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Yawkey Way said:
So many of your assumptions are inaccurate. I don't spend more time on a Uconn board than a BC Board ( why one cares about this, is beyond me ).
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Okay on this point, I'll Bite! Perhaps its when high level representatives from BC stated that they needed to protect their turf. Well, guess what (rhetorically written), you are on a UConn Board! Unless I am mistaken, this would be UConn territory and therefore it is possible that some of us may question why you are here. If that does not seem relevant to you at face value, then I wonder if your are purposely being obtuse as you try to distinguish your point of view across very fine lines of delineation or are you truly just this ignorant? I mean I really do not know (again rhetorically written - as I do not care).
But to assume, that just because someone on this site decides to mention BC, does not mean that any of us must accept your view as that of being a purely objective theorist on the workings of animosity, collusion, or indifference between these two schools, their fan bases, their athletic departments, their football programs, etc. However, as a fan I am willing to hear any position my fellow Husky fans might have and would defend them against anything a BC fan might say. Not because of what they say having any academic merit but because its us Huskies against everyone else and in this case - against BC. Discussing our rivalry with a BC fan for me has no merits. You may be right(sarcasm), I shared no history with you. But when BC was in the Big East, I was part of a convoy of buses leaving Waterbury and heading up to the BC basketball game. The only team back then that we hated more was St. Johns and not because they were tough competition. It was their obnoxious fans. But the one thing they were that you are not - is honest. They hated UConn and we hated them (speaking from the large contingent of people I traveled with back then). Boston College Fans just had an air of arrogance that I recall was pleasurable in watching as it got deflated. But honestly, you were never our peers on the basketball court. The few grads I ran into I recall thinking man, they think because they are going to a school in Boston, suddenly they think they are Harvard! This was my experience. So are you a rival...NO, just a school I like to watch lose and I don't care who they are playing. For me BC can't lose enough! ...and keep this mind, this was written on the BoneYard - you should be shocked at the audacity!
 
DoctorWho85 said:
UCONN just needs to get into the B1G and BC will come begging to play us every year.
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If Uconn got into the BIG... just say... why would BC feel any more urge to play Uconn football then ? I don't believe that such a scenario would alter the situation in any manner. And if Uconn did find itself in the BIG, Rutgers would become Uconn's annual football rivalry game, imo... not BC. And thus, Uconn football fans would have no more interest in what goes on at BC in that scenario it would seem to me.
 
Stray_Dog said:
Okay on this point, I'll Discussing our rivalry with a BC fan for me has no merits. !
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Thats fine... If you are not interested in my thoughts it saved us both the time from reading one another's thoughts on the thread topic, so from that perspective anyway, it does become a future time saver for the both of us.
 
Yawkey Way said:
Well, this thread was started less than 1o days ago and already has 8,300 views, and I'm the only BC fan as far we know discussing Uconn in its relationship to a school it does not play, and is not even in its current league afiliation with. Meanwhile Uconn could conceivably be receiving in 1st football commit in Q. Skanes, (3 star WR ) in a few days, and it has Diaco in southern connecticut this week ( Stamford ), and summer football Camp opening up as well. And yet most Uconn football fans seem FAR more interested in what BC is thinking and doing these last 2 weeks. So, you tell me who has "an inferiority complex", if there is even an" inferiority complex" at work at all here.
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Ouch! Gotta give credit where credit is do. Yawk the truth is, that is what losing does to a program. Without belief you major on pithy stuff. (Thank you Bill O'reilly) Although the thought of taking on the likes of Cuse and BC is intriguing, as UCONN fans we need get behind our teams and coaches and the business at hand.
Once the team gets rolling the fan base will get amped. It's been a long 4 years.
 
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Confident Carl said:
Ouch! Gotta give credit where credit is do. Yawk the truth is, that is what losing does to a program. Although the thought of taking on the likes of Cuse and BC is intriguing, as UCONN fans we need get behind our teams and coaches and the business at hand.
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Great attitude, Confident Carl... winning will take care of everything. Its a cliche, of course, but its also true.
 
