Do they serve Mac and cheese with jalapeno & bacon?I hear the food is good at BC though, so they've got that going for them...which is nice
I hear the food is good at BC though, so they've got that going for them...which is nice
I hear the food is good at BC though, so they've got that going for them...which is nice
Guess he got his degree for nothing.JonRothstein12:44pm via TweetDeck
BREAKING: Rutgers has fired Eddie Jordan, sources told @CBSSports.
I'll give RU props for trying to do something to make a change. I look at BC and see nothing but a school with their hand out...only caring abut hockey now. Things won't change there athletically until they get a new president. It's enjoyable to watch them wither on the vine...you reap what you sow!JonRothstein12:44pm via TweetDeck
BREAKING: Rutgers has fired Eddie Jordan, sources told @CBSSports.
BC finally getting press in the Boston area. This is.....scathing.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2...ng-scrutiny/iWqaOoo6ZnIIKyksVLYSGJ/story.html
GD's comments regarding the basketball program were telling....the fact he thinks Bates should have given Donohue 1 more season as hoops coach is ridiculous. The actions by Fr Leahy in regards to Jerry York's 1000th win are out right disrespectful. Things will get worse at BC before they get any better.BC finally getting press in the Boston area. This is.....scathing.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2...ng-scrutiny/iWqaOoo6ZnIIKyksVLYSGJ/story.html
This may be of interest to this thread..... http://bceagles.com/watch/?Archive=1436
Very long but very insightful of the BC situation. Steve openly states that BC is not a school that can get 4 or 5 star players! This while addressing the booster club. The BC Gridiorn Club and introducing the new players on board along with the coaching staff.
Former HC Paul P is introduced with fanfare to only look disheveled and not prepared. His chum / peeper keeper, nothing he knows how to out smart.
The MC carries on about having Paul on board and not having to play him up at Syracuse again. Never mentions what a failure he was here.
Sad state of affaires for BC as they never show the crowed and from the sound it was very small. Again very long but don't miss Paul at -16.34 . Inspirational to say the least.
Having lived in CT, Philly and Boston, I find the general diversity comments kind of interesting. I was not in Boston at the height of racial tensions. Philly is so different from Boston - my impression of Philly was that pretty much everyone was black or white. I worked in a black community in north philly and about 85% of the workforce was black. I didn't really think of that as diverse. Boston today has hugely diverse neighborhoods/communities - lawrence is dominican/puerto rican, lowell is cambodian, quincy is chinese, west rox/southie is irish, mattapan is haitian, dorchester is vietnamese, framingham is brazilian, sharon is orthodox jewish and tons of portuguese communities on the south shore. I definitely see the lack of diversity in executive circles, but there is a ton of diversity in Boston proper.I was also surprised to see in the other Globe article on BC is the lack of diversity in BC sports and university leadership. The Boston area has a strong, negative reputation in the area of diversity and while as prevalent as it was back in the '60's, its still there, especially among some of the old Boston institutions. I have a friend who moved to Boston several years back to work for a large family owned company and she has a very diverse background. She left after 2 years unable to deal with it anymore and went to Atlanta. College recruiting, both athletic and academic, is a diverse game nowadays as reflected in the US's changing demographics. Concerns over diversity in and around BC will only make it a harder road for their primary sport programs to do well, especially when tied to all of their other issues.
Having lived in CT, Philly and Boston, I find the general diversity comments kind of interesting. I was not in Boston at the height of racial tensions. Philly is so different from Boston - my impression of Philly was that pretty much everyone was black or white. I worked in a black community in north philly and about 85% of the workforce was black. I didn't really think of that as diverse. Boston today has hugely diverse neighborhoods/communities - lawrence is dominican/puerto rican, lowell is cambodian, quincy is chinese, west rox/southie is irish, mattapan is haitian, dorchester is vietnamese, framingham is brazilian, sharon is orthodox jewish and tons of portuguese communities on the south shore. I definitely see the lack of diversity in executive circles, but there is a ton of diversity in Boston proper.
Concerning BC's BOT, I'm not surprised at the lack of diversity. Ironically, my company's CEO (a cuban american) was a BOT member until BC showed a lack of business loyalty to us. He left soon after that. No big surprise but they'd be touting his presence if he was still there.
