Mark, have you ever been to a game at Harvard?  Nobody at the school
actually cares about hockey.  Is there even a Harvard person on this list?
;)

And re:
>I would think that Harvard would be embarrassed to be playing Cornell
>for the ECACHL championship and have the only music in the house coming
from
>the Cornell pep band

I bet the team is embarrassed, but not the institution.  Ever been to a
Cornell at Harvard regular season game?  Over the last ten years or so there
have been so many rabid Cornell fans at Bright that, other than last change
on the ice, it was generally a Cornell home game.  I even felt bad for the
Harvard team at a couple of games because we were so much louder/present
etc.

I might have a Cornell bias (!) but any school who's fans won't even support
gets no pity from me.  I'd rather the collection of funds go towards a
cowbell choir for Sarah's Saints... :)





On 3/16/06, Mark Lewin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Perhaps we should take up a collection for those poor folks at Harvard so
> they can hire a local band.  For the past two years in Albany, the Harvard
> pep band has accompanied the team and fans, playing during the Friday
> semi-finals. However, despite advancing to the finals both last year and
> the
> year before, there was no sign of Harvard's pep band at the finals on
> Saturday night.  I understand that it costs money to transport and house
> band members on an overnight trip, but this is Harvard.
> Since they have won the national championship once in the past, you would
> think that some alumnus or group of alumni might be tapped for some
> expense
> money to finance the pep band.  It's not like all the Harvard alumni are
> poor farmers (actually, a lot of them are Democrats so that might explain
> it).  I would think that Harvard would be embarrassed to be playing
> Cornell
> for the ECACHL championship and have the only music in the house coming
> from
> the Cornell pep band
>