Preston Murphy leaves BC for Creighton

[Walsh601]

Creighton's Greg McDermott has hired BC's Preston Murphy as an assistant coach, source told @CBSSports. Strong hire. Replaces Pat Sellers.

https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/status/598534653335707648

[eagle9903]

well that sucks.

I realize this is unfair since he is merely a content aggregator, but I hate the poster Walsh601. Every time he posts it is something shitty or 81ish.

[Corporal Funishment]

I'm having a harder and harder time envisioning any scenario where we could possibly be good in the foreseeable future. We're officially on Turner, Milon, and Diallo watch now too, for anyone still keeping track.

[BCSUPERFAN22]

What a weird situation. He's going to a mediocre team in a mid-major league in Nebraska. I can't imagine they have the ability to pay something far and away above what BC allegedly committed to assistants. He either didn't like Christian, or this dumpster fire is worse than we all think

[ATLeagle]

What a weird situation. He's going to a mediocre team in a mid-major league in Nebraska. I can't imagine they have the ability to pay something far and away above what BC allegedly committed to assistants. He either didn't like Christian, or this dumpster fire is worse than we all think

Thank god Spinelli didn't get a head job this offseason. This sort of confirms all the gossip of the assistants throwing JC under the bus for not closing on recruits.

[HJS]

What a weird situation. He's going to a mediocre team in a mid-major league in Nebraska. I can't imagine they have the ability to pay something far and away above what BC allegedly committed to assistants. He either didn't like Christian, or this dumpster fire is worse than we all think

Or he thinks that there is a greater chance that McDermott gets hired by a big'um than Christian.

[Corporal Funishment]

What a weird situation. He's going to a mediocre team in a mid-major league in Nebraska. I can't imagine they have the ability to pay something far and away above what BC allegedly committed to assistants. He either didn't like Christian, or this dumpster fire is worse than we all think

I agree. Unless they are doubling his salary, this speaks incredibly poorly on our program.

[eagle9903]

I think the program speaks poorly for itself. What a disaster.

[BCHerbert]

Hearing Nat Graham is the lead man to replace Murphy

[commavegarage]

an ACC assistant from a northeast city in the acc is actively choosing to leave to be in the same position for a big east team in omaha nebraska that had nearly the exact same record as us last year


what a disaster

[DavidGordonsFoot]

This sort of confirms all the gossip of the assistants throwing JC under the bus for not closing on recruits.

I don't read the beat-off thread. Is this really a thing?

[Iggle]

Well, that's no good.

[eagle9903]

This sort of confirms all the gossip of the assistants throwing JC under the bus for not closing on recruits.

I don't read the beat-off thread. Is this really a thing?

No, but it doesn't matter does it?

[2001Eagle]

Leahy needs to go and dollars need to be spent to upgrade the facilities.

[DavidGordonsFoot]

This sort of confirms all the gossip of the assistants throwing JC under the bus for not closing on recruits.

I don't read the beat-off thread. Is this really a thing?

No, but it doesn't matter does it?

No.

So what current MAC assistants would realistically make the lateral move to BC?

[ATLeagle]

Leahy needs to go and dollars need to be spent to upgrade the facilities.

Agreed, but that is really Bates' job. It is not like Murphy didn't know what it was like to recruit at BC with the facilities and admissions as handicaps.

[eagle9903]

Leahy needs to go and dollars need to be spent to upgrade the facilities.

Agreed, but that is really Bates' job. It is not like Murphy didn't know what it was like to recruit at BC with the facilities and admissions as handicaps.

It's not really the athletic director's job to make the president leave.

I think the departure of the greasy guy and the mustached guy and the muppet looking guy and the remaining terribleness, mediocrity and terribleness respectively more or less prove this is a bigger problem than AD and coaches.

[twballgame9]

Maybe Al Skinner was a really good coach

[Corporal Funishment]

I'm just going to post this tweet from August....


Alex Kline ‏@TheRecruitScoop Aug 7
2015 Oviedo (FL) SG Matt Milon has named his top six: Creighton, Florida State, Boston College, Stanford, Davidson & Harvard.



....and this image

[DavidGordonsFoot]

So what current MAC assistants would realistically make the lateral move to BC?

Look who's an assistant at Buffalo! Is he open to leaving?

