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pfft, Braintree is the south, Worcester is the midwest and Springfield is the west coast.Actually, if you're from Boston, the South means Cape Cod...
pfft, Braintree is the south, Worcester is the midwest and Springfield is the west coast.Actually, if you're from Boston, the South means Cape Cod...
Terrific piece by Wetzel with a nice jab at BC:
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf-...y-for-cash-with-expansion-move-192826899.html
Boston has a disdain for any place that doesn't begin with "B", end with "n", and have "osto" in the middle.pfft, Braintree is the south, Worcester is the midwest and Springfield is the west coast.
Cambridge is nice, there's good ice cream and beer.Boston has a disdain for any place that doesn't begin with "B", end with "n", and have "osto" in the middle.
Cambridge is nice, there's good ice cream and beer.
somebody has to convince me that Notre Dame want to be in the Big 10. Location is one thing, but they are a pretty small fish to be competing day in day out with behemoths like Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State...and they have higher academic standards...I know Michigan is a very highly rated school, but when you've got 35,000 undergrads you can always find a place for someone who is borderline but can run or throw. when you have 9000 undergrads, it isn't as easy. In many non-geographic extents, Notre Dame is a good fit in the ACC, especially the ACC as expanded. Games in the Northeast, Florida appeal to the subway alumni, but with programs that have similar academic profiles.
Terrific piece by Wetzel with a nice jab at BC:
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf-...y-for-cash-with-expansion-move-192826899.html
Between MD and Boston you have roughly 40M people or approx. 15% of the entire US Population.Everyone talks about the B10 going after TVs. Very few people talk about the B10 going after talent. The B10 needs to win national championships in football to drive those TV eyeballs.
Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina. These states are important to the B10.
I hope you're being sarcastic, while there isn't overt hatred for the south, it is certainly not well-liked in Boston. If BC went B1G and joined B1G hockey, I'd cry. And frankly, so would BC hockey fans.
I think you read what I typed and not what I meant...No need to be overly dramatic. I didn't like the P hiring, but to pretend that everyone in the football world didn't know who a guy who was a coordinator for the Cowboys, and prior to that the winningnest coach in Big East history, was is frankly dumb.
I think you read what I typed and not what I meant...
As a cowboy fan, I am well aware of who P was before coming to Uconn. I think the next coach needs to be a big time coach, in their prime, and not just one approved by the CT HS coaches...
P was a local guy first with NFL experience and prior success in college. We need to focus less on the 'local' aspect next time around.
you must have lived in Boston a long time ago...I lived in Boston and I don't agree with that at all. Anything outside of 395 doesn't exist. It is all north shore/south shore BS and the south might as well be Foxwoods or Mohegan. There isn't any kind of dislike of the south, it doesn't even appear on their radar.
if we are Big10 bound, we need a name.It doesn't need to be a "big time" coach - it just needs to be a coach that can win! Names mean poopy.
Sorry if already posted - and I apologize to our future conference mates in the B1G if I am letting something out of the bag - but the NE play should be UConn and the Cuse now w/ an open invite to BC as #17 if ND is #18.
pfft, Braintree is the south, Worcester is the midwest and Springfield is the west coast.
Um.. Sturbridge?There's the I-95 crowd who think only one highway exists. I-95/128 North will get you to Portland if you like looking at provincials, and it will take you to Providence and then on to New Haven if you have to gamble or pee on the way to NYC.
There is no Springfield. Worcester is something their mother warned them about. Like getting VD.
Sometimes a bus or train goes through Hartford. This is OK because you can piss from the Amtrak Station on to Aslyum Avenue and water the natives. Don't eat the food there.
New Yorkers are queer because some take the Tappan Zee/I-84 route to Stockbridge which is still a Colonial town with outhouses and they cook in kettles. New Yorkers call that culture.
Anyway, so I'm listening my local (Pittsburgh) sports radio and a guy calls in who had the RU/MD a day before it was announced (host remembered the call and prediction) and the caller says his same sources have UNC/VA getting offers from B1G. More potential B.S. to throw on the fire. Or the barbecue if you believe in The South.
I've lived in Boston... never noticed the 'disdain' for anything from the south.
What would be the reason?
Are you kidding? Bostonians have disdain for anybody west of Bentley U, but southerners and the south are often viewed as nothing but ignorant rednecks.
It seems to me if they were going to off them, they'd have done it already. What would they be waiting for? If anything I'd expect it to come out at once to decrease the likelihood of UMD saying no. It seems they wanted to make sure UMD said yes before asking Rutgers, so it was obviously somewhat of a concern. Unless they're waiting to hear an answer to the covert invitation they sent to ND and UConn before inviting UVA and UNC
FIFY
First, Bostonians think anything west of Brookline/Newton is too far... I had to convince my wife that Wellesley wasn't that far west.Are you kidding? Bostonians have disdain for anybody west of Worchester, but southerners and the south are often viewed as nothing but ignorant rednecks.