Someone do me a favor re: EagleAction

[bcnyceagle]

Its interesting that so many posters on EA are quick to trash Chase, but most of the people who actually watch the football games realizes that its predominantly a major issue with the O-line. My only guess at an explanation is that the merrymen are desperate for any reason to avoid blaming Spaz, and, realizing that the whole youth and injuries excuse is getting a bit ridiculous, they're looking to the players to find someone to deflect the blame at. Of course, the most obvious choice when you have offensive problems is the quarterback.

One of the things that always amazed me about that board was how, when you compared the game day comments on EA to the game comments on EO, you wouldn't have even known that they were watching the same game in many cases. Its like they see their own imaginations playing out on the field, validating all their assumptions, despite how totally detached from reality their assumptions were. Then they all turn into lemmings once an idea gets picked up by a more influential poster.

[2008Eagle]

"Fans" like this are part of the problem. Ever to excuse mediocrity.

[HJS]

Can we stop with the mediocrity shit? 3-9 is downright fucktastic. Very few BCS teams have had a 3-9 season recently. Mediocre (which I would define as 7-8 wins for a BCS team on a 12-game schedule) isn't in sight anymore.

[bignick33]

I dont believe PatriotGolfer is real.

[DrJackRyan]

MacCallum Foote, from Noble and Greenough ...was not good enough for us after camping here two summers. Sophomore, Middlebury College..... 6'5 220 lbs. Two weeks ago, he was the leading passer in the NCAA and missed a game due to injury. He would have thrown for close to 3,000 yards in 8 games. I do not care what the competition is, we screwed up.

[PhillyandBCEagles]

MacCallum Foote, from Noble and Greenough ...was not good enough for us after camping here two summers. Sophomore, Middlebury College..... 6'5 220 lbs. Two weeks ago, he was the leading passer in the NCAA and missed a game due to injury. He would have thrown for close to 3,000 yards in 8 games. I do not care what the competition is, we screwed up.

i bet he would call hampton hughes a new-money whore

Same guy that started out at BROWN, and transferred to Middlebury because he couldn't get on the field at Brown. Dedham really is unbelievable.

[claver2010]

MacCallum Foote, from Noble and Greenough ...was not good enough for us after camping here two summers. Sophomore, Middlebury College..... 6'5 220 lbs. Two weeks ago, he was the leading passer in the NCAA and missed a game due to injury. He would have thrown for close to 3,000 yards in 8 games. I do not care what the competition is, we screwed up.

A guy on my intramural football team could really wing it, 6'2" 210 threw for about 150 yards per game (but double that cause we played on 50 yard fields), so really 300 yards per game. I don't care what hte competition is, we screwed up.

[NotoriousOrange]

For reasons known only to themselves, the merry tide seems to be turning back to the approval camp.

The lemming reaction is an interesting phenomenon. Herzlich's dad scolded that board for placing blame and being negative and it has resulted in a day's worth of "Herzy's right....I super triple support the team" posts.

It turns out that we shouldn't be so hard on the coaches. Negativity is bad.

I believe he challenged everyone to a fist fight before editing his post. There were a few takers on the fight invite. Good stuff.

Actually, he signed it with his full name and provided his telephone number. Then a number of dopes provided their phone numbers and full names so they could discuss it via a phone call. Seriously the dude must have been under heavy medication or drinking as he removed his personal information the next morning.

someone should have set up a conference call with all these message board warriors.

listing phone numbers on message boards is only appropriate after matt ryan pulls unbelievable stuff out of his nether regions and you want someone to call you and tell you when the team bus returns to town. any other time and its just douchie!

I laughed really hard at this post - Thx for the humor TRE

[HJS]

I got this emailed to me. If this was truly written (and not someone fucking with me), I may sign-up for EA just to beat the shit out of whoever wrote this.

This moral victory is something that the team can build on for the future. If you squinted really hard while watching this game you could see flashes of the well oiled machine that this BC team will be next year. I don't even think I am going out on a limb when I say that we could be undefeated next year. You have to view this season as the launching pad to greatness that it is. BC is a fine sword being tempered in a crucible of difficult losses, youth and unexpected adversities. We have a coaching staff that has soldiered on despite being unfairly maligned by fairweather BC Fans. A chemistry is being formed between the players and the coaching staff; a chemistry that will lead to great success. The players can see it, that is why they haven't given up in a single game this year. The coaches can see it and they are building on it little by little. If you can't see it, then shame on you.

