BC fans should be rooting for Florida State this postseason. Not because we feel for Jameis Winston or think Jimbo Fisher is a good guy. The reason to cheer for the defending champs is pretty pragmatic. A win for the Noles is good for the ACC and good for BC.
Fans have been cheering on foes in various scenarios for decades. However, the SEC took it to a new level during the BCS era. They celebrated their conference success as a form of validation for their own teams. And it worked. Just look at all the positive attention the SEC West teams got this year just for playing each other. The media and more importantly the BCS voters and now the selection committee bought it.
If Florida State repeats it helps BC. It brings more money, helps recruiting and makes our close losses to the Noles look more impressive.
I don't get any real satisfaction when ACC teams win. I don't live vicariously through those teams. I want BC in those championships and winning those games. That obviously won't happen thus year. So the next best thing is improving our team and that only happens this postseason is if the ACC and FSU come out on top.
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BS. I am rooting as hard as I can against the criminoles. All the reasons you cite for supporting them are completely marginal in nature.
I know I should cheer for the Seminoles and support the ACC, but I just can't. My heart cannot support Florida State. I don't support their values. I don't support who they are. I am rooting for Oregon.
There are very few instances I would not root for an ACC team to win, but any time Florida State is playing qualifies. The way they run their team and their values as a school, as exampled by everything that happened with Jameis Winston this year, are an embarrassment to the ACC and 100% contradictory to what BC stands for.
We/I often don't think about what the school stands for when talking about sports, but i just can't support what they do, or what they turn a blind eye to, because it may benefit our Athletic Department.
Couldn't pull for FSU if you paid me. I detest them because of the stink of corruption that permeates the program and their minions in Tallahassee. Don't give a damn that they are ACC.
Looking at big time college football - is there really much of a difference between FSU and anybody else? One year it'll be FSU with the most glaring deficiencies - next year someone else. They are pretty much all the same - boring, predictable semi pro teams subsidizing the NFL with talented players who have no business being in college. At some point you lose interest.
I have one daughter who went to BC and was on the Pom Squad so a big Eagle Football fan and season ticket holder. She is currently in medical school so love the BC education.
Mu other daughter is a senior at FSU so I am a huge Eagle and Nole fan and yesterday hurt (just like the Penn State loss). The hate for FSU is so misguided as it is a special school and a special football program. I was rooting for both Clemson (FSU's arch ACC rival) and GA Tech as I get so tired of hearing people say the ACC weak. So go Eagles, Go Noles and FO ACC and stop the hate.
John
Thanks for sharing
Screw FSU. Glad they got stuffed.
Joe, FSU is going to be a good for a long long time. So enjoy their one loss as there won't be many in the L column moving forward.
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