The 2010 Beanpot: Featuring One Team Under Consideration

[jcarter7669]

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You know, I always thought the trick to starting a flame war is to not end up more PO'd at the end of it than the people you were trying to goad. BC newbies stayed up all night trying to justify their athletic program, which seems strange for such a powerhouse. Pretty lame.

So, to bring us back to square one, I'm still waiting for an answer to this one. If BU fans were inclined to be jealous of another school's athletic program, why would anyone choose BC?

They have good colors, the maroon and gold.......awesome.

 

[TonyTheTiger20]

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You know, I always thought the trick to starting a flame war is to not end up more PO'd at the end of it than the people you were trying to goad. BC newbies stayed up all night trying to justify their athletic program, which seems strange for such a powerhouse. Pretty lame.

So, to bring us back to square one, I'm still waiting for an answer to this one. If BU fans were inclined to be jealous of another school's athletic program, why would anyone choose BC? Your own fans don't go to the games (small D-1 facility, 4000 fans travelling to conference championship, school taking out ads before games asking for attendance, etc), there's no championships outside of hockey, and from your own postings people show up late and leave early. Why not UConn, a championship winning program with a large fan base? Or Florida if we really wanted to front run. There's nothing about BC's program that would make the average fan envious of it instead of the multiple better programs out there, except for a very good hockey team if your school wasn't a recent defending champion itself. No offense, and by all means be happy with what you got, but this comes up every other year by a newbie undergrad and every time their illusion of having "big-time" national level athletics gets crushed. Consider it my public service to you.

I have to leave to go to class so I don't have time to deal with this, but oh my God... We can't spell it out any better for you than Joe just did.

They have good colors, the maroon and gold.......awesome.

Can you bring in your other aliases to this thread? We can use more of that epic humor.

 

[Rover]

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Its sorta like this: You move into a neighborhood. The guy next door to you, who's painted his house maroon and gold , has a similar house, only its got 50 extra square feet to it. However, across the street is a 10,000 square foot mansion.

Now, if you are the jealous type, which guy's house are you going to be jealous over? Most likely, not the one next door. That's the concept BC people are having trouble wrapping their minds around.

 

[joegrav]

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lol. Like I said... You're delusional if you think the difference is a matter of degrees, and if you think BU athletics is a "similar house" without an addition. The difference is about 30 million dollars in raw revenue without considering anything else. And the great athletic Programs you mentioned aren't on the same street as you, they're hundreds of miles away. BU is closer to American University athletically than it is to BC.

BU athletic administrators would probably chop off their balls to sniff the NCAA basketball tournament *one time*. Stick to discussing the one sport BU knows anything about.

 

[northeastern]

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Hello.. Harvard fan.. you out there.. anyone..

Tufts club hockey wanna speak up for the Crimson..

 

[jcarter7669]

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Its sorta like this: You move into a neighborhood. The guy next door to you, who's painted his house maroon and gold , has a similar house, only its got 50 extra square feet to it. However, across the street is a 10,000 square foot mansion.

Now, if you are the jealous type, which guy's house are you going to be jealous over? Most likely, not the one next door. That's the concept BC people are having trouble wrapping their minds around.

lol. Like I said... You're delusional if you think the difference is a matter of degrees, and if you think BU athletics is a "similar house" without an addition. And the great athletic Programs you mentioned aren't on the same street as you, they're hundreds of miles away.

Ahhh, the problem becomes clear. It's not that BC fans aren't jealous of the 10,000 sqft house across the street, it's just that they can't calculate sqft and are lost driving around the wrong neighborhood. Just look for the house that's painted Maroon and Gold. That's yours and judging by attendance there are only a few so it shouldn't be hard to spot.

 

[joegrav]

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...and the UVM dope patrol comes on through, reminding me that as much as I dislike BU, at least BU fans are literate.

 

[Rover]

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lol. Like I said... You're delusional if you think the difference is a matter of degrees, and if you think BU athletics is a "similar house" without an addition. The difference is about 30 million dollars in raw revenue without considering anything else. And the great athletic Programs you mentioned aren't on the same street as you, they're hundreds of miles away. BU is closer to American University athletically than it is to BC.

BU athletic administrators would probably chop off their balls to sniff the NCAA basketball tournament *one time*. Stick to discussing the one sport BU knows anything about.

You know, with the resources that they have, and the new facility, did it ever dawn on you that BU could go out and spend a ton of dough for a hired gun ala Tarkanian back in the day, start letting in the Scoonie Penn's and Sean Williams of the world, and have this so called vaunted bouncy ball program that BC apparently possesses? I mean, its not like they'd have to be making it deep into the tournament, nor sell out their home games, to get up to par, right?

But what upsets you most? The reality that BC athletics is a very small fish in the non-hockey NCAA pond, or that there's no reason for anybody to be jealous of their program when there's plenty of programs, even some in neighboring states, that better qualify for the average fan's envy? As this is getting terribly amusing, I await you answer. (this conversation reminds me of years back when one BC fan was trying to tell me BC had the highest academic standards for its athletes of any school in the nation, and then another one told me that if you're going to work in Boston its better to have a BC degree than a Harvard one).

