Steve Rockey's Message Dated: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 08:24:17 EST
>> I can not resist.  In the early 70's (perhaps 1972) Cornell split 4 games
>> with BU and all 4 games were very close affairs.  Cornell won to claim the
>> Syracuse Invitational and the regular season finale to claim the regular
>> season ECAC title.  However, BU prevailed in the ECAC and NCAA
>> championship.  You know what, BU was the best team.  Cornell was awfully
>> close and both BU and Cornell easily ate up the western team in the NCAA's
>> but head to head they were extremely well matched.  Even if Cornell had won
>> 3 of 5 instead of 2 of 4 BU won the two that counted the most and they were
>> the best team and that still sort of hurts.
 
Steve's is a real class comment.  When I read a post about someone's "best
team" I learn more about the person making the judgement than about which
team is actually better.  The subjective quality of "better" exists only in
the mind of the judge but it says plenty about how that judge sees things.
 
Whether BU or Cornell was better in '72 is irrelevant.  After all those
"my team is better" posts I was real pleased to come across a better fan.
 
-------
Regards,
Charles J. Masenas
 
HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey;  send information to
[log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.