South Florida is usually weather friendly. Chestnut Hill is not. Ferocious winds have been known to knock down the strongest of passes. Ken Dorsey couldn't throw a pass at Alumni Stadium last year. I think he'll put up huge numbers against my BC Eagles this Saturday, but I won't be able to watch it cuz I'll be at New Foxboro hoping Metros make the playoffs. Anyone wanna venture a score for the BC Miami game?
Metroflip, it may be a very tough day for you. Miami 44, BC 20 (NE 2 Paul Grafer's Pants 1 - I hope I'm wrong) Be sure to have many beers on the bus ride home (or will you stay near Chestnut Hill).....
Hate to say it, but 49-14 Miami. I can't see BC staying close in this one, especially seeing how the Canes dismantled Florida. Also, it's often said that it's just as tough for northern teams to head down south to the heat/humidity as it is for southern teams to come up north in November. Yes it's humid up north too but rarely as much as in the south, and with less intensity.
No. I'm not staying around. I go back that night. I have secured tickets for the Syracuse game. The last time we beat them and I attended was when we beat them in Henning's 1st year. That was my last home game as a senior. Sob, sob. Go Eagles. F*** Notre Whore
If we pull off the upset, the streets of Chestnut Hill will be flowing in beer. 4 hours, 25 minutes until kickoff... Alex
Well, I had the story right. Predicted Miami by 30, finishes Miami by 32. Sad to think that it was 6-3 BC with less than a minute to go in the first half.
No deep threat. Jamal Burke, Grant Adams or Joel Hazard ain't gonna cut it. Will Blackmon (who looks really good in limited PT) couldn't even run back a return.
St. Pierre hasn't been playing that well either so far, he's been getting picked off right and left. Burke is damn good (as well as the only reliable punt returner) but I'm not sold on the rest of the receiving corps. Derrick Knight is 10 times the player Horace Dodd is, no doubt about that. It should be said that the 38-6 scoreline is EXTREMELY flattering to Miami. The game was not over until about halfway thru the 4th quarter, and BC would have been ahead at halftime were it not for a late Miami touchdown. Our defense really needs some work, I realize they held Stanford and UConn to low points, but Miami's running backs and receivers were breaking tackles right and left last night. The good news is that Central Michigan should be a good confidence booster heading into Virginia Tech. If we can beat Tech, Navy and Pitt are up after that, and we'll bring the momentum from 4 straight wins into South Bend. Notre Dame, Va Tech, Syracuse, and West Virginia are the games that will make or break our season. Alex
BC ain't beating Va Tech. That team is fierce. Tech could beat Miami if their defense plays the way it did against A&M on Saturday. With Syracuse down and Pitt seemingly a non-threat, BC's season has 8-3 and the Insight.com Bowl written all over it.
we have 12 games this year, obie. Do you mean 8-4 or 9-3? Imagine that. I can't. Coughlin ain't coaching this team.
9-3. Losses to ND and VA Tech after this. Who else are we going to lose to? Pitt? No, they struggled against Rutgers and UAB. Syracuse? No, they lost to BYU and North Carolina (who are terrible). Central Michigan, Rutgers, Temple, Navy? Don't make me laugh. The only other team on the schedule this year who's decent is maybe West Virginia, especially since we have traditionally had problems playing in Morgantown, but that's still a winnable game. The team is very experienced and very talented, especially on the O and D lines. They're just not good enough to be among the national elite. It's been like this for years. Then again, UConn gave us a game, so who knows....
Yeah. I know. I watched em too! It's amazing, how after this year, St. P could be the 3rd or 4th all-time leading BC passer, and a lot of alums don't like him. I can't speak for current BCers, but the alums I know aren't impressed, and yet we managed 3 winning seasons. Weird.
We should just rename this the "Official BC Eagles Football Thread". St. Pierre has two disadvantages: 1. O'Brien's reputation is more of a running coach than a passing coach, so the QB is not as integral as it was in the Bicknell and Coughlin eras. 2. He's never had The Big Win. The alums never warmed up to either of the Hasselbacks for the same reason, and they were both good enough to make NFL money. You have to beat either Miami or a good Notre Dame team in order to be considered decent. Georgia beat themselves last year, so that doesn't count. If he beats ND this season, people will be talking about him in the same breath as Foley (but not, and never, Flutie).
Okay, I'll contribute a little here to at least make this a Big East Football Thread. I wouldn't count my Syracuse Orangemen out just yet this year. Remember, at this point last year, we were 1-2 (just like we are now) and getting no love from anyone. Then Coach P. turned the ship around, and we beat BC on the way to a 9-3 season. Of course, there are a bunch of differences this year. First, no Dwight Freeney. Second, we have to play BC away. Third, well, we could very well not be able to turn things around if we get spanked by Auburn this weekend - which is likely. And I'm with obie - St. Pierre has yet to get that big win to define his time at BC - but he is still a good college QB.
Maybe a (finger's crossed) Thursday Night ESPN win against VT, unlikely, but I said that for THE KICK game against the Scum so many years ago. The game is won in the trenches, O'Brien was line coach at Navy and UVa before he became O-Coord. for George Welch for the Wahoos. If that doesn't say "run the football" then what does? At least St. P was better than, dare I say his name? Mutryn, HA!
The upperclassmen seem to like him, most freshman aren't too happy with him--not suprisingly, seeing as how he's sucked so far this year (especially against Stanford). Hopefully he will get better. I think we beat either ND or Va Tech...possibly both, but definitely one or the other. Alex
Son, you will learn about your chosen team soon enough. Every single year it's exactly the same thing -- good efforts against great teams but never enough to pull through the big win. They have gotten over the historical hump once, in '93, and they went out the next week and lost to an undeserving (even though they were undefeated) WV team. So for one week, exactly one week, in all of its history, BC has been on the top of the football world. Even during the Flutie era, the best record BC ever achieved was 10-2. Alums talk about the ND game in '93 like it was the Exodus that pulled us out of decades of ineptitude, but it wasn't. We went right back to traditional habits just one week later. BC is a much better team now than it was when I started at the school in '89, but it has never been BCS material. I don't think ND is a great team, but BC's not a great team either and we almost always, about 98% of the time, lose those games. VT is a great team, and will stomp all over us eventually. Accept 9-3 or 8-4 as your birthright, not 11-1. It doesn't work that way for us.
Yeah, I sat in the upper deck of Alumni (Shea Field side) when we lost to WVa. Depressing. From the mountaintop, to the bottom in 6 days.
I sat lower deck, about the 20 yard line, in front of the north end zone on the Conte side. Second saddest sports event I have ever personally witnessed, after Iran beating the US in Lyon. They should replay that game on ESPN Classic just so I can see if Darnell Campbell was actually hit every time he fumbled the ball, or if Flip's theory about match fixing has some validity.
Knee jerk reaction. How could we have been so useless in the redzone that day considering we were an offensive juggernaut for most of the year? No TV coverage for the game against Central Mich. Hope we do well. Knowing our history, we'll get an overtime win. Brokaw and Knight should have the good ground games (here's to 200 yards on the ground!). Go Eagles.