The BC Interruption Hate Index, Volume I
by Brian Favat on Apr 14, 2011 8:30 AM EDT
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It's the offseason, and there's really not a whole lot out there on the horizon to look forward to for Superfans.
BC baseball ... OK, no thanks ...
Drafts of all forms (NBA, NFL, NHL) ... perhaps ...
And five long, long college football-less months. Gag.
To help us beat the offseason blues, we present to you the inaugural BC Interruption Hate Index. What is the BCI hate index, you might ask? Well, this Index will be an evolving list of things in this world of college sports that BC fans can't stand. Everything from Michael Floyd DUIs to Colorado College (that's a real school?) hockey to a staple, Boston University.
Every Thursday over the offseason (we'll see if this thing has legs), we'll present you the weekly BC Interruption hate index. You then vote on the member of the index least deserving to stay in that week's index. The following week, we'll relegate the least deserving and add a new member to the index based on reader comments.
Make sense? It better. I mean, if WVU fans get it, so can you.
Onward.
- Jim Calhoun. Not for winning the National Championship. Rather, for consistently throwing assistant coach under the bus, for all the violations, stolen laptops and profanity thrown around in postgame interviews. The litany of reasons could make for a month-long series of posts. Remember that time when good ol' Jimmy went ballistic on a reporter who asked him how much money he makes? You stay classy. Also, you might want to encourage your players to read more than A book during their entire collegiate career. Pathetic.
- Boston University. Everything about it. Its men's hockey team, its university, its stupid drop-kick dog mascot. True Eagles don't recognize the stops on the B line between Blandford Street and St. Paul Street. And all BC alum are smart enough to take the C or D lines, since they are much faster.
- Michael Floyd DUIs. God forbid Notre Dame take any disciplinary action on its star wide receiver after a recent DUI. It's not like this was the THIRD incident Floyd has had with alcohol in college or anything. The university has kicked players off teams for (far) lesser offenses. I'm all about second chances, but thirds and fourths? All because dude can catch a football.
- CC Hockey. Colorado College -- is that even a real school? We hate you for canceling our back-to-back National Championship victory parade, reinforcing the (otherwise unfounded) WCHA superiority complex, and then for not even having the decency to win the West Regional.
- 2011 BC home football schedule. Really, Gene? A home game before Labor Day? Four of six home games before October 2, when there's clearly other things to do in the fall when the weather is still nice. Your best home game on a Thursday night (great for students, horrible for alumni and the out-of-towners). UMass, Duke and Wake Forest -- needs no further explanation. You've known an ACC home sched of Duke, Wake, NCSU and FSU was coming well before BC ever played an ACC football game. And the best you could do to augment the home sched is Northwestern and UMass? The 2011 BC home football schedule is all sorts of fail, and for that, we hate you.
- A weak NBA Draft class. We hate you for keeping alive the chances that Reggie Jackson gets drafted. Reggie, if you are reading this ... PLEASE COME BACK TO SCHOOL!
- Tommy Amaker. What? Too good for an ACC job? I'm sure you think that you are going to stay at Harvard and beat BC for another three years but guess what? We probably won't agree to play you. Haha. Jokes on you. Have fun coaching those wicked smaht kids across the river and never getting your team to the NCAAs.
- Villanova fans. These guys think they can just join a BCS conference without actually putting up the money to commit to big time college football. That's the only rationale explanation I arrive at after reviewing 'Nova's plan (i.e. playing home games in a MLS soccer stadium that seats 18,500 and is 18+ miles from campus). When challenged by UCF or East Carolina fans, they tout the size of the Philadelphia TV market and make totally logical claims like a 17-team basketball league is far superior to an 18-team basketball league. News flash. 17? 18? Your conference is still too f--king big. The only redeeming quality of this plan is it probably expedites the Big East football/basketball split, which is way overdue.
NOTE: For new nominations, provide a reason for inclusion in next week's Hate Index. Also feel free to write better descriptions for the Index members above that you really, really hate (the best of which will be featured in next week's post).
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I nominate the city of Boston.
