MattTheEagle {l Wrote}:I've never understood this Board's love affair with TOB. This is serious revisionist history. He's no better than Daz. Comparing records is stupid. The old Big East was weaker in football than the ACC in all of Addazio's years. Playing Rutgers and Temple as in-conference is a nice way to pad the stats. Then during the final years of TOB in the ACC, the ACC was weak like it is this year--Miami in down years, FSU during the end of Bowden, a Duke team that nobody wanted to play for, etc.
Once TOB was at NC State his results in the ACC were very similar to Addazio.
I don't know that anyone here loves Toby. I know I sure don't. I really don't care what Toby did or didn't do at NC State. But (IMHO) Toby was a much better coach than Addazio will ever be. And I don't think it is all that close.
What did I hate about Toby? I hated the same stuff we all hated, the WTF loss we got every year. I hated 1999 vs Miami (I hated every year vs Miami.) I hated the disciplinarian benching Green when BC played a #1 and undefeated Miami in 2001. I hated Toby's love affair with senior QBs (who should not have been playing) which resulted in needless losses. I hated Toby's "we are what we are" attitude. And most of all, I hated all his bitching and moaning about how hard and time consuming it was to roam all over New England, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania to recruit his players. Just shut the fuck up about it coach, and do your job. He never did. We hated Toby because he disrespected his own employer, denigrated your alma mater to the media. BC was never anything more to him than just a job (a job he thought was beneath him.)
Even in all that hatred, Toby gave us much to like about him. The way I look at it is this: he saved the program that was a "ch" away from being SMU-ed in 1996. He gave Chris Hovan a reason NOT to transfer. He gave us Damien Woody. He gave us William Green. He gave us Dan Koppen. He gave us Herzlich. He gave us Kiwi, Raji, Ron Brace. He gave us Trueblood. He gave us Matt Ryan. He gave us a bowl win over Georgia. He gave us 5 wins over Notre Dame (including 4 wins in a row) plus an undefeated OOC record spanning a few seasons. He gave BC an 8-4 consistency that earned the school an early invite to join the ACC. He gave us 9 regular season wins each of his last two years with the program. He gave us 6-1 home record in 2005 and a 7-0 home record in 2006 (vs the ACC I might add.) And obviously, he gave us the bowlshit winning streak.
Daz hasn't really given us anything other than 5th year transfers and a boat load of excuses for team that is always "rebuilding." I certainly hope we reach his 7-5 plateau again this year but that remains to be seen. Toby spoke to the media with a medium of intelligence that we are certainly lacking in Sgt Slaughter.
Yes Matt, we all hated Toby. But it took Addazio 4 complete seasons to win as many ACC games as Toby won in 2. I don't think you can really compare these guys. Toby holds the all time coaching record at BC for most wins. In our lifetimes Matt, its not likely you or I will ever see anyone overcome that statistic.