Saturday, March 28, 2015

Isn't it supposed to be Spring?


It is only fitting that following a winter that no one in Boston will forget, the first Boston College "open scrimmage" was filled with snow. The team started things early just to avoid the worst part of the scheduled storm. With the bubble down, the forecast becomes a much more important part of the planning process.

According to Adam Kurkjian, all three QBs looked green. But how much of that was jitters, the conditions or just young QBs getting the kinks out?

Based on some of the pictures, it seems like the weather kept most of the fans away from the new event.

You cannot read too much into any of this. Even just measuring the Marketing aspect, I don't know if you can really compare this to a traditional Spring Game, since the schedule got tweaked and the weather was so bad. Let's hope it helped recruiting. I don't know if this will make Bates rethink future Spring Games, but it did help Addazio's argument for an indoor practice facility.

1 comment:

eaglephile said...

"Based on some of the pictures, it seems like the weather kept most of the fans away from the new event."

The change of schedule also kept fans away. As in people showed up at 11:50 for a 12pm start only to find most of the team leaving the field. I realize that the weather warranted moving up the start, but at least send out an email telling fans that.