Yes that Boston. Sure, you make our beloved school more appealing to any prospective student who wants a big-city so close to its campus. But you cause so many problems for BC athletics that I despise you. You prohibit our tailgating hours making us the joke of all BCS schools football-gameday scenes. You give our students something else to do instead of you know, going to our games and supporting our teams. Your people are so obsessed with their pro-teams that they decide to mock the only big-time athletics program within their proximity instead of support it. And finally, you technically have Brighton residents within your jurisdiction- and they just suck.
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Spring football scoring system
Because only the most asinine of scoring systems could give the first string BC offense a victory over the first string BC defense …
HT @BCHysteria
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You just called down the thunder!
How dare you steal our concept. Considering I come up with one, maybe two good ideas a year, how dare you plagiarize our work. Smoking Musket demands satisfaction. And don’t let the fact that I drunkenly peed on Conte Forum back in 2001 change any of this. This means war.
That said, spring football game scoring systems are stupid.
PS: There’s a commenter named hoyaeagle? That’s like the worst kind of anything.
by Dr. Charley West on Apr 14, 2011 11:24 AM EDT reply actions
Can't be worse than...
Billy Packer?
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While were at it...
Throw in a little Colin Cowherd’s voice and Rick Reilly’s moralistic writing and you got pure evil.
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Colin Cowherd should top this list every week. Either Colin, or SportsNation. How did that show get on the air in the first place? That show is crap.
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by Brian Favat on Apr 14, 2011 11:50 AM EDT up reply actions
Never watch it
Any sports fan who watches that show is an idiot.
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Even the moderate attractiveness of Michelle Beadle can’t get me to watch that show.
Besides, she’s only really a 6-7 …
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a 6?!! c’mon Bri we all can’t be world-renowned sbnation bloggers.
lower the standards, up the stats brah.
Sorry, but the annoying factor definitely knocks her down at least a full number.
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ok so on looks alone 6.75
but add on the sports knowledge and the potential of her being athletic and she gets a 1.5 power ranking boost. Clocking in at 8.25 Beadle.
Next week
I nominate all West Virginia Mountaineer fans, except for Dr. Charley West. We’re cool …
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by Brian Favat on Apr 14, 2011 11:33 AM EDT up reply actions
7 readers from UCONN
thats what i take from this poll.
I’m also still bitter about the BIg East getting 11 teams in to the tourney. Can we throw them up there as a conference. 2 sweet 16 teams? Really Big east and don’t complain about having to play each other. There are only 4 regions
7 readers from Boston U.
Only logical explanation for that one.
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I nominate
Brighton Residents. BC has been in Chestnut Hill on the line of Newton & Brighton for 100 years now, yet a few individuals who have moved into the area in the last 20 years complain about college students?! Who did you think would be strolling through Foster St August-June every year?
Furthermore, they complain about everything: BC can’t house all of its students – they scream about crumby apartments and students wandering around the neighborhood. BC releases a master plan to put 100% of the students in housing – they complain. I put Brighton residents at the TOP of my hate list, right next to Charlie Weiss and the Cardinal Newman Society
I'm with you on that one
Kinda added it to the end of my City of Boston one. But seriously, those people are the worst.
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What about Hitler?
All that guy does is b*tch and moan about the housing lottery.
Godwin's law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
although that housing video is hilarious
Bleacher Report Mock Drafts
Because I have to click through anywhere between 15-20 slides before I can figure out where Anthony Castonzo is gonna get drafted.
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What about the ACC...
…which has taken BC athletics and sent it into the wilderness. No sucess or exposure for hoops and no sucess or exposure for football. At least in the Big East the northeast was interested in BC. Now, no one is. Sure, you might be making more cash, but does anyone in the ACC or elsewhere care about BC athletics?
Haven’t you made this point 3x already on the blog? We get it. There’s a fine community of Johnnies fans over at Rumble in the Garden.
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by Brian Favat on Apr 14, 2011 7:44 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I think I only made it twice...
…but only because it was relevant to the conversation. You guys brought up how great the decision was to leave – just questioning life in the ACC for a school in Boston. Hey feel free to stop by Rumble and add whatever you like.
Seriously?
