Rumor of BC Game At Gillette
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There would be some...like me, who would go. I live 15 minutes away.
Wow...being a UMass guy I was going to stay out of this but I just can't believe the delusional state Munster resides in! Playing UConn is the same as playing Maine or UMass? Really? Well...they are playing UMass Aug 30th. When is the UConn game scheduled?
Munster...it seems you are taking the unfortunate couple of years UConn has suffered through due to a questionable coaching hire and exploiting that to come across as a pompous a**. Sounds like something you would read on an Alabama football board or a Kentucky basketball board.
My guess....if UConn and BC were on a level playing field as far as conference affiliation there would no need for this discussion. UConn would be light years ahead of BC in very short order. Unless of course arrogance is a measureable, then BC holds that title indefinitely!
Munster...it seems you are taking the unfortunate couple of years UConn has suffered through due to a questionable coaching hire and exploiting that to come across as a pompous a**. Sounds like something you would read on an Alabama football board or a Kentucky basketball board.
My guess....if UConn and BC were on a level playing field as far as conference affiliation there would no need for this discussion. UConn would be light years ahead of BC in very short order. Unless of course arrogance is a measureable, then BC holds that title indefinitely!
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Nicely said. By the way, UConn people on the BY (and in this thread) are pretty unreasonable in their assessment of BC football. BC also had a down stretch due to some bad coaching hires/decisions. They've been to 23 bowl games, and have played in multiple New Years day bowl games (the prior equivalent of a BCS game before the BCS). We shouldn't need to sell them short to feel good about UConn. BC has accomplished much more than UConn in football, there is really no question about it. I think they look back on track with Steve A at the helm.
Hopefully there will be a series between the teams, and a neutral site game at Gillette. It would be in the interest of both schools. It could really become a great rivalry, which we both desperately need.
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Problem with that is it goes beyond just coaching hires. They had(have?) a very disfunctional AD and once the BE players cycled through they didn't do much. When did Matt Ryan leave? That was their last decent team.
They've been buried in the ACC, no one talks about or cares about them. Only some of that is on the personnel decisions, the rest is geographic and lack of a cultural fit. Having Cuse will help, but it's more likely Cuse becomes less relevant than BC becomes more relevant as a result.
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And part of our problems don't stem from a dysfunctional AD? I know a lot of BC grads and fans, and most of them are passionate about football. They went to a bowl game ever single year from 1999 to 2010. Then again last year. That's two whole years with no bowl game in this millennium. The reality of BC football does not match this image we've created, and Matt Ryan wasn't that long ago. They will keep improving now.
I agree with you that they don't culturally fit in the ACC as it was, though Pitt and Cuse will help. That's also exactly the reason why they need to play UConn. We are certainly just as much a fish out of water in the AAC.
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Irrelevant but true. Never had a Heisman trophy winner is a fact that applies to UConn and not BC. How about never won a New Year's day bowl game? Run them down all you like, but it's petty and silly given that their football program has a much better history than ours. Now basketball...
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It's the MOST relevant fact of all. It is the measure of college football excellence. Its the equivalence in basket ball is the final four or elite eight. Are those irrelevant as well?
And its not subjective. It is an absolute objective fact.
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That's true only during the BCS era, which is fairly recent. Before that they had "New Years Day" bowl games. Rose, Orange, Cotton, Sugar. That was the equivalent of the final four. And BC went to three of them. Much later the Fiesta became big. So yes, it is the measure of excellence and they went three times to our 1.
Actually, four times (Cotton 1939, Sugar 1940, Orange 1942, Cotton 1984), only one of which occurred in the last 70+ years, and not since Reagan's first term.
That 1940 season was marked by The Lou Montgomery Story, which is objectively disgusting, and pretty much the antithesis of what college sports are all about.
Conversely, 90 miles away, another institution was one of the first in the nation to admit Japanese Americans coming out of internment camps, and freely welcomed them to play on their sports teams.
Such a fine institution, that Boston College.
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