Yawkey Way said:
If Uconn got into the BIG... just say... why would BC feel any more urge to play Uconn football then ? I don't believe that such a scenario would alter the situation in any manner. And if Uconn did find itself in the BIG, Rutgers would become Uconn's annual football rivalry game, imo... not BC. And thus, Uconn football fans would have no more interest in what goes on at BC in that scenario it would seem to me.
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BC is in New England along with UCONN. Rutgers is not. Being the best in New England means something. Being the best along Long Island Sound???? Not so much.
 
weyuo said:
BC is in New England along with UCONN. Rutgers is not. Being the best in New England means something. Being the best along Long Island Sound???? Not so much.
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Now there's a challenge for ya..."The Sound Challenge". UConn and Rutgers play for a trophy every other year. Winner keeps the trophy...loser drinks a gallon of the Sound. Why every other year? It might take that long for the loser to recover.
 
Yawkey Way said:
Well, this thread was started less than 1o days ago and already has 8,300 views, and I'm the only BC fan as far we know discussing Uconn in its relationship to a school it does not play, and is not even in its current league afiliation with. Meanwhile Uconn could conceivably be receiving in 1st football commit in Q. Skanes, (3 star WR ) in a few days, and it has Diaco in southern connecticut this week ( Stamford ), and summer football Camp opening up as well. And yet most Uconn football fans seem FAR more interested in what BC is thinking and doing these last 2 weeks. So, you tell me who has "an inferiority complex", if there is even an" inferiority complex" at work at all here.
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Dude, I would guess something in the neighborhood of 50% of eagleoutsider/bcinteruption posts involve UCONN somewhere in the body. Of course that is not saying much when you have 15 registered posters, with two of them being you.
 
Yawkey Way said:
So many of your assumptions are inaccurate. I don't spend more time on a Uconn board than a BC Board ( why one cares about this, is beyond me ). There is no football history at all between BC football and Uconn football. A few games ( 14 ) in 50 years is no football history. Uconn was never BC's rival in basketball. BC most years was never competitive with Uconn in basketball to get BC fans interested in any of that. BC's hockey rival is BU. Uconn will never be BC's rival in hockey, no matter that Uconn was accepted into Hockey East ( with BC's approval, and vote for acceptance ). BC football interest is not at its lowest point in some time ( Uconn's football is ). BC Hockey interest is still high among the student body. Only BC Basketball interest is a current basket case among BC students, basketball fans in Boston, and thus playing Uconn in basketball doesn't do a thing for the overwhelming majority of BC students and Alums. Massachusetts general sports fans have more interest in a BC- Umass football game than a BC- Uconn football game. Uconn fans are obsessed it appears with a game with BC, but Massachusetts sports fans, unafiliated with either BC or Uconn, prefer to watch their state U play BC than Uconn ( and they will.. this year ). Syracuse will be BC's annual football rival moving forward. That said, I see no reason at all that BC can't play Uconn in football every few years. And I can see Uconn fans getting that coveted football game with BC perhaps in 5-10 years or so.
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Just because you edited my post inside your head and commented on the edited version (that only resides in your head) doesn't make the commentary relevant to the original post. Although, I must admit, your responses eerily resemble some kind of automaton outfitted with a small selection of preprogrammed responses. . .
 
weyuo said:
BC is in New England along with UCONN. Rutgers is not. Being the best in New England means something. Being the best along Long Island Sound???? Not so much.
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While perhaps true, context is everything. In this context, the poster above mentioned a " what if " of Uconn to the Big. As such, I'm not sure that BC would be relevant to Uconn football at that stage, as more than likely, Uconn would be playing the Big's divisional rival Rutgers each and every year. Rutgers in that scenario would more than likely be Uconn's annual football rival ( while in the ACC, Syracuse would remain as BC's football rival ). That was the context in which Rutgers was utilized as a potential football rival for Uconn with my reply to that poster above.
 
