66-67. We were only 1-6-1 that year but we still beat ya. Losing to RPI was never an option. We had a great freshman football coach, Bruce Allison, who just passed away, who drilled that into our heads.

The preppys were at Williams. We were also playing D-1 lacross back then. I think you were too but I don't recall playing you. We played Syracuse, Army and I think we scrimmaged Johns Hopkins.

I was born in the Bronx and my lifelong hobby is Genealogy. Save that for another time.
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The football games were not played in the Quad. There would be no room there for anything more than playing Frisbee. They were played in the '86 Field which was west of the Quad and down hill. It hasn't been that long since RPI stopped playing football there, about five years.

RPI lacrosse also played Syracuse while I was an undergrad. Oh and we also have an NCAA lacrosse championship (shared with UVA).
 
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Red Cloud said:
Penny's worth of free advice: When others tell you you're acting like an "idiot" and "dope," it might be best to check one's own behavior - especially since your reputation indicates that more people are dissatisfied with the way you're acting than are OK with it.
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You and another RPI fan maybe? Doesn't excuse your insulting personal remarks in this forum. Classless.
 
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Dutchman said:
That would have been very difficult in that the games were played back then in the Quad. RPI did have a long losing streak in football back then. I think it was 45 or 46 games. Maybe it was a non-winning streak. I remember because it made the New York Times and it was the longest non-winning streak in the country back then. There was less the notion of D-III football and more the notion of big and small. Kings Point played Temple and Lafayette back then. You would have come out of the losing streak in 66-67. We were only 1-6-1 that year but we still beat ya. Losing to RPI was never an option. We had a great freshman football coach, Bruce Allison, who just passed away, who drilled that into our heads.

The preppys were at Williams. We were also playing D-1 lacross back then. I think you were too but I don't recall playing you. We played Syracuse, Army and I think we scrimmaged Johns Hopkins.

I was born in the Bronx and my lifelong hobby is Genealogy. Save that for another time.
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I developed an interest in both Genealogy and Archeology. I lost interest after I once dug up my own remains.:rolleyes:
 
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Ralph Baer said:
The football games were not played in the Quad. There would be no room there for anything more than playing Frisbee. They were played in the '86 Field which was west of the Quad and down hill. It hasn't been that long since RPI stopped playing football there, about five years.

RPI lacrosse also played Syracuse while I was an undergrad. Oh and we also have an NCAA lacrosse championship (shared with UVA).
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It's a shame RPI stopped playing football on the '86 field. It was a really nice collegiate setting.
 
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