As a Yankee fan, I can admire how the Red Sox treated our NCAA champion Huskies. However, I do think college sports are second fiddle in Boston. . BC has been awful for so long in FB, MBB and WBB that it is hard to know if a following could develop by virtue of some success.
What do you think?
Boston is absolutely a pro sports town... where most casual sports fans around Eastern Mass consider the college basketball and college football teams as minor league preps for the Pros. Its also a front running fan base. They like winners, or contenders and will focus on those teams the most that are winning.
As for BC, I suppose when someone says " BC has been awful for so long " that there time horizon only goes back perhaps only 4 or 5 years. If this is the case, then they do have a point. But if their time horizon is longer than 4 -5 years or so, then it should be pointed out that BC, in football, went to the ACC league Football Championship games in both 2007 and 2008 ( against Virginia Tech ) and in 2006 BC went to the ACC Baskeball Tournament Championship Game vs. Duke ( lost by 2). Since BC has joined the ACC, its combined Basketball and football record in the ACC, is in the upper echelon of the ACC when compared to all the other ACC Schools in the similar time frame. So yes, the BC AD did a crappy job the last 3-4 years hiring coaches ( but he's retired ), but Uconn's Hathaway's hiring of Pasqualoni was a bust that has set back Uconn football too during this similar time frame lets not forget. Both Uconn Fottball and BC Football are coming off bad hires. But both appear to be in the hands of competent coaches, ( BC football did go bowling again last season ) so both fan bases are entitled to feel better about their football futures, imo