NCAA Tournament 2024

[Trotsky]

It is?  I've been following college hockey for forty years (oy vey!). Never experienced it from the BC group.

40 years here, too.  It is.

It's primarily  the self-absorption of Bostonians.  BC students are likely to be locals.  BU gets a large contingent of kids who didn't get into Ivies, so the solution of Boston Idiocy has been diluted.

But BC also carries itself with an inbred entitlement which its real world standing in no way warrants.  BC is Duke for the physically unattractive.

[Chris '03]

It is?  I've been following college hockey for forty years (oy vey!). Never experienced it from the BC group.

40 years here, too.  It is.

It's primarily  the self-absorption of Bostonians.  BC students are likely to be locals.  BU gets a large contingent of kids who didn't get into Ivies, so the solution of Boston Idiocy has been diluted.

But BC also carries itself with an inbred entitlement which its real world standing in no way warrants.  BC is Duke for the physically unattractive.

I don't like BC either but agree with basically none of this. The BC SUPERFAN is an intolerable bandwagon stereotype.

[Trotsky]

It is?  I've been following college hockey for forty years (oy vey!). Never experienced it from the BC group.

40 years here, too.  It is.

It's primarily  the self-absorption of Bostonians.  BC students are likely to be locals.  BU gets a large contingent of kids who didn't get into Ivies, so the solution of Boston Idiocy has been diluted.

But BC also carries itself with an inbred entitlement which its real world standing in no way warrants.  BC is Duke for the physically unattractive.

I don't like BC either but agree with basically none of this. The BC SUPERFAN is an intolerable bandwagon stereotype.

Opinions vary.

[Dafatone]

It is?  I've been following college hockey for forty years (oy vey!). Never experienced it from the BC group.

40 years here, too.  It is.

It's primarily  the self-absorption of Bostonians.  BC students are likely to be locals.  BU gets a large contingent of kids who didn't get into Ivies, so the solution of Boston Idiocy has been diluted.

But BC also carries itself with an inbred entitlement which its real world standing in no way warrants.  BC is Duke for the physically unattractive.

This sort of thing gets weirder in more remote parts of the country.

The Sioux Falls fancy private school is Augustana (new to D1 hockey!). I really, really don't like to play the "I went to Cornell, maybe you've heard of it" card, but it's awfully tempting when someone looks down their nose at me because they went to Augustana.

[Chris '03]

It is?  I've been following college hockey for forty years (oy vey!). Never experienced it from the BC group.

40 years here, too.  It is.

It's primarily  the self-absorption of Bostonians.  BC students are likely to be locals.  BU gets a large contingent of kids who didn't get into Ivies, so the solution of Boston Idiocy has been diluted.

But BC also carries itself with an inbred entitlement which its real world standing in no way warrants.  BC is Duke for the physically unattractive.

I don't like BC either but agree with basically none of this. The BC SUPERFAN is an intolerable bandwagon stereotype.

Opinions vary.

Yes. Opinions vary. But BC kids being likely to be local isn't true. I'd bet Cornell has more NYers than BC has kids from Mass. as a point of comparison.

[Trotsky]

It is?  I've been following college hockey for forty years (oy vey!). Never experienced it from the BC group.

40 years here, too.  It is.

It's primarily  the self-absorption of Bostonians.  BC students are likely to be locals.  BU gets a large contingent of kids who didn't get into Ivies, so the solution of Boston Idiocy has been diluted.

But BC also carries itself with an inbred entitlement which its real world standing in no way warrants.  BC is Duke for the physically unattractive.

This sort of thing gets weirder in more remote parts of the country.

The Sioux Falls fancy private school is Augustana (new to D1 hockey!). I really, really don't like to play the "I went to Cornell, maybe you've heard of it" card, but it's awfully tempting when someone looks down their nose at me because they went to Augustana.

It wouldn't mean anything to them.  Cornell's cachet falls off with the square of the distance from Ithaca.  By Iowa we might as well be Rutgers.

[Trotsky]

But BC kids being likely to be local isn't true. I'd bet Cornell has more NYers than BC has kids from Mass. as a point of comparison.

Ah, but those are kids who self-selected to go to BC.  They were but temporarily exiled from their true home.  Essence precedes existence.

[Dafatone]

It is?  I've been following college hockey for forty years (oy vey!). Never experienced it from the BC group.

40 years here, too.  It is.

It's primarily  the self-absorption of Bostonians.  BC students are likely to be locals.  BU gets a large contingent of kids who didn't get into Ivies, so the solution of Boston Idiocy has been diluted.

But BC also carries itself with an inbred entitlement which its real world standing in no way warrants.  BC is Duke for the physically unattractive.

This sort of thing gets weirder in more remote parts of the country.

The Sioux Falls fancy private school is Augustana (new to D1 hockey!). I really, really don't like to play the "I went to Cornell, maybe you've heard of it" card, but it's awfully tempting when someone looks down their nose at me because they went to Augustana.

It wouldn't mean anything to them.  Cornell's cache falls off with the square of the distance from Ithaca.  By Iowa we might as well be Rutgers.

Cornell College in Iowa doesn't help, either.

[arugula]

It is?  I've been following college hockey for forty years (oy vey!). Never experienced it from the BC group.

40 years here, too.  It is.

It's primarily  the self-absorption of Bostonians.  BC students are likely to be locals.  BU gets a large contingent of kids who didn't get into Ivies, so the solution of Boston Idiocy has been diluted.

