Blake Barker Goes West

More bad news for the now rain-soaked Chestnut Hill faithful (seriously I felt like Charlton Heston parting the red sea with my car this morning) as Blake Barker has decided to play ball at Stanford. BC actually does fairly well in the "keeping talent in the area" research that ESPN Rise turns out every year. However the perennial powerhouses don't let the elite talent go, so I've scoured Rivals database for every New England 4* and 5*(not including 2010) to see how many play football for BC. (Tip: If you want to play D1 ball and you live in Vermont, move)

Here's the Breakdown:
ME: 0 for 0
VT: 0 for 0
NH:1 for 1 (Lapham)
MA: 2 for 6 (Unis in 02 Eason in 07)
RI: 1 for 1 (Blackmon in 02)
CT:1 for 11 (Jones in 05)

Now an argument could be made that because UConn and Rutgers are about as close as BC its not "our backyard" but what I found in Connecticut was that none of the 4* went to UConn and in fact quite a few went to Maryland, UNC and UVA. The media market for Boston teams has always been New England (with some fudging in Western CT) thats where I recruiting grounds should be. Spaz and Co. need to get a hold of that local elite talent (there was a 4* QB that Jagz flopped on from CT last year). If we keep going 5 for 19 its going to be tough.

Week 8:
Who are we kidding, Notre Dame is Notre Dame. Big game, big plays. BJ Raji throwing offensive tackles into Jimmy Clausen, no reason to change it. The Notre Dame game is that one that everyone know about. As a diehard fan it actually gets a little frustrating because of the way casual fans, particularly students, handle this game. They show up shouting how we're going to crush them while half of them don't know that name of the starting Quarterback and the other half don't understand the rules. Meanwhile the guys that stood through the entire Rhode Island game (that rain was miserable) are crushed against the railing because Lawrence and his fratboy wannabe friends decided that it would be easier to just jam 100 people into the front corner than show up early for the game.

This game is a storied rivalry and deservedely so, but the casual fan needs to pull their head out of their own ***** long enough to realize that there are 11 or more other games in the season.

But really, will someone get Charlie a donut I think he might be hungry