(03-23-2017 12:36 PM)YNot Wrote:  

(03-22-2017 11:12 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  Navy wouldn't be bowl eligible 70% of the time in the ACC.

Navy has finished with 9 wins and 11 wins and 7-1 conference records since joining the AAC. The Midshipmen also have recent wins of Notre Dame, Pitt, Houston, Temple, etc. and 2 blowout wins against ECU. Note, in those same years, 2016 ECU (3-9) beat NC State (7-6) and lost by five at bowl-bound South Carolina (6-7). 2015 ECU (5-7) beat Virginia Tech and lost at Florida (10-4) by a touchdown.

LOL @ this convoluted thinking. There is no transitive property in college football or any other sport. If there were then explain how Navy loses to Temple, who then lost to Wake Forest, who lost to NC State.

(03-23-2017 03:16 PM)Eagle78 Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 02:03 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 01:44 PM)Eagle78 Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 12:30 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 12:09 PM)Eagle78 Wrote:  Um, please don't compare UCONNFB and BCFB in the same sentence. They are worlds apart competitively. UCONNFB has never in its history beaten BCFB. This past season, BCFB blew UCFB off the field, 30-0. I was at the game. Addazio emptied his bench in the 4th quarter and was literally trying not to score. It was like playing a JV team, IMO.

Well, one of the reasons that UConn has never beaten BC is that BC refused to schedule UConn during most of the Randy Edsall era when UConn was doing well. That is how BC retains is fake crown as the football kings of New England. Schedule us every year now that Randy is back and see what happens. You guys won't out of fear of losing, but you should. You need to face the reality that nobody cares about BC football and playing UConn brings eyeballs (as it had like your second highest home game attendance last season). Remember, I live in Boston, so you can't BS me about how BC means something here. It doesn't. This whole city doesn't care about BC sports in the slightest.

Just please don't ever try to compare BCBB to UConnBB. BC is the biggest joke in the history of major conference basketball. BC isn't even a JV team in basketball!

Is it still hockey season? That's all the Beagles really have to crow about.

LOL?..as opposed to UCANT? Let's see.....Football?.....barely above 1AA. MBB? Free falling to the point that, who knows? In the next couple of years you guys might be no better than BCMBB...LOL. Hockey? Well, let's just love on, shall we!

But, hey, you guys do have Women's BB, so there's that!

"UCANT". TEEHEE! You are so clever! I have never heard that one before. (Please note my sarcasm.)

"UCANT" has won four recent national titles in men's basketball. How many has BC won? <crickets>
"UCANT" has played in a BCS bowl game (Fiesta Bowl). How many major New Year's Bowls has BC played in? <crickets>
"UCANT" has won 11 recent national titles in women's basketball. How many has BC won? <crickets>

As I said, the "Superfans" of BC only have hockey in Hockey East to hang their hats on. As for other sports, BC is the c*m dumpster of the ACC. That is why y'all are so jealous (and afraid) of UConn's athletic success. It eats at all of you. All one needs to do it look at how obsessed your fan boys are with UConn over at BC Interruption (seeing as every other post or comment is about UConn). UConn fans don't really think of you guys at all (since you are irrelevant in every sport but hockey). However, all of your fans are complete tools, which is why we get fired up when we have to deal with any of you on the internets.

This is great! Good old fashioned smack talk! I love it!! That's what these boards are for!!

LOL...never has fanbase that has accomplished so little outside of BB bragged so much!

"UCANT"? Thanks for the compliment. I thought it was a nice rejoinder to the "Beagles" comment.

Yes...about that Fiesta Bowl! Let's see, UCONNFB "earned" their appearance after an 8-4 regular season in a Conference where not a single school finished in the Top 25 that year. UCONNFB lost by 4TDs - 48-20, and became the poster child for changing the system - so I guess we owe you that one! LOL. In the process, UCONNFB lost $1.8M and sold 2,771 tickets out of a 17,500 allotment! (Oh, and please spare us the BS that Uconn fans bought tickets en mass from other sources. Every school, including BC I admit, uses that lame excuse when their bowl ticket sales stink!)

http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Repor...038914.php

Oh, and about those New Years Bowls - BC has been to the Sugar, Orange Bowl, and Cotton Bowls. Actually winning two out of three.

