New football schedule

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New fireworks feature at Alumni Stadium

Yes, it’s only January, so this is just notice to “save the dates.”

The 2019 schedule for BC football has some interesting features, e.g.

  • four of the first five games are in Alumni Stadium
  • the team has two bye weeks — October 12 and November 16
  • all the games are on Saturdays UPDATE: Kansas game moved to Friday, September 13
  • only one home game in October and one in November: four of the last five games are away
  • first-ever football game with Kansas
  • Notre Dame back on the schedule, in South Bend

Here’s the entire schedule. Starting times to be announced.

  • August 31 — Virginia Tech
  • September 7 — Richmond
  • September 13 (Friday) — Kansas
  • September 21 — @ Rutgers
  • September 28 — Wake Forest
  • October 5 — @ Louisville
  • October 19 — NC State
  • October 26 — @ Clemson
  • November 2 — @ Syracuse
  • November 9 — Florida State
  • November 23 — @ Notre Dame
  • November 30 — @ Pitt

Bowl ends with a bang

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But it was the bang associated with lightning. In what the NCAA says is apparently the first such occurrence, the bowl game today between Boston College and Boise State in Dallas, Texas, was canceled because of a series of delays brought about by lightning.

San Diego’s own Ray Smith (96), from Cathedral Catholic, leads the Eagles off the field as nearby lightning forces the first game delay. Smith and other BC seniors had no way to know it would be their last trot off the field as an Eagle.

Otherwise the game was a whimper. Play ended after nine minutes and 52 seconds had gone by on the game clock. It was declared “no contest” and nothing that occurred during the game will count in personal or team statistics. Like it never happened.

For what it’s worth, and it’s worth nothing except to BC fans, the Eagles were leading 7-0 because of a 19-yard touchdown run by AJ Dillon.

BC ends the season with a 7-5 record, 4-4 in the ACC. The bowl game had been seen as an opportunity for the Eagles to reach 8 wins for the first time since 2009.

This was New England Sports Network’s video report today. If video of the game itself shows up, I’ll replace this.

San Diego Eagles showed up for a gamewatch, though the numbers were “inflated” a bit by the presence of two entire families — Mary ’80 and Ray ’78 Berube, with Peter ’17 and Paige ’13; and Sarah ’88 and John Roughneen, along with Caroline ’18, Katie ’20, Sam  ’22, and Lily. They were excellent company for me and Zeke Oliwa ’14. :)

 

Day at the races

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(L-R) Pat Nascenzi ’80, Bob Nascenzi ’78. Tim Schinhofen, Mary-Lou Kiley ’77, Zeynep Barakat ’99, Bryan Boulton, Mary Berube ’80, Michael Carson ’00, Ellen Bronchetti ’00, Bill McDonald ’68, Michael Scott, and Mary Ann Scott ’75. Thanks to Maria DeSantis ’75 for taking the photos in this post. Absent from the photo were Jocelyn Campese ’02, Ami Strutin Belanoff, Narges Sadighian, Catherine Senoyuit ’18, Riley Peterson, Rebecca Wade ’89, and Patrick Wade.

San Diego Eagles gathered for a day at the races Saturday. It was the penultimate day of the fall or Bing Crosby (or, to us, BC) season at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, “where the turf meets the surf.”

View from our Turf Club Seats

The chapter was able to fill five tables in the track’s Turf Club, which offers an excellent view of the track and finish line, as well as food and other refreshments. Even with the view, each table had a monitor, which enabled all to watch what was right in front of us. :)

There was no tally of wins and losses, but many in attendance expressed their enjoyment of the afternoon.

Racing season doesn’t come again until mid-July, with the next BC Season beginning in early November. We’ll look at have another event in one or both of the seasons next year.