Another writer pushing for UCONN

[pj]

If UConn had ever once beaten Boston College, and if a very bad BC that went 2-6 in conference last year, hadn't beaten the Huskies 30-0, I might put some credence into the "shaking in their boots" comment.

I do believe that BC wanted to maintain their position as the only ACC team in the corridor and campaigned against UConn inclusion...but I don't think it was fear of prowess as much as defense of territory


Pitt and Cuse, I could see it, I guess...if they were ultimately more afraid of UConn then Louisville

You are overly focused on sports. The college environment in the northeast is hotly competitive, there are so many universities here that are struggling to get enough quality undergraduates and graduates to maintain their positions in the college rankings. Sports is a recruiting tool that supports admissions. BC and Cuse recruit heavily in the New York - to - Boston corridor and the rise of a strong sports-playing public university in that corridor would be highly damaging to them. Syracuse's standing has faded as UConn's athletic star rose from the 1970s onward, and the two compete for exactly the same students. BC is similarly threatened, though they draw a slightly higher caliber undergraduate on average with national pull, they still lose a lot of students they want to UConn.

 

[billybud]

I see.

UConn was a business rival...as much as a sports rival threat.

Makes sense then....that BC would want to thwart their business rival.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Pensacola...a pretty cosmopolitan Navy town as I was growing up,

Based on some messages, you appear to be older than some dinosaurs. Setting that aside, even now Pensacola and cosmopolitan are 2 words rarely included in the same sentence let alone in the same stratosphere. When typing your message, what form of wacky tabacky were you smoking, what were you drinking, what prescription drugs were you taking, or what combination of all of the preceding inspired that comic relief?

 

[billybud]

You are funny...but I was a service brat....behind the gates, everywhere is pretty much the same. The O club pool in summer, the golf courses and tennis....and the west side of town near NAS was Navy. I went to parochial schools.

Before my high school years in Pensacola (thus my home town)...we had been stationed all over the US and one tour overseas (Guam).

My dad continued to work at Pensacola NAS as a defense contractor after retirement.

I am fairly aged in years, but I feel younger LOL.....I did graduate from high school the same year that the Mustang came out and the Beetles went on Ed Sullivan....

....sooo..my references are different...But when someone successfully reaches my age...they may have graduated high school, gone from boy to man in the service, completed their education after service, forged a career, found a life's love and raised a family, buried their parents and a sibling or two, and looked cancer in the eye...and thus they are what they are...and are fairly comfortable with it.

I'll take being old as a dinosaur...

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

blah blah blah

I'll take being old as a dinosaur...

Behind or outside the gates, none of which changes the fact nothing about Pensacola is cosmopolitan. Nothing, zip, nada, zilch!

 

[huskyrob1]

You are funny...but I was a service brat....behind the gates, everywhere is pretty much the same. The O club pool in summer, the golf courses and tennis....and the west side of town near NAS was Navy. I went to parochial schools.

Before my high school years in Pensacola (thus my home town)...we had been stationed all over the US and one tour overseas (Guam).

My dad continued to work at Pensacola NAS as a defense contractor after retirement.

I am fairly aged in years, but I feel younger LOL.....I did graduate from high school the same year that the Mustang came out and the Beetles went on Ed Sullivan....

....sooo..my references are different...But when someone successfully reaches my age...they may have graduated high school, gone from boy to man in the service, completed their education after service, forged a career, found a life's love and raised a family, buried their parents and a sibling or two, and looked cancer in the eye...and thus they are what they are...and are fairly comfortable with it.

I'll take being old as a dinosaur...

I hope you had ear plugs when living near the NAS, the F4 was the loudest jet I ever heard and Pensacola had tons of them. Lol

 

[Chin Diesel]

You are funny...but I was a service brat....behind the gates, everywhere is pretty much the same. The O club pool in summer, the golf courses and tennis....and the west side of town near NAS was Navy. I went to parochial schools.

Before my high school years in Pensacola (thus my home town)...we had been stationed all over the US and one tour overseas (Guam).

My dad continued to work at Pensacola NAS as a defense contractor after retirement.

I am fairly aged in years, but I feel younger LOL.....I did graduate from high school the same year that the Mustang came out and the Beetles went on Ed Sullivan....

....sooo..my references are different...But when someone successfully reaches my age...they may have graduated high school, gone from boy to man in the service, completed their education after service, forged a career, found a life's love and raised a family, buried their parents and a sibling or two, and looked cancer in the eye...and thus they are what they are...and are fairly comfortable with it.

I'll take being old as a dinosaur...

Are you a Crusader alumni like Morning Joe?

 

[billybud]

Fight on Crusaders, fight!

Behind or outside the gates, none of which changes the fact nothing about Pensacola is cosmopolitan. Nothing, zip, nada, zilch!

Cosmopolitan means :
"a person who is free from local, provincial, or national bias or attachment; citizen of the world"

A Navy town of 50 years ago was that (particularly the west side of Pensacola)....folks from areas all over the country who moved like gypsies every couple of years. You have a much less regional perspective when you grow up in seven or eight different states and areas of the country and with folks who also were from all over the map.