Boston College Fans Ranked #96 Among NCAA Fanbases In Social Media Usage

by Brian Favat on Jul 6, 2011 4:58 PM EDT

The website Sports Fan Graph tracks Twitter followers and Facebook 'Likes' for different college athletics programs and conferences. Boston College currently ranks 96th behind such college athletics powerhouses as the Rhode Island Rams (86) -- which play FCS football -- and the Georgia State Panthers (88), which started playing FCS football just last season.

In the ACC, BC was only ranked higher than Virginia Tech and Virginia, whose ADs apparently never saw the movie The Social Network, and Maryland, which despite having, like, invented the search engine, doesn't have a Twitter account or Facebook page listed on the site.

Seriously though ... 96th?! This is fixable, people.

All you have to do is start following @bcsportsnews on Twitter and 'like' Boston College Athletics on Facebook (and hell, while you are at it, be sure to follow us on Twitter, and 'like' us on Facebook too). Each Superfan that does this will improve BC's standings by 2 whole points! We are gunning for you, TCU. You can kiss 95th place goodbye, silly Horned Frogs.

Complete rankings for the ACC programs below (stats as of this writing).

Rank	Team	Twitter	Facebook	Total
9	North Carolina Tar Heels	7,167	230,326	237,493
26	Miami Hurricanes	10,225	90,811	101,036
29	Florida St. Seminoles	7,066	89,952	97,018
32	Duke Blue Devils	2,167	77,581	79,748
45	Atlantic Coast Conference	10,403	28,711	39,114
53	N.C. State Wolfpack	4,375	24,777	29,152
55	Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets	8,645	18,678	27,323
70	Clemson Tigers	3,653	13,381	17,034
85	Wake Forest Demon Deacons	0	12,219	12,219
96	*Boston College Eagles*	*2,440*	*8,301*	*10,741*
128	Virginia Tech Hokies	4,322	0	4,322
129	Virginia Cavaliers	4,284	0	4,284

HT: The (apparently) much more social media savvy Syracuse Orange

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Maryland

has separate official Facebook pages and Twitters for each of the big sports, just no single “Maryland Athletics” page

by spideyguy0 on Jul 6, 2011 5:38 PM EDT reply actions

Sporcle

BC fans may not be on board with facebook and twitter, but we are always near the top in Sporcle College Rankings…

http://www.sporcle.com/rankings/?conf=-1&week=126

by D-Murph on Jul 6, 2011 5:59 PM EDT reply actions

You reminded me that my twitter account still exists just in time to catch Jared Dudley’s play-by-play and color commentary about the Casey Anthony verdict.

by A33Jim on Jul 6, 2011 6:23 PM EDT reply actions

And fascinating BC talk from Brian and I.

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by A.J Black on Jul 6, 2011 7:49 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

hey!

u didn’t like my retweeting of BCH’s birthday wish?

by waterwater on Jul 7, 2011 10:18 AM EDT up reply actions

hope you didn't take offense

it was meant as good natured ribbing

by waterwater on Jul 7, 2011 10:20 AM EDT up reply actions

I removed the comment

Simply erring on the side of caution. There’s just been a bunch of name-calling / personal attacks recently, so I removed anything that looked vaguely suspect or didn’t add value, like the GS crew freaking out on us.

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by Brian Favat on Jul 7, 2011 10:42 AM EDT up reply actions

it wasn’t even vaguely name calling

maybe the “b—b” word was too much

don’t become too cautious

by waterwater on Jul 7, 2011 10:50 AM EDT up reply actions

Breathe

We still have a long way to go before the season. Moderating for troll and troll-like comments is above my pay grade and quite frankly a waste of everyone’s time.

Let’s just keep the comments focused on the thread topics and let’s not bring personal twitter account comments and name-calling into the community. We have a good thing going here. Let’s not devolve into an inane Big East program message board.

I’m not going to apologize for being overly cautious after being called a few things by one extremely over-zealous GS fan, who has since been banned from the community.

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by Brian Favat on Jul 7, 2011 11:19 AM EDT up reply actions

ahem . . .

the topic here is twitter accounts and tweet by you and BCH!

and what is GS fan?

by waterwater on Jul 7, 2011 11:35 AM EDT up reply actions

The post is about BC fans leveraging social media to connect with the program and the blog; not random tweets from one of our personal Twitter accounts.

GS = Great Scott.

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by Brian Favat on Jul 7, 2011 11:43 AM EDT up reply actions

You've overlooked Coach Spaz...

and his Twitter account. I believe you can find his posts by searching the hashtag #gonnnabetough

by Lothar17 on Jul 7, 2011 7:29 AM EDT reply actions

And GDF's Twitter account ...

#HarvardMonFriBamaSat

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by Brian Favat on Jul 7, 2011 7:36 AM EDT up reply actions

And #anemicoffense

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by A.J Black on Jul 7, 2011 8:27 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

That almost reads Anemi Coffense. I thought this was some strange Japanese cartoon about coffee.

Maybe just #anemic and #RunRunRunPunt?

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by Brian Favat on Jul 7, 2011 9:14 AM EDT up reply actions

That’s NyQuil’s favorite trend!

Retweeted that before every series last year, no matter what the score or situation was.

Every Month March.

by hoyaeagle on Jul 7, 2011 12:14 PM EDT up reply actions

Notable exception

With the Eagles trailing, offense gets the ball with 2 minutes left in the half. Then the appropriate Twitter hash tag is:

#QBKneelx3TimeExpires

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by Brian Favat on Jul 7, 2011 12:18 PM EDT up reply actions

Community PSA

We don’t have a lot of rules around here, but one of the main ones is to respect each other and our opponents. As such, please refrain from name-calling and/or other personal attacks.

And if you absolutely must resort to “name-calling,” please do so in a way where several “key phrases” are placed in quotations so that no one can “see the forest for the trees.” Semper Fi.

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by Brian Favat on Jul 7, 2011 9:18 AM EDT reply actions