Boston College Football Recruiting Update: Sam Grant Officially Decommits
by A.J Black on Jan 22, 2012 11:00 AM EST
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PrintEarlier this week Brian laid out the current state of Boston College football recruitment. We all winced when one of BC's top recruits Akeel Lynch decommitted to go after offers from other schools. Well today, grab your gut again, because another one of BC's top recruits is officially a goner.
According to Justin Rowland of Rivals.com
BREAKING: Three-star Ohio tight end Sam Grant has officially decommitted from #BC. He denies reports he is committed to another school..— JRowand (@JRowland_Rivals) January 21, 2012
Not much of a surprise here, as the internet has been abuzz that Grant was a goner for a while now, but still stings none the less.
BC's recruiting class is in absolute shambles. BC currently has 13 recruits that are solid right now (not counting Hood), but what strikes me is the quality of recruit Spaz seems to be attracting. Of those recruits, two of them received offers from schools at the bottom of the BCS barrel (UConn & Vanderbilt), and only five recruits have received offers from quality BCS schools. BC is not only getting smoked on the recruiting front, but they are also failing to bring in talent that can be competitive at the BCS level.
And to be fair, Spaz is trying. Look at all the offers that he thrown out there. He has over a dozen four star recruits that have offers in hand, but the pathetic truth of it all is that BC can't close out on any of these guys. The Eagles' are stuck at a 13 recruits right now, and there doesn't seem to be much talk of any other guys switching over to BC anytime soon.
Could this be the worst BC recruiting class in recent memory? It certainly looks like it. Frank Spaziani and BC Athletics not only have this team in no position to win next season, but are setting up years of mediocrity for this program. Come on BC, we deserve better than this.
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Dante's Last Rectum of Rectum Hell
The worst is yet to come. BC missed a magnificent window to hire a new Head Coach!!!
by BCEagle74 on Jan 22, 2012 11:19 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Spaz must go!!!!
Please stop the bleeding. BC football, once a good program, must not be allowed to go from mediocre to horrible. Does anyone see hope with Spaz as hc?
An atmosphere issue
Recruiting is largely based on how a coaching staff builds up the atmosphere around the program, irregardless of on the field results.
The constant line being fed to the fans is to be patient and trust the coaching staff and athletic department, I worry the same message is getting through to the recruits.
With a finite 4-5 year college career, you don’t want to hear “be patient, we’re working on things,” you want to hear “we’ve had some tough years, here’s what we’re doing to get better, this is where we think we’re going, and here’s where we think you fit in.”
What great Saturday morning news. Makes me wanna shoot myself. Thanks Spaz. I swear if we have a losing season next year, my voice is going to be the loudest out of everyone’s to can that buffoon. I have been the one fatally optimistic fan who keeps giving Spaz a chance. This is disgusting and unacceptable.
Word leaked out all over in September 2011
Beating a dead horse…I heard it in person from reliable peeps??!!
As I have posted here a few times, word was out all over America and parents of HS stars and the kids all new BC was no longer a option for very talented football players.
…and do not think the Kevin Rogers fiasco is not a factor or known!
More bad news is coming…
That was one special coaching hiring window in 2011 — -for Leach, Chryst, Fedora, Sumlin, Malzahn, Meyer, Rodriguez ….. or anyone but this mumbling catatonic cushion calzone who oozes malaise and now less than mediocrity.
Boston College Football.
Come smell the stupidity.
Good point about the Rogers fiasco
The college football coaching community is a tight knit, gossipy bunch. If most of the BCI commenters have now heard what transpired at half of the UCF game, don’t think for a second that most of the coach / coordinator community doesn’t also know.
Think back to BC’s clownshoes OC search. What number choice was Martin of OC candidates? Sixth? That we know about?
Same sort of word has no doubt spread across the HS recruit community too.
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by Brian Favat on Jan 22, 2012 4:40 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
AJ BLACK: YOUR BRILLIANT DEATH GENIUS QUOTE:
It certainly looks like it. Frank Spaziani and BC Athletics not only have this team in no position to win next season, but are setting up years of mediocrity for this program. Come on BC, we deserve better than this.
The worst is yet to come……. and now its coming faster.
From a prior thread here:
You think we are bad now, just wait!
Ever check out the recruiting hauls in the last three years for Clemson and FSU -and this year— in our division too!! BC has slid so far down in depth and talent, that we may only recover with a dynamic miracle head Coach hire in 2013, if slimy Gene is fired with Spazoo, since no recruiting magic new Head Coach will come to BC if GDF is there, unless….. $$$$ talks and a huge salary is paid! BC is working an inept model for recruiting talent all over America!
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AJ Black, BC missed a huge lifeboat opportunity with many great coaches in the past few months.
Word was out months ago on the Globe and other sites….. and the reason an incompetent mumbling stooge was not fired (and not just last year’s 4-8), was because it would make GDF look bad.
GDF is a arrogant, horrible little man who has no allegience to my BC and has pissed off many BC Guys including long ago Men’s Lacrosse promises.
