Next Sunday's Globe

[longdistanceeagle]

Reserve your copy now. There will be some very interesting reading. Should be quite provocative.

[angrychicken]

Are we finally getting that good news from Houston?

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

are any delicious wang's involved? that's typically the sort of coverage the globe gives us... trouble from the troublemakers

[eepstein0]

A Bob Ryan hit piece with a BC should've never left the Big East paragraph. Anything beyond that will surpass my expectations

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

bc made the right decision and is finally bringing al skinner back?

[DavidGordonsFoot]

If Ryan contributed then they might as well scrap it now and tell us more about which media members are fucking the Red Sox.

[HJS]

There is only one writer BC has to worry about... and it ain't Bob Ryan. It is Bob Hohler who is the designated hitman when it comes to Boston College.

[ILikeBC]

A little more hints would be really nice here

[ILikeBC]

Also very intriguing that LDE knows something this far ahead.

Do newspapers typically reach out a week ahead to say "hey we're gonna demolish your athletic program next week in the sports section?"

Is JC resigning and writing a hit piece to go with it?

This could be interesting

[Bunratty]

I believe HJS is correct. Hearing that Bob Hohler is working on a story and it ain't gonna be pretty. And it shouldn't be.

[ILikeBC]

Who's he going at? Bates and Leahy? Trustees?

[HJS]

Hohler has never written a positive piece about anything when it comes to BC. It is essentially his job to tear down the school. He did the same to UMass under Calipari. That said, BC should use that very angle to show the Globe's duplicitous nature.

He/They killed Umass for their whole pay-for-play... they killed them for not giving their free labor a real education... they killed them for milking their athletes so the school can achieve game, glory and financial riches. In every way, what BC is doing now is the exact opposite.

If anything, what is happening at BC is the evolution of a belief system. Leahy does not believe athletics should be a focus of a University's mission. He believes in the amateur athlete. He does not believe in semi-pro athletes getting paid by teams making millions to be a farm system for the NFL/NBA. As one of the few outliers with that mentality in the Big 5, our drive to the Patriot League is unique. However, it is not necessarily something that is outrageous... hell, in a normal world, it would be lauded.

All that said, as fans and alums, none of this should be an excuse. Likeminded programs like Northwestern, Stanford, Duke, Wake and Vandy have had similar troughs and recovered by hiring excellent coaches to lead in challenging environs. BC is where it is because the people currently in charge do not know how to make comparable hires.

[eepstein0]

It shouldn't be that hard to write a hit piece on BC after this year.

[claver2010]

I'm sure they reached out to lde's buddy asked for a comment to which he wouldn't provide anything

it's probably some piece about how terrible / mickey mouse we are

[HJS]

I'm sure they reached out to lde's buddy asked for a comment to which he wouldn't provide anything

it's probably some piece about how terrible / mickey mouse we are

It probably has nothing to do with interviewing Christian. JC is readily available to the media after each and every loss. He is already the face of this historic disaster. There is frankly no need for Hohler to bury him further.

My guess is that Hohler had a long interview with Bates (who likely short-circuited Rubio-style resulting in multiple utterances of "student development"). He likely sought comment from Leahy. I fully expect a comment from Swofford as to our status in the ACC (and whether he expected such futility when they took us to destroy the Big East). My guess is that LDE's friend was warned by Bates that this media shitstorm was going to hit... so his coaches could brace for the impact (especially on the recruiting front).

[angrychicken]

I just hope it's not that NUCLEAR ENEMA that we were warned about.

[claver2010]

I just hope it's not that NUCLEAR ENEMA that we were warned about.

what about the C.A.N.?

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

I just hope it's not that NUCLEAR ENEMA that we were warned about.

what about the C.A.N.?

i'm planning to sleep with my mouth closed saturday night, just in case

[2014 Eagle]

Reserve your copy now. There will be some very interesting reading. Should be quite provocative.

On Sunday, March 13th, Boston College Athletics will denounce Daylight Savings Time so everyone misses one hour of each sporting event next year?

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

Reserve your copy now. There will be some very interesting reading. Should be quite provocative.

