Eaglekeeper {l Wrote}:The Burton family is a big ego family, probably better off without him.
Superfan 22 does an outstanding job assessing the recruiting and comparing facilities between BC and our competition. BC has always been behind in facilities, but they could always count on a decent crop of local talent. This is no longer the case as there are fewer local recruits (more kids playing hockey) and we are losing local kids at a much higher rate. It will only get worse when SU gets up to speed.
Leahy must go, but the next guy could be just as bad. Leahy is one stupid person to say the least. He had 8 plus wins every year under TOB and 40,000 seats sold and he let GDF force him out. Bball is D2 level with no help in site for the next few years. It will take pressure from the ACC especially given the upcoming network launch to force BC to investing in facilities. Leahy's comments that athletics only lose money and that it does not pay to invest in facilities is a strategy that will keep BC at the very bottom of the ACC in wins and losses and total attendance.
The facility stuff and Leahy thing has been discussed here ad nauseum, and untill we see otherwise, it is most likely true. The longer BC has subpar facilities, the more often were going to see guys with options flip like this (or not commit at all).
Kind of an interesting case study is right down the road in Providence where they went from a President who didn't care about athletics, to one currently who understands their place in the overall plan/mission of the school. Not only have their 2 main sports seen a huge uptick under the current President, they have recently completed a renovation of their hockey facility, built a new soccer/lacrosse complex, completed a new student Rex center, and have raised the funds/will shortly break ground on a new basketball practice facility as well as a complete transformation of the overall campus currently underway.
I have no clue as to succession plans of Leahy (timeframe or candidates), but it's getting to that point where the stagnation caused by Leahy is going to kill this whole thing and take even more time to dig out. One positive to all this is I think BC will see very rapid changes in regards to recruiting once the facilities hopefully catchup, if only for the fact that they have been beaten down (and most likely recruited against for having bad facilities) for so long.