BC Football is so close to greatness.. Just a few more steps and we will be there. Watching this team grow up right before my eyes is awe-inspiring. When we are 11-0 next year and in the thick of the BCS hunt, I will have tears in my eyes when I think how I saw the greatest team in BC history being born.

GO BC! Ever to Excel.

[bcnyceagle]

That has to be facetious. Tears in their eyes? No way.

[HJS]

Then it's my bad. I probably should've realized that it was bullshit... was supposed to be written by a poster I never heard before (Irontooth?). As campion would say, I am an easy mark... besides, given the retardedness of that board, I'd pretty much believe anything.

[BrightonEagle]

yesterday was really the worst possible outcome. we didn't get the satisfaction of a win, but we gave people like these guys on ea the false belief that things are getting better and we need to keep spaz to build on this "momentum"

[eagle9903]

The posters over there are not really doing what I'd expected. I have not really seen a serious version of the post HJS quoted above, which as he realized is pretty clearly not serious. Sure there are and will be some at some point this week.

They are, however, true to form shitting on any player whose name they can remember. ALJ and Rettig are subject to many such posts.

Also a few of them have a weird obsession with Jim Turner.

[HJS]

My buddy tells me he wasn't bullshitting and it was an honest-to-goodness Rah-Rah post... he claims this link gets you there.
http://bostoncollege.rivals.com/showmsg ... Override=1

Can anyone confirm?

[31southst]

My buddy tells me he wasn't bullshitting and it was an honest-to-goodness Rah-Rah post... he claims this link gets you there.
http://bostoncollege.rivals.com/showmsg ... Override=1

Can anyone confirm?

Apparently it is, by someone named Irontooth. I have no idea if it's said seriously or not - that name doesn't ring a bell for me.

[PhillyandBCEagles]

There is a thread full of people advocating BC to bring back Jim Turner as OL coach (OK, I think we could probably do better but we could also do worse and he'd certainly be an upgrade over Devine)....only a number of them, not a majority but quite a few, are legitimately advocating he be hired as head coach. One of them (LoST) can be forgiven because he's personal friends with Turner and is obviously biased, but the rest have no personal ties to the man yet seriously think a guy who's never even been a coordinator at the college level and is currently a 56-year-old position coach at a peer program would be a fine choice for head coach.

Oh. My. God.

[weinerdog]

There is a thread full of people advocating BC to bring back Jim Turner as OL coach (OK, I think we could probably do better but we could also do worse and he'd certainly be an upgrade over Devine)....only a number of them, not a majority but quite a few, are legitimately advocating he be hired as head coach. One of them (LoST) can be forgiven because he's personal friends with Turner and is obviously biased, but the rest have no personal ties to the man yet seriously think a guy who's never even been a coordinator at the college level and is currently a 56-year-old position coach at a peer program would be a fine choice for head coach.

Oh. My. God.

Hang on, easy with the "peer program" statements. We HAVE no peer programs anymore. I mean, we're about the 5th best team in Massachusetts.

[ATLeagle]

There is a thread full of people advocating BC to bring back Jim Turner as OL coach (OK, I think we could probably do better but we could also do worse and he'd certainly be an upgrade over Devine)....only a number of them, not a majority but quite a few, are legitimately advocating he be hired as head coach. One of them (LoST) can be forgiven because he's personal friends with Turner and is obviously biased, but the rest have no personal ties to the man yet seriously think a guy who's never even been a coordinator at the college level and is currently a 56-year-old position coach at a peer program would be a fine choice for head coach.

Oh. My. God.

Jim Turner will never get a sniff of the job as long as GDF is still around. Plus Sherman is about to get run at Texas A&M.

[PhillyandBCEagles]

These people insist on continuing to use the argument that Jags was a failure at BC and was clearly a horrible coach all along, as evidenced by the fact that he washed out at Tampa. No matter how many times I bring up names like Saban, Spurrier, Petrino, and Carroll, they can't seem to wrap their heads around the idea that plenty of guys are good college coaches and bad NFL coaches.

[TheGuru]

Paints about as rosy a picture of the state of BC football as I do. He clearly was being facetious. I believe he has been aboard the $hitcan Spaz brigade for a long time now.