On Sunday, March 13th, Boston College Athletics will denounce Daylight Savings Time so everyone misses one hour of each sporting event next year?

it's nice they are finally following the lead we laid out for them almost 7 years ago

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no meatbomb

[angrychicken]

I would welcome an article about the BC athletic department and the culture of ineptitude that it has bathed in for quite some time. Point fingers in every direction. Leahy, the BOT, Bates, Addazio, Christian. Include interviews with Spaz, Gene, Jags, TOB, Al, Donahue, Le Tari, Ryan Glasper, *** *******. Throw it all on the table.

Sadly, based on my past experiences of getting my hopes up for this type of accountability, this will just be another article about something like AAU basketball coaches being bad people.

[eepstein0]

I would welcome an article about the BC athletic department and the culture of ineptitude that it has bathed in for quite some time. Point fingers in every direction. Leahy, the BOT, Bates, Addazio, Christian. Include interviews with Spaz, Gene, Jags, TOB, Al, Donahue, Le Tari, Ryan Glasper, *** *******. Throw it all on the table.

Sadly, based on my past experiences of getting my hopes up for this type of accountability, this will just be another article about something like AAU basketball coaches being bad people.

They kind of are bad people

[twballgame9]

Nothing worse than a hack chasing a Pulitzer.

[angrychicken]

I would welcome an article about the BC athletic department and the culture of ineptitude that it has bathed in for quite some time. Point fingers in every direction. Leahy, the BOT, Bates, Addazio, Christian. Include interviews with Spaz, Gene, Jags, TOB, Al, Donahue, Le Tari, Ryan Glasper, *** *******. Throw it all on the table.

Sadly, based on my past experiences of getting my hopes up for this type of accountability, this will just be another article about something like AAU basketball coaches being bad people.

They kind of are bad people

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

I would welcome an article about the BC athletic department and the culture of ineptitude that it has bathed in for quite some time. Point fingers in every direction. Leahy, the BOT, Bates, Addazio, Christian. Include interviews with Spaz, Gene, Jags, TOB, Al, Donahue, Le Tari, Ryan Glasper, *** *******. Throw it all on the table.

Sadly, based on my past experiences of getting my hopes up for this type of accountability, this will just be another article about something like AAU basketball coaches being bad people.

i second your suggestion of the content of the article as well as your doubt that any of it will get covered.

there will be several sections cut and pasted from the time of the acc merger regarding how we can't compete and should not have made the jump.

i predict the article will be frustrating for addressing issues incorrectly (ignoring the benefits of the acc revenue and the participation in acccg under jags and acc tournament finals under skinner instead opting for the spaz/beeker/slaughter/jimmy mac time frame). i predict that i will get increasingly frustrated as i read the article, not for the state of boston college athletics but instead for the hack cliche and bad reporting.

maybe i'll be wrong and mrs. mac's suggestion of provocation will be proven true, but i doubt it highly... it's still the globe

[Tom Dooder]

It'll be a well deserved hit piece against the administration and Bates. Christian and other coaches will have gone on background for the story to speak the truth but if any are actually quoted it will be in support of Bates, Leahy, etc.

[twballgame9]

If its Hohler, it won't be earth shattering and it wont' have much substance.

[JesuitIvy]

We all know it's gonna be the same old refrain every time BC has a poor team -- it can't compete, should never have left the Big East, look at how it surrendered its soul for winning and got this. Wake me when the Globe figures out how to deliver my newspaper.

[DavidGordonsFoot]

We all know it's gonna be the same old refrain every time BC has a poor team -- it can't compete, should never have left the Big East, look at how it surrendered its soul for winning and got this. Wake me when the Globe figures out how to deliver my newspaper.

I agree with you, and at this point, would such a story even move the needle? BC's ineptitude peaked as a story four days ago. More than a week later, no one is going to care.

I would be a lot more worried about this piece if BC were coming off a successful year. Unless Hohler has dug up a new scandal that none of us are aware of, there really is nothing to see here.

[ATLeagle]

A lot of Hohler's hit pieces were done with the help of the BC beat writer at the time, but they usually don't put the beat writer's name on it. That way when the beat writer goes back to his BC sources, he can still be the good guy.

If LDE knows it is coming, my guess is that Christian is serving as a source and throwing people under the bus. If he does do that, he's not very smart. Even if JC thinks Bates is a moron or that the school sucks, a lengthy Globe piece isn't going to change that or help him. If anything one of the first things a new AD is going to do is fire JC. JC's best friend at a Power 5 school is Bates. If JC can't win at BC he's never getting another Power 5 job.