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auggie22 said:
Dude, I would guess something in the neighborhood of 50% of eagleoutsider/bcinteruption posts involve UCONN somewhere in the body. Of course that is not saying much when you have 15 registered posters, with two of them being you.
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No.. oh heavens, no... thats not even remotely close to the percentage over the course of a year. BC has more current students, recent grads now that are increasingly coming from NY/ NJ than from Connectucut or Massachusetts now.. As such, ( for just one example ) there are far more comments revolving around Rutgers, or NY/ NJ high school recruiting, NY or NJ H.S. teams and so forth. There are 9 BC football boards ( of the ones that I know of ) and Uconn football threads make up around 2-5% of all the thread topics over the course of any 12 months.. So you are simply way, way off the mark here that its in the " 50% " realm. Its just your imagination perhaps getting the best of you, as its nowhere near this percentage... on ANY of the 9 BC boards, for that matter. ND , particularly with the older BC alums and fans, has far far more interest in what is going on there, than in Storrs Connecticut with Uconn football. Syracuse is starting to get a higher percentage of thread discussions, ( than before ) as its a school BC goes head to head with a lot in ACC recruiting circles now, and a school BC will be playing each year in its Atlantic Division of the ACC.
 
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Yawkey and CCarl being kindred spirits tops this one off.
 
itgoeslike said:
I must admit, your responses eerily resemble some kind of automaton outfitted with a small selection of preprogrammed responses. . .
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That could possibly be construed as a bizarre reply from some sort of paranoid poster. but my guess, you are ok, and are just yanking my chain here with that bit, ( haha! ) as I don't really believe that YOU really believe this.
 
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Yawkey Way said:
That could possibly be construed as a bizarre reply from some sort of paranoid poster. but my guess, you are ok, and are just yanking my chain here with that bit, ( haha! ) as I don't really believe that YOU really believe this.
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Yes, I was yanking your chain a bit, and believe that there is at least an 80% chance that you're not an automaton. . .
 
Please move this thread to UConn Hockey where it would have some meaning, otherwise it a waste of our time. Die Thread Die!!!

UConn celebrates after their first ever Hockey East game at the XL Center Wednesday night against Boston College Wednesday night which they won 1-0 on a first period goal by Evan Richardson.
 
Yawkey Way said:
If Uconn got into the BIG... just say... why would BC feel any more urge to play Uconn football then ? I don't believe that such a scenario would alter the situation in any manner. And if Uconn did find itself in the BIG, Rutgers would become Uconn's annual football rivalry game, imo... not BC. And thus, Uconn football fans would have no more interest in what goes on at BC in that scenario it would seem to me.
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I was being semi facetious, but lets be honest here, even if UConn gets into the B1G and is in the bottom half of the conference every year, that looks a heck a of a lot better on the SOS then say playing UMASS or NIU. Yes, Rutgers would be out annual in conference rival, but, in my opinion, BC could still be our biggest rival. And I'd much rather visit Boston every other year, then have to go to the slums known as New Jersey. Does this game offer anything immediately to BC? Probably not, but what if it develops into something like the Backyard Brawl or the Iron Bowl? That can't do anything, but make both schools lots of money.
 
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DoctorWho85 said:
I was being semi facetious, but lets be honest here, even if UConn gets into the B1G and is in the bottom half of the conference every year, that looks a heck a of a lot better on the SOS then say playing UMASS or NIU. Yes, Rutgers would be out annual in conference rival, but, in my opinion, BC could still be our biggest rival. .
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I don't know about this. If Uconn found its way into the BIG, and played Rutgers each and every year in-conference, its hard to see how a school Uconn hasn't played in football ( by then ) in a decade or more, would be considered its " football rival". My guess, if Uconn got into the BIG, it wouldn't matter at all to most Uconn football fans in that scenario what goes on at BC football. Having said this, if Uconn found itself someday in the ACC, I could see how this would change that dynamic of Uconn football fans interest in BC. But not if Uconn goes to the Big. But again, thats just my guess, and who really knows for sure.
 
I hear that Diaco already has a trophy picked out:
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Yawkey Way said:
I don't know about this. If Uconn found its way into the BIG, and played Rutgers each and every year in-conference, its hard to see how a school Uconn hasn't played in football ( by then ) in a decade or more, would be considered its " football rival". My guess, if Uconn got into the BIG, it wouldn't matter at all to most Uconn football fans in that scenario what goes on at BC football. Having said this, if Uconn found itself someday in the ACC, I could see how this would change that dynamic of Uconn football fans interest in BC. But not if Uconn goes to the Big. But again, thats just my guess, and who really knows for sure.
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No two schools start out as a rivalry, but kt develops over time. Addazio has BC going in a direction they haven't seen since Matt Ryan and I believe Diaco will get Uconn back on track as well. Have common recruiting grounds and only being two hours from each other can only add fuel to the fire. I'm not going to have visions of grandeur and think this will be a Michigan-Ohio State or Alabama - Auburn rivalry, but this can develop into a nice rivalry that will bring lots of money and eyes to new England football outside of the Patriots.
 
