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Yeah, I was wondering about the use of 'parochial' as that typically refers to religion (Christian) and UConn is a secular, state university. Even in the '90's when I w.'
BC has never been a national power in football. I hope you don't think that I said this above. The only comment that I made regarding the term " national" was in reference to BC no longer being a school that gets most of its students locally from Massachusetts, and such. BC gets a lot of students now from outside New England. They attend for 4 years, then many leave the region. As such, they have no " hate " for Uconn ( thats reserved for the older BC Alums.. and the locals ). They could not tell you where Uconn plays its home football games.They don't care. ( they barely care about BC football ). So this notion that Uconn will ever become BC's football rival does not square with how the current BC student body ( the future Alums ) look at this. If you are a student at BC from Illinois, a Uconn football game does nothing for you, as presumably Uconn football is not in the ACC. I suppose that if Uconn becomes a member of the ACC, that BC student from Illinois might take some interest as its a league game and played annually as such. But a football with Uconn might just as well be a game with UMaine, as far as the majority current student body at BC is concerned. Such a Uconn- BC football game gets the Uconn football fans heart rate going fast, but it really doesn't do much at all over at BC. Its just the way it is. BC students get excited when its ND, but thats becase many of them could not get into ND on their Application there. Syracuse however might become a future interesting football rival for BC, and vive versa. Both are not Publics, and recruit the same regions.
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