Time To Settle Our Differences On The Field?
by innocentbystanderbc on Jul 1, 2011 6:43 AM EDT
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I take it from your post the other day that you really have no idea exactly why Boston College will not play UConn in football. Let me make this easy for you so there will be no misunderstanding: UConn sued Boston College.
Did you get that? Let me repeat it. UConn sued Boston College.
The athletic director at BC is not happy with UConn. How could he be? UConn tried to hurt Boston College financially by attempting to thwart the move to the ACC. Gene DeFilippo is not about to do business with any university that files a lawsuit against his employer. That is the reason why Boston College will not play UConn (unless BC is forced to by a bowl match-up).
Now you may not like that answer but it is the ONLY real reason why BC will not schedule UConn. Everything else you might have to say -- rivalries, money, driving distance from Storrs to Chestnut Hill, etc. -- is rubbish. UConn sued BC. BC will not play UConn. That's the end of it.
Had the ACC approached UConn and invited UConn instead of Boston College to join and be that all important 12th member (that gives the ACC the lucrative Championship game) BC fans would not have been happy about it. BC fans might have been jealous and the school might have tried to convince UConn to stay with BC in the Big East.
That said, BC would NOT have sued UConn. Nor would BC have joined any lawsuit created by the Big East to try and stop UConn's move to the ACC. That is just sour grapes. Ultimately, BC's response would have been "There's the door, don't let it hit you on the way out" and that would have been it.
So Eric, STOP. Just stop with your nonsense. UConn sued BC. There will not be a contract for UConn and BC to play football against each other until UConn does two things that it is unwilling to do:
1) humbly and publicly apologize to Boston College and GDF for filing the lawsuit and
2) reimburse Boston College for any of its legal expenses incurred fighting UConn's frivolous lawsuit.
Since neither of those two things will be happening, BC will not do business with UConn.
Please link this response to each and every UConn blog you post at until you and your peeps understand that what UConn did was very personal and hurtful to Boston College. In reality, BC not playing UConn is all UConn's fault.
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Poor form
Suing your former conference members is just poor form, UConn.
You don’t see other (legitimate) athletics programs threatening lawsuits to financially harm Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, BYU, Boise State, TCU, Nevada, Fresno State and Hawaii from switching athletics conferences, do you?
Breaking up is tough, but you’ll get over us eventually. A pretty little girl named UMass just walked past you. Maybe you should go over and strike up a conversation?
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Meeting
Also, before we get the inevitable “it’s not that you left it’s how you left” post from a UConn fan, the minutes from the Big East meetings are easily accessible online and make it very clear that Father Leahy and Gene D did not make any false promises and were very hesitant about the Big East’s proposed (and in hindsight, actual) course of action.
"It’s not that you left it’s how you left"
Rings a bit hollow when your school’s basketball program was built by a cheater.
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UConn didn't just sue BC
They sued Gene D and Father Leahy personally too. Now THAT’s evil. You don’t need to go to law school to understand the first rule of litigation is Sue Solvent Parties. A Jesuit who has taken a vow of poverty makes a pretty worthless defendant. LITERALLY.
What does the Big East get out of keeping Notre Dame?
This also cracks me up:
Let’s throw one of the few relevant national programs out of the conference because they won’t let us have our women’s basketball tournament in Uncasville!
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Sorry u r wrong
The lawsuit is a minor irritation. Poor form by UConn for sure, Dick move by Dick Blumenthal. Yep. Also suing gdf and leahy personally is meaningless – there was never a danger of personal liability. do not make too much if that. It is all about Biz.
Not playing UConn is really not some kind of sophomoric payback issue (ok GDF is weenie, so I guess it is a minor factor)
It reality, not playing UConn is about there being no business upside in the game for BC. What is in it for BC? Not much It is all about the biz of BC football and UConn ain’t in the biz plan Plus, UConn football is now in a downward spiral. No reason to prop them up now.
That's right, too
BC-UConn isn’t “good for New England,” it’s “good for UConn.” For all the same reasons why the Notre Dame-UConn series is dead.
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Being sued is not a big deal
Maybe it’s because I’m more litigious than most, but I don’t think the lawsuit is that big of a deal. I think it’s just one of many factors. You have to understand that (and I’m speaking as a current CT resident and a BC grad) our former Attorney General here (and current U.S. Senator) Dick Blumenthal sued everyone and everything that would get him in the newspaper. There was no cause too small for him to become involved in. So of course he sued BC and of course the claim had no merit, but meritless lawsuits are filed all the time. You don’t take it too personally.
Also, we can’t make the blanket claim that BC wouldn’t have sued UConn, or at least joined a suit against UConn, if the roles were reversed. We just don’t know that.
BC would not have joined
When was the last time BC was willing to throw money into a lawsuit? It was suing Newton over trying to renovate McElroy. That cost so much money to fight and lasted so long (and the project never was completed), I seriously doubt BC would ever join a lawsuit that had virtually zero merits.
It was pretty amazing how quickly the one lawsuit from the jilted ones was decided and how strongly the decision was worded. Made the BE call a $1mm out of court settlement a victory for them.
Understanding
This puts an understandable basis to the hatred between UConn and BC. However, BC now stands in limbo. They burned their bridges in the East and things are not working out so well with the ACC. This is Dixie and the only team hated worse would be Notre Dame.
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