As the 2010 college football season approaches us, I always look at BC’s schedule to see if there is a non-conference opponent that I really want to see, but sometimes there is not a good one on the schedule. I will cut BC some slack this season as Hofstra University whom although is IAA is would have been a nice opponent but they decided to drop football at the conclusion of last season, leaving BC to scramble for an opponent, and eventually ending up with Weber State University. At least Hofstra is a school that one on the east coast has heard of. Below is BC’s future non-conference schedule

2010

Weber State
Kent State
Notre Dame
@ Syracuse

2011

Northwestern University
University of Massachusetts
University of Buffalo
@ University of Central Florida

2012

Rhode Island
Army
@ University of Buffalo
@ Northwestern

2013

@ Army
@ University of Southern California

2014

University of Southern California
University of New Hampshire
@ Army
@ Syracuse

2015

Army
Syracuse
2016

@ Syracuse

2117

Syracuse

2118

Syracuse

2119

@ Syracuse

2020

@ Syracuse

2021

Syracuse


Having looked at the non-conference schedule, I think Gene DeFillippo can do better. Sure the URI’s and UNH’s are local teams, but why should we be playing them when we could help ourselves out by playing teams from the SEC, or Big 12. I think by playing a tougher non-conference schedule it would benefit by BC in the long run by both attracting better recruits to Chestnut Hill, but also get them ready for an always tough Atlantic Coast Conference season.

I know that it’s tougher to schedule non-conference games in college football though, since you only play a 12 game schedule, but I do not think playing a Division IAA program has any benefits at all. If BC thinks they should have an easy non-conference schedule than that’s totally fine, but they should play the Central Michigan’s of the world, rather than the URI’s. Finally, I would try and schedule Notre Dame as often as possible. The reason I would do this is because these two Catholic school’s are very similar in their admission’s standards and beliefs and have always kept a great rivalry going.