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commavegarage {l Wrote}:@McMurphyESPN: Boston College to host Buffalo on Oct. 1, 2016 source told @ESPN. BC will pay Buffalo $700K says @mattbc03, who reported it first

eepstein0 {l Wrote}:This AD has no clue what he's doing when it comes to scheduling. You already have UMass on the schedule in 2016 why are we playing another MAC team

Bates, probably {l Wrote}: Epstein, we greatly appreciate your feedback. When considering the out of conference schedule we factor in a lot of things. First, it's all about student-athlete development. We incorporate their best interests with the goals of the coaching staff. Finally, we want the gameday experience in the ACC.

Boston College is the only top 35 university, competing at the highest level for football, in a world class city that is an institution founded by the Jesuits.

I invite you to a townhall in a couple of weeks where we will solicit more valuable feedback from passionate Boston College supporters such as yourself and will do minimal with that feedback. A couple examples of practices we've implemented are: affordable single game parking, DBS parking where the rates are in line with market demands, allow cars on campus early like they do for UMass games at Gillette, put bathrooms in the upper deck, & eliminated sesame seed pretzels!

As always, we appreciate you reaching out. My office is always open to passionate fans, such as yourself.

Brad

claver2010 {l Wrote}:

eepstein0 {l Wrote}:This AD has no clue what he's doing when it comes to scheduling. You already have UMass on the schedule in 2016 why are we playing another MAC team

Bates, probably {l Wrote}: Epstein, we greatly appreciate your feedback. When considering the out of conference schedule we factor in a lot of things. First, it's all about student-athlete development. We incorporate their best interests with the goals of the coaching staff. Finally, we want the gameday experience in the ACC.

Boston College is the only top 35 university, competing at the highest level for football, in a world class city that is an institution founded by the Jesuits.

I invite you to a townhall in a couple of weeks where we will solicit more valuable feedback from passionate Boston College supporters such as yourself and will do minimal with that feedback. A couple examples of practices we've implemented are: affordable single game parking, DBS parking where the rates are in line with market demands, allow cars on campus early like they do for UMass games at Gillette, put bathrooms in the upper deck, & eliminated sesame seed pretzels!

As always, we appreciate you reaching out. My office is always open to passionate fans, such as yourself.

Brad

commavegarage {l Wrote}:I'm just waiting for the atl post defending the game.

he defends bates' scheduling like he defends

MilitantEagle {l Wrote}:

commavegarage {l Wrote}:I'm just waiting for the atl post defending the game.

he defends bates' scheduling like he defends

Why do you only blame Bates and not Addazio? In my opinion, Addazio wants the cupcakes.

claver2010 {l Wrote}:As a season ticket holder, the 2015 & 2016 schedules are atrocious.

ATLeagle {l Wrote}:

MilitantEagle {l Wrote}:

commavegarage {l Wrote}:I'm just waiting for the atl post defending the game.

he defends bates' scheduling like he defends

Why do you only blame Bates and not Addazio? In my opinion, Addazio wants the cupcakes.

The thing I defended is that he got another home game without resorting to a second FCS game. Addazio wants the cupcakes, so he's supporting his coach's plan to build the program. I don't love Addazio cupcaking and will expect him to upgrade it in Year 5 and Year 6. If we can't get an annual Power 5 game, we need to start scheduling a non-conference ACC game.

commavegarage {l Wrote}:

ATLeagle {l Wrote}:

MilitantEagle {l Wrote}:

commavegarage {l Wrote}:I'm just waiting for the atl post defending the game.

he defends bates' scheduling like he defends

Why do you only blame Bates and not Addazio? In my opinion, Addazio wants the cupcakes.

