Running 2011 Bowl Season Thread- Match-ups on Page 1

Gene and other ADs make the big bucks because they're supposed to make smart decision. If they make dumb ones, then the administration at those schools need to shit-can them. Again, it's not the job of a non-BCS bowls to take BC and Syracuse and Pitt out for ice cream cones. It's not their job to lose money to make schools with small and/or non-supportive fan bases feel good about 8-4 seasons. If they want to guarantee they'll go to a decent bowl, win more games and maybe a conference championship.

 

They haven't been blacked out because the team and a sponsor pick up the remaining tickets at 35 cents on the dollar. If you really believe those attendance figures I would suggest it is you making the stupid argument.

 

BC fans should just tarp over the sections in the upper deck and then they can say they sold out their allotment.

 

http://espn.go.com/nfl/attendance

They're playing by the same rules as every other team in the NFL does. Miami and Tampa Bay and Oakland and Cincy and all the others teams behind Jax are free to do what's allowable to avoid blackouts. Apples and oranges. You're trying to make a comparison between an NFL team that averages 62,000 for eight home games and a college team that sells a couple thousand tickets for a bowl game.
As far as the NFL is concerned, the Jaguars haven't had a blackout in three years and average more than 62,000 tickets sold. Cincinnati, with a good rookie quarterback and a dynamite wide receiver is last in the league in attendance, 13,000 per game behind Jax. Why isn't anyone trumpeting the Los Angeles Bengals?

 

When a team and a sponsor buy the tickets, it does not constitute fan support.

What part of that don't you get?

 

Whatever the merits of the ongoing Jags bitchfest, it doesn't belong on this thread, and Hondo didn't bring it up. Has nothing to do with the fact that BC's fan support sucks hind tit.

 

Look, the thing that makes BC a bad fit with the ACC isn't just football, where its program is competitive most years with everybody but Va. Tech, just as it was competitive in the Big East except with Miami and Florida St. back in the day. It's basketball. BC basketball is the third sport on campus and among alums, behind football and hockey, which might actually be first. BC fans liked Big East basketball better than the ACC variety because they had rivals in that conference, especially other Catholic school rivals. They don't really get up for home and homes with Clemson. So basketball gets ignored, and football, in my experience, is more a social activity than anything else. They actually had to start a campaign to force fans to stop tailgating before kickoff, because otherwise they didn't show up in the stands until nearly halftime. Hockey, they care. That's the college blood sport up here.

 

The same old school mindest is prevalent in a lot of Big East fans. I know a lot of Pitt basketball fans griping about losing "rivalry" games with Villanova and Georgetown. When you remind them that they're gaining games with Duke and North Carolina they just wring their hands and say, "ohh it's not the same." Yeah, you're right. It's actually BETTER, because Duke and North Carolina are BETTER!

Someone really needs to slap these people and remind them that Chris Mullin's not walking through that door in a pair of nut-huggers.

 

Roll Tide.

 

Why do we care what this guy is saying?

I mean, seriously - you want to go to BCS games? Take one of these jobs in a real conference and show everyone you can get it done when you aren't playing Wyoming and Idaho week to week.

And if you want to stay where you are, stop bitching, or starting playing more than your annual one "Super Bowl" game per year in which your team gets way up to try and win, but then, doesn't have to get up again the rest of the season.

So tired of these fucking whiners from smaller conferences - in the old system, Boise would have no prayer of getting invited to Orange or Sugar or Rose bowls. At least now, there are rules in place that those kinds of schools have a real chance to get to one.

 

BYM2: The Big East rivalries mattered to BC because those other schools were where the other guys in your office or your high school friends went to college. It's not just quality of matchups. Fandom's about personal experiences.

Zag, I distinctly remember that back in the 1960s, the Wyoming team that had Jim Kiick on it went to the Sugar Bowl. Beat LSU, too. So your generalization is a little too sweeping.

 

Who gives a good flying fuck about BC? Ever.