But BC also carries itself with an inbred entitlement which its real world standing in no way warrants.  BC is Duke for the physically unattractive.

I don't like BC either but agree with basically none of this. The BC SUPERFAN is an intolerable bandwagon stereotype.

Opinions vary.

Yes. Opinions vary. But BC kids being likely to be local isn't true. I'd bet Cornell has more NYers than BC has kids from Mass. as a point of comparison.

Correct. BC is a national school.

[arugula]

It is?  I've been following college hockey for forty years (oy vey!). Never experienced it from the BC group.

40 years here, too.  It is.

It's primarily  the self-absorption of Bostonians.  BC students are likely to be locals.  BU gets a large contingent of kids who didn't get into Ivies, so the solution of Boston Idiocy has been diluted.

But BC also carries itself with an inbred entitlement which its real world standing in no way warrants.  BC is Duke for the physically unattractive.

This sort of thing gets weirder in more remote parts of the country.

The Sioux Falls fancy private school is Augustana (new to D1 hockey!). I really, really don't like to play the "I went to Cornell, maybe you've heard of it" card, but it's awfully tempting when someone looks down their nose at me because they went to Augustana.

It wouldn't mean anything to them.  Cornell's cachet falls off with the square of the distance from Ithaca.  By Iowa we might as well be Rutgers.

When I attended the quarterfinals at DU in 86, was asked about Iowa and Cornell College 20 times

[arugula]

It is?  I've been following college hockey for forty years (oy vey!). Never experienced it from the BC group.

40 years here, too.  It is.

It's primarily  the self-absorption of Bostonians.  BC students are likely to be locals.  BU gets a large contingent of kids who didn't get into Ivies, so the solution of Boston Idiocy has been diluted.

But BC also carries itself with an inbred entitlement which its real world standing in no way warrants.  BC is Duke for the physically unattractive.

Wow.  Ad hominem much?  My experience on bc's campus was a good looking group.  My experience with people who call others physically unattractive is they generally should buy a mirror.

[arugula]

It is?  I've been following college hockey for forty years (oy vey!). Never experienced it from the BC group.

40 years here, too.  It is.

It's primarily  the self-absorption of Bostonians.  BC students are likely to be locals.  BU gets a large contingent of kids who didn't get into Ivies, so the solution of Boston Idiocy has been diluted.

But BC also carries itself with an inbred entitlement which its real world standing in no way warrants.  BC is Duke for the physically unattractive.

Wow.  Ad hominem much?  My experience on bc's campus was a good looking group.  My experience with people who call others physically unattractive is they generally should buy a mirror.

I don't put much stock in rankings but according to the latest us news, BC is higher than among others, NYU,Wisconsin, Tufts,BU, Lehigh, Rochester, William and Mary, Brandeis, GW.  It's not Quinnipiac.

[arugula]

It is?  I've been following college hockey for forty years (oy vey!). Never experienced it from the BC group.

40 years here, too.  It is.

It's primarily  the self-absorption of Bostonians.  BC students are likely to be locals.  BU gets a large contingent of kids who didn't get into Ivies, so the solution of Boston Idiocy has been diluted.

But BC also carries itself with an inbred entitlement which its real world standing in no way warrants.  BC is Duke for the physically unattractive.

Wow.  Ad hominem much?  My experience on bc's campus was a good looking group.  My experience with people who call others physically unattractive is they generally should buy a mirror.

I don't put much stock in rankings but according to the latest us news, BC is higher than among others, NYU,Wisconsin, Tufts,BU, Lehigh, Rochester, William and Mary, Brandeis, GW.  It's not Quinnipiac.

And just behind USC and Texas.

[arugula]

It is?  I've been following college hockey for forty years (oy vey!). Never experienced it from the BC group.

40 years here, too.  It is.

It's primarily  the self-absorption of Bostonians.  BC students are likely to be locals.  BU gets a large contingent of kids who didn't get into Ivies, so the solution of Boston Idiocy has been diluted.

But BC also carries itself with an inbred entitlement which its real world standing in no way warrants.  BC is Duke for the physically unattractive.

Wow.  Ad hominem much?  My experience on bc's campus was a good looking group.  My experience with people who call others physically unattractive is they generally should buy a mirror.

I don't put much stock in rankings but according to the latest us news, BC is higher than among others, NYU,Wisconsin, Tufts,BU, Lehigh, Rochester, William and Mary, Brandeis, GW.  It's not Quinnipiac.

And just behind USC and Texas.

I always thought that the safety school chant was only funny if yelled at Yale or Harvard.

[Trotsky]

Wow.  Ad hominem much?  My experience on bc's campus was a good looking group.  My experience with people who call others physically unattractive is they generally should buy a mirror.

Ad hom is attacking the poster. I was attacking the people of Chestnut Hill.  Obviously, any friend or blood relative of yours who has attended BC is stunningly beautiful, and would be a New England 10 and a North Carolina... let's say... 6 (ebullient praise is one thing but let's not get carried away).

As for the mirror comment, if you are inferring I am in any way the standard of typical BC pulchritude, things there are in worse shape that any of us feared.

BC is like many monied schools academically: the jocks are rockheads and the regular student body is... varied.  The same can be said for Texas, Stanford, and dare I say Cornell itself.  

And that's fine.  Not everybody has to be Goethe.  The world needs finance bros too.