Gene DeFilippo Staying Put, Will Be Here "For Many Years To Come"
by Brian Favat on Jun 10, 2011 1:07 PM EDT
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PrintIn the past few days, Gene DeFilippo's name has been floated as a possible replacement for Mike Hamilton, the embattled Tennessee Volunteers Athletic Director who announced his resignation on Tuesday. BC's Athletic Director was also associated with the UT Athletics Director search back in 2003, and has several ties to the school.
DeFilippo began his career as a graduate assistant for the Volunteers football program in the early 1970s and received his masters at Tennessee. GDF would later pull his name out of the running for the AD position when Hamilton got the job.
Eight years later, a few thought it possible that DeFilippo would be in a "different place" in his life and would be more willing to entertain a move back to Rocky Top.
Responding to the rumors that he might leave Boston College to take on the same position at the University of Tennessee, DeFilippo made it known in no uncertain terms he's staying put on the Heights: Via EEI:
"While I am a Tennessee graduate (master's degree) and love UT and Knoxville, my heart is here at Boston College," DeFilippo said in a statement from the school. "I am very fortunate to have the only job I want. [Wife] Anne and I will remain at BC for many years to come."
Glad we can put this rumor to rest and Tennessee can get on with its pursuit of Ric Flair as Athletic Director. Heel turn, wooooooooo!
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how messed up would it be if he left after firing jags and making the criteria for coaching hires that they view BC as an “end-destination”
I have mixed feelings about GDF. On one hand he has brought almost all of our programs along in the right direction, and had good runs in all the major sports (even baseball!). On the other hand, I think BC athletics has reaction a plateau in most areas. Hockey will remain elite as long as Jerry York is at the helm, basketball will waver from solid to terrible from year to year, and football will hover around .500. I appreciate what Gene has done for BC, but after a while I feel that things just got a little stale.
Part of me was kind of hoping that he would take the job at UT, which would then make BC go out and look for a new AD, hopefully one with a more ambitious outlook for our programs. Gene has made it clear that ACCCG aren’t really the goal of our teams, and does not define a successful season, and to me that is completely unacceptable.
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Let him stay a few more years. It will give me some time to strengthen my resume and build my case for BC Athletics Director.
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geez BCH
hey, BCH, grammar aside, you need to be banned from being a BC sports blooger with comments like this:
basketball will waver from solid to terrible from year to year, and football will hover around .500.
WTF!!!! How can you consider yourself a fan — or are you Bill Simmons in waiting….Geez Louise
Waterwater,
Why because I’m being realistic?
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no, nO, NO, No, no
you are not realistic at all — you are being debbie downer .
The .500 prediction is contrary to history and is all too pissy for me.
Maybe contrary to history, but what does history have to do with anything?
Spaz is 16-11 through two seasons (15-11 if you don’t count the Car Parts Bowl), so … corrected: “football will hover around .593.”
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BC’s all-time record in football is 625-435-36 (.587)
Spaz’s record through two years is 16-11 (.593)
Above-historical average coaching!
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Don't you all know,
we can only win 8-9 games a year tops?
WARNING ON HOYAEAGLE
Please note that while I, a loyal eagle, was fighting the good fight deep in enemy territory — indeed on the very Rakes of Mallow, a hard core ND board — HOYA EAGLE sided with the DOMERS and denounced me. WOW. Unexpectly blindsided by one of our own. Or is he one of our own? I think not.
He should be given not a voice here. He is no EAGLE
I believe it is clear that he is more HOYA and Not really an EAGLE at all.
Possibly a UCONN troll.
off with his head!
Regression of football
I’m not going to reiterate what all the Big East trolls have posted time and time again but you get the point. Look, I’d love to see BC go 9-3 this year and surprise everyone. But their schedule is very tough and there are a ton of question marks on this team. A ton of predictions (cough Brian cough) have BC hovering around 6-6.
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i believe the point it
that bc does not take the next step towards being an “elite” program, but rather whenever we have a great season we are the dark-horse team of the conference
THANK YOU. That was all I was saying.
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ok, then .....
I am going to go back to the grammar critique because what you wrote says NOTHING LIKE THAT
Can't we all just get along?
On the bright side, this also means that BC will continue to strive to be “Harvard Monday through Friday and Alabama on Saturdays” … for many years to come.
Roll tide.
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Hey, now!
Sticking with 7-5 … slightly below our historical winning pct.
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I disagree
All the sports are better (as you said), BC isn’t embarrassed by scandals and poor grad rates (which would have some effect on the perceived value of our degrees). GDF did can Al Skinner, who had a great case for sticking on and continuing for years with a respectable, but mediocre, bball team. He did hire, then fire Jags, which was both a good hire and I argue a good fire (Jags didn’t care about recruiting, remember?). He also got us out of the monstrosity that is the Big East. Bottom line, I see GDF as a guy who wants BC to be great. Just because we’re not every year doesn’t mean we’re not headed in the right direction. I know that is the unpopular opinion. But I still shudder at memories of Cedorchuk “coaching” hockey, Henning “coaching” football and Jim O’Brien on the hardwood.
I largely agree with this, except for the comment about canning Jags being a “good fire.” That was extremely poorly managed on both parts, but GDF clearly won the resulting media spin off.
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Yeah, the method was bad, that’s true – let me amend my statement on that. While I loved the results Jags got, I was always wary of his plan to change us from O-line U and pro-style QB to a running option QB style (i,.e,. Justin Tuggle) and lighter offensive line. It didn’t kill me that Jags lef (I honestly felt Ryan’s final year the team should have performed better), but the way was embarrassing and not handled well by GDF. the hire of spaz too is up in the air. Ok, I’m equivocating here, so I’ll stop
“For many years to come” = will personally oversee the hiring of the next football and hockey coach, to leave his “legacy” on BC.
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just rotten were are stuck with this tomato
will personally oversee the hiring of the next football and hockey coach
bad, bad, bad… and too bad to
So is it stuck with rotten tomatoes or 13-1 and Orange Bowl champs?
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One more thing
regardless of how anyone feels about GDF, it looks good for our athletics that our AD turns down Tennessee
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