The 2010 Beanpot: Featuring One Team Under Consideration

[CHFAN222]

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That's good, yes. My point about my list of schools is that there are few schools in the country that match BC's both academic and athletic reputation. Add in the other million things that make BC a "dream school" and you have one of the best all-around schools in the country.

When you say few how many is few. I can name at least 20 right off the bat. I'm going to say every school in the Big 10, Pitt, Notre Dame, UCLA, Stanfrod, Texas, Syracuse, Stanford, Rutgers, UNC, and Georgia Tech just to name a few.

 

[slurpees]

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The fact that Parker turned a blind eye to the fact that Chris Bourque didn't go to class for the entire 2nd semester is shameful and I wonder how he has any credibility when he pitches BU hockey to any family looking to him to look after their son.

Nevermind that, by all accounts I've heard, Bourque was essentially forced to leave since he was told he'd be academically ineligible if he came back for another year.

 

[SPIN CONTROL]

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A#1 Sabo - Far and away the biggest bust in BU history. Couldn't skate, shoot, pass, or hit people. Spent half the game in the penalty box, the other half laid out on the ice.

2 Juha Vouri - People forget he was looked upon with some promise when he came in as another Degerman, and had an okay start to his career (as a forward I believe). He then went on to become BU's worst d-man until Morrow graced us with his presence.

3 Bourque - What an idiot. Nothing more needs to be said.

4 McConnell - A good place to slot him. One of many misses from that era.

5 Maiser - Seemed to think showing up for two games in his career was good enough.

6 Brett Bennett - Worst starting goaltender not named Tapp, and in Tapp's defense he was never meant to be the go to guy.

7 Gregg Johnson (8th Rd. draft pick. 47 career points over 4 years)

8 Ken Magowan (7th Rd pick. 66 career points over 4 years)

9 Brian Collins (3rd Rd pick - 99 career points)

10 Kenny Roche (3rd rd pick. 89 points in 154 games over 4 years)

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Lets make it a top 10, as I don't think a guy like DVG belongs and Lawrence did enough his senior season to qualify as only a disappointment, not a bust.

7-10 are pretty much interchangable.

Jeff Kealty says hello.

 

[joegrav]

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Stanfrod

Stanfrod is NOT as good as Havrad or Ylae. Not even close!!!!!

Hi Jon, I know you're out there. Go ahead and join in.

 

[quiddlet]

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I apologize for the ridiculous looking length of this post... but most of it is quotes, I just can't keep up with this thread.

1) BU basketball made the Elite Eight in 1959.
2) Myself and four other BU students traveled to Notre Dame for BU basketball. I'm still not sure why, but we did.
3) There were six current students at Alfond. Half of us just happened to work for the FreeP.

1) I mean... the tournament had like 20 teams and there was only one team from each conference, are we really citing?
2) Something tells me BC beats 5 people
3) Yeah... sorry, I really have no idea how I forgot about the people I traveled up there with.

Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ that was a good post. Seriously.

Thanks buddy.

Forbes 2009 (which uses a WAY better system to rate schools than US News):
#5 Harvard
#16 Boston College
#342 Boston University
#593 Northeastern University

Sorry but those rankings are terrible. Talk about the methodology all you want but i just had about ten people come over to my computer and check out the top 25 schools and not one of them thought they weren't completely ridiculous.

Come on now. Nothing? I think you'll find that students at Yale will tend to be smarter than students at Bunker Hill Community College. There are outliers, of course, but smarter kids do in fact tend to go to schools with higher academic quality.

I don't think anyone would claim that. I think it's true that in general, a given student has a much better chance of getting rejected from BC than BU.
That may be so, but you're kidding yourself if you don't think that FAR fewer students get rejected from BU and go to BC than get rejected from BC and go to BU.

Fair enough, but these are the things I'm talking about...

We'd all be better off if you had no desire to talk about anything and stopped looking like a retarded fanboy that got rejected from BC.

Even you guys could get into UConn. So that would work out for you.

You're jealous of BC because you couldn't get in. You wouldn't be jealous of a school that you got accepted to and chose not to attend.

no, but for the disillusioned fanboy who believes he has a shot at BC, he might as well dream he has a shot at MIT and Harvard as well. a plus is that his anger would be then more evenly spread throughout the city and there would be less of a chance of any incident involving tears at a hockey game.

Alright, so maybe you're all picking on one particular BU person here, I don't remember (it took awhile to work out all these multi-quotes)... but there seems to be some underlying thought when a BC person looks at a BU person that that person could never have gone to BC, and it's stupid to assume that. I will never be a BC reject.

And we here at the esteemed institution of higher learning called Boston College believe that we are better than you BC rejects, and want you to know it. It's a rivalry.

As good as your post was (and I did think it was very good) I just find it hard to believe that if BU was the superior institution and not BC, that you wouldn't be sitting there telling us BC fans about how much better your school is. And it would p!$$ me off to no end.

I never said BU was a superior institution, I don't think it is. I think it's a superior hockey school, and that's what we're here to talk about.

Are we not supposed to act like rivals in this thread?

In sum:

It's a rivalry. And a heated one at that.

I guess we are, it'd just be nice if we hated each other with a little more sense.

BC is a helluva school but better than Northwestern = LOL

As an NU alum I thank you for pointing this out.

There. Done. Can we stop with the college rankings now?

Yeah, sorry for bringing them back a bit, but I've been at class and this thread is hard to keep up with.

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.

I'd just give up if I were you.

