MaxxPower325 {l Wrote}:Decided to try the BC/Clemson game from the same year & a couple of things stand out...
1) We actually ran an ENTIRE 2nd string O-line for the first drive of the 2nd quarter and still moved the ball at will.
2) The D-line was also full of NFL talent and was solidly 2-deep. Raji was a Soph starter and Brace wasn’t even on the field. How is it we now have barely 1-AA talent???
Because unlike Addazio,
could recruit.
MaxxPower325 {l Wrote}: Doc Walker was very entertaining, but the play by play guy calling Blackmon Solomon all day was the gift that keeps on giving.
Bonus: we had really excellent college LBs during this entire run as well. TOB really, really screwed the pooch by not winning more with the talent he had.
TOB brought in that talent.
We hated
because he was so negative with the press about BC. "We are what we are." "8 or 9 wins is the best anyone can do at BC." You hear that over and over and it drives you crazy, the incredible disrespect he pays your alma mater and his own employer. But when you really listened to him in the press conferences (and he gave a lot of them) what drove us all batshit was the constant whining and complaining about how he had to travel all over the country to find players that he felt were good enough to play for BC. He never stopped complaining. Basically, what he was saying (and he was right) was that Massachusetts/New England high school football players just sucked. That he had to go above and beyond every other head coach in the country because there was no one that lived close enough to BC that was good enough to play at BC.
But you know what? He got the job done. He recruited his fucking ass off. He did better (in that one category) than probably any head coach in BC football history. And maybe that's not saying that much, but "we are what we are."
That said, everyone on the board wanted to FIRE HIM for the annual WTF loss. Those were inexcusable. With
, there was a guaranteed LOSS every single season to a team that BC was far and away mathematically better than in pretty much every on field category. That LOSS would invariably take BC out of mentioning nationally and would pretty much disqualify BC for ever having any real shot at winning the Big East/ACC.
Its been more than a decade since any of us could count on the annual WTF loss. That because these players suck (and have sucked for quite some time.) Addazio couldn't sell. Spaz couldn't sell. Jags? Well two years just doesn't give anyone enough of a window to measure their sales capabilities. But toby could sell. He could sell BC and he brought in the 4-star players (even brought in a 5-star once.) No matter how good AJ was or Andre Williams or any of them, as far as I'm concerned they were a distant second or third place behind William Green.
Lets hope Jeff Hafley can sell. If he can't, after two or three years we are all going to want him out of here. I miss the days when it drove me CRAZY when the team was so talented that we could actually have a WTF loss (and have the season ruined as a result.)
Feminism: Eve eats ALL the apples, gives God the middle finder when He confronts her, and has the serpent serve Adam with an injunction ordering him to stay away from her AND to provide her food and shelter because he dragged her out of the Garden.