LOL yup-its a wash.......with Runners training for the B.M., families clad in Sox gear, and student wearing sweatshirts of B.C., Harvard, N.U.,B.U., MIT, Wentworth, Emerson, and so on and so on. I was at a packed Clery's Irish Pub on Clarendon St/Columbus Ave last night watching the Sox/Yankees. I have lived/worked in Boston for the past 25 years two blocks from Copley and I assure you it is the same scene it is every year just before the impending Marathon. Did I miss something? Thanks for letting me know whats hot in the Bean at the moment.
Haha. I hadn't realized the "rivalry" didn't go back further. So, fair enough. But BC is not as impressive or intimidating as USC, Michigan, Michigan State...and even recently, Stanford. So while I perhaps overstated my point with "punching bag," my basic point that ND would have the advantage of having some easier games against teams that they have historic relationships with is still true.
Yeah...I love UConn, and there is a presence here...but mostly among former CT residents or UConn alum. It's sizable enough to take over some bars when the tournament is on, but I'm not sure who Gammons is talking to. UConn doesn't really move the needle much. To be fair, neither does BC (other than hockey).
I can see you are warming to the notion that a mission statement truly is needed. Your initial attempt is too narrowly focused to serve, however. How, for example, did the addition of BC support adding schools with strong athletic departments? How did Pitt and Cuse represent additions from states with overlapping SEC teams? I suspect the reason Swofford doesn't offer one is that trying to explain how his expansion moves match his mission would be about as difficult as trying to explain the motion of heavenly bodies once one hypothesizes the earth is the center of the universe.
Exactly.
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I think we can agree on this ....BIG pie....LOTS of slices
True... and also, if a school's " faculty Senate " input ever counted for anything, this website ( and most other major college teams websites ) wouldn't exist, as none of these football programs we are discussing today would exist. So we all should be able to agree here that whatever the college professors vote is, at any of these schools, it isn't worth diddly squat in any of this.
Right. My point had very little to do with BC at all. It was that I think ultimately ND will join the ACC, if forced by conference realignment, largely because there are some teams they have historically played in the ACC, and those teams aren't that challenging in relation to parts of their schedule they dropped. Hence, I said punching bags...and you, rightly, corrected me, but it doesn't invalidate my larger point.
It's why I think it could happen. But, if the P5 doesn't force ND into a conference, the ACC better be ready for the wheeling and backstabbing ND will do to ensure it's indepedence is preserved.
It's been a year. There's a reason BE football teams distrust and dislike Notre Dame, and it ain't because we're envious of their success.
Yes, I don't know what he means with this comment either. The southern ACC'ers have been exceedingly gracious in my wife and I in our travels to ACC venues for ACC games. I'm not sure btstimpy, if some of the Uconn fans have been to games in the South, but if they have, they'd know that by and large, despite the home fans fans hoping their teams kick the snoot out of their traveling opponents, they are universally hospitable, almost beyond belief, to opponent fans when they come down to visit their stadiums for football games. Virgina, Virginia Tech, Clemson, and Tallahassee have all been outstanding venues, and their fans gracious, friendly, and hospitable.
We would take UMass football seriously if the state of Massachusetts took is serious.