The thing I defended is that he got another home game without resorting to a second FCS game. Addazio wants the cupcakes, so he's supporting his coach's plan to build the program. I don't love Addazio cupcaking and will expect him to upgrade it in Year 5 and Year 6. If we can't get an annual Power 5 game, we need to start scheduling a non-conference ACC game.

this is stupid.

to your point and everybody who has made the point to me before, in year 5 / 6 people will be saying "YOU CAN'T EXPECT TO GET A HOME AND HOME WITH OREGON THIS YEAR!! YOU NEED TO SCHEDULE THESE THINGS YEARS IN ADVANCE"

the fact that we haven't loaded up anything for year 5 and year 6 already means better games arent coming then

commavegarage {l Wrote}:

ATLeagle {l Wrote}:

MilitantEagle {l Wrote}:

commavegarage {l Wrote}:I'm just waiting for the atl post defending the game.

he defends bates' scheduling like he defends

Why do you only blame Bates and not Addazio? In my opinion, Addazio wants the cupcakes.

The thing I defended is that he got another home game without resorting to a second FCS game. Addazio wants the cupcakes, so he's supporting his coach's plan to build the program. I don't love Addazio cupcaking and will expect him to upgrade it in Year 5 and Year 6. If we can't get an annual Power 5 game, we need to start scheduling a non-conference ACC game.

this is stupid.

to your point and everybody who has made the point to me before, in year 5 / 6 people will be saying "YOU CAN'T EXPECT TO GET A HOME AND HOME WITH OREGON THIS YEAR!! YOU NEED TO SCHEDULE THESE THINGS YEARS IN ADVANCE"

the fact that we haven't loaded up anything for year 5 and year 6 already means better games arent coming then

twballgame9 {l Wrote}:Wait, they dumped the sesame seed pretzel? This is HUGE news.

claver2010 {l Wrote}:As a season ticket holder, the 2015 & 2016 schedules are atrocious.

ATLeagle {l Wrote}:

commavegarage {l Wrote}:

ATLeagle {l Wrote}:

MilitantEagle {l Wrote}:

commavegarage {l Wrote}:I'm just waiting for the atl post defending the game.

he defends bates' scheduling like he defends

Why do you only blame Bates and not Addazio? In my opinion, Addazio wants the cupcakes.

The thing I defended is that he got another home game without resorting to a second FCS game. Addazio wants the cupcakes, so he's supporting his coach's plan to build the program. I don't love Addazio cupcaking and will expect him to upgrade it in Year 5 and Year 6. If we can't get an annual Power 5 game, we need to start scheduling a non-conference ACC game.

this is stupid.

to your point and everybody who has made the point to me before, in year 5 / 6 people will be saying "YOU CAN'T EXPECT TO GET A HOME AND HOME WITH OREGON THIS YEAR!! YOU NEED TO SCHEDULE THESE THINGS YEARS IN ADVANCE"

the fact that we haven't loaded up anything for year 5 and year 6 already means better games arent coming then

I agree. We should have those Power 5 games locked in now. But I think Bates/Addazio are slowing playing it to see if the nine game Power 5 mandate sticks, to see if BYU might count as Power 5 and to see where the ACC goes with 9 games. I think in the end we fail at this musical chairs, play cupcakes and Addazio will be happy.

PhillyandBCEagles {l Wrote}:I understand the need to play cupcakes, I just think we need to make them either interesting games, key recruiting territory, or both. Tulane, Rice, SMU, Temple, San Jose State, San Diego State, service academies, midwestern MAC teams good. Buffalo and New Mexico State bad.

BCHighGuybutRiceOwl {l Wrote}:

PhillyandBCEagles {l Wrote}:I understand the need to play cupcakes, I just think we need to make them either interesting games, key recruiting territory, or both. Tulane, Rice, SMU, Temple, San Jose State, San Diego State, service academies, midwestern MAC teams good. Buffalo and New Mexico State bad.

I'm going to speak to Rice, as it is who I am most familiar with, but this may apply to others. Rice has no incentive to schedule BC unless it's a home-and-home. Because of our location/history, we can demand home-and-homes with P5 schools. We have/recently had H&Hs with Stanford, Baylor, A&M, Wake, UCLA, Kansas, Purdue, Vandy, Northwestern and Boise (not P5, but you get the point), on our schedule currently. We would be more than happy to schedule BC, but it would need to be a home and home, which everybody on here would complain about. We only do "money games" with former SWC schools like UT and Arkansas, and other big schools like LSU.

Had a bit of time, so I checked SDSU... They currently have H&Hs with Cal, UCLA, Stanford, and Arizona..

