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Featured story in Globe, BC should leave ACC
Featured story in Globe, BC should leave ACC
For us or them? LOLThey would be much better off dropping football and trying for Big East for hoops.
We had a good league going - and these schools are worse off since leaving BE.
BC - as above
Miami - football has nearly fallen off the radar. They were seen as the next standard bearers
VT - maybe the exception, although they never felt fully "Big East" and have yet to see the heights from the Vick days over 15 years ago
Trends so far for the recent departures:
SU - with Jim B retiring, it doesn't look good. Football still mediocre
Pitt - jury's out, but definitely underachiving compared to those Pitt -UConn brawls of 10-12 years ago. Football was ok.
the whole NBE - so far hugely disappointing in postseason and highly overseeded. (We should have kept the BE name, and sold it for far too low - that was the dumbest decision. I don't know who to blame, but I'll blame Aresco.)
Definitely them.For us or them? LOL
BCU is ridiculous. They use academics as an excuse for failure. They should just join the Patriot League and be done with it.
Georgetown has their football in the Patriot and their basketball in the Big East. It's worked out fine for them... it seems like a natural fit for BC.
They're like the Temple of the old Big East - and they definitely got the bootWhile I do not think BC would ever voluntarily downgrade athletics, I think it is time for the ACC to seriously consider kicking them out. It is not like they are Wake Forest or one of their long-time members. The ACC gave BC a chance and they have failed miserably to deliver.
If you are the ACC, I do not see how it would not make sense to add UConn and drop BC. Taking into consideration nobody born after 1990 even knows who Doug Flutie is, football is at worst comparable with UConn trending up and BC trending down and in basketball UConn is on another universe.
On the other hand, UConn would give the ACC more of a NYC presence than BC currently even gets in Boston.
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On the other hand, UConn would give the ACC more of a NYC presence than BC currently even gets in Boston.
Beautiful.Someone get me a list of BCU alumni. I have some emails to write.
Dear Father Leahy,
It with great hesitancy and profound sadness that I write to you today. Our men's basketball team has once again ended the season in frustration. I was particularly touched, and disturbed, that the best memory of one our basketball players was "going out to eat." That sad statement makes me wonder if we truly giving our fine young men and women who compete in athletics the college experience that deserve.
I recently was speaking to a group of young promising high-school juniors about Boston College and my wonderful experience there. The feedback I received from there guidance counselor was shocking. It seems that all of the candidates heavily discounted our school due to the perception that we, and I will paraphrase here, "struggle" in sports. It seems that our athletic challenges has begun to prejudice our primary mission of educating young men and women in the Jesuit tradition.
Accordingly, I respectfully request that you impanel an advisory committee to explore the financial and academic impact of withdrawing from the Atlantic Coast Conference. At first glance, it seems hard to walk away from the considerable funds that that affiliation provides us, yet upon closer review, it seems that those funds barely cover the cover the cost our sports programs. In my view, although I will withhold judgement until we hear back from the proposed advisory committee, we are better served following the model of the Ivy League, with whom we have so much more in common and returning athletics to be the servant rather than the master.
I trust you will give this proposal serious consideration.
Sincerely,
______________________
Class of ___________
I figure if we all send 100, we can get this done by 2018.
On the other hand, UConn would give the ACC more of a NYC presence than BC currently even gets in Boston.