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Please stop by our tailgate before the game. It's gonna be awesome. PM me when it gets close. I'll let you know where we will be.
Huh??? Are you nuts or just being facetious? Class based? Don't think so.
I think the same would go for UMass fans. Maybe the ones who are old enough to remember the Yankee Conference days care. Since the two don't really play in anything anymore, with the exception of UMass beating UConn in hockey every year or so, it's hard to have a rivalry.
To me you can't really predict who or what will be a rivalry. They develop organically. In football, BC-Clemson isn't one despite the attempts of the ACC and the schools to have a trophy and all that. In hockey BC-BU is, despite the fact that they don't really have the same athletic interests in any other sport. Nobody "designated" BC-BU as a rivalry. It just became one of the best in college sports. When BC was in the Big East, UConn-BC was sort of one, more because of proximity but I think played second fiddle to UConn-Syracuse, which has developed into a nice one, though it is likely to end shortly. Since UConn hasn't really played hockey at this level before, it is tough to predict who, if anyone will be our "rival." You need some close games, upsets, bizzare endings...and none of those have happened yet. That 2 fan bases don't much care for each other is helpful, but it isn't definitive without some history.