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SubbaBub said:
There are not 5000 seats in the LF Bleachers, unless the cadets were sitting on each others laps, you don't now what you are talking about. And I'd put the other Army fans at around 4 they occupied the BC area and didn't come close to filling the same space.

As anyone who went with a group could tell you, buses were in short supply that day. I know may group had to scramble to find a replacement when out original bus backed out. So continue to delude yourself, or not, because no one believes a word you say.
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Ha! I think we were typing the same thing at the same time.
 
Dooley said:
Now the # of BC fans at the game is up to 15K?? That's truly hilarious. Unless BC fans were sitting on each other's laps (and piling up 3 or 4 high per seat!), there was not even close to 15K BC fans in attendance. But I guess we have to accept this new inflated number because one BC nitwit "was at the game" and his "best friend's uncles's wife said no less than 15K". Even by BC troll standards, that's rich. No. 5-10K tops. If you want to use an estimate on the higher end of that range, fine. But not a single Eagle fan more than 10K.

As for the UCONN vs Army game and my 16-18K proclamation that you dispute:

Total attendance - just over 27K

As most fans know, the number of bleacher seats in the old Yankee Stadium was around 7500. They cut that number in half in favor of adding about 2K standing room areas. So, there are only a TOTAL of about 3500-4000 bleacher seats in the new Yankee Stadium. If you glance at the below picture posted by another Yarder in attendance, you will see that the cadets make up half of the bleachers (the left field bleachers) as well as 2 sections in the 2nd level. Total cadets: 2-3K (not 5K as they normally produce for games in West Point).

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That leaves about 24-25K unaccounted for. With the crowd split of roughly 60/40 in favor of UCONN, that puts the estimated number of fans around:
60% of 24K = 14,440
60% of 25K = 15K

A little less than 16-18K obviously, which may be overly ambitious. The more conservative estimate of 15K is more likely closer to number of UCONN fans that were actually in attendance. However, that conservative 15K estimate still dwarfs the ambitious estimated number (any # over 10K) of BC fans that made it to the same venue against a quality opponent for a bowl game. And UCONN fans did that in the middle of yet another horrendous 2-win campaign and playing against a non-quality (although I have the utmost respect for the cadets, the football team is lousy...better than we were last year though!) opponent.

So yes, UCONN drew more fans to a horrendous game against Army amidst another horrendous season than BC drew for a bowl game against a quality opponent. If you want to continue to dispute this, then that's your call (and your sanity!). There is NO question that UCONN would have brought more fans to the bowl game than BC this year. We already did.

I think the better debate is whether or not BC outdrew UCONN basketball at the IZOD. Total attendance there was close to 17K with a crowd split of about 50/50, putting UCONN's estimate around 8-9K (depending on how conservative/ambitious your estimates are) for a weeknight regular season basketball game played at a venue MUCH more difficult to get to.
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ESPN called it a UConn crowd.
Could be we were just louder or maybe there were more of us.
 
Yawkey Way said:
Uconn is a Basketball school. One of the nation's elites in College Basketball. Football ? They are an Andy Warhol 30 seconds of former fame New England College Football program, if we're honest about it here. Will they get more than their 30 seconds of future College Football Fame, and become relevant once again... and for longer than they were before ?. Sure. Why not ?. But only time will tell if their current wet behind the ears young Head Coach can do more than jump up and down on the sidelines. Even most Uconn football fans would agree with this assessment it would seem to me
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Here's the thing. BC is a hockey school and UCONN will make a full run at being a national power there as well. It's what UCONN does - win championships.

There are two reason's BC has a slight advantage right now over UCONN in football. BC has been at it longer and conference affiliation. Recent history has shown that even with a disadvantaged conference affiliation (old BE vs ACC), UCONN could compete on a level equal to and above that of BC. Were it not for a disaster of a hire in P, UCONN might very well be performing at a level equal to or above that of BC. Although that is clearly not the case now and I think the Adazio hire was a very good one.

Mark my words on this. UCONN will eventually end up in either the ACC or BiG. When that happens it will only be a matter of time before UCONN football will look much like UCONN basketball in relation to our friends on Chestnut Hill. BC will have to compete with UCONN on a level playing field and that has never worked out well for BC.
 
Yawkey Way said:
Ok.
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You truncated the rest because you know it's true. Because it's always been that way.

If we were not sucking hind t*t right now with conference affiliation and a bad coaching hire you would not be on this board right now. Frankly, it's really poor form. But, hey man, carry on....

Happy new year......
 
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AZHuskiePop said:
ESPN called it a UConn crowd.
Could be we were just louder or maybe there were more of us.
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I was at the Izod, too. (Damn I get around) the school tickets were split evenly to both schools but the arena's tickets went mostly to UConn people. 60/40 is conservative. I think it was 66/33.
 
