Clemson Football: 5 Schools we’d like to kick out of the ACC
By John Chancey
Boston College Eagles
The headscratcher of headscratcher. I blame one man: Doug Flutie.
At my Grandma’s house in West Virginia for Thanksgiving in 1984. I was nine. I loved my Grandma but there wasn’t a whole lot to do there. I got caught up in this football game between Boston College and Miami. If you know something about football history, you know what I saw that day.
It blew my mind. Hail Flutie. Boston College was cemented in my memory.
It must have still been cemented in a lot of memories twenty years later because when the ACC wanted to pull another program from the Big East to accompany Miami, they landed on Boston College.
At the time, Chestnut Hill was over 400 miles (a 7-hour drive) from the ACC’s closest neighbor, the Maryland Terrapins. Let’s be honest, though. Distance is hardly an issue these days for financials. No big whoop.
Its visibility. Attendance is 61st. Viewership is 66th. If there was ever a program that has just been dominated by the professional franchises in town, it is BC. Between the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics, and Bruins, there just isn’t room for Flutie Flakes.
The addition of the Eagles was just the worst decision ever made by Swofford. Well, second worst. That ACC Network deal is still pretty bad.
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