Week 2 Holy Cross

[hansen]

Thanks Sader, I was just going by the line score and assumed too much. I'm not trying to dump on HC -- I think I'm like most BC fans and just projecting all the uncompetitive FBS games we've had the past decade (only Nova was competitive, in 2013) and adding to the fact we feel BC should be pretty damn good and not expecting much of a game.

Which makes 100% sense since Villanova was a top FCS program to begin with. They won the national title in '09 (I knew they had won one recently but I had to look up the year; I actually thought it had been even sooner than that).

[innocentbystander]

Thanks Sader, I was just going by the line score and assumed too much. I'm not trying to dump on HC -- I think I'm like most BC fans and just projecting all the uncompetitive FBS games we've had the past decade (only Nova was competitive, in 2013) and adding to the fact we feel BC should be pretty damn good and not expecting much of a game.

Which makes 100% sense since Villanova was a top FCS program to begin with.

That is because they are coached by a professional wrestler!

[dtwalrus]

Article in the Globe about how this is a waste of a game. https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/coll ... story.html

Curiously, after the Holy Cross series ends in 2020, we have no FCS teams on the calendar. I know FCS games aren't typically scheduled years in advance, but still. Maybe we'll see BC limit the Good-For-New-England games to FBS cupcakes. Not a single FCS team I'd miss. Instead let's just do a rotation of UMass, UConn, Temple, and Buffalo.

[twballgame9]

John Henry already gets too much of my money.

[hansen]

Article in the Globe about how this is a waste of a game. https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/coll ... story.html

Curiously, after the Holy Cross series ends in 2020, we have no FCS teams on the calendar. I know FCS games aren't typically scheduled years in advance, but still. Maybe we'll see BC limit the Good-For-New-England games to FBS cupcakes. Not a single FCS team I'd miss. Instead let's just do a rotation of UMass, UConn, Temple, and Buffalo.

Apparently, we paid UMass 350K to curb stomp them.

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

Article in the Globe about how this is a waste of a game. https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/coll ... story.html

Curiously, after the Holy Cross series ends in 2020, we have no FCS teams on the calendar. I know FCS games aren't typically scheduled years in advance, but still. Maybe we'll see BC limit the Good-For-New-England games to FBS cupcakes. Not a single FCS team I'd miss. Instead let's just do a rotation of UMass, UConn, Temple, and Buffalo.

that's the same article i linked 3 posts prior to yours

TIMESTAMP!!!!

i know this article comes from a fairly biased bc alumnus source, but i thought it was a humorous description basically pointing out that the only way holy cross would score was if they scored on themselves (i.e. safety)

https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/coll ... story.html

[twballgame9]

I thought Shaughnessy went to Holy Cross

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

oh shit - you're right. with those curly locks i assumed he went to bc

[DrJackRyan]

CHB*'s kid went to Boston College but he went to Holy Cross.

*Carl Everett once told the Globe’s Gordon Edes to “Get out of here and take your Curly-Haired Boyfriend with you.”

[DavidGordonsFoot]

Article in the Globe about how this is a waste of a game. https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/coll ... story.html

Curiously, after the Holy Cross series ends in 2020, we have no FCS teams on the calendar. I know FCS games aren't typically scheduled years in advance, but still. Maybe we'll see BC limit the Good-For-New-England games to FBS cupcakes. Not a single FCS team I'd miss. Instead let's just do a rotation of UMass, UConn, Temple, and Buffalo.

Apparently, we paid UMass 350K to curb stomp them.

BC agreed to play 3 games at Gillette where UMass gets to keep the gate. Why the hell is UMass being compensated for the 3 games at Alumni?

[hansen]

CHB*'s kid went to Boston College but he went to Holy Cross.

*Carl Everett once told the Globe’s Gordon Edes to “Get out of here and take your Curly-Haired Boyfriend with you.”

I wonder if he believes in dinosaurs yet.

[DomingoOrtiz]

CHB*'s kid went to Boston College but he went to Holy Cross.

*Carl Everett once told the Globe’s Gordon Edes to “Get out of here and take your Curly-Haired Boyfriend with you.”

I wonder if he believes in dinosaurs yet.

He was a bit of a trend setter in that regard.

[hansen]

CHB*'s kid went to Boston College but he went to Holy Cross.

*Carl Everett once told the Globe’s Gordon Edes to “Get out of here and take your Curly-Haired Boyfriend with you.”