 

[btg1204]

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You know, with the resources that they have, and the new facility, did it ever dawn on you that BU could go out and spend a ton of dough for a hired gun ala Tarkanian back in the day, start letting in the Scoonie Penn's and Sean Williams of the world,

Sean Williams has a better SAT score than about 90% of the posters on this thread. He might make some moronic decisions but he isn't stupid.

 

[northeastern]

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I say you both take your sports programs public... you know, share offering.. let the market decide..

 

[joegrav]

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Yes Rover, it's that easy. I'm sure BU could just flip the switch and start making NCAA tournaments every year. Duh.

 

[joegrav]

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This is shaping up to be a poor bouncyball season for BC, yet average attendance is around 5k and just about every game has been on TV. BU is having a "good" year. Have they cracked 1500 at the gate once this year? Someone get The Hot Dog (aka the only person in thr world who cares about BU bouncy ball) to give us the attendance report.

BC womens basketball brought in just as much revenue as BU men last year. That's a fact. You can spout as much BS as you want, it doesn't change facts.

 

[northeastern]

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And now to goaltending.. BC has a decent tandem in Milner/Muse & BU in Rollheiser/ Millan. NU has decent goaltending with Rawlings, but Mountain has been up & down. I have no idea about Harvard goaltending & the won't tell me..

I see Rawlings for NU both gms (barring injury).. do the rest of you see same goalie (based on gm 1 performance) or will you go with the tandem regardless?

SuperJoe.. you acted cool at Matthews all last yr.. what changed? Is it just January blues or beyond? Chill dude..
Rover.. you behave now.. (remember, you have to be yourself)

 

[Nick Papagiorgio]

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Why not UConn, a championship winning program with a large fan base? Or Florida if we really wanted to front run.

Uhhhhh... because Uconn and Florida aren't miles away from BU on the same street. That's why.

Did someone miss the Hannibal Lectur education about covetous behavior? Perhaps spending too much time sticking pins into your doug flutie voodoo doll and looking for old Forbes lists?

We covet what we see. BU fans can't see Uconn or Florida. They're not in the Boston papers or on the Boston tv stations like BC is. They aren't tons of alumni from those schools in Boston for them to see and deal with.

 

[Rover]

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We covet what we see. BU fans can't see Uconn or Florida. They're not in the Boston papers or on the Boston tv stations like BC is. They aren't tons of alumni from those schools in Boston for them to see and deal with.

So you covet BU's 5 national championships to your 3? A surprising admission out of you.

As far as TV goes, I'm guessing Florida is indeed on Boston TV stations more regularly than BC, as they tend to be playing in nationally televised games that have a bit more meaning (like, oh I don't know...championship games for example). Same with UConn hoops. Still though, with all this BC excitement, I still wonder why they can't sell out their games.

Sean Williams has a better SAT score than about 90% of the posters on this thread. He might make some moronic decisions but he isn't stupid.

Was this an indepth study or something you just pulled out of your @zz?

 

[joegrav]

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Nah, I don't wish we had 5 national championships instead of 3. What's the point? Doesn't North Dakota have 7? So what's the big deal about having 5? 3...5... No difference, really.

 

[Nick Papagiorgio]

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As far as TV goes, I'm guessing Florida is indeed on Boston TV stations more regularly than BC, as they tend to be playing in nationally televised games that have a bit more meaning (like, oh I don't know...championship games for example). Same with UConn hoops. Still though, with all this BC excitement, I still wonder why they can't sell out their games.

Florida is on tv more than BC? Local news? Yea right. Pass the bong over to Gentry up in Hippieville, Vermont. Televised games? Not a chance. While Florida gets football games on CBS almost weekly, BC is on tv almost every single week in the Boston market as well. That's a wash, certainly nothing to differentiate between the two. BC hoops is on a lot more than Florida is even if you factor in a deep run for UF in the NCAAs. Florida doesn't get several columns on Sundays in the Globe and Herald or weekly notebooks and columns as well nor will they be on the front page for anything other than winning a Heisman or national title. Add in additional coverage for hockey and BC is exponentially more visible in the Boston media market.

BC sports, like it or not, is in the ugly little faces of BU grads here in Boston and they hate it. Might explain why you have an infatuation with Doug Flutie.

I'm going to stop arguing with you because I know you're just being full of crap for the sake of being full of crap. Go dig up some academic ranking that shows BU being better than BC that isn't 5 years old. Then we'll have more to discuss. And I know our buddy Gentry will gladly approve of that ranking as well.

 

[Nick Papagiorgio]

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Nah, I don't wish we had 5 national championships instead of 3. What's the point? Doesn't North Dakota have 7? So what's the big deal about having 5? 3...5... No difference, really.

Why would BC fans be jealous of BU hockey when they could be jealous of North Dakota or Michigan? Right rover?

 

[joegrav]

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Plus Minnesota draws 12,000 fans for hockey and BU averages what, 5k? Obviously nobody cares about BU hockey, its fans are nothing compared to Minnesota.

 

[J.D.]

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I'm amazed people still go back and forth with Rover. Same thing over and over. He has index cards of information that he trots out every year.

Where's Limey with his breakdown of Trivino, etc.?