we need this for football..

[buffalorange]

From Aaron Sorkin's address to the SU graduating class (boldface mine):

"You’re too good for gossip and snark, you’re too good for intolerance — and ... you’re too good to think people who disagree with you are your enemy. Unless they went to Georgetown, in which case, they can go to hell.”

We used to be able to replace Georgetown with Penn State. Will we ever get a heartfelt football rivalry again? If so, with what school?

 

[MaxwellCuse]

That's what Boston College is for. Private school. Catholic school. Ranked higher by US New & World Report than Syracuse. Wealthier student body on average than Syracuse. And they purport to play football.

 

[Townie72]

That's what Boston College is for. Private school. Catholic school. Ranked higher by US New & World Report than Syracuse. Wealthier student body on average than Syracuse. And they purport to play football.

Of course none of that is important in determining a rival. It's the history of athletic competition that matters, not demographics. SU's relationship with BC has never been particularly heated.

SU's greatest rivalries --- since Colgate --- have been PSU in the 50's and 60's and early 70's and Georgetown in the 1980's and 1990's. Neither of these schools have much in common with SU.

In the 1990's, I felt VT was starting to approach becoming a rival with some really important, bitterly fought games between the teams. VT, of course, is very much different than SU.

 

[MaxwellCuse]

BC is very much different than SU also. But we have a history of athletic competition (at some level) plus proximity plus we'll be playing in the same conference again. BC could become the football equivalent of Georgetown, but as you say it probably cannot become a true rivalry until /unless both BC and SU are good football teams again.

 

[OrangeChris]

I think the BC gridiron rivalry will grow in intensity, though certainly not to G'town-esque degrees of loathing. For one, we're the only two private Northeastern schools in the FBS. Our annual game also looks to be positioned as some sort of "Thanksgiving Friday" tradition, which will help. They're also our 5th most played opponent all-time (amongst teams that currently compete at the FBS level). As such, the potential is certainly there.