Fenway Asked To Host BC-UConn, BC Said No

[Sky ball]

BC & UConn should play a game at Fenway soon...A BASEBALL GAME

 

[BC1978]

BC & UConn should play a game at Fenway soon...A BASEBALL GAME

Well, that WOULD work!

 

[06029]

If you think there is no parking at Fenway, let me tell you there is no parking for football games at Alumni Stadium unless you have a spot for the season. Also, unless you know a BC fan that has shelled out a lot of money for a tailgating spot, you will not be tailgating anywhere near the stadium before the BC game. Most likely, you will have to take public transportation and walk a long distance or take a bus to the BC game. Don't even think about parking on a residential street in Chestnut Hill on game day. The football game day rules have been tightened since the last time UConn played at BC.

Since I have been to many games at both Fenway and Alumni Stadium, it is easier and more fun to go to Fenway and instead of tailgating, you can hit up all of the bars around Fenway that are geared up for pre and post game activities.

BC nows sells parking by the game on the old seminary for I think $50 or $75 per car. There is a shuttle bus that will bring you up the hill or you can do the 15 minute walk.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

If you think there is no parking at Fenway, let me tell you there is no parking for football games at Alumni Stadium unless you have a spot for the season. Also, unless you know a BC fan that has shelled out a lot of money for a tailgating spot, you will not be tailgating anywhere near the stadium before the BC game. Most likely, you will have to take public transportation and walk a long distance or take a bus to the BC game. Don't even think about parking on a residential street in Chestnut Hill on game day. The football game day rules have been tightened since the last time UConn played at BC.

Since I have been to many games at both Fenway and Alumni Stadium, it is easier and more fun to go to Fenway and instead of tailgating, you can hit up all of the bars around Fenway that are geared up for pre and post game activities.

Sure you can go to Fenway, but if you're driving, you have to park out at Riverside and T in, hope for street parking, or pay out of your ass. At least BC has a couple of garages and the field available, though you're right they fill up. But if you're arguing parking at Fenway is better and more abundant than at BC, that's flat wrong.

 

[Waquoit]

Sure you can go to Fenway, but if you're driving, you have to park out at Riverside and T in, hope for street parking, or pay out of your ass. At least BC has a couple of garages and the field available, though you're right they fill up. But if you're arguing parking at Fenway is better and more abundant than at BC, that's flat wrong.

It's a push. Realistically, you need to take the T to BCU as well.

 

[Dooley]

Would BC still get 100% gate if a game is played at Fenway? BC will have their first sellout in years and I doubt they want to give up the money that comes with having 10K or more UConn fans at their stadium. Not even USCw or FSU has moved the needle enough for their fanbase to sellout Alumni.

 

[Pudge]

If you average 30,000 loyal souls at Alumni ... we could easily take your 14,000 empties. That might be available at Fenway. I like Alumni. It sets up great for OUR big win.

 

[BC1978]

If you average 30,000 loyal souls at Alumni ... we could easily take your 14,000 empties. That might be available at Fenway. I like Alumni. It sets up great for OUR big win.

Should be a good game. Given when it is occurring on both teams' schedules, it is hopefully meaningful for both teams, which would add to the excitement and attendance.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Sure you can go to Fenway, but if you're driving, you have to park out at Riverside and T in, hope for street parking, or pay out of your ass. At least BC has a couple of garages and the field available, though you're right they fill up. But if you're arguing parking at Fenway is better and more abundant than at BC, that's flat wrong.

How long a walk to Alumni from the closest Green Line stop?

 

[06029]

How long a walk to Alumni from the closest Green Line stop?

5 minutes from the end of the B line which is the slowest possible T route in Boston. The D (Riverside line) walk from Cleveland Circle is about 15 minutes and about the same from the Chestnut Hill stop.

 

[BC1978]

How long a walk to Alumni from the closest Green Line stop?

5 minutes. The Green Line (BC branch) terminates right across the street from BC's lower campus (where the stadium is located) gate.

 

[06029]

Should be a good game. Given when it is occurring on both teams' schedules, it is hopefully meaningful for both teams, which would add to the excitement and attendance.

Last year, this game would have ended up being a 3-0 4 overtime game. BC defense was real good and BC's offense was epicly bad. It would have set the record for punts in a game. If it was televised, they would have had to stop due to the number of people that gouged their eyes out having to watch it.

 

[BC1978]

5 minutes from the end of the B line which is the slowest possible T route in Boston. The D (Riverside line) walk from Cleveland Circle is about 15 minutes and about the same from the Chestnut Hill stop.

Agreed. The Riverside streetcar stops at Longwood, which is a bit more of a walk, but a MUCH faster ride through the city.

