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Message: [QUOTE="Pudge, post: 2087410, member: 364"] As someone who lives in the Boston area I can tell you that nobody cares about BC athletics up here unless they went to BC. And that's not a ton of people. It's not a public school and it's in a big city with successful pro franchises in all the major sports (which is what almost every sport fan here follows). BC isn't like say Wake Forest in Winston-Salem or Syracuse U. in Syracuse where there's nothing else and the locals follow those teams. Nobody cares about BC in Boston. ACC Sports may be on TV up here. But nobody is watching them. I think there is a bigger following for UConn sports up here. Although that may just be my bias because I notice it more because I'm a UConn fan.[/QUOTE] We do have a slice of Boston - but it has rarely been a college sports fan town. What we do have far more than when all this CR started in 2002-2003 is a BRAND and a solid statement of Athletic Excellence. That can be our eyeballs in our home state; but even more compelling is the capacity to emerge into Manhattan, Westchester, LI ... after we encroached somewhat into Fairfield. That is the MBB ... but really as we watch the HBO on the Auriemma Program, we have a broader story. As Joe Nocera said, no University got screwed as much as UConn. And that is always bringing this back to what the heck the other choices - Syracuse, Rutgers and BC - have done to produce anything looking stronger over the next 10 years. Simple a story of ugly. [/QUOTE]

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