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RPI Off-Season III: Another Helping of Mindless Speculation and Idle Chit Chat

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AspyDad said:
Quote from Peter Feola, "Most people don’t know the rules of the game ...". Finally, we get into the thinking of the ECAC refs. We don't know anything, we're just dumb fans. I think this arrogant line of thought comes from Paul Stewart. What a softball interview. I would have hoped that Stewie would have resigned after the season the refs had last year but again there is no confidence in the league office or the refs. If I had conducted the interview I would have gone into the bias that exists against our great Coach and RPI. Why they don't call embellishment on the Aquatic Team from Ithaca and use to call it on JDA all the time, etc., etc. etc.
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ECAC officiating could be better and should be much more consitent, but Feola is right when he says most fans don't know the rules. That is the case in most sports. Many fans know most of the rules but often are wrong in their interpretations. Read some of the other threads and watch some of the games from other leagues and you will see that they have some bad officials as well. The ECAC seems to have more bad ones, but people don't like officials and it is easy to take out your frustrations on them. You are right about some coaches and programs getting the best or worst from certain officials. That will never change. Bill cleary and harvard used to really intimidate officials, now it is Cornell. You just have to play through it.
 
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That probably has nothing to do with his bias. Have you ever been to a Cornell game at Lynah? The atmosphere is terrific. The fans know the game and their cheers actually go beyond the word sucks. They have the best band in Eastern College Hockey, the ice surface is great and the building is always rocking.
RPI, Clarkson and Princeton have great bands, but nobody else in the ECAC has a student section and a community following like Cornell.
He likes RIT too. They have a great following and the RPI student section could learn a lot from that crowd.
 
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Jasma said:
That probably has nothing to do with his bias. Have you ever been to a Cornell game at Lynah? The atmosphere is terrific. The fans know the game and their cheers actually go beyond the word sucks.
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Oh, let's start this stupid discussion again.
 
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Jasma said:
That probably has nothing to do with his bias. Have you ever been to a Cornell game at Lynah? The atmosphere is terrific. The fans know the game and their cheers actually go beyond the word sucks. They have the best band in Eastern College Hockey, the ice surface is great and the building is always rocking.
RPI, Clarkson and Princeton have great bands, but nobody else in the ECAC has a student section and a community following like Cornell.
He likes RIT too. They have a great following and the RPI student section could learn a lot from that crowd.
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I disagree with your premise about our fanbase. I think the student side is very good except a few bad apples (see FDude, just kidding). The older crowd is vocal and loyal. RPI fans are some of the best in all of the country and I am proud to associate myself with these great people (even FDude, Just kidding). HFH is a venerable barn and the fans are the best.
 
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Jasma said:
The ECAC seems to have more bad ones
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massive understatement

Note: Could RB or FDude please tell me how to do the multiple quote thing. I always loved how B12 would rip into me with mutiple quotes. B12 phone home.
 
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Jasma said:
Feola is right when he says most fans don't know the rules.
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No, this is Peter Feola saying those boos are by fools who never were a linesman at the Olympics like me. This speaks to the arrogance of ecac officials and Mr. Stewart. BTW- my thesis that there is a bias was proven when Mr. Stewart publically knocked our great coach to a member of the ECAC media (the courageous Jason Klump).
 
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Red Cloud said:
Oh, let's start this stupid discussion again.
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RC, you're right, I'm done and will never rip on the officiating again. If anyone is interested I have a bridge in Brooklyn I am looking to unload.
 
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AspyDad said:
massive understatement

Note: Could RB or FDude please tell me how to do the multiple quote thing. I always loved how B12 would rip into me with mutiple quotes. B12 phone home.
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Use the "+ button at the extreme right below the post for every post that you want to quote except for the last one. Do the last one normally.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Use the "+ button at the extreme right below the post for every post that you want to quote except for the last one. Do the last one normally.
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Thank you RB. I really love the internet, I'm so glad Al Gore invented it.
 
