Media Guide and Week 10

So the Media Guide is now available on bceagles.com. Now I'm an incredibly critical person, it's hard to impress me, I had only just bought into the Boisture hype when he decommitted, but this years Media Guide looks great. True some of the things are laughable for example they dedicate quite a few pages to Boston as a "media market" and claim BC is "Boston's College." Anybody familiar with Boston sports as well as BC can tell you that BC gets less media attention than off season Sawx moves and even the Celtics (back when the Celtics and Bruins were basement dwellers). It is also true that BC is the only FBS college in Boston which means that it should be "Boston's College" but I can't help but remember in 07 when BC was #2 in the country, Matt Ryan was leading the heisman predictions and ESPN ran a segment interviewing Bostonians (they could not name Jagz, Ryan, the nickname and most of them didn't even know where BC was). Still the media guide is nice and glossy, impressive to visitors, and especially to recruits.

Week 10:
Who we play: Virginia
Who we should play: Virginia
Again I'm tempted to replace UVA with Duke or Ga Tech especially because I would like to give Spaz another crack @ stopping that Option Attack (granted his lone coaching win already came against Paul Johnson). However looking at prestige in the programs, the athletes and even the academic requirements I feel like the UVA game is right up there. I value recruiting overlap and there's a fair amount here. One other thing that I haven't brought up before is the friend factor. Because UVA (or Wake) are so similar to BC in academics and whatnot there are a lot of regular student application overlaps as well which oftentimes leads to having friends @ UVA, WF or ND creating a little extra rivalry in the matchup. Overall the UVA game is not too shabby.