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<blockquote data-quote="MikeRafone" data-source="post: 129526156" data-attributes="member: 1482681">Until the days of Jack Bicknell, BC played a weak football schedule with teams such as Boston University on the schedule yearly. When scholarship limits went into effect in the early 80's, B.C. was able to sell itself to New England recruits as the regional school. They had a nice twenty year run.UConn goes D-1 in 2005 and B.C. is splitting the recruiting pie in New England with a state school. If a kid wants to enroll early to take advantage of spring practice he can pay his own way at a reasonable cost at UConn. At B.C. unless their folks have money, that's not happening. It's the reason B.C. used to complain about WVU and VPI taking props. It was a cost effective way of getting top players for the latter two schools. At B.C. taking props was nearly impossible due to the cost of attending school there.If things do finally come to four sixteen team regional leagues in football, it wouldn't surprise me to see Wake, B.C., Vandy and possibly Northwestern left in the cold.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MikeRafone, post: 129526156, member: 1482681"] Until the days of Jack Bicknell, BC played a weak football schedule with teams such as Boston University on the schedule yearly. When scholarship limits went into effect in the early 80's, B.C. was able to sell itself to New England recruits as the regional school. They had a nice twenty year run. UConn goes D-1 in 2005 and B.C. is splitting the recruiting pie in New England with a state school. If a kid wants to enroll early to take advantage of spring practice he can pay his own way at a reasonable cost at UConn. At B.C. unless their folks have money, that's not happening. It's the reason B.C. used to complain about WVU and VPI taking props. It was a cost effective way of getting top players for the latter two schools. At B.C. taking props was nearly impossible due to the cost of attending school there. If things do finally come to four sixteen team regional leagues in football, it wouldn't surprise me to see Wake, B.C., Vandy and possibly Northwestern left in the cold. [/QUOTE]

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