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Just wondering if anyone knows who he is? (Without Googling!)
 
You have disproven my theory.

I personally did not know the name of the BC starting QB and had to look it up. I surmised most people here wouldn't know who he was either, thus proving BC is not New England's College Team since if no one in New England knows the starting QB's name, that team can't have much of an argument to said title. Sadly, I seem to have been mistaken.

Essentially, this thread was just to gauge just how irrelevant, if irrelevant at all, BCU is.
 
NutmegState said:
I didn't know who he was, fwiw
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Perfect. This is exactly what I had expected. In fact, ever since Matt Ryan left, I can't name one single BCU player other than Mark Herzlich, and I only became aware of him because of off-field health issues rather than because he was ACC defensive player of the year in 2008.
 
I didn't know who he was either. I honestly couldn't name one player on their roster and I haven't seen them play all year.

I was a big BC fan in the 80's when Flutie was there (I saw him play at the Yale bowl when BC played Yale) and followed them quite a bit in the 90's.
 
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I was gonna guess Texas. Chase is a southern sounding name... probably not a lot of catholic families name their kid Chase, I'm guessing.
 
It's pretty hard to watch them play now if you don't get the Chestnut Hill local access channel, I'll give you that.

BC actually traveled to New Haven to play Yale? I mean BCU is basically a 1AA team now, but I still wouldn't think they'd play an away game against one...
 
junglehusky said:
I was gonna guess Texas. Chase is a southern sounding name... probably not a lot of catholic families name their kid Chase, I'm guessing.
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He's from CA. I can't even begin to fathom how they convinced a kid to travel 3,000 miles to play there.
 
MattMang23 said:
BC actually traveled to New Haven to play Yale? ..
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Yup, I believe it was 82 maybe 83. Flutie was just emerging as a national star. Probably 40,000 at the bowl. BC crushed Yale. I don't think Flutie played in the second half.
 
Rettig is a decent QB. BC's OL doesn't have a single player that could start for us IMO, and they miss Phillips.
 
Take a look at the Globe's sports page - Third day in a row there is a fairly mundane UConn-related headline, this time Geno's comments about ND, and no BC headline. The past two days there wasn't a story to be found on BC.
 
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New England's College Team can't even get New England's Newspaper to talk about them.
 
I only know who he is because of what a joke BC is on offense this year. Co-workers who are BCU alums have been saying his name a lot, usually prefaced with "that "
 
When I saw him against Northwestern earlier this year, my impression was that he was terrible.
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
When I saw him against Northwestern earlier this year, my impression was that he was terrible.
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Well that's not a fair assessment. Northwestern is a great team and has vanquished many quality foes, so you really should measure him by how he plays against teams BCU beats regularly, like Duke.
 
MattMang23 said:
You have disproven my theory.

I personally did not know the name of the BC starting QB and had to look it up. I surmised most people here wouldn't know who he was either, thus proving BC is not New England's College Team since if no one in New England knows the starting QB's name, that team can't have much of an argument to said title. Sadly, I seem to have been mistaken.

Essentially, this thread was just to gauge just how irrelevant, if irrelevant at all, BCU is.
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To be fair, you need to ask who the starting Uconn QB is on the BC board. I will bet that they will have no idea either. Why would they?

Better yet, ask random people in CT if they can name Uconn's starting QB or even if they can name the starting PG. Fans will know. Others will not. I played golf over Columbus Day weekend with 5 Uconn grads, 1 BC guy and 2 from other schools. All lived in CT. 3 of us that are fans who watch the games could talk about Uconn FB. 1 of the Uconn guys could not name PP as coach, the BC guy knew a lot and the other two were clueless.
 
06029 said:
To be fair, you need to ask who the starting Uconn QB is on the BC board. I will bet that they will have no idea either. Why would they?

Better yet, ask random people in CT if they can name Uconn's starting QB or even if they can name the starting PG. Fans will know. Others will not. I played golf over Columbus Day weekend with 5 Uconn grads, 1 BC guy and 2 from other schools. All lived in CT. 3 of us that are fans who watch the games could talk about Uconn FB. 1 of the Uconn guys could not name PP as coach, the BC guy knew a lot and the other two were clueless.
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Three words:
Six
Million
Hits

You're selling the trickster far too short.
 
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What this illustrates is that people in New England are not particularly passionate about college football. Boston loves winners. Everyone knew Matt Ryan's name, and Hasselback and Foley and Flutie.
 
Most of us around here who follow college football would probably know who Rettig is.
 
Their LB is a stud and one of the best in the country but I don't know his name either.

BTW, I follow college football and live 30 miles south of Boston and was familiar with the name but needed to be told it was BC's QB and than had an "Oh, yeah" moment.
 