Oh, and MBB! Hey, you guys were great once - of course, that was when less attention was paid to those pesky academic rules...LOL!

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketba...c-standing

Exactly how does a BB program end up with a 22% graduation rate?? That really takes some doing!

http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-husk...story.html

Oh, and that brings us back again to FB. Here is UCONN FB the least 4 years in terms of W-L:

2013: 3-9
2014: 2-10
2015: 6-7
2016: 3-10

In fact, you have to go back to 2010 before you can finding a winning UCOONFB season!

Oh, and to your point about BC being afraid to schedule Uconn in FB. Well, it did. After a decade of bold talk by Uconn fans, BCFB owned UCONNFB on the field this year. Walk the talk before you brag! BCFB plays UCONNFB again this year...and again in 2022 and 2023. Why should BCFB play UconnFB every year? There are precious few OOC opportunities to begin with and BC needs to balance its schedule and, frankly, play FB programs that are more competitive with BCFB, not the perrenial bottom dweller of the AAC!

Oh, and speaking about being a "dumpster" (nice analogy - grow up). Here is the difference - three out of the last 4 years, BC has been a bowl team and hardly in the dumpster of the ACC. Three out of the last 4 years, UCONN FB HAS been in the dumpster of the AAC. I always chuckle when I hear UCONNFB fans dump on the AAC, a conference of which THEY have mostly been non competitive in!

Yes, you have a gem of a women's BB program. I have said that. You guys should justifiably be proud of it! Other than that, however, you have nothing to be bragging about right now - which was my point in responding to your OP in the first place!

Cheers. As I said, I have missed this good old fashioned smack talk! Lot's of fun!

I don't know why, but people who build up their own team into some kind of delusional powerhouse annoys me more than ripping my team for sucking.

I guess if we take out the year BC won 0 basketball and football games in the ACC...

UConn didn't create the BCS system, I know we got blown out in the BCS bowl it's an easy target (even though a lot of times its fans of teams in the Big East that year talking about how much we sucked), little known fact on this board the ACC also lost by 28 that year in their BCS bowl. So the game you were ripping UConn for, BC was went 4-4 in a conference who's best team lost lost by 28 points in a BCS bowl.

Went to a bowl game, isn't that big a deal, better than UConn has been recently, but doesn't put you on the "don't talk about you and us in the same breath" status, though I know its hard for BC fans not to talk down to people.

(03-23-2017 11:40 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 10:23 AM)billybobby777 Wrote:  wrote one tongue in cheek sentence saying that a guy name "WANG" from something called "awful announcing" said ESPN news and ESPN Classic would be getting the "axe" at "some point". You call me dishonest for saying that. My post was dripping with sarcasm

No, there were no quotation marks and no all caps. There was zero sarcasm indicated. Learn to write sarcasm, if you intend to use it.

Yes Sir! Are you pro ESPN? Does it annoy you if people talk against ESPN? As I go back and look at our series of exchanges I suspect you thought I was talking against espn and you didn't like it.

(03-23-2017 05:00 PM)Huskies12 Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 03:16 PM)Eagle78 Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 02:03 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 01:44 PM)Eagle78 Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 12:30 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  Well, one of the reasons that UConn has never beaten BC is that BC refused to schedule UConn during most of the Randy Edsall era when UConn was doing well. That is how BC retains is fake crown as the football kings of New England. Schedule us every year now that Randy is back and see what happens. You guys won't out of fear of losing, but you should. You need to face the reality that nobody cares about BC football and playing UConn brings eyeballs (as it had like your second highest home game attendance last season). Remember, I live in Boston, so you can't BS me about how BC means something here. It doesn't. This whole city doesn't care about BC sports in the slightest.

Just please don't ever try to compare BCBB to UConnBB. BC is the biggest joke in the history of major conference basketball. BC isn't even a JV team in basketball!

Is it still hockey season? That's all the Beagles really have to crow about.