How has the ACC resulted in no exposure for our athletics? Living in California, I can actually see most of the games now. I never saw squat in the BE
by chicagofire1871 on Apr 15, 2011 5:03 AM EDT up reply actions
Get ESPN...
…every Big East Conference game is on an ESPN channel, and the conference tourny is shown begining to end on ESPN.
“every Big East Conference game is on an ESPN channel …”
What channel is ESPN 360 again? Because that’s where a majority of Big East basketball games end up.
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… And where all ACC games will end up next year too with the ESPN-ACC football and basketball TV rights deal that begins next season.
We’re not complaining about the $12 mil a year that’s coming BC’s way because of this deal, either.
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Actually most of the games were not on ESPN 360, but that’s ok. Just saying, don’t see or hear much of BC sports. ACC is all Duke, UNC all the time. Hey the money is great – you gave up a lot for it so it better be.
When Big East fans tout, “every Big East basketball game is on an ESPN channel,” that includes streaming online on ESPN3.
St. John’s had eight Big East games televised on ESPN — ESPN (3), ESPNU (3), ESPN2 (2). BC had six — ESPN (1), ESPNU (5). You really got us there with all that extra exposure from nationally televised ESPN games this year …
“ACC is all Duke, UNC all the time” conveniently ignores football, but wouldn’t expect any less from a St. John’s fan.
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by Brian Favat on Apr 16, 2011 10:09 AM EDT up reply actions
Right, becuase BC football was all over the news and airways in…well I guess in Boston. Is SC a major football player? Here is an example – BC gets just about no coverage in the major Northeast cities out of Boston. I don’t think I have sen an article about BC here in New York except when Skinner was considered for the St. John’ s job. Yet, Nova is getting a lot of play in Boston regarding their potential move, or non-move at this point, to FBS football. Why would Boston care? Because the exposure of the BE makes it a national story. Look, I know the move is making you guys more money, but does BC honestly get more exposure in the ACC than it did or would in the Big East?
This sounds like an incredibly Northeast-centric view of looking at the world. I highly doubt Nova to the Big East is a major news story for markets outside of Big East markets (and/or Central Florida and East Carolina). I live in NYC and the reason BC football isn’t on TV is because regional ACC games aren’t shown in non-ACC markets. Same for the Big East. No one hears or cares about St. John’s hoops in Boston anymore for the same reason.
Nevermind the fact that NYC is one of the worst college markets in the country for college football.
I don’t see how BC’s move to the ACC for football is anything but positive. The Big East was changing fundamentally with or without BC. Nothing screams Big East football like a October matchup between Louisville and USF or TCU and Cincinnati. There is no stability in Big East football at the moment. Nor is there any money, as each program tries to scrape together its own TV deal, hoping that a larger TV deal will be put in place.
The move has helped BC expand its student footprint to other ACC states and move from a small, Northeast college to a national university. The impact of associating with better schools academically also is a huge positive to the school outside of athletics. There is a lot more money in improving your academic standing as a university, which can be enabled by associating with schools like Duke, UNC, Wake, Virginia.
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Big East Tournament
The only thing I miss from the Big East is the hoops tournament at MSG. But even that has since changed and is very different now. The current format is unwieldy and doesn’t have nearly the same feel as it did back when only 12 teams were invited.
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Using Colbert without a license...
Northwestern is not “exciting” enough as a home schedule yet you use Stephen Colbert to advertise your hate index. Hmmm.
Go Cats!
We are actually exctied to play BC. Playing BCS-conference academic schools is always nice vs. playing a nose picker or a creampuff.
Where’s the school from south bend? Every Big Ten-er puts that on their hate list and I thought every Catholic school did likewise.
Personally, I’m excited for BC-Northwestern as I’m an alum of both schools. But a game before Labor Day? Northwestern suffers the same problem. Play a game in early September before school starts in front of 10-15k (Towson 2009). The placement on the schedule sucks.
And I’m all for BCS conference academic schools playing one another. It’s just your average BC fan doesn’t know that Northwestern is a decent program. The ‘Cats certainly don’t have the college football cache of other programs.
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As for Notre Dame ...
I’m pretty sure “Michael Floyd DUIs” have the Golden Domers covered.
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