shockdoct {l Wrote}:
You couldn't find a ticket on friday nights my freshman year ('03-'04) and then by '06-'07 you had a tough time giving them away.
shockdoct {l Wrote}:As someone who grew up playing hockey, it really was disheartening through my years at BC.
You couldn't find a ticket on friday nights my freshman year ('03-'04) and then by '06-'07 you had a tough time giving them away.
NorthEndEagle {l Wrote}:cat hair pee fire
campion {l Wrote}:Ans, as BC has become a slick, international destination for hockey players it has lost that us-against-the-world attitude that made Snooks' and Lenny's teams so attractive to subway alums. As youth and hs hockey in MA has tanked, local interest in BC has gone down as well. There isn't the sense that its a team of Boston kids anymore.
campion {l Wrote}: AAns, as BC has become a slick, international destination for hockey players it has lost that us-against-the-world attitude that made Snooks' and Lenny's teams so attractive to subway alums. B As youth and hs hockey in MA has tanked, local interest in BC has gone down as well.
claver2010 {l Wrote}:campion {l Wrote}: AAns, as BC has become a slick, international destination for hockey players it has lost that us-against-the-world attitude that made Snooks' and Lenny's teams so attractive to subway alums. B As youth and hs hockey in MA has tanked, local interest in BC has gone down as well.
BC is no where near a, "slick, international destination for hockey players"
campion {l Wrote}:McHugh Forum only held about 3800-4000 but it rocked all the time. It would be full for a Tuesday night game against Princeton or Brown. Games against BU, Cornell, RPI, St Lawrence, Clarkson, Dartmouth, Providence, and Harvard would be sold out long before the puck dropped. The schedule is partly to blame for today's problems. Who cares about seeing Merrimack, UML or UMass, UNH as often as they play them? HE is too small. When it first started they played a rotating schedule with WCHA, which made it good. Seeing Minnesota and Wisconsin made it a better schedule.
The other thing is that kids from Boca Raton, Chevy Chase, Shaker Heights, and Cherry Hill don't know about or care about hockey. Ans, as BC has become a slick, international destination for hockey players it has lost that us-against-the-world attitude that made Snooks' and Lenny's teams so attractive to subway alums. As youth and hs hockey in MA has tanked, local interest in BC has gone down as well. There isn't the sense that its a team of Boston kids anymore.
Hockey is an acquired taste. Too bad the shitheads in the yellow undershirts don't have the time to learn to love it.
1981Eagle {l Wrote}:campion {l Wrote}:McHugh Forum only held about 3800-4000 but it rocked all the time. It would be full for a Tuesday night game against Princeton or Brown. Games against BU, Cornell, RPI, St Lawrence, Clarkson, Dartmouth, Providence, and Harvard would be sold out long before the puck dropped. The schedule is partly to blame for today's problems. Who cares about seeing Merrimack, UML or UMass, UNH as often as they play them? HE is too small. When it first started they played a rotating schedule with WCHA, which made it good. Seeing Minnesota and Wisconsin made it a better schedule.
The other thing is that kids from Boca Raton, Chevy Chase, Shaker Heights, and Cherry Hill don't know about or care about hockey. Ans, as BC has become a slick, international destination for hockey players it has lost that us-against-the-world attitude that made Snooks' and Lenny's teams so attractive to subway alums. As youth and hs hockey in MA has tanked, local interest in BC has gone down as well. There isn't the sense that its a team of Boston kids anymore.
Hockey is an acquired taste. Too bad the shitheads in the yellow undershirts don't have the time to learn to love it.
McHugh was always packed during our era. I think it has more to do with the changed composition of the student body, not where the players are from. Back in the 80's, BC was 50% commuters from the greater Boston area and another 40% from the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states. All states where hockey has a meanigful presence and the large base of local students made BC hockey/sports a more local presence. Plus, our reputation back then was that BC was a school that was not impossible to get into. Now, a lot of local folks hate BC because they think we are now Ivy League snooty. Today, BC is a national university with a much broader student distribution, many of whom have had zero exposure to hockey. There is also the nerdification factor. Back in the 80's, BC was a good school but did not have the national standing it enjoys today. Back in the 80's, there were more above-average middle-class kids that attended with good grades from a broad spectrum of public/private schools. Today, the admission standards are much more difficult. Many of us oldies probably wouldn't even get in to the school today. We were a work,hard, play hard group of middle-class kids who weren't necessarily the brainiacs that BC accepts today. So, we went to almost all the Fball, Bball and hockey games. We were into the whole experience. Today, these kids are under much more pressure to perform in college to make their way in the world. Going to the games is way down the priority list for many of them.
claver2010 {l Wrote}:The problem is the location. The students behind the goals are just yelling into glass, they are looking into moving everyone back up top (which would be a great move IMO)
claver2010 {l Wrote}:The problem is the location. The students behind the goals are just yelling into glass, they are looking into moving everyone back up top (which would be a great move IMO)
shockdoct {l Wrote}:claver2010 {l Wrote}:The problem is the location. The students behind the goals are just yelling into glass, they are looking into moving everyone back up top (which would be a great move IMO)
I always sat in the front row of the student section in center. What makes hockey so exciting is watching the plays develop and you can't see a damn thing behind the nets.
I know some of the other fans who like to bring signs will disagree...
bignick33 {l Wrote}:shockdoct {l Wrote}:claver2010 {l Wrote}:The problem is the location. The students behind the goals are just yelling into glass, they are looking into moving everyone back up top (which would be a great move IMO)
I always sat in the front row of the student section in center. What makes hockey so exciting is watching the plays develop and you can't see a damn thing behind the nets.
I know some of the other fans who like to bring signs will disagree...
That.
It looks kind of likely that they will, if I were to guess. We're really pushing hard for it.bcsoxfan12 {l Wrote}:All I can say is if they move the students up top
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