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While what you say is true, the longer term outlook shows that long before ACC expansion in 2003 the Boston Globe was running stories from the likes of Bob Ryan about how BC feared UConn jumping to D1. He had quotes from BC AD sources. And BC feared losing football players because the heyday of BC basketball in the 1980s (when they made the Elite 8) coincided with Ct. heavy bball team.
Those 80s teams had players like John Bagley, Michael Adams, John Garris, Jay Murphy and others. These were all Connecticut products. So Calhoun moves in, and he not only grabs the best Connecticut players but regional talent. By the end of his career, he was grabbing Boston kids. There is a case to be made that losing Conn. players hurt BC basketball, since their heyday coincided with a time when they grabbed pretty good players.
I knew Bagley and Garris were Connecticut kids, but, not the others, so, that explains a lot of their negativity towards UConn.
BC had some pretty good teams back then. I wonder why they didn't just expand their recruiting base to NYC, Philadelphia, and, the Baltimore-DC corridor. They were a good program, competing well in a tough league. They had plenty to sell to kids, in both sports.
Fear of UConn succeeding is a part of their reluctance, but, to me anyways, a lot of it seems like laziness. Its almost like 'Why compete with UConn, when we can move to try and block them from joining?'
Thats a sorry ass attitude.