HJS {l Wrote}:Brooklyneagle {l Wrote}:MilitantEagle {l Wrote}:hinghameagle {l Wrote}:HJS: the flameout rate for these coaches is too high. Especially when you consider that BC has historically paid under market rate for coaches, losing Dazz and hoping to find a qualified successor carries an enormous risk. Remember the overwhelming majority of this board wanted Diaco before Dazz
This. Obviously, I would rather have a successful coach who then leaves as opposed to a Spaz, but when we have a good one, let's try our best to keep him.
Agree with Hingham and Militant, especially about hiring being a crapshoot for several reasons. As much as I might hate to admit it, we would probably have been better off -- financially and in terms of wins -- if we had instead kept TOB over the Jags/Spaz years. On balance.
We'd have better recruits on the team right now and wouldn't still be paying idiot bucks to Spaz. Our stinginess has been well rewarded. But it is admittedly a lesser factor than (GDF's) outright stupidity.
Obviously, there's a lot more to be said on this complex topic, but I'll leave it there.
I think quite the opposite. Louisville (which has been a revolving door of coaches) has shown that a competent AD can make stream coaches and have its program compete at an elite level. While I agree BC would have been in a better position when Daz took over if we kept TOB over the Jags/Spaz years... BC would have been in even a BETTER position if they simply didn't fire Jags (or hire Spaz as the replacement). The only problem with the Jags/Spaz years was Spaz (that and compounding the problem by giving him an extension and letting him coach 4 years).
hansen {l Wrote}:I actually think Daz could be a once in a lifetime guy for this school... in his second year, which most thought was going to be an absolute disaster, he has us at 4-2 well on our way to another bowl game. i honestly feel right now like we can beat anyone in the conference on any given saturday with FSU being the exception. as we continue to add more of his players into the system, we will be back to where we were and hopefully winning our first ACC title and more.
I'm not there yet. In Daz's second year at Temple, he started off 3-2 (including wins over UConn and USF and a almost-win against Penn State). Then... the bottom fell out of the season (where outside of a win at Army, they simply weren't competitive even with BC's all-time leading rusher putting up big numbers).
Nonetheless, at the start of the season, I looked at the schedule and this roster (especially with all the question marks on offense) and put the over/under for wins at 5. Bowl eligibility would simply be one of the great coaching performances I've seen at BC. We are 2 away from that with a very winnable game against Wake and a peer game against Cuse still to be played (we'll be underdogs against CU, FSU, UL and VT).
While I am basically on the same page as you, 6-6 is not one of the great coaching jobs we had seen. If he hadn't landed a 5th year senior QB, then yes, but after the Spring game we pretty much knew that this team could have a chance to hit 6 wins if the freshmen were as good as advertised. Especially with the experience returning in the interior of the line.
If he wins 7 or 8 (Wake, Cuse and one or two of VT/Ville or Clem), now you are talking one of the great coaching performances I have seen. And that includes a really bad loss to CSU.
I get what you are saying, if, after the season last year, without calculating transfers, freshmen or improvement, you said they would have won 6 games, we all would be shocked. But they did get transfers, freshmen and improvement.
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