. Boston today has hugely diverse neighborhoods/communities - lawrence is dominican/puerto rican, lowell is cambodian, quincy is chinese, west rox/southie is irish, mattapan is haitian, dorchester is vietnamese, framingham is brazilian, sharon is orthodox jewish and tons of portuguese communities on the south shore. I definitely see the lack of diversity in executive circles, but there is a ton of diversity in Boston proper.
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The forced busing days of the early 70's by the Ruling Elites that lived in the tony suburbs of Boston did cause the residents in the City of Boston to have their lives made worse by having the children exchange one bad school for another bad school miles across town. The Democrat Party social experiment is today regarded by most Academics and regular people as a complete failure in every measurable respect. The good news is that today the city of Boston has far less racial strife than ( for example ) large cities such as Baltimore, NYC, Los Angeles, Chicago... or if we are honest about it.... even New Haven, Connecticut. . However, it is true, that BC needs to do more in the post Skinner era to bring in more players of color to its basketball team. BC made a mistake in firing Skinner in my opinion. BC is at its lowest level of combined Basketball, Football right now that I can ever recall. For Uconn football fans however, this is a great opportunity to take advantage of this and to beat BC in their matchup with BC in football this coming November. The only true way for a school to legitimately claim that its at least the equal of BC in football in New England is to finally win a football game against them. Otherwise, all the ongoing talk about how really, REALLY, bad BC is in football these days could say something very unflattering about a football program that just could lose to BC once again ' Just a thought, anyway.
Things are beginning to thaw out a bit between the leadership at BC and Uconn, The fan narrative that BC is " too scared to play Uconn in football, and so won't " has fallen apart. BC football is at its lowest point in awhile, but BC scheduled the Uconn- BC game anyway. So if a school was " scared " of a game, its logical to assume that school would not schedule one. While a football game with BC does more for Uconn than it does for BC, I'd much rather watch BC play Uconn, than BC play Duke, Wake Forest, and the like. I would imagine Uconn football fans would even prefer watching Uconn play BC, than Uconn play any of the AAC teams.... or even more than half the B12 teams, should Uconn eventually wind up in the B12 to play the schools most of whom are predominently based in the Southwest corner of the US.
BC and UConn are better when they play each other...when BC eliminated its rivalries, it eliminated its relevance. BC and UConn should be in the same conference even if they hate each other.
I agree with you that both the fan bases of BC and UConn want to see them play. I disagree that BC has more to lose than UConn. As you mention BC is at its lowest point ever.
Syracuse will be BC 's annual football rival game, imo. In order to have a football rivalry, both school's and its fanbases have to recognize it as such ( Uconn knows this from Central Florida's position re. Diaco's quest to make Central Florida, Uconn's football rival.). BC voted for Uconn's admittance to the Big East, when Uconn made its quest to join. BC also voted " yes " for Uconn's quest to join Hockey East. BC does not want Uconn in the ACC, but if Commish Swofford and the other ACC school Presidents wanted Uconn in the ACC, they could have acted on it at any time, and BC could not have stopped it on their own. That said, BC, under their new AD Bates, did agree to play Uconn in football again ( and against the wishes of Uconn's Jim Calhoun, and quite a few BC older alums ). The vast majority of younger students at BC now come from outside of N.E however., so for most of them, putting Uconn football back on BC's schedule draws no more than a shrug from them at seeing Bates add Uconn to its football schedule for a game every few years or so.If BC would rather watch its teams play UCONN than probably half of the schools currently in The ACC, why have they fought so damn hard to see to it that it never happened? It smells like fear to me, but I'll be nice and say it was likely arrogance. Glad to see someone over there has smartened up and realized that regional rivals put as*** in the stands.
More of the current students at BC " hate " for just one example... Rutgers... far more than they " hate " Uconn. For the simple reason that BC currently has far more of its students from the combined states of NY- NJ, than it does from the state of Connecticut. BC also has far more students ( and alums ) that " hate " ND than they do Uconn. For the simple reason that lots of their Alums and current students applied to ND but did not get in. Its been that way for 50 years between BC and ND. Same with the BC football players. Most of them get really up for the ND football game because many of them were not recruited nor believed good enough to play football for Notre Dame. To this extent, BC feels the arrogance of ND as much as Uconn feels the arrogance of BC. For history buffs here, ND resisted playing BC in football for a lot longer than BC resisted returning to playing Uconn in football again. So the older BC fans such as myself, know full well how you people feel about being slighted by a school and fanbase such as BC that disrespects you and your football program and doesn't think of you much at all these days.Not even if they hate each other but because they hate each other. That's what conferences used to be all about.