BC has more than enough money and there are more than enough track alumni that would be willing to donate big $$$. The problem is the BC head coach is a lazy fool and won't put in the effort necessary to get it done.
Getting a track means that he has no more excuses for dismal performances at ACC Championships in track. He's happier and has more job stability without a track and the expectations that come with it. He doesn't do any work.
How about we talk about how the cost to attend Boston College is $73,000 per year! (Average annual cost- tuition + room and board)
It is a pretty terrible education for that cost.
They can't recruit because with no athletic scholarships, no one is paying that for a Boston College eduction.
shootpost wrote:
How about we talk about how the cost to attend Boston College is $73,000 per year! (Average annual cost- tuition + room and board)
It is a pretty terrible education for that cost.
They can't recruit because with no athletic scholarships, no one is paying that for a Boston College eduction.
BC is not struggling to meet their enrollment, despite the high cost. There are a lot of rich parents who would pay 150k per year to go to BC. All schools in Boston cost the same - BU, Harvard, MIT, BC, Babson, Berklee, Tufts.
It does make recruiting harder. But the head coach doesn't even recruit, it's all on the assistant. They get some good athletes, even men despite the lack of men's scholarships. They just don't develop under the training.
Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff AZ has won the men's NCAA Cross Country Championship at least 3 times in the last 4 years..... Have you ever been to Flagstaff, AZ?? Yes it is beautiful and it has altitude for training... but there are other universities and Boston College is one of them that can offer a competitive distance runner - olympic caliber- distance runner a fantastic training environment.... No BC doesn't have altitude...... but it could have "attitude".
To be competitive... you need to compete.... Boston was once a hotbed for distance training athletes.... Great AAU road races and now a very competitive indoor track circuit..... Didn't Galen Rupp run an 8:07 two mile American Record at BU just a while back? That's the kind of competition a runner at NAU might only see in the "Big City"... not just a few miles away at BU.
My point is that a great runner needs a great environment for training...Heartbreak Hill and the mass of runners that train on the Boston Marathon course right next to BC is just such an environment and community.... but the leadership at BC would rather squander millions, tens hundreds of millions of dollars on their mediocre football and basketball program as opposed to winning a National Championship.... yes in Men's Cross Country.... It's short short money to do. If NAU can do it year after year BC could compete easily within the top ten teams nationally as well.. How much is involved likely between $1,5 to 10 million to win the NCAA X Country Championship and possibly do it repeatedly... Now isn't that exactly what BC really wants.... another National Championship??? You boost your athletic program with small increments of success...Because success breeds success.... other teams, other sports begin to believe they can do better, accomplish more........and every athlete wants to associate and compete for a winning program... It starts small and grows from small to great.
If not for COVID 2021, tomorrow Monday (4/19/21) would have been Boston Marathon (BM) Day. For an old and out of shape once very competitive endurance athlete, I am saddened. Even though the BM has now been moved to Nov 11,2021 (not Columbus Day anymore but "Indigenous People's Day") (But that's a different issue). . I am saddened... Boston College won't be experiencing an International Sporting Event held right at its' door step until November 2021.. The International Marathon Community won't have a chance to huff and puff up Heartbreak Hill and there at the top of the hill... is that shining University on the Hill, Boston College....Regardless, Boston College, Track and Field, Distance Running, Cross Country, Equal Opportunity...that's all become irrelevant at BC. There is no indoor or outdoor track at BC and no Male athletes recruited and offered X-Country or T&F scholarships at BC anymore.