DoctorWho85 said:
I was being semi facetious, but lets be honest here, even if UConn gets into the B1G and is in the bottom half of the conference every year, that looks a heck a of a lot better on the SOS then say playing UMASS or NIU. Yes, Rutgers would be out annual in conference rival, but, in my opinion, BC could still be our biggest rival. And I'd much rather visit Boston every other year, then have to go to the slums known as New Jersey. Does this game offer anything immediately to BC? Probably not, but what if it develops into something like the Backyard Brawl or the Iron Bowl? That can't do anything, but make both schools lots of money.
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Funny...I was born in Newark and spent many a summer on Prince Edward Island at my Uncles farm and traveling through NE the only place I saw slums was Boston?? Lol..perception?
 
whaler11 said:
Yawkey and CCarl being kindred spirits tops this one off.
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Yawkey sounds like a BC Fan with an appreciation for UCONN and also ties to UCONN. Although I would like to take BC out in any contest and I assume Yawkey would favor BC over UCONN, he appears to have a balanced outlook toward UCONN and more optimistic about the future of UCONN than a number of UCONN posters. He held up to the barrage of attacks. I just don't like piling on or the gang mentality.
 
Confident Carl said:
Yawkey sounds like a BC Fan with an appreciation for UCONN and also ties to UCONN. Although I would like to take BC out in any contest and I assume Yawkey would favor BC over UCONN, he appears to have a balanced outlook toward UCONN and more optimistic about the future of UCONN than a number of UCONN posters. He held up to the barrage of attacks. I just don't like piling on or the gang mentality.
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He's a BC fan who is here to tell us why he thinks UConn sucks and is beneath BC.

Then he talks in incoherent circles while claiming to speak for the whole national BC fanbase - whatever that is.

The more someone keeps telling you how civil they are the less true it is.
 
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[This is because the majority of students at BC came in from outside of N.E. and when they graduate they take jobs outside of the N.E region. ]

this BC website shows the geographic dispersion of the BC student body for many years from 1976 - 2014, https://htmldbprod.bc.edu/prd/f?p=400:110:0::NO:::
 
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whaler11 said:
He's a BC fan who is here to tell us why he thinks UConn sucks and is beneath BC.

Then he talks in incoherent circles while claiming to speak for the whole national BC fanbase - whatever that is.

The more someone keeps telling you how civil they are the less true it is.
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You mean you think he has an agenda................?
 
Confident Carl said:
Yawkey sounds like a BC Fan with an appreciation for UCONN and also ties to UCONN. Although I would like to take BC out in any contest and I assume Yawkey would favor BC over UCONN, he appears to have a balanced outlook toward UCONN and more optimistic about the future of UCONN than a number of UCONN posters. He held up to the barrage of attacks. I just don't like piling on or the gang mentality.
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Healthy sane outlook unlike a few others...very good way to put it. We all need a fresh outside neutral view to get an honest look at things for better or worse.
 
weyuo said:
BC is in New England along with UCONN. Rutgers is not. Being the best in New England means something. Being the best along Long Island Sound???? Not so much.
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I think we need a geography lesson. Rutgers and Long Island Sound?
 
NickyNewark said:
Funny...I was born in Newark and spent many a summer on Prince Edward Island at my Uncles farm and traveling through NE the only place I saw slums was Boston?? Lol..perception?
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You might've been on thast Farm too long, and didn't get out much those summer. N.E. has its fair share of low income sections of communities throughout the N.E. region. Some of the poorest sections of N.E. are not even in the cities like Bridgeport, Fitchburg, Hartford, Boston... but in the rural N.E. towns. My guess you have not been to rural, interior, northern Maine, for just one example of what I am referring to. That said, what low income people and where they live has to do with this thread topic completely escapes me. Its got nothing to do with it, imo. Its also unseemly, imo, to belittle unfortunate people ( " slums " useage ) that regrettably have fallen on hard times. It says more about the person leveling that charge, than the unfortunate people that have fallen on hard times and live in these sections of N.E.
 
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