LOL?..as opposed to UCANT? Let's see.....Football?.....barely above 1AA. MBB? Free falling to the point that, who knows? In the next couple of years you guys might be no better than BCMBB...LOL. Hockey? Well, let's just love on, shall we!

But, hey, you guys do have Women's BB, so there's that!

"UCANT". TEEHEE! You are so clever! I have never heard that one before. (Please note my sarcasm.)

"UCANT" has won four recent national titles in men's basketball. How many has BC won? <crickets>
"UCANT" has played in a BCS bowl game (Fiesta Bowl). How many major New Year's Bowls has BC played in? <crickets>
"UCANT" has won 11 recent national titles in women's basketball. How many has BC won? <crickets>

As I said, the "Superfans" of BC only have hockey in Hockey East to hang their hats on. As for other sports, BC is the c*m dumpster of the ACC. That is why y'all are so jealous (and afraid) of UConn's athletic success. It eats at all of you. All one needs to do it look at how obsessed your fan boys are with UConn over at BC Interruption (seeing as every other post or comment is about UConn). UConn fans don't really think of you guys at all (since you are irrelevant in every sport but hockey). However, all of your fans are complete tools, which is why we get fired up when we have to deal with any of you on the internets.

This is great! Good old fashioned smack talk! I love it!! That's what these boards are for!!

LOL...never has fanbase that has accomplished so little outside of BB bragged so much!

"UCANT"? Thanks for the compliment. I thought it was a nice rejoinder to the "Beagles" comment.

Yes...about that Fiesta Bowl! Let's see, UCONNFB "earned" their appearance after an 8-4 regular season in a Conference where not a single school finished in the Top 25 that year. UCONNFB lost by 4TDs - 48-20, and became the poster child for changing the system - so I guess we owe you that one! LOL. In the process, UCONNFB lost $1.8M and sold 2,771 tickets out of a 17,500 allotment! (Oh, and please spare us the BS that Uconn fans bought tickets en mass from other sources. Every school, including BC I admit, uses that lame excuse when their bowl ticket sales stink!)

http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Repor...038914.php

Oh, and about those New Years Bowls - BC has been to the Sugar, Orange Bowl, and Cotton Bowls. Actually winning two out of three.

Oh, and MBB! Hey, you guys were great once - of course, that was when less attention was paid to those pesky academic rules...LOL!

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketba...c-standing

Exactly how does a BB program end up with a 22% graduation rate?? That really takes some doing!

http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-husk...story.html

Oh, and that brings us back again to FB. Here is UCONN FB the least 4 years in terms of W-L:

2013: 3-9
2014: 2-10
2015: 6-7
2016: 3-10

In fact, you have to go back to 2010 before you can finding a winning UCOONFB season!

Oh, and to your point about BC being afraid to schedule Uconn in FB. Well, it did. After a decade of bold talk by Uconn fans, BCFB owned UCONNFB on the field this year. Walk the talk before you brag! BCFB plays UCONNFB again this year...and again in 2022 and 2023. Why should BCFB play UconnFB every year? There are precious few OOC opportunities to begin with and BC needs to balance its schedule and, frankly, play FB programs that are more competitive with BCFB, not the perrenial bottom dweller of the AAC!

Oh, and speaking about being a "dumpster" (nice analogy - grow up). Here is the difference - three out of the last 4 years, BC has been a bowl team and hardly in the dumpster of the ACC. Three out of the last 4 years, UCONN FB HAS been in the dumpster of the AAC. I always chuckle when I hear UCONNFB fans dump on the AAC, a conference of which THEY have mostly been non competitive in!

Yes, you have a gem of a women's BB program. I have said that. You guys should justifiably be proud of it! Other than that, however, you have nothing to be bragging about right now - which was my point in responding to your OP in the first place!

Cheers. As I said, I have missed this good old fashioned smack talk! Lot's of fun!

I guess if we take out the year BC won 0 basketball and football games in the ACC... BC ACC dynasty of football championships coming up.

