The transcript from Media Day, held earlier this week, is below:
https://bceagles.com/news/2018/8/7/football-boston-college-media-day-transcripts-coaches.aspx
My takeaway from this centers around Addazio's thoughts on scheduling. I disagree 100% with his position on this. If BC was a first division perennial Top 15 P5 team, I might buy into the idea that you need, essentially, cupcakes on your schedule because you are battling for the playoffs and placement in NY6 bowl games. BC is not, and will not, on a regular basis, be one of those programs, no matter how many additions to the practice facilities they put at the Heights.
This mindset flies in the face of what Martin Jarmond said at the the Gridiron Club meeting I attended a year ago when I was in Boston. At that time, Jarmond acknowledged that scheduling is a difficult thing as it is hard to get games....I get that....but he also said he would look to schedule games against opponents who reside in recruiting areas, alumni bases and look at a more national program. He specifically talked about the West Coast as teams he would look at, given that the program now has players on the 2-deep from California and Cali is the third largest alumni base for BC in the country.
Addazio seems to think that putting UMass and UConn on the schedule is somehow a good thing. I think we all agree that those games do not move the needle as far as interest is concerned. I get that the ACC Atlantic is a difficult division and the cross over with Va Tech is not a gimme. But let's be real, BC in its best days is a 9-3 team and that takes into account games against the likes of UMass, UConn, N Illionois, C Mich, Richmond, Holy Cross and Maine on recent and future schedules.
Winning brings in fans, but winning against low level G5 and FCS opponents does nothing for your program. BC is a development program. It used play by the motto of Boise State, before Boise was Boise. They would play anyone, anywhere any time. With that mindset, BC was able to have in one season (1987 as an example) PSU, USC, ND, TCU and Tennessee on their "OOC" schedule along with the likes of Syracuse, Temple, Rutgers, WVA, Pitt and Army. Not a bad schedule. They went 5-6 but overall were competitive and did well at the gate.
It is depressing to think that Dazzler is content with playing nobodies in the OOC portion of the schedule. I get that he is trying to keep his job and coaches, at the end of the day, are judged on wins, not gutsy performances.....but c'mon man!