SubbaBub said:
I was at the Izod, too. (Damn I get around) the school tickets were split evenly to both schools but the arena's tickets went mostly to UConn people. 60/40 is conservative. I think it was 66/33.
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I was there, too. Would call it 50% UConn v. 40% Duke with 10% neutral (the guy I went falls into this category, went to U Colorado and just wanted to see a good college game). That said, UConn fans were way louder (and younger, which helps the loud issue, too) and thus it felt like a UConn crowd.
 
uconndogs said:
There are two reason's BC has a slight advantage right now over UCONN in football. .
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" Slight advantage " ?

You are talking now about the average numbers of football fans that go to home games " right now ", correct ? ( 2014 :Uconn, 27,461.... BC 34,270 ). BC does have a slight advantage in home game average attendance right now. This is correct. Uconn is a much bigger school, with lots more Alums, with no pro team competition nearby. So the fact that Uconn is close in home game ave. attendance right now compared to BC is not all that surprising to me.
 
Dooley is that a pic I posted already?? If not we were sitting literally right next to each other.
 
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BoatShow said:
Dooley is that a pic I posted already?? If not we were sitting literally right next to each other.
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Yeah, I took it from the UCONN/Army "post your pics" thread. I couldn't remember who posted it though so I couldn't make the proper credits in the captioning.

I was here...

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Yawkey Way said:
This thread is a discussion on BC fan attendance on a game I was at.. It interests me. Why does your pic in your avatar have a clown's long neck ?
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Pompous . Go talk to your other preppy friends about how great your f@hcking hockey program is.
We don't want your kind around here. Don't they teach manners at BCU?
 
Stairmaster said:
Pompous . Go talk to your other preppy friends about how great your f@hcking hockey program is.
We don't want your kind around here. Don't they teach manners at BCU?
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Oh my... you come out of woodwork, don't respond to me in a civil manner, then immediately initiate profanity laced obscenities as your first entre to me ( a poster thats been a board member here longer than you, incidentally )... and then you inquire of me of where I learned MY " manners " ? Thats certainly an interesting twist, imo. Look,.. you seem like an uncivilized person with this vitriol to me, so just do yourself ( and me ) a favor newbie, and ignore anything I post on here from now on. This helpful suggestion should work rather well for both of us now moving forward.
 
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It's a known fact that BC doesn't travel well. The worst example I seen was back in 2007 at The Hartford Hall of Fame Showcase Basketball Tournament in Boston at TD Garden. UConn vs Gonzaga and BC vs Providence. I say the Garden was half filled with UConn fans. The BC section was near empty and the campus is only 7 miles away from the Garden.
It was a real embarrassment for the school.



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Student Section at most BC basketball games :)
 
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HuskyPete said:
It's a known fact that BC doesn't travel well.



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Its to the point of a broken record as a matter of fact. Most small, private Universities with students from around the Globe, don't have the following of large publics.... I think this is new news here to anyone ( or shouldn't be ). Anybody catch the Orange Bowl on TV last nite ?. The stadium had thousands of empty seats. Georgia Tech was one of the teams in the game. Its a terrific school, with a good football team this season that routed the SEC's Miss. State. But GT is a small private, and located in Atlanta, where the Pro teams rule. Public Schools located in essentially fly over country, where Pro franchises arn't interested in their states, or locales, generally have lots of fans that by neccessity gravite to following the college amateur sports team in their region. This is why Alabama for example loves their college football there. Football is big in the south, and Alabama doesn't have Pro franchises interested in the state. Same with all the 2014 Final Four schools... Columbus, Ohio,... Tallahassee, Florida,.... Eugene, Oregon,... Tuscaloosa, Ala. They are all located in regions with large college amateur sports fan followings... where pro franchises eseentially arn't interested in their cities.

BC had more football fans at their homes games this season than Uconn did. But just imagine if Bob Kraft had moved his New England Patriots out of Massachusetts and into Hartford, CT, ( as he did for about a month ). Uconn football, especially this season, would have lost even more fans than they did. But this would be true just about anywhere a school... especially a small, private, Catholic one like BC..... has competition from a pro teams as well as other Pro sports franchises. This is no revelation to anyone.. or shouldn't be, imo.
 
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Yawkey Way said:
Its to the point of a broken record as a matter of fact. Most small, private Universities with students from around the Globe, don't have the following of large publics.... I think this is new news here to anyone ( or shouldn't be ). Anybody catch the Orange Bowl on TV last nite ?. The stadium had thousands of empty seats. Georgia Tech was one of the teams in the game. Its a terrific school. But its a small private, and located in Atlanta, where the Pro teams rule. Public Schools located in essentially fly over country, where Pro franchises arn't interested in their states, or locales, generally have lots of fans that by neccessity gravite to following the college amateur sports team in their region. This is why Alabama for example loves their college football there. Football is big in the south, and Alabama doesn't have Pro franchises interested in the state. Same with all the 2014 Final Four schools... Columbus, Ohio,... Tallahassee, Florida,.... Eugene, Oregon,... Tuscaloosa, Ala. They are all located in regions with large college amateur sports fan followings... where pro franchises eseentially arn't interested in their cities.