I readily acknowledged BCBB's struggles the last few years. Fortunately, that doesn't drive the bus, FB does. On that score, BCFB has had 3 winning seasons and bowls in the last four years. Uconn has not had a winning season in the last four years.

I never said that BCFB was an ACC dynasty. I only said that UCONFB was not competitive with them. That was my initial point in responding to the OP. Pretty simple really.

BC had one more ACC win than UConn did last year, in a terrible year for UConn. The Eagles have been and average-to-below-average in football and miserable in basketball. At least UConn's good at one thing.

(03-23-2017 05:13 PM)Eagle78 Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 05:00 PM)Huskies12 Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 03:16 PM)Eagle78 Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 02:03 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 01:44 PM)Eagle78 Wrote:  LOL?..as opposed to UCANT? Let's see.....Football?.....barely above 1AA. MBB? Free falling to the point that, who knows? In the next couple of years you guys might be no better than BCMBB...LOL. Hockey? Well, let's just love on, shall we!

But, hey, you guys do have Women's BB, so there's that!

"UCANT". TEEHEE! You are so clever! I have never heard that one before. (Please note my sarcasm.)

"UCANT" has won four recent national titles in men's basketball. How many has BC won? <crickets>
"UCANT" has played in a BCS bowl game (Fiesta Bowl). How many major New Year's Bowls has BC played in? <crickets>
"UCANT" has won 11 recent national titles in women's basketball. How many has BC won? <crickets>

As I said, the "Superfans" of BC only have hockey in Hockey East to hang their hats on. As for other sports, BC is the c*m dumpster of the ACC. That is why y'all are so jealous (and afraid) of UConn's athletic success. It eats at all of you. All one needs to do it look at how obsessed your fan boys are with UConn over at BC Interruption (seeing as every other post or comment is about UConn). UConn fans don't really think of you guys at all (since you are irrelevant in every sport but hockey). However, all of your fans are complete tools, which is why we get fired up when we have to deal with any of you on the internets.

This is great! Good old fashioned smack talk! I love it!! That's what these boards are for!!

LOL...never has fanbase that has accomplished so little outside of BB bragged so much!

"UCANT"? Thanks for the compliment. I thought it was a nice rejoinder to the "Beagles" comment.

Yes...about that Fiesta Bowl! Let's see, UCONNFB "earned" their appearance after an 8-4 regular season in a Conference where not a single school finished in the Top 25 that year. UCONNFB lost by 4TDs - 48-20, and became the poster child for changing the system - so I guess we owe you that one! LOL. In the process, UCONNFB lost $1.8M and sold 2,771 tickets out of a 17,500 allotment! (Oh, and please spare us the BS that Uconn fans bought tickets en mass from other sources. Every school, including BC I admit, uses that lame excuse when their bowl ticket sales stink!)

http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Repor...038914.php

Oh, and about those New Years Bowls - BC has been to the Sugar, Orange Bowl, and Cotton Bowls. Actually winning two out of three.

Oh, and MBB! Hey, you guys were great once - of course, that was when less attention was paid to those pesky academic rules...LOL!

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketba...c-standing

Exactly how does a BB program end up with a 22% graduation rate?? That really takes some doing!

http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-husk...story.html

Oh, and that brings us back again to FB. Here is UCONN FB the least 4 years in terms of W-L:

2013: 3-9
2014: 2-10
2015: 6-7
2016: 3-10

In fact, you have to go back to 2010 before you can finding a winning UCOONFB season!

Oh, and to your point about BC being afraid to schedule Uconn in FB. Well, it did. After a decade of bold talk by Uconn fans, BCFB owned UCONNFB on the field this year. Walk the talk before you brag! BCFB plays UCONNFB again this year...and again in 2022 and 2023. Why should BCFB play UconnFB every year? There are precious few OOC opportunities to begin with and BC needs to balance its schedule and, frankly, play FB programs that are more competitive with BCFB, not the perrenial bottom dweller of the AAC!

Oh, and speaking about being a "dumpster" (nice analogy - grow up). Here is the difference - three out of the last 4 years, BC has been a bowl team and hardly in the dumpster of the ACC. Three out of the last 4 years, UCONN FB HAS been in the dumpster of the AAC. I always chuckle when I hear UCONNFB fans dump on the AAC, a conference of which THEY have mostly been non competitive in!

