2024 Boston College Football
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It's hard to say since, 1) he was working with severe scholarship limits, 2) he had to overcome the stigma of coming to Penn State at the time, a challenge well beyond even those encountered in the normal, day-to-day national recruiting activities, and 3) he didn't stick around long enough to get up a full head of steam.
If you take a look back, the 2013 class, the first after his departure, included one 5* (Hack) and only three 4*. The 2014 class, ostensibly Franklin's first (although perhaps springboarding in some cases off some of BOB'earlier efforts), brought in eight 4*. And it's ramped up since.
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Give me Chryst, so we can go back to OLU
I like the QB background and the experience with another northeast ACC school too.
I like the QB background and the experience with another northeast ACC school too.
You’re kidding I hope. Chryst would be an absolutely disastrous hire based on his recent performance and reasons for losing his jobs in latest positions. My understanding is it’s BOB and announcement comes shortly.
Also I’ve seen nothing about Chryst lately. There’s been some rumblings that Al Washington has been identified as one of two finalists.
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Where do you see see this? Thamel says no decision yet 5 minutes after your post.
View: https://twitter.com/PeteThamel/status/1755796257572831494
yeah pretty incredible timing. Local reporters are saying it’s him but Thamel is a BC mouthpiece. We’ll see!
BC has a recent history of wanting to control the messaging and disclosure of info and my assumption is they are using Thamel to do so, maybe because the official word hasn’t gone to others etc.
A word of caution...
Just remember, BOB left Penn State after only 2 years when the first chance to rise to the NFL presented itself. You just have to know he'll want to get back. So enjoy it while you can.
Just remember, BOB left Penn State after only 2 years when the first chance to rise to the NFL presented itself. You just have to know he'll want to get back. So enjoy it while you can.
BC is a stepping stone job. Give me a coach with ambition and motivation to move to a new job every time over another Frank Spaziani who is just happy to be there.
Not going to argue with you but will say (1) word is the hold up was around the contract language should he decide to leave and (2) reason he is interested is because he is a Boston guy with family ties (wife and sons).
That said, I know these things are fluid and BC is not in a position to worry about that. I would be thrilled to have him leave after having a ton of success.
Sure, but do we really think BOB's only goal is to get back into the NFL? He has been to the mountaintop there before -- and last year's NEP experience had to have been brutal and, at a minimum, didn't reflect well on him. Combined with the OSU-BC two-step he'd be doing to take this job--and the fact that he's from the area--you have to think he's maybe looking for a place to settle for a bit with his family.
No doubt. He and I went to the same HS. It could be the very rare situation where he actually values his family and quality of life over constant upward mobility, but if he does leave and they have success I’ll take that over another slog of 4-6 win seasons and crappy bowl games.
Especially with the current environment around conference realignment. The next few years will be very important.
Next year is going to be tough. The schedule is brutal. Probably at least part of Harley’s calculation on leaving.
As I was saying … Looks like BC is ready for the news to be public.
View: https://twitter.com/petethamel/status/1755981190010491252?s=46
https://twitter.com/petethamel/status/1755981190010491252?s=46
View: https://twitter.com/petethamel/status/1755981190010491252?s=46
https://twitter.com/petethamel/status/1755981190010491252?s=46
BC players get another 30 days to put themselves in the portal, but there is no corresponding exception for incoming transfers. Regardless, we are so far into the second semester, that I doubt any outgoing BC players would find a new spot for the current academic year. O’Brien will go shopping in the next portal window which will be after spring practice.
The biggest risk right now is Castellanos. He’s already had his one-time transfer, but there is a temporary restraining order in effect that currently allows unlimited transfers.
Because Kenny Walls rightfully pushed Jay Williams into the scorers table for hot dogging him?
HA! Ryan Sidney really bugged me.
That's not to say I've never rooted for them though. Thanks for beating UNC in the tourney. And beating the Irish back to back years in football.
I'm mostly indifferent to them. I've never thought of them as a "local" team.
I’m still bitter about the 2006 ACCCG in hoops. That BC team was a wagon. Fucking Redick. And man did I hate Shelden Williams and Paulus.
Dirty elbow swinger. Also, he was incredibly overrated, as his NBA career showed.
Yup, the education by a Boston area catholic school and a New England elite university, probably makes it an easy sell to the jesuits and making it a good fit. I stand corrected; this is indeed better than Chryst. And happy Chryst stays in Austin for the Horns, too.
He definitely had a college skillset. He was never a talented offensive player. Great college defender and rebounder. I was 100% against his number being retired.
That's exactly what he said when he went to State College, specifically mentioning the care his son could get through the Hersey Medical Center.
I imagine he'll say the same thing about the Boston medical community. But he also has a lot of other strong ties to Boston. He grew up in Andover and went high school at St John's Prep, his wife is a BC grad, and his youngest son is a freshman on the Tufts baseball team. Apparently the plan was for the family to stay in the Boston area even when he was heading for Ohio State. Which doesn't mean he won't leave if a NFL offer comes up, but there's a better chance that if it goes well he'll stick around compared to somebody like Hafley with no ties at all.
As far as the transfers go, I hope he can hang on to Jerand Bradley, the WR who Hafley got from Texas Tech in the portal. That kid sounds intriguing.
I haven't seen any info --- but any idea what the terms of the contract are?
Any guesses before it becomes known?
Any guesses before it becomes known?
My guess---5 year deal in the $4-$5 million per year. It's a slight increase on what Hafley was making this year.
Further to this point, the two coaches in the most recent national championship game have both left for "better" jobs. I doubt UW or UM have any regrets about hiring them though. The fact that your coach can be hired away at any time hangs heavy over every college program, with few exceptions (Iowa?). BC is hiring a coach from a job title that's about to attract a sitting P4 head coach. That is about the best you can do at mitigating this type of risk.
To this end, Chip Kelly just gave up the head coaching job at UCLA to become Ohio State's offensive coordinator.
He had quit recruiting. UCLA legit has one of the worst recruiting classes in the history of ranked classes.
They need to have "the next guy" on the staff now. Maybe Al Washington as DC and a Mayo-type promise to take over if BoB leaves.
It's a grand slam home run of a hire and an arguable game changer for the program. This is a coach who gives the program credibility in every single living room they walk into. They haven't had that since Tom O'Brien and he's in a place where the only way he leaves is probably 10 win seasons at least a couple times. Can't overstate what a win this hire is, even if he ends up not winning a lot. This is a guy that lets you credibly be seen as a power 5 school in a landscape that is getting increasingly exclusive.
Who would’ve thought that the BC job is better than the UCLA one? I kid (kind of) but AD Jarmond (former BC AD who actually hired Hafley) has been trying to raise money to buy out Kelley and seems to be maybe a fraud.