 

[Matt (Chicago)]

Where is that doofus @Yawkey Way ? i'm sure he'll have an intelligent, well-reasoned reason as to why it's beneath BC to play the game at Fenway against a lowly opponent like UConn.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

Wow, that's pretty messed up priorities. I went to the Army game at Yankee Stadium after swearing to never go there again. My last previous visit was this.

I was at that game, mezzanine level between home and 1st base. Back in the day when grandparents could afford to do so, 'Gramp' took me to matinee games all of the time in the Bronx. Because of him and days like those, I will be a Yankees fan to the day I die no matter where I live.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

Bates would last 15 minutes with Herbst. At BC he's got plenty of runway. There is every indication that he is in about 10 miles over his head.

Not to mention when Michigan, one of the top universities in the country, needed a new AD and wanted to pull in someone with Michigan roots, they pulled a guy from UConn and not BC. both of whom had AD's with very strong Michigan ties. If that was test, and I believe it was, Bates failed.

 

[BC1978]

Last year, this game would have ended up being a 3-0 4 overtime game. BC defense was real good and BC's offense was epicly bad. It would have set the record for punts in a game. If it was televised, they would have had to stop due to the number of people that gouged their eyes out having to watch it.

LOL...I think you hit the nail on the head! I think both teams will be better this year and it should be a good game (with the usual caveat to the unknown impact injuries can have).

 

[DarthGrumpy]

BC turned the Fenway game down for a very simple reason. They are already playing one of their 2016 home games in Ireland and there is no way they are moving another home game and be left with 5 games at Alumni Stadium. Had they done that, the season ticket holder base would have revolted. BC would have lost on concessions and parking fess if they had the moved the game.

A a season ticket holder, I would have been furious. Even if they could have kept the ticket price the same (good luck with that), I would lose my free parking on the Newton campus (and 5 minute bus ride to the stadium), and instead have to go downtown, pay $30-$40 for parking, and sit in a baseball stadium with sub par (IMO) sight lines for FB (instead of my tickets on the 30 yard line). No thanks.

You make very good points and I commend you for your totally to BC football during these dark times. After living through the Darth Pasqualoni era, UConn fans can relate. That said, this may also have something to do with BC not wanting a game at Fenway...

 

[BC1978]

You make very good points and I commend you for your totally to BC football during these dark times. After living through the Darth Pasqualoni era, UConn fans can relate. That said, this may also have something to do with BC not wanting a game at Fenway...

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Nope. That's not it. Had everything to do with not wanting only 5 home games at Alumni if the game was moved. Had the GT game not already been moved to Ireland, they probably would have done it.

Look, we are both in the Northeast. When the team is bad, attendance sucks. Neither program enjoys the zombie-like fans like many SEC teams where they will pack the stadium win or lose. You guys know this as well. The hope is both teams do well next year and attendance becomes less of an issue.

I suspect both teams will be substantially better.

 

[BlueDogs]

Nope. That's not it. Had everything to do with not wanting only 5 home games at Alumni if the game was moved. Had the GT game not already been moved to Ireland, they probably would have done it.

Look, we are both in the Northeast. When the team is bad, attendance sucks. Neither program enjoys the zombie-like fans like many SEC teams where they will pack the stadium win or lose. You guys know this as well. The hope is both teams do well next year and attendance becomes less of an issue.

I suspect both teams will be substantially better.

There are 2 viable D1 programs in New England. We despise BC. Our hatred might be the best thing that has come along for BC in a long time. It makes for perfect rivalries.

 

[pnow15]

Boston College is dead. They tried to bury us. We should not play them anywhere anytime. Why resurrect a corpse? Don't even let them sniff a regional rivalry. Give them nothing.
We ought to schedule UMass in Fenway. That would be fun. Let Boston College dwell in the bottom of the ACC, a perennial loser.
Ollie will have back in top 20 in BB. Our football league plays in bigger cities, Houston, Dallas, Philly.
Maybe schedule a basketball game in Boston. One a year in NY, one in Boston.

 

[Nostical]

Boston College tried to bury us. We should not play them anywhere anytime. Give them nothing.

As much as you hate to hear it, there's a mutually imperative need for UConn and BC to play each other.

 

[ZooCougar]

Am I supposed to be upset by this?

 

[Doggie Style]

I wouldn't have gone if it were in Fenway. As a diehard Yankee fan I made a one-time, drunken pilgrimage there from Storrs my Sophomore year at UCONN. I sat behind a steel beam, in a seat built for a small Asian boy. And I had a great time.

I breathed in the history the entire game, knowing I'd never step foot in that place ever again once I walked out.

"a small Asian boy"..... That made me spit out my coffee!!!!

 

[Waquoit]

5 minutes. The Green Line (BC branch) terminates right across the street from BC's lower campus (where the stadium is located) gate.

It sure seemed a lot longer when I went the last time UConn played there.