Yes, you have a gem of a women's BB program. I have said that. You guys should justifiably be proud of it! Other than that, however, you have nothing to be bragging about right now - which was my point in responding to your OP in the first place!

Cheers. As I said, I have missed this good old fashioned smack talk! Lot's of fun!

I guess if we take out the year BC won 0 basketball and football games in the ACC... BC ACC dynasty of football championships coming up.

I readily acknowledged BCBB's struggles the last few years. Fortunately, that (basketball) doesn't drive the bus, FB does. On that score, BCFB has had 3 winning seasons and bowls in the last four years. Uconn has not had a winning season in the last four years.

I never said that BCFB was an ACC dynasty. I only said that UCONFB was not competitive with them. That was my initial point in responding to the OP. Pretty simple really.

I swore to myself I wouldn't comment anymore in this thread, but I just had to address the bolded.

You obviously haven't talked to the "add Wichita St yesterday" crowd here, and on the AAC board, if you believe that. They're absolutely convinced adding a bball-only school won't take moneyfrom the all-sports schools in the conference. In fact they think it'll add money to the AAC's coffers.

(03-23-2017 05:23 PM)DefCONNOne Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 05:13 PM)Eagle78 Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 05:00 PM)Huskies12 Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 03:16 PM)Eagle78 Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 02:03 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  "UCANT". TEEHEE! You are so clever! I have never heard that one before. (Please note my sarcasm.)

"UCANT" has won four recent national titles in men's basketball. How many has BC won? <crickets>
"UCANT" has played in a BCS bowl game (Fiesta Bowl). How many major New Year's Bowls has BC played in? <crickets>
"UCANT" has won 11 recent national titles in women's basketball. How many has BC won? <crickets>

As I said, the "Superfans" of BC only have hockey in Hockey East to hang their hats on. As for other sports, BC is the c*m dumpster of the ACC. That is why y'all are so jealous (and afraid) of UConn's athletic success. It eats at all of you. All one needs to do it look at how obsessed your fan boys are with UConn over at BC Interruption (seeing as every other post or comment is about UConn). UConn fans don't really think of you guys at all (since you are irrelevant in every sport but hockey). However, all of your fans are complete tools, which is why we get fired up when we have to deal with any of you on the internets.

This is great! Good old fashioned smack talk! I love it!! That's what these boards are for!!

LOL...never has fanbase that has accomplished so little outside of BB bragged so much!

"UCANT"? Thanks for the compliment. I thought it was a nice rejoinder to the "Beagles" comment.

Yes...about that Fiesta Bowl! Let's see, UCONNFB "earned" their appearance after an 8-4 regular season in a Conference where not a single school finished in the Top 25 that year. UCONNFB lost by 4TDs - 48-20, and became the poster child for changing the system - so I guess we owe you that one! LOL. In the process, UCONNFB lost $1.8M and sold 2,771 tickets out of a 17,500 allotment! (Oh, and please spare us the BS that Uconn fans bought tickets en mass from other sources. Every school, including BC I admit, uses that lame excuse when their bowl ticket sales stink!)

http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Repor...038914.php

Oh, and about those New Years Bowls - BC has been to the Sugar, Orange Bowl, and Cotton Bowls. Actually winning two out of three.

Oh, and MBB! Hey, you guys were great once - of course, that was when less attention was paid to those pesky academic rules...LOL!

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketba...c-standing

Exactly how does a BB program end up with a 22% graduation rate?? That really takes some doing!

http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-husk...story.html

Oh, and that brings us back again to FB. Here is UCONN FB the least 4 years in terms of W-L:

2013: 3-9
2014: 2-10
2015: 6-7
2016: 3-10

In fact, you have to go back to 2010 before you can finding a winning UCOONFB season!