For an outstanding male distance athlete with good ACT and SAT scores from a blue collar working class family living within commuting distance of Boston College.... hey that opportunity to remain in the Boston area and develop as an Olympic athlete at BC.. hey that's gone.... In fact (from my perspective) the whole idea of Equal Opportunity and Excellence (athletic and academic) at Boston College is gone. I look at all the money spent on the BC Football program and all I can think is CTE. I look at the NFL and all I can think is CTE. And I ask what choices are we really giving our children when we discourage and fail to fund participation in X Country and T&F? All sports are an outlet for individual expression and excellence so why are we funding and funneling so many $ and children into combative/contact sports at the expense of more benign life long athletic competition? Why are there not more willing to speak against the unequal use of sports dollars to fund other major collegiate sports opportunities ie: track, swimming, rowing at Boston College? Has Boston College simply become just another NFL Farm Team for the 30 rich white owners (men) of the NFL? Or maybe just maybe it can/could find another future athletic mission and purpose? And oh BTW, Good Luck to New Balance and Boston College
on their new sports business relationship... Maybe New Balance can assist correcting BC's $ aversion towards X-Country and T&F? Seems to me I wore out a lot of New Balance athletic shoes when I was competing.
Kent. Check out a thing called a calendar. 11 nov is Veterand Day each year.
The marathon has been moved to Veteran’s Day?
Don't they have a practice football field adjacent to the stadium? Is there room around that?
Sorry... you are right... I meant to say October 11 not Nov 11.... and Oct 11 is Columbus Day ( soon to be Indigenous People Day) .... I was also wrong about Boston College's Male Cross Country (BCMXC) Team. Over the last few years the (BCMXC) Team has scored in the Top Ten in NE and most recently in 2019 they were #3 in NE. So I take all that I have said back..... When I attended BC on a BCMXC and Track Scholarship many years ago... we would say among ourselves that we would win despite and regardless of the coach(s) and the University's disdain for XC and Track.... Congratulations to BCMXC ....... though you may be overmatched in the ACC and NCAA, you are first of any BC teams to be in the Top Ten in NE and the first to be as high as #3.... Additional Congrats because you did all of this with no financial scholarship assistance from the University and no outdoor track.....
Kent Texeira wrote:
Sorry... you are right... I meant to say October 11 not Nov 11.... and Oct 11 is Columbus Day ( soon to be Indigenous People Day) .... I was also wrong about Boston College's Male Cross Country (BCMXC) Team. Over the last few years the (BCMXC) Team has scored in the Top Ten in NE and most recently in 2019 they were #3 in NE. So I take all that I have said back..... When I attended BC on a BCMXC and Track Scholarship many years ago... we would say among ourselves that we would win despite and regardless of the coach(s) and the University's disdain for XC and Track.... Congratulations to BCMXC ....... though you may be overmatched in the ACC and NCAA, you are first of any BC teams to be in the Top Ten in NE and the first to be as high as #3.... Additional Congrats because you did all of this with no financial scholarship assistance from the University and no outdoor track.....
The Boston Marathon is now back and being competed on Patriot's Day (April 2022).... This is the 126th running tomorrow.... I can't truly express how happy I am to see this tradition continue... I was so sorrowful over the 2013 Bombing that killed 4 innocent spectators and injured many many more.....and then the COVID interruption......all so sad.....But now,,, really a global sporting event has returned to Boston...... Good luck tomorrow to all the participants....Thank you for making the Boston Marathon great.
Yes, I’m really looking forward to seeing what these 2:02/2:03 guys can do on the Boston course with Super Shoes with perfect weather forecast. Is the course record in jeopardy?
Interesting that this thread would come back for the dead (6yo)--. Anyway, they don't need a new track. NB is going to take care of that with "The Track'
bcnews wrote:
Interesting that this thread would come back for the dead (6yo)--. Anyway, they don't need a new track. NB is going to take care of that with "The Track'
From the article:
The partnership will grant several BC teams access to the new state-of-the-art TRACK@New Balance that is currently under construction. The new sports complex at Boston Landing will feature a 200-meter hydraulically banked track, seating for more than 5,000 spectators, and facilities for training, events, and recovery.
So, football, basketball and baseball?
New Balance track facility to be used by Boston College, NCAA
The Track at New Balance officially opened this week, and the new venue will house the Boston College track and field team as well as the 2024 D-I Indoor Track and Field Championships, notes SBJ's Bret McCormick. The venue gives New Balance a track and field and sports science hub just down the street from its Boston HQ.
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!