[weinerdog]

These people insist on continuing to use the argument that Jags was a failure at BC and was clearly a horrible coach all along, as evidenced by the fact that he washed out at Tampa. No matter how many times I bring up names like Saban, Spurrier, Petrino, and Carroll, they can't seem to wrap their heads around the idea that plenty of guys are good college coaches and bad NFL coaches.

If he's such a good college coach then why is he never considered when colleges have openings? I haven't heard his name on ESPN since the NFL canned him. Looks to me like BC fired a guy that no one else wants either.

Well, there's this from CBS Sports: http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/33094299

[claver2010]

These people insist on continuing to use the argument that Jags was a failure at BC and was clearly a horrible coach all along, as evidenced by the fact that he washed out at Tampa. No matter how many times I bring up names like Saban, Spurrier, Petrino, and Carroll, they can't seem to wrap their heads around the idea that plenty of guys are good college coaches and bad NFL coaches.

If he's such a good college coach then why is he never considered when colleges have openings? I haven't heard his name on ESPN since the NFL canned him. Looks to me like BC fired a guy that no one else wants either.

You must've missed Vin-aggedon

[NotoriousOrange]

There is a thread full of people advocating BC to bring back Jim Turner as OL coach (OK, I think we could probably do better but we could also do worse and he'd certainly be an upgrade over Devine)....only a number of them, not a majority but quite a few, are legitimately advocating he be hired as head coach. One of them (LoST) can be forgiven because he's personal friends with Turner and is obviously biased, but the rest have no personal ties to the man yet seriously think a guy who's never even been a coordinator at the college level and is currently a 56-year-old position coach at a peer program would be a fine choice for head coach.

Oh. My. God.

Turner is around 45 right?

[DavidGordonsFoot]

How are the merrymen reacting to Gene's labeling of Spaz as the best BC football coach in the last 15 years?

[DomingoOrtiz]

How are the merrymen reacting to Gene's labeling of Spaz as the best BC football coach in the last 15 years?

Conflicted, they are awaiting guidance from TGOSB.

[31southst]

The best post I've seen today:

This team has improved so much... Reply
the naysayers are crazy. From the way BC looked from the first game and especially during the mid season run of awfulness to the last three games is night and day. The future for this team is bright.

Yes I disagree with the conservative style of play and playcalling on offense and defense, but BC just beat a team that destroyed Clemson and beat UNC (NC State) and a team that beat Ohio State, UNC and Georgia Tech (Miami) and played with a Notre Dame team that is really talented.

This is a young team that is starting to believe it can win and the momentum from the end of the season is huge. Bowl game next year, you heard it here from a pessimist.

[twballgame9]

These people insist on continuing to use the argument that Jags was a failure at BC and was clearly a horrible coach all along, as evidenced by the fact that he washed out at Tampa. No matter how many times I bring up names like Saban, Spurrier, Petrino, and Carroll, they can't seem to wrap their heads around the idea that plenty of guys are good college coaches and bad NFL coaches.

If he's such a good college coach then why is he never considered when colleges have openings? I haven't heard his name on ESPN since the NFL canned him. Looks to me like BC fired a guy that no one else wants either.

Campion's feigned ignorance works well here. Kudos, campion, let's see if you get bites.

[PhillyandBCEagles]

The merrymen are now claiming that the fact that players aren't publicly ripping Spaz proves conclusively that the rumors of discontent on the team are 100% false.

[eagle9903]

I like to give credit where it is due and not paint people with too broad of a brush because of the website they post on(new policy, just enacted):

In response to one of those abysmal failures in cause and effect posts in which players leaving after Jags' termination thus damaging the precious graduation rate is blamed on the fact that Jags recruited them (carelessly!):

Decent logic but here is the problem with this argument:

NO ONE OUTSIDE OF A COUPLE OF WHALE PANTS WEARING, HAND SITTING, GIN BLOSSOMED PHONIES CARE ABOUT THE FRIGGIN GRADUATION RATE!!!!!!

Do it right, build a good clean program but hanging your had on this number is like kissing your sister after you took your cousin to the prom

[BCWomp]

Some folks need a little reminder that this wasn't a 1980's Miami team that BC beat. Just the week before Miami squeeked out a 6-3 victory over the last place team from the weakest BCS conference. Miami needed a 4th quarter FG to defeat a bad South Florida team. Yes, a win is better than a loss, but beating Miami just is not a big deal anymore.