2016 Schedule Announced

[dtwalrus]

9/3 - GT (Dublin)
9/10 - @ UMass (Gillette)
9/17 - @ VT
9/24 - Wagner
10/1 - Buffalo
10/7 - Clemson (Friday Night)
10/15 - BYE
10/22 - Syracuse
10/29 - @ NCST
11/5 - Louisville
11/11 - @ FSU (Friday night)
11/19 - UConn
11/26 - @ Wake Forest

http://www.fbschedules.com/2016/01/2016 ... announced/

[DomingoOrtiz]

Kick-in-the-junk!

[eepstein0]

I'm sorry we're playing on Friday Night twice? Yuck

[Iggle]

Not that it has mattered thus far, but it kinda sucks that the Syracuse game was moved from the "rivalry" week game. The rest of the schedule is bad, as expected.

[claver2010]

odd that cuse was moved off final weekend?

[DavidGordonsFoot]

2 Friday games, super.

I guess we are not doing the rivalry week game with Syracuse anymore.

UConn is an appropriate way to close out this home slate and a fitting send off for Sarge if he bombs this year.

[31southst]

A competent coach really should get to 7 wins without breaking a sweat. That schedule is about as easy as a P5 one can get.

[claver2010]

also from mid October on, our home schedule is like we're back in the BE so that should get the mouthbreathers excited

[twballgame9]

That's almost unwatchable.

[DavidGordonsFoot]

Feldman just called BC out for it's non-conference schedule. National coverage!

[HJS]

Feldman just called BC out for it's non-conference schedule. National coverage!

Really??? I mean the team won 2.5 games last year!! When National Championship winning AlaFuckingBama is playing Middle Tennessee State, University of Louisiana-Monroe and Charleston Southern, is it really that shocking the worst team in FBS similarly schedules no one?

Canes' first 3 games... Florida A&M, Florida Atlantic, Appalachia State.
The program most similar to ours (Wake) has the following OOC schedule: Tulane, Delaware, Indiana and Army

[2014 Eagle]

I will conceded that there are no long, extended stretches where we should get beat up week after week. Toughest parts will probably L'ville followed by a short week before heading to FSU. Playing the first three games away from Alumni could be tough too, but I am glad that tailgating won't be effectively over by the end of September again.

[BCSUPERFAN22]

odd that cuse was moved off final weekend?

I liked the idea of playing Cuse every Thanksgiving weekend but if they're going to bag it this year Ill use that weekend to go to T-Town for the Iron Bowl instead

[ILikeBC]

Early odds have us +3 on October 15th

[b0mberMan]

10

[b0mberMan]

10

and 2

[commavegarage]

>75% chance wins:
Wagner
Buffalo

55 - 75% chance wins:

uconn
umass

45 - 55% chance wins

GT
cuse
@wake

25 - 45% chance wins

@VT
@NC State
Louisville

<25% chance wins

Clemson
@fsu

this gets me to ballpark: 5 or less if things go terribly, 6-8 most likely, 8+ highly unlikely

[eagle9903]

When Schiano pulled this shit at Rutgers it worked because 1) his program had absolutely no expectations; and 2) they played in the corpse of the big east. He could actually dumb his schedule down to the point where at most he'd have three or four games or so that had any business being competitive.

Our fan base sucks donkey balls and deserves nothing, but it won't even begin to shown interest in a schedule like this unless they legitimately run off five or so in a row.

Because the acc is competitive, our most likely course is boring games in front of empty seats and a crappy record.

[hansen]

Worst home schedule since I've been following BC.

[BCEagles66]

odd that cuse was moved off final weekend?

I liked the idea of playing Cuse every Thanksgiving weekend but if they're going to bag it this year Ill use that weekend to go to T-Town for the Iron Bowl instead

Mixed feelings here.

On the one hand, if it signals the ACC shifting the permanent rivalries as SU-Pitt and BC-Wake...this is awful. This would do nothing to dispel the notion that we don't fit well within the conference.

On the other hand, I've been to all BC/SU games since 2010, and putting it on Thanksgiving weekend really takes away from the atmosphere. Both schools' student populations consist of few locals, and certainly BC has few local non-alum fans. For people who were fans back during the Big East, there were memories to form a rivalry with SU. For my peers who really only know BC as an ACC team, there is no history to the rivalry that we've lived through. And if we only ever watch the rivalry develop on TV, that won't help.

Either way, Bates sucks.

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

bc v wake is the rivalry in my family

[eepstein0]

I know someone who works in college football programming at ESPN. Bates has 0 control over these Friday Night games and the BC on Friday Night thing is here to stay. Great TV numbers and a national showcase for BC.

For convenience reasons it sucks, but how many other 3-9 teams have a minimum of 3 guaranteed national showcase games this year?

[claver2010]

Syracuse was also required to host a Friday night conference game due to this agreement, here's how that played out:

2013: no one
2014: Louisville
2015: no one
2016: Louisville

[DomingoOrtiz]

What do you mean "required"? Is there some sort of deal that stipulates that BC most host a Friday night game every season?

[claver2010]

What do you mean "required"? Is there some sort of deal that stipulates that BC most host a Friday night game every season?

unless something changed: http://www.dailyprogress.com/sports/new ... 8cc5c.html

Most notably, the network will televise three Friday night conference games each season. Boston College and Syracuse have agreed to host two of those on an annual basis.

[eepstein0]

What do you mean "required"? Is there some sort of deal that stipulates that BC most host a Friday night game every season?

Yes BC is on the hook to host 1 per year.

Now that ESPN has realized them playing a big time helps the ratings it will rotate between Clemson and FSU each year

[DomingoOrtiz]

He also said Syracuse and BC volunteered to host Friday night football games because there is less sensitivity to high school football in that part of the country.

WTF! This sucks! I hope we are getting something out of this horseshit.

Edit - so this was agreed to while Defallacio was the AD, figures.

[eepstein0]

He also said Syracuse and BC volunteered to host Friday night football games because there is less sensitivity to high school football in that part of the country.

WTF! This sucks! I hope we are getting something out of this horseshit.

Edit - so this was agreed to while Defallacio was the AD, figures.

No one at BC minds these Friday Night games. Sportscenter shows up, raises the national profile, etc.

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

He also said Syracuse and BC volunteered to host Friday night football games because there is less sensitivity to high school football in that part of the country.

WTF! This sucks! I hope we are getting something out of this horseshit.

Edit - so this was agreed to while Defallacio was the AD, figures.

No one at BC minds these Friday Night games. Sportscenter shows up, raises the national profile, etc.

it's also our only contribution to the conference that pays us the same amount as all the other teams in the conference. well, we contribute a friday night game and a free win to everyone we play against

[eagle9903]

He also said Syracuse and BC volunteered to host Friday night football games because there is less sensitivity to high school football in that part of the country.

WTF! This sucks! I hope we are getting something out of this horseshit.

Edit - so this was agreed to while Defallacio was the AD, figures.

No one at BC minds these Friday Night games. Sportscenter shows up, raises the national profile, etc.

it's also our only contribution to the conference that pays us the same amount as all the other teams in the conference. well, we contribute a friday night game and a free win to everyone we play against

more than you contribute to this board, unless you count breaking the search feature before breaking the search feature was cool.

burn.