Another "issue" with SDSU and Rice in particular is that they are decent, but not great teams. Still, they can beat BC, like Colorado State did. The Past three seasons, Rice has gone 7-6, 10-4, 8-5... SDSU has gone 9-4, 8-5, 7-6...

I guess to sum it all up, would you rather schedule a game with Buffalo who won't make you play them at their place and probably won't beat you, or trudge across the country to play a team that might beat you.

BCHighGuybutRiceOwl {l Wrote}:

PhillyandBCEagles {l Wrote}:I understand the need to play cupcakes, I just think we need to make them either interesting games, key recruiting territory, or both. Tulane, Rice, SMU, Temple, San Jose State, San Diego State, service academies, midwestern MAC teams good. Buffalo and New Mexico State bad.

I'm going to speak to Rice, as it is who I am most familiar with, but this may apply to others. Rice has no incentive to schedule BC unless it's a home-and-home. Because of our location/history, we can demand home-and-homes with P5 schools. We have/recently had H&Hs with Stanford, Baylor, A&M, Wake, UCLA, Kansas, Purdue, Vandy, Northwestern and Boise (not P5, but you get the point), on our schedule currently. We would be more than happy to schedule BC, but it would need to be a home and home, which everybody on here would complain about. We only do "money games" with former SWC schools like UT and Arkansas, and other big schools like LSU.

Had a bit of time, so I checked SDSU... They currently have H&Hs with Cal, UCLA, Stanford, and Arizona..

Another "issue" with SDSU and Rice in particular is that they are decent, but not great teams. Still, they can beat BC, like Colorado State did. The Past three seasons, Rice has gone 7-6, 10-4, 8-5... SDSU has gone 9-4, 8-5, 7-6...

I guess to sum it all up, would you rather schedule a game with Buffalo who won't make you play them at their place and probably won't beat you, or trudge across the country to play a team that might beat you.

TobaccoRoadEagle {l Wrote}:sorry eagledave, in this millennial fan base we strive to schedule the 4 weakest teams that we can and pray that our acc schedule lines up with the shittiest teams from the other division. that will allow us an inflated rating/ranking that gets us to the same shitty bowl as a 7-5 schedule would have gotten us to.

yay victories. boo measuring quality of victories

eepstein0 {l Wrote}:

TobaccoRoadEagle {l Wrote}:sorry eagledave, in this millennial fan base we strive to schedule the 4 weakest teams that we can and pray that our acc schedule lines up with the shittiest teams from the other division. that will allow us an inflated rating/ranking that gets us to the same shitty bowl as a 7-5 schedule would have gotten us to.

yay victories. boo measuring quality of victories

Sort of this. This is the last year I'll be okay with this type of scheduling. Beating 4 horrible OOC teams and Wake and Syracuse does not make for a successful season.

eepstein0 {l Wrote}:

TobaccoRoadEagle {l Wrote}:sorry eagledave, in this millennial fan base we strive to schedule the 4 weakest teams that we can and pray that our acc schedule lines up with the shittiest teams from the other division. that will allow us an inflated rating/ranking that gets us to the same shitty bowl as a 7-5 schedule would have gotten us to.

yay victories. boo measuring quality of victories

Sort of this. This is the last year I'll be okay with this type of scheduling. Beating 4 horrible OOC teams and Wake and Syracuse does not make for a successful season.

TobaccoRoadEagle {l Wrote}:

eepstein0 {l Wrote}:

TobaccoRoadEagle {l Wrote}:sorry eagledave, in this millennial fan base we strive to schedule the 4 weakest teams that we can and pray that our acc schedule lines up with the shittiest teams from the other division. that will allow us an inflated rating/ranking that gets us to the same shitty bowl as a 7-5 schedule would have gotten us to.

yay victories. boo measuring quality of victories

Sort of this. This is the last year I'll be okay with this type of scheduling. Beating 4 horrible OOC teams and Wake and Syracuse does not make for a successful season.

the good thing about your philosophy is that we can wait until the summer before the season's supposed to start and fill up our schedule with desirable opponents. no one looks a year or five in advance when setting a football schedule so this current flutter of inactivity should be no cause for alarm for any period in the distant (more than 2 years away) future