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UConn @ Boston College Eagles (Saturday 10/18/25 at Alumni Stadium @ Noon on ACCN - Audio on UConn Varsity Network & Fox Sports 97.9)

hardcorehusky said:
Pitt and Clemson they were down after 15 minutes and almost had to abandon the run to get back into the game. Turbo Richards is a good running back.
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Against Pitt, they ran 24 times and passed 30 times. Against Clemson, they ran 32 times and passed 29 times. They did not abandon the run.
 


-> “The way we gauge success, at the end of the day it’s all about us,” said linebacker Donovan Branch, a four-year Husky. “We always have a chip (on our shoulder). That’s one thing about our team; Coach Mora keeps that chip on us. Whatever we do from the past is never good enough and it never will be good enough at the end of the day because there’s always those small, minute details that we can fix.”<-

-> “Sometimes you have to move through rather quickly in a game week so you can get into the preparation stuff, but it was just a really positive week for us,” Mora said. “We were able to go back and look at the film and see if we were ‘tendancied’ up – one of the things you want to make sure you’re doing offensively and defensively is not getting ‘tendancied,’ where another team can kind of zero in on what you’re doing in particular situations, or out of particular looks on defense or particular formations on offense. So we took a hard look at that.” <-
 
Some things you just can't make up but enjoy the laugh. Of course all coaches want to speak nice, nice of the up coming opponent.
Coach Bill O'Brien states " I think they should be favored this week they have more wins than us".
Preseason strength of schedule had BC @ #17 UConn @ 103. I think that kiss up is a bit of a stretch to say the least.
GO DOGS MAKE HIM A PREDICTION MAGICIAN !!!
 
Woof 101 said:
Some things you just can't make up but enjoy the laugh. Of course all coaches want to speak nice, nice of the up coming opponent.
Coach Bill O'Brien states " I think they should be favored this week they have more wins than us".
Preseason strength of schedule had BC @ #17 UConn @ 103. I think that kiss up is a bit of a stretch to say the least.
GO DOGS MAKE HIM A PREDICTION MAGICIAN !!!
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I honestly think he's just worried about losing his job. I'm sure he knows this is a "must win game" in the minds of their fans and administration, just as I'm sure he knows we are definitely capable of beating them. But if he loses he might actually get canned, it has been nothing but bad vibes around that program for the past month.

Saying we should be favored is a nice way of paying respect to Mora and the squad while hinting that this will not be a walk in the park and they may lose.
 
The majority of Eagle fans are not expecting a victory and realize the game could actually get out of hand. The defense is on their 3rd and 4th deep due to injury and the offensive line has only jelled in one game.
 
BugsyCT said:
Hmm.... 🤔

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Well, I like this. I’m still unsure. We need to show up on a road game against a team like this. I am thankful we have Joe quarterback + some experience on the team. We already know what it’s like to lose games that we should’ve won - like what I’m seeing last couple games.
 
ktuck911 said:
I like Bill O'Brien... Sounds like a guy kids would definitely be willing to go to war with... (just don't want his team turning things around this coming weekend though)...
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Good press conference. What else could he say. Not everything goes the way coaches plan for. I hope we drub them this weekend but nice job handling the questions.
 
There has been some chatter of BC liking itself to an ivy league institution. Very few if any BC alums would make that comparison. There has been much chatter about the institution not supporting athletics - supporting them like an ivy league institution with athletics instead of an ACC member. That has been the brunt of the chatter. Also, BC will be left behind in the next round of realignment and will most likely find itself in a new or restructured ACC with UConn. When this occurs, most alums hope it will include strong academic institutions. On a side note, the academic profile of BC is not as far from ivy league institutions as you might think - the average SAT score at Yale and Princeton is 1540 - BC average is 1490.
 
I am sure this came up for the Syracuse game, but a win on Saturday would be UConn’s first road P4/P5 win since at Maryland in 2012. If you consider teams that later made it into a P4/P5, it would be first road win of that caliber since at UCF in 2015, 10 years!
 
Hawkeye84 said:
There has been some chatter of BC liking itself to an ivy league institution. Very few if any BC alums would make that comparison. There has been much chatter about the institution not supporting athletics - supporting them like an ivy league institution with athletics instead of an ACC member. That has been the brunt of the chatter. Also, BC will be left behind in the next round of realignment and will most likely find itself in a new or restructured ACC with UConn. When this occurs, most alums hope it will include strong academic institutions. On a side note, the academic profile of BC is not as far from ivy league institutions as you might think - the average SAT score at Yale and Princeton is 1540 - BC average is 1490.
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BC is a very good academic school no doubt. There is a very reasonable discussion that schools like BC (private with very good academics) should stay in the upper echelons of college athletics and football in particular. Stamford falls into this category as well I think. Do those schools need to have their athletics compete at that level to maintain their academic standing and alumni support, especially with the financial risks now in place with college athletics? I certainly don't know the answer, but it sure seems like a reasonable question?

BC will never be an Ivy or of that caliber in my opinion. Just not the resources in terms of endowment, research funding, alumni base, etc.
 
this is what I want to seeeeeeeee!
crushhhhhhhh themmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Hawkeye84 said:
There has been some chatter of BC liking itself to an ivy league institution. Very few if any BC alums would make that comparison. There has been much chatter about the institution not supporting athletics - supporting them like an ivy league institution with athletics instead of an ACC member. That has been the brunt of the chatter. Also, BC will be left behind in the next round of realignment and will most likely find itself in a new or restructured ACC with UConn. When this occurs, most alums hope it will include strong academic institutions. On a side note, the academic profile of BC is not as far from ivy league institutions as you might think - the average SAT score at Yale and Princeton is 1540 - BC average is 1490.
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There are many schools that rival the Ivies, including some in Boston…. But that league might be tougher to crack than the P2.
It’s not just the academics. Don’t see a BC as an Ivy League.
 
uconndogs said:
BC is a very good academic school no doubt. There is a very reasonable discussion that schools like BC (private with very good academics) should stay in the upper echelons of college athletics and football in particular. Stamford falls into this category as well I think. Do those schools need to have their athletics compete at that level to maintain their academic standing and alumni support, especially with the financial risks now in place with college athletics? I certainly don't know the answer, but it sure seems like a reasonable question?

BC will never be an Ivy or of that caliber in my opinion. Just not the resources in terms of endowment, research funding, alumni base, etc.
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Is that Stamford High School?
 

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