I wonder if he believes in dinosaurs yet.

He was a bit of a trend setter in that regard.

I'm not even a red sox fan but I will remember that quote for the rest of my life.

p.s. I wonder if militant eagle believes in dinosaurs.

[MilitantEagle]

oh shit - you're right. with those curly locks i assumed he went to bc

He became a BC fan once his son became a baseball player at BC.

[MilitantEagle]

CHB*'s kid went to Boston College but he went to Holy Cross.

*Carl Everett once told the Globe’s Gordon Edes to “Get out of here and take your Curly-Haired Boyfriend with you.”

I wonder if he believes in dinosaurs yet.

He was a bit of a trend setter in that regard.

I'm not even a red sox fan but I will remember that quote for the rest of my life.

p.s. I wonder if militant eagle believes in dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs are still around. They're called birds.

[innocentbystander]

Article in the Globe about how this is a waste of a game. https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/coll ... story.html

Curiously, after the Holy Cross series ends in 2020, we have no FCS teams on the calendar. I know FCS games aren't typically scheduled years in advance, but still. Maybe we'll see BC limit the Good-For-New-England games to FBS cupcakes. Not a single FCS team I'd miss. Instead let's just do a rotation of UMass, UConn, Temple, and Buffalo.

Apparently, we paid UMass 350K to curb stomp them.

BC agreed to play 3 games at Gillette where UMass gets to keep the gate. Why the hell is UMass being compensated for the 3 games at Alumni?

I think its because Gillette is considered "neutral field" and Alumni isn't. More to the point, the gate at Gillette wont be that much.

BC would never agree to play at Hadley.

[DuchesneEast]

Article in the Globe about how this is a waste of a game. https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/coll ... story.html

Curiously, after the Holy Cross series ends in 2020, we have no FCS teams on the calendar. I know FCS games aren't typically scheduled years in advance, but still. Maybe we'll see BC limit the Good-For-New-England games to FBS cupcakes. Not a single FCS team I'd miss. Instead let's just do a rotation of UMass, UConn, Temple, and Buffalo.

Apparently, we paid UMass 350K to curb stomp them.

BC agreed to play 3 games at Gillette where UMass gets to keep the gate. Why the hell is UMass being compensated for the 3 games at Alumni?

I think its because Gillette is considered "neutral field" and Alumni isn't. More to the point, the gate at Gillette wont be that much.

BC would never agree to play at Hadley.

I was at Gillette is was a pretty good crowd. Kraft let them use the field for free.

[hansen]

Article in the Globe about how this is a waste of a game. https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/coll ... story.html

Curiously, after the Holy Cross series ends in 2020, we have no FCS teams on the calendar. I know FCS games aren't typically scheduled years in advance, but still. Maybe we'll see BC limit the Good-For-New-England games to FBS cupcakes. Not a single FCS team I'd miss. Instead let's just do a rotation of UMass, UConn, Temple, and Buffalo.

Apparently, we paid UMass 350K to curb stomp them.

BC agreed to play 3 games at Gillette where UMass gets to keep the gate. Why the hell is UMass being compensated for the 3 games at Alumni?

OSU got 1.7 million from tOSU for their curb stomping... so not bad by those standards.

[DavidGordonsFoot]

More to the point, the gate at Gillette wont be that much.

No, it was much higher. 30K attended in 2014 and 25K in 2016. Tix were $20.

And before you say anything, the ticket revenue from the sold out club seats more than compensates for the discount tix that went to the students.

[hansen]

does ACCN allow watching games later on?
Im going to miss part of the game.

[claver2010]

likewise i'm missing this one but i believe espn3 allows replays, usually up 24 hours or so after game

[MF73-Eleazar]

This is the reason to attend the Holy Cross game. Kudos to the lucky ones who'll be there tmw and buy up everything. So great to see that beautiful logo in all of its glory again.

https://twitter.com/MartinJarmond/statu ... 1921314816

[Los]

Instead let's just do a rotation of UMass, UConn, Temple, and Buffalo.

Temple and...Buffalo?

[MilitantEagle]

Lobby the ACC for 9 conference games, at least 1 P5, and the rest from the group of 5/independents. Expand the playoffs to 8 teams so each P5 champion is automatic, and add the best group of 5 team and two at large. That way you can play a really tough out of conference schedule and it doesn't matter much if you lose as long as you win the conference.

[mod6A]

I approve of the return of the old logo.