06029, my point is not whether or not people on the BC board know Johnny Mac's name. UConn has never laid public claim to being New England's College Team.
Additionally it's irrelevant whether or not non-fans know Johnny Mac or Shabazz's name. They're non-fans. Capturing a market like BCU is trying to do is about making interested parties in a region use your services, not your competitors. If people aren't even casual fans already, being the only game in town isn't going to change that.
 
As I have said in another thread, one of the best things that could happen for UConn and it's desire to be in the ACC would be for BC to go 1-11 this year and have about 20,000 people show up for their last home game against NC State. 4 of their last 6 games are away games and they will continue to be a sidenote in Boston sports, except when they play ND. They will likely be hiring their 4th coach in 6 years. In addition, they may also be looking for a new AD as Defillippo has been in charge of these hirings along with the downfall of the hoops program. Not to mention his comments regarding ESPN.

The ACC will realize that BC has no chance of being thought of as New England's team, let alone Massachusett's team or even Boston's team. Two BC teams were in the ACC championship game and it didn't alter the perception around Boston or New England. In order to grow some of the desired northeastern media coverage for the ACC they will need the natural rivalry between UConn and BC, and the incredible coverage that Duke, UNC and others may get when they visit UConn in hoops. I think the amount of coverage that UConn gets from the Boston Globe would be a surprise to many along Tobacco Road.

The ACC understands the value of geographically close rivals and have marketed that concept wonderfully throughout the years. That mindset will eventually prevail with UConn and BC, but it will take more time than desired by many on this board.
 
uconnbaseball said:
Rettig is a decent QB. BC's OL doesn't have a single player that could start for us IMO, and they miss Phillips.
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How can BC miss a player who was never healthy enough to be on the field? And the few times he was on the field he did not show any flash and lacked toughness. Two of his fellow freshman last year were far superior to him. They are currently 1st and 3rd leading receivers at BC this year.
 
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Find me somebody in New England who doesn't know who Jim Calhoun, Kemba Walker, or Geno Auriemma are. Infinitely more than who can identify Chase Rettig, Luke Kealty, or Frank Spaziani.
 
Sorry to say that BC-UConn would still be hidden in the Globe or Herald behind Red Sox Yankees or Red Sox playoff game or any Patriots game. Hell the top stories in the paper currently are about the Red Sox and they haven't played a game in nearly a month.

UNC vs Duke is the only game in town and thus the huge interest. Even in the Flutie Days BC had to fight for coverage with the Red Sox and Patriots. Not something that is going to change in the near future. Boston is a Pro sports town!
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
Find me somebody in New England who doesn't know who Jim Calhoun, Kemba Walker, or Geno Auriemma are. Infinitely more than who can identify Chase Rettig, Luke Kealty, or Frank Spaziani.
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I would say Sports fan in New England, not anyone. Plenty of folks who have no idea BC or UConn play sports. Jim Calhoun I will give you. He was successful at Northeastern before he went to UConn. He has been tremendously successful at UConn. Geno is not on the same level, outside of CT, as Calhoun. Such is Woman's basketball. He is coming to speak in Worcester next week and it is a small sidebar in the Worcester Telegram. Doubt they fill the hall. I would put Walker, a little over Kuechly with Spaziani and Rettig much lower. Kuechly was an Al American as a Sophomore and is leading the country in tackles.
 
The OP is not proving anything. There are passionate fans for a particular team who know everything about that team and may or may not have a lot of knowledge of other teams. There are passionate fans of a sport who have a great knowledge of many teams and players in the sport including the team they follow. And there are fans of teams who get excited and involved when the team is doing well and only then do they learn some or all of the players of that team.

Any team that starts doing well, and can sustain the winning will draw in these casual, less obsessed fans. And as more fans are drawn to observe the game, some of them will become obsessed passionate fans increasing the numbers of passionate obsessed fans.

All you have to do is check the rise in attendance of the UConn women's college bb team. Prior to 1990-91 less than 100 people attended UConn women's games. Now the program is second to Tennessee in fan attendance often drawing more than many men's programs. A lot of these fans know the team and other teams. The attendance rise and fan base knowledge took place with the success of the program. And the strength of the conference was irrelevant. For the longest duration of that success the SEC was the prohibitive strongest conference in woman's basketball and the BE was the weakest.
 
I wasn't trying to "prove" anything. I was simply pointing out the irony that the player at the most recognizable position for the team that fancies itself as New England's College Team is unknown to many in a group of New England sports fans.

When people referred to the Dallas Cowboys as America's team in the 90s, most sports fans knew the name Troy Aikman. Just pointing out that BC has a ways to go before anyone can take their claim of being THE team around here seriously.
 
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