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AspyDad said:
Thank you RB. I really love the internet, I'm so glad Al Gore invented it.
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Ralph Baer said:
Use the "+ button at the extreme right below the post for every post that you want to quote except for the last one. Do the last one normally.
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hahahha...I always wanted to ask that question AD...."and now I know"
 
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AspyDad said:
DrD, how did you and the lovely Jenny make out during Hurricane Irene?
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Thanks for asking Aspy-we had the eye of the storm pass directly over us-actually went out in the eye of the storm to experience it-looked up and saw beautiful blue sky before the back wall came through. We did not lose power but had the Metedeconk River come within 18 inches of our garage door (4 feet over flood stage). We would have escaped without any problems at all-except we moved the cars to higher ground up the hill from us and left them overnight-and some complete idiot sideswiped my truck raking the entire side and smashing the mirror off. All of course is repairable-and will just cost the deductible to fix. We were both safe and sound.
Our home in the Adirondacks however did lose power for 25 hours from the storm. Whow would ever have though a hurricane would affect us way up there. But thankfully all was OK and no major damage other than the truck which i should get back after repairs are made some time next week.
 
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AspyDad said:
RC, you're right, I'm done and will never rip on the officiating again. If anyone is interested I have a bridge in Brooklyn I am looking to unload.
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actually, I thought RC was referring to the discussion last year about the over-use of the word, "sucks", in so many chants/jeers at HFH.
 
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Jasma said:
That probably has nothing to do with his bias. Have you ever been to a Cornell game at Lynah? The atmosphere is terrific. The fans know the game and their cheers actually go beyond the word sucks. They have the best band in Eastern College Hockey, the ice surface is great and the building is always rocking.
RPI, Clarkson and Princeton have great bands, but nobody else in the ECAC has a student section and a community following like Cornell.
He likes RIT too. They have a great following and the RPI student section could learn a lot from that crowd.
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I have been to Lynah more times than I like to admit and Im not impressed......It has bench seats,a wooden roof and a high school scoreboard......Is it loud...sure it is,but so wouldn't my garden shed if you put 3000 people and a pep band in it.As far as the fans you only need to go once because its been the same thing for the last 20 years that I know of !!! As far as community following what else do you propose they do on a Friday and Saturday night in Ithaca go look at the Gorges in the dark !!!!
 
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turk181 said:
actually, I thought RC was referring to the discussion last year about the over-use of the word, "sucks", in so many chants/jeers at HFH.
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Especially when looking to RIT as the bastion of goodness for a student section, a student section that uses "real" profanity on every RIT shot that's close.

And, AD, I would usually split your single post into multiple quotes. So, to make sure that all of the little arrows actually point back to the post you want to, make sure to grab everything in between the brackets.


PtC will be coming back this season. Hooray!

I've been completely re-working the spreadsheet (I'm using Pivot Tables, ooooh; aaaah) and will probably start up the thread next weekend. I'm warning you now that January will be a busy month because I'll probably make the AIC game a week all by itself.
 
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In honor of Mark McGowan and Andie Le Donne, today is 10 September 2011. There are 21 days (3 weeks) until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 1 October for the start of next season.
 
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turk181 said:
actually, I thought RC was referring to the discussion last year about the over-use of the word, "sucks", in so many chants/jeers at HFH.
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Certainly not getting on RC. I thought I would try to blunt the criticism of my constant "whining" about officials from others on the thread. Always will be grateful to RC for introducing you and I at the Knick last year.
 
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DrDemento said:
Thanks for asking Aspy-we had the eye of the storm pass directly over us-actually went out in the eye of the storm to experience it-looked up and saw beautiful blue sky before the back wall came through. We did not lose power but had the Metedeconk River come within 18 inches of our garage door (4 feet over flood stage). We would have escaped without any problems at all-except we moved the cars to higher ground up the hill from us and left them overnight-and some complete idiot sideswiped my truck raking the entire side and smashing the mirror off. All of course is repairable-and will just cost the deductible to fix. We were both safe and sound.
Our home in the Adirondacks however did lose power for 25 hours from the storm. Whow would ever have though a hurricane would affect us way up there. But thankfully all was OK and no major damage other than the truck which i should get back after repairs are made some time next week.
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I'm not surprised; we certainly saw the effects of Floyd up there in 1999.
 
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Little off topic, but... is there something amiss with WRPI's internet feed? I was trying to listen to the football game.

EDIT: It's up now.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
Little off topic, but... is there something amiss with WRPI's internet feed? I was trying to listen to the football game.

EDIT: It's up now.
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I got it going just in time to hear Alfred score on a long pass and we are down by a touchdown. This is a very good Alfred team BTW and highly ranked (#18 in some lists).
 
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