 

[joegrav]

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When you say few how many is few. I can name at least 20 right off the bat. I'm going to say every school in the Big 10, Pitt, Notre Dame, UCLA, Stanfrod, Texas, Syracuse, Stanford, Rutgers, UNC, and Georgia Tech just to name a few.

No, no, yes, yes, yes, yes, kinda (terrible football team), yes, not really, yes, yes. You missed Duke (if sucking at football doesn't matter, a la Syracuse)

 

[TonyTheTiger20]

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When you say few how many is few. I can name at least 20 right off the bat. I'm going to say every school in the Big 10, Pitt, Notre Dame, UCLA, Stanfrod, Texas, Syracuse, Stanford, Rutgers, UNC, and Georgia Tech just to name a few.

Every school in the Big 10?? Pitt?? Rutgers???

No. I said there are few schools that can match BC in terms of athletic AND academic achievement.

 

[joegrav]

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I never said BU was a superior institution, I don't think it is. I think it's a superior hockey school, and that's what we're here to talk about.

As of right now, I agree with you; as of the end of this season, I'm hopeful that that will be incorrect once again.

I guess we are, it'd just be nice if we hated each other with a little more sense.

Where's the fun in that?

As an NU alum I thank you for pointing this out.

Huh?

Oh... that NU

 

[quiddlet]

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Oh... that NU

Yeah... the one for some reason everybody outside of Evanston seems to call NW. :/

 

[CHFAN222]

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Every school in the Big 10?? Pitt?? Rutgers???

No. I said there are few schools that can match BC in terms of athletic AND academic achievement.

Pittsburgh has a top notch Engineering program. It has a very successful basketball team and a has had some success in football.

Rutgers has one of the best pharmacy programs in the world and is a very good academic institution and extremely competitive to get into. It also has had both its Men and women hoops teams reach the Final Four. It's football team had the second highest TV rating on ESPN for a college football game a few years back plus with the stadium expansion the team is rising.

Big 10 academics wise is pretty well off. Athletics wise the only school I can think of that might be weak is Northwestern but they have had some football success like knocking off then undefeated Iowa this year.

 

[joegrav]

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Indiana sucks at football and basketball. I could be wrong but I don't think the Illini have done much lately.

Rutgers gets props for women's hoops, but when did they make the men's final four? Certainly not in the last 15 years as I can recall. Their football team was a laughingstock forever and had one or two good years; now they're heading back toward the toilet. I'mma give a big fat 'meh' on that one.

 

[quiddlet]

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Big 10 academics wise is pretty well off. Athletics wise the only school I can think of that might be weak is Northwestern but they have had some football success like knocking off then undefeated Iowa this year.

And at least partially winning the conference in '95, '96, and 2000.
Also being the only Big Ten school on a beach... woooo.

 

[Terrier520]

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I could be wrong but I don't think the Illini have done much lately.

My alum girlfriend can attest, they don't do squat

Rutgers gets props for women's hoops, but when did they make the men's final four? Certainly not in the last 15 years as I can recall. Their football team was a laughingstock forever and had one or two good years; now they're heading back toward the toilet. I'mma give a big fat 'meh' on that one.

Rutgers made the tourney a few years in a row late 90s- early 00s. They didn't advance much, but still made it.

 

[CHFAN222]

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Indiana sucks at football and basketball. I could be wrong but I don't think the Illini have done much lately.

Rutgers gets props for women's hoops, but when did they make the men's final four? Certainly not in the last 15 years as I can recall. Their football team was a laughingstock forever and had one or two good years; now they're heading back toward the toilet. I'mma give a big fat 'meh' on that one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...basketball_tournament_Final_Four_participants
Rutgers men made it in 1976. I disagree with football comment they are on the upswing. They just finished that stadium expansion this year and have a very talented offense returning next year.

The Illini where in the Rose Bowl in 08.

Indiana has won national titles in basketball.

 

[BU Hammer]

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Pittsburgh has a top notch Engineering program. It has a very successful basketball team and a has had some success in football.

Pitt also has one of the best med programs in the country, FWIW.

 

[joegrav]

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Also I consider myself a sorta Minnesota fan and you're a clown if you put them in BCs class in revenue sports lately. What have they made, two bowl games and three NCAAs over the last decade... Plus BC has lapped them in hockey

 

[ericredaxe]

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What is the difference between these two groups?

Group A: Boston College, Duke, Notre Dame, Stanford

Group B: Connecticut, Florida, Florida State, Ohio State

It doesn't take a BU graduate to know which group is more desirable from an academic and athletic standpoint.

The biggest difference is that one of the schools in "Group A" does not really fit in with the other 3, while all the schools in "Group B" seems to line up pretty well.

 

[joegrav]

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Also notably missing from any such list: bu. I guess if it makes you feel better about sucking, go ahead and rely on other schools' accomplishments to make you feel better.

Over just the last two years, BC has produced first-round draft picks in the MLB, NFL, NHL and NBA (not to mention America's best soccer forward and a sure starter in the world cup if healthy). If there are a lot of schools who can make a claim like that, I stand corrected; BC is teh sux. But I'm guessing that's pretty unique.

 

[northeastern]

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Have any of you given pause to think... 'x' name degree notwithstanding.. good old fashioned hard work still works. No really... but you have to start early

Monday: BC over Harvard (unless they play like they played UML, last). BU over NU (unless we play like..oh nevermind, i'd have to change my sig)

 

[25 N Countin']

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(not to mention America's best soccer forward and a sure starter in the world cup if healthy).

Okay, Davies is a very good player, but you must be smoking that good stuff if you think he's better than Altidore.