Oh, and to your point about BC being afraid to schedule Uconn in FB. Well, it did. After a decade of bold talk by Uconn fans, BCFB owned UCONNFB on the field this year. Walk the talk before you brag! BCFB plays UCONNFB again this year...and again in 2022 and 2023. Why should BCFB play UconnFB every year? There are precious few OOC opportunities to begin with and BC needs to balance its schedule and, frankly, play FB programs that are more competitive with BCFB, not the perrenial bottom dweller of the AAC!

Oh, and speaking about being a "dumpster" (nice analogy - grow up). Here is the difference - three out of the last 4 years, BC has been a bowl team and hardly in the dumpster of the ACC. Three out of the last 4 years, UCONN FB HAS been in the dumpster of the AAC. I always chuckle when I hear UCONNFB fans dump on the AAC, a conference of which THEY have mostly been non competitive in!

Yes, you have a gem of a women's BB program. I have said that. You guys should justifiably be proud of it! Other than that, however, you have nothing to be bragging about right now - which was my point in responding to your OP in the first place!

Cheers. As I said, I have missed this good old fashioned smack talk! Lot's of fun!

I guess if we take out the year BC won 0 basketball and football games in the ACC... BC ACC dynasty of football championships coming up.

I readily acknowledged BCBB's struggles the last few years. Fortunately, that (basketball) doesn't drive the bus, FB does. On that score, BCFB has had 3 winning seasons and bowls in the last four years. Uconn has not had a winning season in the last four years.

I never said that BCFB was an ACC dynasty. I only said that UCONFB was not competitive with them. That was my initial point in responding to the OP. Pretty simple really.

I swore to myself I wouldn't comment anymore in this thread, but I just had to address the bolded.

You obviously haven't talked to the "add Wichita St yesterday" crowd here, and on the AAC board, if you believe that. They're absolutely convinced adding a bball-only school won't take moneyfrom the all-sports schools in the conference. In fact they think it'll add money to the AAC's coffers.

I don't think you fully grasp how poorly-paid the AAC is, and how little a non-football member would need to contribute to be a net positive. Once the CFB Playoff system created a two-tiered system, football at the G5 level is an enormous fiscal liability and (good) basketball is the bigger revenue generator.

(03-23-2017 05:19 PM)Bogg Wrote:  BC had one more ACC win than UConn did last year, in a terrible year for UConn. The Eagles have been and average-to-below-average in football and miserable in basketball. At least UConn's good at one thing.

Regarding your first point - IMO, that might have some relevance if the 2016 AAC was anywhere near as strong as the 2016 ACC, which it wasn't.

(03-23-2017 03:47 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 12:36 PM)YNot Wrote:  

(03-22-2017 11:12 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  Navy wouldn't be bowl eligible 70% of the time in the ACC.

Navy has finished with 9 wins and 11 wins and 7-1 conference records since joining the AAC. The Midshipmen also have recent wins of Notre Dame, Pitt, Houston, Temple, etc. and 2 blowout wins against ECU. Note, in those same years, 2016 ECU (3-9) beat NC State (7-6) and lost by five at bowl-bound South Carolina (6-7). 2015 ECU (5-7) beat Virginia Tech and lost at Florida (10-4) by a touchdown.

LOL @ this convoluted thinking. There is no transitive property in college football or any other sport. If there were then explain how Navy loses to Temple, who then lost to Wake Forest, who lost to NC State.

Throwing out a percentage of the time that you arbitrarily think Navy would be bowl-eligible in the ACC doesn't make it true.

Navy would do fine in the ACC and would be the ACC's best option to actually get value out of a new football member.

(03-23-2017 05:40 PM)Eagle78 Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 05:19 PM)Bogg Wrote:  BC had one more ACC win than UConn did last year, in a terrible year for UConn. The Eagles have been and average-to-below-average in football and miserable in basketball. At least UConn's good at one thing.

Regarding your first point - IMO, that might have some relevance if the 2016 AAC was anywhere near as strong as the 2016 ACC, which it wasn't.

No no, I mean against the ACC. UConn went 1-2 against the ACC last year, while BC went 2-6 (I think).

(03-23-2017 05:44 PM)YNot Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 03:47 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 12:36 PM)YNot Wrote:  

(03-22-2017 11:12 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  Navy wouldn't be bowl eligible 70% of the time in the ACC.

