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Message: [QUOTE="DarthGrumpy, post: 664680, member: 2141"] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]You do have to admit though that more than any program that I can think of, BC’s athletic success, outside of hockey, is built on one moment, Doug Flutie’s pass, and not a long-term growth curve backed by a strong financial commitment (like UConn or Louisville). Before that pass, BC was a commuter college. Nearly 30 years later, it’s one of the top universities in the US. UConn has followed a similar path, except it had taken baby steps in between - NIT championship (1988), Big East Title (1990), then NCAA championships (1999, 2004, and 2011). Academically, UConn is still behind BC overall; but, on the field, UConn has had more success than BC and it has only taken the school 20 years to get to that level. Maybe that is why BC ‘appears’ jealous. Afterall, BC never complained about UConn (nor Maine, Vermont, UNH, UMass, and URI) for the 80+ years it was a Yankee Conference team (and prior conferences).[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]The NCAA and others have even done research on the phenomenon, not coincidently called the Flutie effect.[/FONT][/COLOR] [URL='http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/NCAANewsArchive/2006/Association-wide/the%2Bflutie%2Beffect%2B-%2B7-31-06%2Bncaa%2Bnews.html'][U][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#0563c1]http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/NCAANewsArchive/2006/Association-wide/the%2Bflutie%2Beffect%2B-%2B7-31-06%2Bncaa%2Bnews.html[/COLOR][/FONT][/U][/URL] [/QUOTE]