I get that, but it still doesn't work when they are a net drag under virtually every scenario. Even if they were a net positive they don't lock down the Northeast, and elevating them further could make things more difficult for existing conference members across multiple sports. It just doesn't make any sense, except for nostalgia.
They would have to go 11-2
Fair .. I could see scenarios pop up like that ... you could for example lose a nail biter to Clemson and drop a game to the Gators (their annual rivalry game) and get the shaft again.
Well, they've been in the last 8 consecutive women's D-1 lacrosse championship games, winning 2. They were in the 2007 and 2008 football championship games. Everything bad stems from the insane AD who fired Jeff Jagodzinski (just for saying he'd consider intervirewing for a pro job) and Al Skinner for a couple of bad seasons and made Tom O'Brien leave for NC State. You folks are more acquainted than I am with their performance in the OBE that made them a consideration for the ACC.
I think it keeps him up at night.
Gene DeFillipo. He was there about 15 years.
His name is a dirty word on the BC board, He nortoriously said, "I'll start a {fill in the name of a currently unsponsored} team when Florida State starts a hockey team."
BC got in the ACC primarily because of academic snobbery. WVU was not considered. The great ACC failure in that process was not to notice that when Flutie played, BC got front page coverage of Boston Globe Sports, but by the time BC would join the ACC, BC got almost no coverage at all. The Harvard-Yale game got more coverage. UMass basketball got more coverage in Boston than BC basketball.
They were too busy burying point shaving allegations
They got in because Boston was a top 7 tv market. Not sure it was more complicated than that. Their academics were top notch as well.
Plus a hockey team that’s a dream team last few years. Bc hockey is a better event than bc football or basketball
Explains the pathetic attendance numbers in the two major sports.
We can always count on WoadBlue to be wrong in everything he posts about conference stuff. It's uncanny.
I didn’t even think about this side of it. Good call!
It really is impressive.
He’s going to sell basketball rights separately in a few years and wants to be dominant in basketball and add the northeast as a region.
This is an intriguing idea.
if they do that, they should just merge the old big hoops into this as well. I mean we're going to end up in a reconstituted big east if there's a roll up.
Scooch, if this is the case (and i agree with you 100%), then Notre Dame will never join a conference as constituted because their brand is better than every other brand and they probably haven't even fully utilized it market wise (i.e. the NBC relationship). I contend that ND should just create their own streaming service and add new content to it (i.e. boston/ny markets via Syracuse and BC). Ultimately Notre Dame can operate like a netflix where they dictate the brands they amplify.
Shouldn't we be proactive and try and get some streaming revenue for and from our LAX programs now and get ahead of things?
We agree that ND won’t join a conference for football. We disagree that they have any interest in throwing a life preserver to SU and BC. There’s no real upside for them to do that.
We lead the nation in lax attendance… with barely 5K fans. I love lacrosse but it’s an incredibly niche sport. There’s no business there.
I think the upside is controlled content. ND likes their football, basketball, hockey, lacrosse programs. As an independent they'll need inventory of some sort. Probably an insane idea but great brands do partner with smaller brands. I always see these plumbing companies in the boston area sponsored by the Boston Red Sox.