Navy has finished with 9 wins and 11 wins and 7-1 conference records since joining the AAC. The Midshipmen also have recent wins of Notre Dame, Pitt, Houston, Temple, etc. and 2 blowout wins against ECU. Note, in those same years, 2016 ECU (3-9) beat NC State (7-6) and lost by five at bowl-bound South Carolina (6-7). 2015 ECU (5-7) beat Virginia Tech and lost at Florida (10-4) by a touchdown.

LOL @ this convoluted thinking. There is no transitive property in college football or any other sport. If there were then explain how Navy loses to Temple, who then lost to Wake Forest, who lost to NC State.

Throwing out a percentage of the time that you arbitrarily think Navy would be bowl-eligible in the ACC doesn't make it true.

Navy would do fine in the ACC and would be the ACC's best option to actually get value out of a new football member.

Navy football would do fine in any conference if it was satisfied with never winning it...meaning if it maintained its current level of competitiveness (which is always one bad coaching hire away from going away), it could be a mid- to lower-range near bowl-eligible team in nearly any conference: B10, Pac12, B12, ACC. However, the issue is that the academies have a higher purpose with their athletics over just being in high profile leagues: they want their students to how to overcome obstacles and learn how to succeed through teamwork, effort, and discipline by competing for obtainable championships. What they don't want is their kids to suffer repetitive demoralizing defeats facing weekly opponents which have entirely unfair advantages. It is largely the rest of its sports that are a problem and that is why all but football are in the Patriot League. The American suits them perfectly for football because they have a fighting chance in that league. Their basketball programs and many other of their sports wouldn't have a fighting chance in a power conference, but do quite well in the Patriot League. And that is why Navy will likely never be in a power conference, at least as a full member: they don't need it and the leadership doesn't want it because it doesn't suit their mission.

(03-23-2017 05:50 PM)Bogg Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 05:40 PM)Eagle78 Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 05:19 PM)Bogg Wrote:  BC had one more ACC win than UConn did last year, in a terrible year for UConn. The Eagles have been and average-to-below-average in football and miserable in basketball. At least UConn's good at one thing.

Regarding your first point - IMO, that might have some relevance if the 2016 AAC was anywhere near as strong as the 2016 ACC, which it wasn't.

No no, I mean against the ACC. UConn went 1-2 against the ACC last year, while BC went 2-6 (I think).

IMO, this isn't really meaningful.

I think UCONNFB was 1-1 against the ACC in 2016 (SU/UVA). More importantly, the win was against UVAFB which, like UCONNFB, was the bottom feeder of the ACC in 2016 (2-10 record / 1-7 in the ACC.)

Yes, BC was 2-6 in the ACC, but the 2 wins were against teams that went on to have winning records and won their respective bowls. BCFB likewise had a winning record and won its bowl against BiG UMD. Furthermore, BCFB played one of the hardest schedules in the country last year (will do so again this year). This included games against #1 National Champion Clemson, #8FSU, #16VT, and #21 Louisville. By contrast, UCONNFB's only Top 25 opponent was #19USF.

BCFB is still in a rebuilding mode, but when you consider the schedule they played last year, 7-6 and a bowl win against a BiG team was not that bad, IMO. Again, by any objective measure, IMO, they are light years ahead of UCONNFB. The numbers speak for themselves, I think.

(03-23-2017 05:01 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  Does it annoy you if people talk against ESPN?

I don't care about ESPN, per se.

They do a great job with game telecasts, simple as that. That's why they command the most money -- they have one of the few channels that has to be in a cable bundle.

But if they go away, it'll just be replaced with Fox Sports or some other sports channel.


Much more annoyed by cord-cutter/ala carte fantasies.

(03-24-2017 10:02 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 05:01 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  Does it annoy you if people talk against ESPN?

I don't care about ESPN, per se.

They do a great job with game telecasts, simple as that. That's why they command the most money -- they have one of the few channels that has to be in a cable bundle.

But if they go away, it'll just be replaced with Fox Sports or some other sports channel.


