eepstein0 {l Wrote}:HJS {l Wrote}:7 wins and a good recruiting class will likely never get you fired at BC. Good argument to be made that it shouldn't.
It really depends what we are aiming for as a football program.
I can't imagine a BC team having more talent than it did last year.
Is it really about what we are "aiming for as a football program"? I think every Power 5 school is "aiming for" championships. The real question here is what are you willing to sacrifice to make it so?
Are you willing to drop academics? Are you willing to cut a check for $500,000? Are you willing to leave the ACC if following the UCF model was determined to be our only path to the playoffs? Let's be honest here. Without such drastic changes (academically, financially or competitively) BC is never going to be much more than it is under TOB and Daz. What that is is a competitive program that becomes a threat to do something once ever 4 years. It's a middling school that tries to capitalize when it has lightning in the bottle.
Can we become more if we find another Coughlin? Sure. But, there are pretty much no examples of Coach K in football. The money and egos are just far too big for the next Urban Meyer to reside forever in Chestnut Hill. If we ever wanted to be more than a ho-hum, always-good-never-great program, we would have to do the Houston/Louisville/UCF thing where we go out a hire young hotshot coaches to use us as a stepping stone. You hold onto them as long as you can and then make sure you are able to crush the next hire (and be quick to fire when said hire was a mistake ala Applewhite and Kragthorpe). The biggest problem with BC going this route is the reliance upon JuCos and kids who have no chance academically.