Uconn couldn't score an offensive touchdown and their game was "more competitive" than Stanford-VTech which was a 1 pt game at halftime?  Why?  Because they had a pick 6 and a kick return for a touchdown?  Sure sure sure.  Stop huffing spray paint fumes!

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The powerhouse of the ACC got their butts kicked, no ifs and buts about it. They are a lock to lose Qualifier spots for BCS bowls next year. Remember VT lost to Thomas Jefferson or some one of those guys. ACC a joke.

U of ND King

If you think for a minute anyone believes you got into ND then you have to be kidding.  You are a total joke.  How pathetic is it to just hate all day at another school.  You sound like you're twelve.

Grow up and get a life.  Your parents must be devastated.

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Only a Buffoon College grad could be stupid enough to believe that.

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I love this post because of the title of the thread

I already know that most BC fans will never admit it, but you guys made a huge mistake leaving the Big East. 

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This crap again? Sigh. When will people get it through their heads that this was a strategic  move by BC on a number of levels.

1. Increased money. BC didn't have to cut sports like baseball.

2. Increased BC's national appeal, particularly in the Southeast. Applications from the ACC states: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida have dramatically increased.  The move to the ACC was meant to enhance BC's reputation as a national university and move away from the image of being a regional university. (Somewhat related, the Southeast states are one of the few where the population of Catholics are increasing and  Catholics will always be a core component of the BC student body).

3. Increased academic cooperation and prestige.  As part of the ACC BC gets to associate athletically with what it considers "peer schools": Duke, Wake Forest, UVA, North Carolina Georgia Tech and to a lesser extent, Virginia Tech and Miami. In addition, the ACC has a number of programs related to academic cooperation that help all the schools.

4. Miami and Virginia Tech were already leaving. Should BC keep its relationship with Miami and Virginia Tech? Or stay in a Conference with South Florida and Louisville? Which association would help BC more...Miami and Virginia Tech? Or South Florida and Louisville?

5. The ACC is widely considered to have better soccer and baseball programs than the Big East.

6. Fan Experience. Any fan who has travelled to any ACC school (but especially Clemson and Florida State) has raved about the way the fans of the other schools treat BC fans. Let's compare that to BC's one - and only trip - to UCONN in the past 50 years. Anyone who went to the 2003 game at Storrs can only describe UCONN fans with one word: animals. I know people who said that UCONN fans were throwing bags of human feces and urine at BC fans. Is that a league that you want to associate with? And let's not mention the Guidos of Rutgers and the hillbillies of West Virginia.  Thank God we don't have to go to any of those places any more.

7. The Big East is inherently unstable. Does anyone think the Big East will continue as is? Most people in the know think that the non-football/FCS  Catholic schools are going to break away and join with the non-football/FCS catholic schools in the Atlantic 10 and Patriot league to form a FCS (1-AA) football league and and all-sports conference, leaving behind the rements to merge with Conference USA.

I could go on, but the move to the ACC was a fantastic one for BC and one that all BC fans support. BC is not the school it was in the 50s: a small regional college with below-average academic reputation. It's goal is to be a national recognized University with a strong academic reputation and the move to the ACC has bolstered that.

That about sums it up from a BC perspective.  Well said.

The move to the ACC has been amazingly great for BC.  You would have to be missing chromosomes to think otherwise.

Come on guys - you would much rather go to a bowl game you do not belong in and and get embarrassed wouldn't you???

I guess anything beats spending time in Storrs.

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Grasping aren't we boys? Convincing ourselves that a better showing in the Kraft Bowl is better than getting wiped in a BCS game is dillusional.  The sting is UCONN been FBS 12 years and BCS'ing... period.  Congrats, enjoy it, accept it, move on, forget it.  Its over and won't happen for them again.  Go PAT's and Celts.

The fact that we went to a marginal bowl again is awful.

Five threads in a row all ending with the mad ravings of an un-hinged single, childless bitter and elderly man.

Rettig is still a piece of work in progress...he has one glaring flaw....he can't get touchdowns for the team.....Spaz hung in with this freshman QB and got short changed....Spaz deserves better....Kicker:Quigley is the BC offense...UConn got richer while BC came home with chump change!!

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ucon got richer ?  by getting embarrassed, losing their coach and rb?

Gatzie,

Truth be told, I actually agree with LP for the most part.  THe move to the ACC was 100% about money.  However, that makes them no different than any single other Div I atheltic program.  It's always 100% about the money and it always will be.  So to single out BC for that is silly.

The ACC move made us a better program, we get better athletes and it's made the lower sports like soccer and baseball much much better.  However, we do belong in the Big East if this was not about money.  That's obvious.  Just like TCU (the T stands for Texas) doesn't belong in the Big East. 

It's all about teh $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ everywhere.  Stop being shocked by it.