ACC Baseball Championship Gets Underway Without Boston College (Again)
by Brian Favat on May 25, 2011 1:30 PM EDT
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PrintThe 2011 ACC Baseball Championship gets underway in Durham today. And for the fourth time in six years of post-expansion ACC baseball, the Eagles are home for the conference's year-end tournament. Good thing the ACC moved that tournament from Fenway to Durham.
My question today is are the Eagles the worst baseball program in the ACC? Other than the dream 2009 season, it's been a fairly forgettable stretch of college baseball for the Eagles in the conference. But BC certainly can't be the worst program, right?
Turns out the Eagles are far from the worst program in the ACC over the last six years. That distinction likely should be given to the Maryland Terrapins, who over the last six years, have amassed a whopping 44-161 record in ACC play (0.215). Duke turns in the second-worst performance, posting a 54-146-1 (ties in baseball?) record over the last six seasons. Virginia Tech has gone 56-134 (.295), while the Eagles rank ninth best in the ACC in terms of winning percentage (64-128), winning a third of games played.
If you want to use ACC Baseball Championship appearances as a measure of suckitude, it's still Maryland. The Terps are the only ACC program to fail to qualify for the ACC Baseball Championship in each of the last six seasons. That's actually a pretty difficult feat to achieve considering the Terps play in the weaker of the conference's two divisions for baseball.
Virginia Tech and Duke have only appeared in one ACC Baseball Championship over the last six years. BC actually has two appearances under its program's belt -- both in 2009 and 2010. Wake Forest has missed the Championship just two years, while N.C. State and North Carolina failed to qualify once. Virginia, Georgia Tech, Florida State, Clemson and Miami are the five ACC programs to make the Baseball Championship field in every year since 2006.
Long story short, it looks like while BC hasn't had the best six year run in college baseball, the honor of worst program in the ACC over the last six seasons probably resides in College Park. But I suppose that's OK, and any Terps fan would tell you they have more important non-revenue sports to worry about come spring. Hey, look over here ... championship-calibre men's and women's lacrosse! A-C-C! A-C-C!
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I wouldn’t say we’re the worst, but we’re probably not far from it. Sure, BC went to the ACCT the last two seasons before this one, and was reasonably competitive in both, but generally speaking our baseball program hasn’t been much more than blah for a long while. Unfortunately 2009 was the exception and not the rule.
If you want to consider things like baseball facilities as well, then that is a significant knock against us and from what I know, we’re far behind most other ACC programs on that issue. Granted, they’re going to build the new baseball field in Brighton (which can’t come soon enough) but until then, what we have now is embarrassing.
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Maryland is the suck
Going into this year’s series the Noles had beaten the twerps 40 straight times! I wouldn’t have thought that was possible in college baseball. I don’t know much about BC but I would think they can get better and sincerely hope they do, anything to make the ACC consider having the ACC tourney at Fenway, which would be amazing!
Why does BC do so poor in attendance?
I’ve not been to a BC game before but I have friends who have and there doesn’t seem to be that much interest in BC baseball. I would think that baseball would be an easy sell in Boston considering people are so crazy about the Red Sox. This is backed up from what I hear on the radio. Is it because of the facilities or is this a function of poor records?
Poor Attedance
For one thing, BC doesn’t charge for baseball games…you would think that this would encourage people to go to the games, but it instead shows how little interest there is in BC baseball. Also, for most of the year, the baseball team does not have an outfield wall. Intramural football is played on the outfield grass in the fall, and football tailgating and football practices happen on the “baseball field” throughout the summer and fall.
When the field is set-up for baseball, the grass is actually in surprisingly good condition, but there are bleachers set-up for maybe a few hundred fans along with the parking garage ramp where students stand and watch the games from.
Right now, BC baseball does not have stadium; it is a field, which does not generate much excitement for recruits or fans. The proposed new stadium on Brighton will do wonders for the program in my opinion.
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