You know why it was a matter of turf? Because BC is terrible.
They are a rotting, fetid corpse of a by-gone era, where the northeast mattered in football and it didn't matter if your alumni didn't go to games and your city ignored you. They're an anachronism. They're Villanova with less football success and a bigger stadium. They won't play us because we're better than them and the don't want anyone to know that we've surpassed them.
You know what BC is good at? Hockey. You know why? I don't, but I'm willing to bet it has something to do with the fact that UConn doesn't allow scholarships for it. Let's just take a sample of the fall sports (no need to back in time and peek at UConn's 23-0 record against BC from 1988-2000). Hi there Men's Soccer, I see you
beat Boston College 2-0 this year. How you doing Women's Soccer? Did you enjoy your
2-1 victory over BC? I bet you liked it at least as much as Field Hockey enjoyed
blanking the Eagles 4-0. Hell, I'll even throw in cross country, where UConn won first place at the
New England Championships.
The only thing UConn hasn't beat BC in is a lawsuit, and that's because
they paid to make it go away.
