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Message: [QUOTE="Husky25, post: 664574, member: 2839"] [URL='http://the-boneyard.com/threads/b1g.28576/page-104#post-658215']Apparently you didn't read a past reply I made to you. [/URL]I am a UConn fan. This is a UConn board. This is my perception of BC athletics (minus hockey). I do not claim to be all things football to all people. I know B.C.'s past. I don't care. I have a close relative who graduated from B.C. I don't care. I went to dozens of games in Conte Forum and Alumni stadium directly because of said relative. I still don't care. Past performance does not necessarily guarantee future results. Al Skinner did not recruit a single first year player his last season at Boston College. Of course he was the logical replacement for Jim O'Brien (who was run out on a rail by Fr. Leahy). All O'Brien did was take his BC backcourt and go to the 1999 Final 4. Later scandals notwithstanding, O'Brien was as good a basketball coach as BC could have ever hoped for. Gene DePhillipo threatened a man's livelihood for merely having a conversation. Of course Frank Spaziani should be able to advance the program that Matty Ice and Coach Jagozinski got to the #2 ranking in the country. After all, he beat Navy in a meaningless exhibition game in 2006. Let me ask you a question. Why is it soooo important to you for us to kowtow to B.C.? With all the shadenfreude that B.C. and its fans in general have displayed over the last decade, you could force the Boneyards' collective eyelids open, Clockwork Orange-style, and make us to watch Gerald Phelan falling in the endzone with the ball and it still probably wouldn't make a difference. B.C. may not be looking for any special favors, but you sure are. [/QUOTE]

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