Semi-OT: BC article in Globe

[pj]

There are a number of rivalry games that most of the nation neither knows or cares about...but are important to the fans of the programs involved. Most involve teams not on the first tier of college football.

Alabama-Birmingham vs Troy....

FIU vs FAU

Eastern Michigan vs Western Michigan

The biggest rivalry game in Tallahassee for much of the population is the Bethune Cookman vs Florida A&M game

BC doesn't want a rivalry game. They want your $20 million per year, and as little attention as possible.

 

[Marty Jackson]

Please tell me you have a life beyond posting on this site. duck*ing amazing to me that the first post on BC and quite some time and your on it in about 30 minutes. Not sure if it's scary or just sad.

nobody cares about BC... that's why whatever fans the school does have, can be found here, supporting New England's college team.

 

[dayooper]

There are a number of rivalry games that most of the nation neither knows or cares about...but are important to the fans of the programs involved. Most involve teams not on the first tier of college football.

Alabama-Birmingham vs Troy....

FIU vs FAU

Eastern Michigan vs Western Michigan

The biggest rivalry game in Tallahassee for much of the population is the Bethune Cookman vs Florida A&M game

Easter Michigan has no rivals. They are just there. I got one of my degrees from there and no one gets up for EMU. Now Central Michigan and Western Michigan hate each other. That is quite the rivalry!

 

[Marty Jackson]

I live in Cambridge, am an active Catholic, and have been to games at Conte Forum. It is weird to say that Harvard football is more popular than BC football -- Harvard must have cleaned up on social media mentions because no way do they win at the most obvious dimensions. Apart from that, it's a generally accurate article. Interest in BC football has declined since they moved to the ACC and lost all their regional rivals. They have loyal alumni fans and that is it; they don't penetrate the larger community.

Nor do you get the impression that BC wants to penetrate the local community. They seem to be happy catering to their own alumni and Jesuit community, picking up $20 mn a year from the ACC, and separating themselves a bit from non-alumni residents. There is hardly any local PR from BC. They don't represent themselves as "Boston's sports school". Personally, I'm glad of that - they should emphasize a Catholic, global identity, not a local parochial one. But, that makes it difficult for them to build a large local non-alumni athletics fan base. And they haven't.

BC is the local Notre Dame...

 

[DarthGrumpy]

Easter Michigan has no rivals. They are just there. I got one of my degrees from there and no one gets up for EMU. Now Central Michigan and Western Michigan hate each other. That is quite the rivalry!

Why EMU was put in Yipsilanti when U Michigan was already in in place the next town over in Ann Arbor is insane. EMU should be somewhere north of Detroit between there and Bay City. UConn and Eastern are about the same distance apart; but the do not compete in Athletics.

 

[dayooper]

Eastern Michigan started out as a teacher college (Michigan State Normal College) in 1853 and became a full fledged university in 1959. Michigan has many State Universities in the Lower Peninsula.