BC had more football fans at their homes games this season than Uconn did. But just imagine if Bob Kraft had moved his New England Patriots out of Massachusetts and into Hartford, CT, ( as he did for about a month ). Uconn football, especially this season, would have lost even more fans than they did. But this would be true just about anywhere a school... especially a small, private, Catholic one like BC..... has competition from a pro teams as well as other Pro sports franchises. This is no revelation to anyone.. or shouldn't be, imo.
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So you're just going to gloss over the fact that BC went to a bowl game this year, and UCONN only won 2 games, to justify your "broken record" talking point? That's what you're hanging your hat on? Really?
 
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DefCONNOne said:
So you're just going to gloss over the fact that BC went to a bowl game this year, and UCONN only won 2 games, to justify your "broken record" talking point? That's what you're hanging your hat on? Really?
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No.. because such an interpretation,... either intentional or unintentional...would be a complete misreading of my remarks to conclude this from what I have posted on this thread. Such a misread and misinterpretation of my remarks would be regrettable for you ( and me ). So, no, this is not at all what I said here. As a matter of fact, I never mentioned anything at all regarding wins and losses... of either BC or Uconn ...on here. YOU did ( for whatever reason ) and the wins and losses you just brought up have not a thing to do with small privates in pro towns and large publics without pro competition in their locales. Heck, I even mentioned on this thread that when Miami Hurricanes were winning all their titles ( or competing for them ) they hardly even sold out their home games. So as you can see, my remarks above have little at all to do with YOUR bringing up the fact of wins and losses this year for BC, and for Uconn..., or wins and losses of ANY school having much at all to do with my remarks and central points raised here on this thread.
 
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Yawkey Way said:
No.. because such an interpretation,... either intentional or unintentional...would be a complete misreading of my remarks to conclude this from what I have posted on this thread. Such a misread and misinterpretation of my remarks would be regrettable for you ( and me ). So, no, this is not at all what I said here. As a matter of fact, I never mentioned anything at all regarding wins and losses... of either BC or Uconn ...on here. YOU did ( for whatever reason ) and the wins and losses you just brought up have not a thing to do with small privates in pro towns and large publics without pro competition in their locales.
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I brought up wins and losses between UCONN/BC, because you're continually harping on BC's "superior" football attendance this year. Which, as I pointed out, is because BC went to a bowl game and UCONN had 2 wins. So I ask again, are you really going to gloss over that fact to justify your "broken record" talking point?
 
HuskyPete said:
Just to let my fellow Boneyards know that Yawkey Way is really A.K.A New London Day Mike Dimauro
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No. I don't even know who you are referring too, although I do have family connections to the school of Uconn, as well as to family in Connecticut, and so thats why I read mostly ( and occasionally post ) on here. That said, I won't be explaining anymore in the future as to my occasional posts on here to the curious, as noone else has to explain themselves here, and furthermore, my explaining now as to my interest has become a broken record during the last year by now anyway.
 
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DefCONNOne said:
I brought up wins and losses between UCONN/BC, because you're continually harping on BC's "superior" football attendance this year. Which, as I pointed out, is because BC went to a bowl game and UCONN had 2 wins. So I ask again, are you really going to gloss over that fact to justify your "broken record" talking point?
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Miami has won National Titles in College Football. Georgia Tech has won national Titles in College Football. In these years where these small privates won their national titles they averaged less than half of what the attendance was this year for the large public, bowl less, 5-7 losing record, Univ. Michigan. YOU brought up the won losses record in an attempt to make wins and losses the determining factor in college football attendance and the size of their fanbase. I won't be sidetracked by this distraction, as attendance and fan followings are mostly a function of each schools individual fluctuations in their own wins and losses. For example, the Miami Hurricanes could win every football game for the next 5 years, and they still would not come close to what a losing record Miami Dolphins will draw in attendance during that span.. THATS my central point here on " attendance " that it appears that you are missing in my remarks above.
 
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Yawkey Way said:
No. I don't even know who you are referring too, although I do have family connections to the school of Uconn, as well as to family in Connecticut, and so thats why I read mostly ( and occasionally post ) on here. That said, I won't be explaining anymore in the future as to my occasional posts on here to the curious, as noone else has to explain themselves here, and furthermore, my explaining now as to my interest has become a broken record during the last year by now anyway.
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OK Mike
 
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