Much more annoyed by cord-cutter/ala carte fantasies.

I really like Sling

(03-24-2017 09:41 AM)Eagle78 Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 05:50 PM)Bogg Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 05:40 PM)Eagle78 Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 05:19 PM)Bogg Wrote:  BC had one more ACC win than UConn did last year, in a terrible year for UConn. The Eagles have been and average-to-below-average in football and miserable in basketball. At least UConn's good at one thing.

Regarding your first point - IMO, that might have some relevance if the 2016 AAC was anywhere near as strong as the 2016 ACC, which it wasn't.

No no, I mean against the ACC. UConn went 1-2 against the ACC last year, while BC went 2-6 (I think).

IMO, this isn't really meaningful.

I think UCONNFB was 1-1 against the ACC in 2016 (SU/UVA). More importantly, the win was against UVAFB which, like UCONNFB, was the bottom feeder of the ACC in 2016 (2-10 record / 1-7 in the ACC.)

Yes, BC was 2-6 in the ACC, but the 2 wins were against teams that went on to have winning records and won their respective bowls. BCFB likewise had a winning record and won its bowl against BiG UMD. Furthermore, BCFB played one of the hardest schedules in the country last year (will do so again this year). This included games against #1 National Champion Clemson, #8FSU, #16VT, and #21 Louisville. By contrast, UCONNFB's only Top 25 opponent was #19USF.

BCFB is still in a rebuilding mode, but when you consider the schedule they played last year, 7-6 and a bowl win against a BiG team was not that bad, IMO. Again, by any objective measure, IMO, they are light years ahead of UCONNFB. The numbers speak for themselves, I think.

Yea, I mean, BC really dug deep and got those key wins against UMass, Wagner, and Buffalo to get bowl-eligible. They really put all that extra revenue and P5 recruiting juice to good use, making a meaningful impact for their conference. Not a bad bet that the conference can't do anything about at this point at all.

As much as I like good 'ole northeastern hate - especially the BC-UConn institutional rivalry - the athletic side of it gets old. Both schools are pathetic at the other meaningful sport where the other school is competent.

The smack revolves around a peeing contest to see which is more impressive, being pretty good at football or being good at basketball.

(03-24-2017 11:03 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  As much as I like good 'ole northeastern hate - especially the BC-UConn institutional rivalry - the athletic side of it gets old. Both schools are pathetic at the other meaningful sport where the other school is competent.

The smack revolves around a peeing contest to see which is more impressive, being pretty good at football or being good at basketball.

I'll take national titles in both sides of basketball over being a below-average football team instead of a bad one with atrocious basketball.

BC has achieved high rankings in both sports in recent history. It's a great school with a lot of potential. Plus, BC is in the best conference of all-time.

WHERE MY CHEESE AT

(03-24-2017 11:06 PM)Bogg Wrote:  

(03-24-2017 11:03 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  As much as I like good 'ole northeastern hate - especially the BC-UConn institutional rivalry - the athletic side of it gets old. Both schools are pathetic at the other meaningful sport where the other school is competent.

The smack revolves around a peeing contest to see which is more impressive, being pretty good at football or being good at basketball.

I'll take national titles in both sides of basketball over being a below-average football team instead of a bad one with atrocious basketball.

...Yup. Then the BC fans will take football relevance over men's basketball success (nobody but UConn cares about WBB), and the cycle will begin anew.

(03-24-2017 11:15 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  

(03-24-2017 11:06 PM)Bogg Wrote:  

(03-24-2017 11:03 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  As much as I like good 'ole northeastern hate - especially the BC-UConn institutional rivalry - the athletic side of it gets old. Both schools are pathetic at the other meaningful sport where the other school is competent.

The smack revolves around a peeing contest to see which is more impressive, being pretty good at football or being good at basketball.

I'll take national titles in both sides of basketball over being a below-average football team instead of a bad one with atrocious basketball.

...Yup. Then the BC fans will take football relevance over men's basketball success (nobody but UConn cares about WBB), and the cycle will begin anew.

Boston College isn't even football-relevant in Boston.