by Dick Rosenthal on Mon Apr 13, 2020 10:22 am
Jimmy MAC’s road to redemption in five easy steps:
1. In an effort to save even more money in anticipation of making a super duper expensive coaching hire in 2021, Jarmond moves all basketball games to Power Gym. All of a sudden, the 260 people who show up for BC basketball games in a 95% empty Conte Forum form a raucous crowd in the tight confines. Instant home court advantage!
2. When a second wave of the virus shows up in December, most of the rosters for Duke, UNC, FSU, Louisville, etc. decide to quit college basketball and self-isolate so as to avoid damaging their draft or professional basketball prospects. All of a sudden, BC’s collection of misfits is top line from a talent perspective in the ACC.
3. BC plows through the ACC playing against teams comprised almost entirely of walk-one in Conte-esque empty arenas across the ACC (although they manage a WTF loss to a Georgia Tech team whose rotation consists of 3 engineering majors, two walk ons and two former student managers, at home in February.
4. BC enters a depleted NCAA tournament field that has been reduced to 16 teams as the 1 seed in the Midwest—they were going to be the 2 seed in the East, but when the entire Dayton roster dies of the covid just before the A-10 Tournament, the Eagles slip into the 1 seed. The Eagles defeat Kent State and Valparaiso on their way to our first Final Four.
5. BC edges College of Charleston (the #1 seed out of the South) in a thrilling game to reach the Finals. Before the Finals, Martin Jarmond announces a six year extension for Jimmy MAC. Sadly, BC is trounced in the finals by a vengeful Mark Schmidt and Saint Bonnies (even in a ridiculous post like this I stick to my agenda). After the game, Martin Jarmond announces he will be taking over the AD job at Ohio State after Gene Smith dies of the covid. In an effort to save money, BC announces they are re-hiring Gene DeFillipo as AD. In his first action as AD, DeFillipo fires Hafley (fresh off a very solid 9-3 season) because of a WEEI report that Hafley is being considered for NY Jets job. Hafley is extremely confused because he never actually interviewed for the Jets job or had any contact with the Jets—whose entire team and front office died in the second wave of covid after a 4-11 season. DeFillipo announces that his son John will take over as the new HC.