claver2010 {l Wrote}:innocentbystander {l Wrote}:Eaglekeeper {l Wrote}:BC is involved with a lot of quality recruits mostly from Catholic schools. Hopefully winning with very young players and the opening of the new IPF and weight room will finally get BC a top 20 class where they rightfully belong every year. The timing is now to elevate this program.
Go Eagles!
I'd just be happy if BC gets maybe the 9th or 10th best recruiting class in the ACC for a change. I am sick and tired of 5 consecutive years of 12th or 14th out of 12 or 14.
agreed, i'd much rather be uva. sure they're 10-30 in the acc over last 5 years, but their last 5 classes have been on average 10th in acc
Addazio is a much better game day coach than Mike London and Addazio is at least Mendenhall's equal on game day. Sgt Slaughter can get more out of marginal players than London ever could and (probably more) than Mendenhall can. That is part of the reason why these players love Addazio. UVa was picked to finish dead last in the ACC Coastal. They didn't. They over performed. UVa goes at least 7-5 next year, maybe 8-4. That said, I'm sure Mendenhall (who lost to Toby not once, but twice) is beginning to realize just how easy he had it coaching BYU in the Mountain West or as an independent. The ACC is completely different matter, a completely different kind of job.
Over the last 5 years, Sgt Slaughter is 15-25 in the ACC. That is better than 10-30 (much better when you consider that 15-25 is in the Atlantic division) but Addazio still sucks. He sucks because in 5 years of recruiting, he has found exactly one diamond in the rough, A J Dillon. That's it. That is the only truly under valued recruit that Addazio has signed. I thought Harold Landry might also be that diamond but this year he vastly underperformed right into his injury. But if you want to give Addazio two diamonds in 5 years, go ahead.
If you are going to coach BC,
you need to find at least one vastly under-valued recruit every single year. You MUS do that. You must find under-valued treasures. That is what Toby did. That is why....
...none of those were rebuilding years. None. Every single one of those teams had nothing but Toby's recruits and ever single team either won first place in it's division or seriously challenged for it. In 3 of those 5 seasons, BC was either one fumble or one TD pass away from playing in the Orange Bowl. That is what you get when you find a diamonds.
If Addazio wants to keep his job after 2020 and get another extension, I expect another diamond in this 2018 class. And another diamond in the 2019 class. We need recruiting production. There is no other way. Or else, 4-4 in conference play is the best we can do.
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