eepstein0 {l Wrote}:MilitantEagle {l Wrote}:eepstein0 {l Wrote}:MilitantEagle {l Wrote}:eepstein0 {l Wrote}:MilitantEagle {l Wrote}:Overall, I'd say this Shamrock Series event at Fenway was an embarrassment to BC. When it was first scheduled, I tried to look at the positives - away game without the travel hangover making a victory more likely - but it was not worth it.
Were you there? I'd be interested to know what it was like.
No agenda here I promise
I did not go. The night before I almost pulled the trigger on a $165 SRO ticket, but decided against it.
I can't imagine USC would ever agree to a Shamrock Series at Dodger Stadium with all of that ND pageantry. It just perpetuates the BC "small-time" problem.
I think the choice is play ND like this or insert generic MAC team here. I'd prefer to play ND at Fenway but can see the other side.
Notre Dame is required to play BC and all other ACC teams, as part of the ACC deal. Five ACC teams per year. Since BC was the away team for this game, the option for BC was Fenway or South Bend. Next time we are the away team against ND, I vote South Bend.
Incorrect (or at least I think). This Shamrock Series is a one-off game not part of the ACC deal. I kept hearing Meter say this all week and I wanted to slap him through the radio. ND is required to play 5 ACC games a year, they played 6 this year. Check the 2014 and 2016 schedules, ND only has 5 ACC teams.
I could be wrong here but I'm 99% sure of this. Based on it your choice was ND at Fenway or another lovely Brad Bates OOC opponent.
It's an average of five teams per year:
According to Atlantic Coast Conference associate commissioner Michael Strickland, the league entered into a standard game agreement with Notre Dame, a member of the conference in all sports except football, to provide visiting ACC teams an allotment of 5,000 tickets. That is part of the arrangement for Notre Dame to play an average of five games per year against ACC teams over the next 12 years.
“When our teams go to South Bend for a Notre Dame home game — or, in this case, Fenway Park, since it’s a Notre Dame home game — the ACC ticket policy will apply,’’ Strickland said. “We’ve actually revised it upward to give Notre Dame more tickets when they come to our places than your typical ACC game and vice versa, so it’s a total of 5,000 tickets that every ACC school will get when they go play at Notre Dame and then, likewise, Notre Dame will get 5,000 when they come to our places.’’
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2014/05/22/ ... story.html