WE HAVE VICTORY!!!!!

FINALLY!

It has been 49 days since we have last tasted victory and over a year since our last ACC win. BC snaps its five game losing streak and moves to 3-5 (1-3 ACC) with this win and avoids its longest losing streak (6) in 12 years. More importantly it keeps BC in bowl contention, needing to win 3 out of the last 4 games (with games against Wake Forest 2-6, Duke 1-6,Virginia 4-4, and Syracuse 6-2, it is possible to get to 6-6 and get to a bowl game).

(Coach Spaz Holding the O'Rourke, McFaddon trophy with MVP Montel being hoisted up by his teammates in the background, wearing the MVP Leather Helmet)

I had a blog post set up for Friday but I didnt have the chance to finish. All I said was that I was done feeding you statistics on why you should have hope for these Eagles. This was it. But Also BC vs Clemson is more than just a regular ACC game on the schedule. No. This was "The Battle for the Leather Helmet", a rivalry game. More importantly a rivalry game that in its two year history BC had failed to win. This was a must win for the Eagles on multiple levels. Even if the Eagles fall short of a bowl game this year, we still won "The Battle for the Leather Helmet", we have that trophy for the whole year.

First off let me talk about the Super Fans. Wow. Attendance has been declining for the past few weeks as the team has been struggling. I have been very critical of this. On Saturday you could see more Purple and Orange than Maroon and Gold and after the first play (INT by Rettig returned to the house 7-0 Clemson), it sounded like there were more of them too. But for the rest of the game the BC Super Fans and the rest of the Aluminum Monster was rocking. I have been to hard on the student section the past two weeks. The ones that actually showed up had amazing energy all game and helped will this team to their first win since week 2.

Two weeks ago at Florida State, the defense played out of their minds and almost single handedly won the game. Then the next week the defense was poor and the offense finally provided some support in a losing effort. This week they finally put it all together. The defense added to their top ten interception count with two more including one by Kuechly to seal the game. They only allowed 42 rushing yards and most importantly zero touchdowns allowed.

Rettig showed his maturity and bounced back after the INT on the third play and played mistake free football throwing for 136 yards and one touchdown. Montel Harris won the MVP of the Leather Helmet game, rushing for 142 yards on 36 carries, with a 36 yard receiving touchdown on his birthday.

(Montel Harris rushed for 142 yards on his way to MVP of the game)

BC finally played 100% on both sides of the ball and came out with this huge win. They travel to North Carolina next Saturday to face the 2-6 Wake Forest Demon Deacons. For the fans who showed up the last two weeks, well done, the team needed you and you were there. For those of you who had tickets but skimped out, as my friend told me after the Clemson game, "The people who didn't show up were just filling anyway, they didn't care about the team or the game." These past few weeks have shown who the real fans are vs the fair weather fans and if you skipped the last two games because they were struggling, you will never be a real BC fan. BC will carry this momentum into next week, they will pull out the win and get one game closer to bowl eligibility.

WE ARE BC