[DavidGordonsFoot]

....and this image

OK, we get it, the facilities suck.

[BCHerbert]

So what current MAC assistants would realistically make the lateral move to BC?

Look who's an assistant at Buffalo! Is he open to leaving?

What in the hell happened to his eye?

[Boston College 8]

does anyone know what this means for our recruits?

i feel like at this point they will stay.

also yeah creigton's record might have been bad last year, but if you follow college basketball you know that they have BU's best player coming in next year as well as a couple other high profile transfers. they are at least a bubble NCAA team next year.

i don't think milon would choose to go to them. he would play maybe 10 minutes a game as a freshman as opposed to 25-30 at BC. i hope we can keep all of our recruits as i like the direction of the program IF we keep all of them for 3-4 years, and keep recruiting the way we are with GOOD players such as diallo, turner, milon, robinson, graves, ect..

[hinghameagle]

hopefully if things were left amicably Murphy agreed not to go after players already committed to BC. Odds are against this though as college hoops is a cesspool.

[eagle9903]

does anyone know what this means for our recruits?

i feel like at this point they will stay.

also yeah creigton's record might have been bad last year, but if you follow college basketball you know that they have BU's best player coming in next year as well as a couple other high profile transfers. they are at least a bubble NCAA team next year.

i don't think milon would choose to go to them. he would play maybe 10 minutes a game as a freshman as opposed to 25-30 at BC. i hope we can keep all of our recruits as i like the direction of the program IF we keep all of them for 3-4 years, and keep recruiting the way we are with GOOD players such as diallo, turner, milon, robinson, graves, ect..

Hanlan didn't stay

[eepstein0]

This parallel's the Donahue regime perfectly.

Murphy leaving is an unmitigated disaster for the program.

[BCSUPERFAN22]

also yeah creigton's record might have been bad last year, but if you follow college basketball you know that they have BU's best player coming in next year as well as a couple other high profile transfers. they are at least a bubble NCAA team next year.

If you follow college basketball you'd realize that Creighton on is a totally mediocre program in an over-rated mid major conference. The only reason they are an ncaa bubble team is because everyone in the big east is the same, average.

I have to agree with Epstein on this one, this is a disaster. JC built his entire recruiting plan on getting guys from NE, and he just lost his best recruiter in the region who essentially took a demotion to go live in Nebraska.

According to Hoffses, this shouldn't have impact on current commits, but you can probably kiss Shawntrez Davis goodbye.

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

creighton has far greater facilities and a much larger fan following. i'm guessing murphy got a significant pay bump and has a chance to be identified for a greater leap with the additional exposure he gets at an above .500 program (which won't happen at bc until at least 202x).

for those just realizing this makes the porgram look bad - what the fuck have you been watching for the last 5 years?

lastly, fuck siriuzkeeper and the rest of you that gave me shit in donahue's year two for asking why he wasn't getting shit on as badly as spaz got shit on. fuck each and every one of you with claver's micropenis

[Corporal Funishment]

Forget about Dejon Jarreau too. The "great" thing about this is it's late enough in the cycle to handicap us pretty severely in the 2016 class too. I really, really, really hope the new assistant has some sort of NEPSAC or New England AAU connection.

Also, I am reminded of this fiasco and wonder how Preston felt about the whole thing:

Aaron Falzon lives 10 minutes away from the Boston College campus. He grew up with dreams of donning the maroon and gold to play basketball for the Eagles.


Reality didn’t play out as smoothly as those dreams, as BC head coach Jim Christian decided to end his recruitment of the 6-foot-8 forward from Massachusetts. But it wasn’t that decision that bothered the Falzons. It was how he went about sharing that decision.

On Monday, assistant coach Preston Murphy called Eric Falzon, Aaron’s father. “Are you guys ready for your visit?” Murphy asked him, according to Eric. “We’re excited. Everything’s all set.”

They were. The visit, scheduled for Oct. 10-12, would be Aaron’s last. But fewer than 24 hours later, another call came in.

“Coach Christian called and said he wanted to end the recruitment to me,” Eric said. “I said, ‘That’s fine, Coach. I really appreciate it. Have you talked to Aaron?’”

[twballgame9]

No amount of depression is going to make me believe a word that comes out of the mouth of Falzone's father.