Boston Coll crows inre to football/basketball

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Here's a real good article from the Boston Globe that talks with the Bos Coll AD Gene DeFilippo. He really brags about how good the Eagles did in their 1st yr in the ACC in the 1st half of page 1, then spends 2 1/2 pages crying about how the BC Eagles can't compete with the ACC in Spring sports & never will be able to. It's a good news/bad news piece. Boston College did do well in football & basketball, tho.

BC Eagles 1st ACC yr
 
F$U also performed well in BBall in its first couple of years but then swooned for the next ~8.

It will be a couple of years b/f we determine if BC will survive in FB/BB. Sometimes it takes a couple of years for a conference to beat you down.

I think there their Bball success will fade just like F$U's did and also believe their football will go down. IMO
 
BC has been my favorite for many years in the NE. But they, like a lot of school up in that region will have a few very good years and followed by many so so years in football. Their BB seems to be stable not great but not bad either. Were they the best the ACC could get to fill out the conference probably not but all in all a pretty stable program.
 
Weather is the disadvantage?

How wierd that they think weather is the reason they can't compete. Maybe if they are talking about it from a recruiting standpoint I'd understand. In other words, they have no recruiting base because it's tough to play spring sports at the junior and high school levels and there are too few indoor facilities.

Example: Tennis. There are few good tennis players that come out of the northeast. New York has some. So BC's recruiting base sux.

Playing on indoor tennis courts has nothing to do with the quality of play. If the GT women's team played on indoor tennis courts as much as BC, GT would still be a top 10 team...
 
Re: Weather is the disadvantage?

Northern teams are hurt in recruiting for spring sports by weather but it's also the lack of playing time. An indoor practice facility doesn't help play games. For northern schools to get in as many games as the southern schools can they have to take extended road trips. That's harder on a team than being able to stay home and play. But you're right about the recruiting. If you're a hot shot baseball player you want to go where you can get outside and play more. Anymore these are year round sports. Baseball is very active in the fall and starts very early spring semester. There's just no comparing being outside and in a dome imo.
 
Re: Weather is the disadvantage?

But baseball played indoors is virtually the same as outdoors. Look at the number of major league teams that play inside. Tennis is the same. Obviously golf isn't.

BC needs to get access to an indoor baseball facility and they already have an indoor tennis facility. This wouldn't alleviate having to travel until the weather gets milder but it would change their poor recruting base...
 
Re: Weather is the disadvantage?

Money in college baseball has grown, but no one has an indoor baseball field unless it is a multi sport dome. The only possibility I can think of for that would be Syracuse, and I doubt it. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Sure, there are indoor batting cages and you can throw inside, but that is not baseball.
When yankee teams came thru Atlanta in early April, we would beat them senseless. On their way back home after two weeks in Fl, they would be 100% better, but still rough.
Northern baseball teams are at a big disadvantage.

A few teams from the north have done well in baseball from time to time though. Notre Dame and Maine come to mind.
 
Re: Weather is the disadvantage?

Easy to say. How many roofed stadiums for baseball exist? There's no way a college would be able to pay for something like that for a non revenue sport. If there's one in the NE area I'm not aware of it...Fenway is the primary baseball facility in Boston obviously.
 
Well, some teams are doing quite well

Notre Dame has been to 7 or 8 straight NCAA Regionals & have been highly ranked each season. Nebraska has been exceptionally good for 7 or 8 yrs. Oregon St is the only team to be in the '05 & '06 College World Series.
Boston Coll needs to find out how these teams are doing it & quit whinning about why the Eagles aren't doing it!
 
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