Gene is despicable and disrespectful comments about Spazoo being the best Coach in 15 years, the fans don’t matter, tailgating problems still, DBS, and other embarrassing sins have now spilled toxic diarrhea all over the Yawkey hallways and leaked all over the BC recruiting model of highly rated high school football talent
The talent train has now ceased. The 74 Excuse Train is now….again….ALL ABOARD!!!
I do not believe GDF will survive much longer and hope he “steps away” this 2012 summer by any means necessary.
Spazoo’s stupidity and timidity will take care of his sad incompetent fate after the 2012 season. You need talent to win and you also with great talent you need a dynamic, positive leader.
Spazoo was NEVER QUALIFIED, and a mediocre DC in big games.
Urban Meyer said it best..
“Are you making progress? You win with talent!”
Spazoo’s first job and 5th job and 10 job is to recruit. 3 straight years of failure and a 4th if you include the Jags monumental disaster level blunder ultimatum.
BC EAGLE NATION should issue an ultimatum.
Force GDF out in May 2012, or cease all donations and let the new AD judge (maybe Villanova’s AD or Boise State’s old AD) deal with the Spazoo catatonic calzone cushion after the 2012 season.
I also call out BC and Spazoo and the same pathetic, sad recruiting staff since Jags.
Does our collection of Greyhound bus recruiting morons and losers need some of my AAdvantage miles and a map to find Florida, Texas, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, NY, and other top football talent recruiting target areas?
DISGUSTIAD!
Force GDF out in May 2012, or cease all donations and let the new AD judge (maybe Villanova’s AD or Boise State’s old AD) deal with the Spazoo catatonic calzone cushion after the 2012 season.
Or me. Brian @ BCI 4 BC AD!
Editor, BC Interruption
by Brian Favat on Jan 22, 2012 4:43 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Brian Favat, Boston College Athletic Director, June 2012
Will being your AD Senior Gofer get health benefits or will I have to depend upon Obama/Romney socialism?
I want a BC retro warm-up suit and a name tag and my own cubicle with invisible walls. I also get to drive the golf cart and hire a hot BC coed student volunteer assistant.
I am tired of driving the Spazoo meals on Wheels Van #1! I need a career change and promotion!
Hint….Stay away from President Jane74 if you hire the wrong Head Coach!
You can avoid a few beatin’s!
Where are all the Spaz apologists that claims that he would finish strong on the recruiting trail this year?
Your silence is deafening.
There is no defense to this year’s recruiting haul. None. A class Spaz and DeFilippp have been pointing towards for years.
Editor, BC Interruption
by Brian Favat on Jan 22, 2012 4:45 PM EST via mobile reply actions
I would add to this that I’m not usually one to get all worked up over recruiting. But it’s painfully obvious to even the recruiting n00b that this class falls woefully short in both quantity and quality.
I don’t think one bad class can kill a program, but combined with all the other coaching blunders and poor in-game management, this can have a significant impact on the short- to medium- term future of the program.
Editor, BC Interruption
by Brian Favat on Jan 22, 2012 4:49 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Your guys love wallowing in your own shit
Goodness.
Here is a positive:the biggest need was OL and we got several excellent OL.
Ospraying Just More Merrymen Diarrhea Just Like Gene and Spazoo
We have 19 or so returning starters. That is really good.
A new spread offense? I already posted my reasoning on that fatally flawed strategy?
What is bad…
BC IS SLOWER THAN FROZEN MOLASSES!!
BC has nice depth at LB and RB, even with Luke going NFL.
But our needs were everywhere like every year, (JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER SCHOOL!) and our OL has some depth returning, but be that as it may…….
We have no big WR’s with speed. We have the slowest and smallest WR’s in the ACC.
We have a poor defensive secondary speed and talent.
We could use the 4 and 5 star skilled speedy highly ranked high school football talent ……EVERYWHERE IN THE SKILLED POSITIONS!
The past 4 classes were low end talent wise, and ranked so in all 4 recruiting service ratings.
Spazoo can’t coach em up in big games and is abysmal as a leader and clock management strategist. , AND … that poor BC offensive play calling sequencing system breeds a total lack of QB confidence.
This last recruiting class was another wake-up call, although not for those not on the BC Blogs, but many knew it was just a matter of time after 3 piddlin’ recruiting efforts by Spazoo, the playing malaise setting in and the KR fiasco.
We have had very little high ranked recruits, and not just this year, but due to this site, the Globe and other posters, the utter failures are now glaring.
I believe BC will be very hard pressed to win 5 with all those returning starters unless we use my strategy since it’s obvious we do not have the personnel for the high octane, fast paced, perfect timing, and speed for the complex spread offense.
Look at the recruiting services and hit the data sort on just the ACC and look at FSU, Miami, Clemson and not just the huge quantity with a few schools, but the quality!
BC is now officially hanging on to the last ring in Dante’s Last Rectum of Hell by its fingernails and a huge surprise season would be a utter shocker.
I believe the worst is yet to come and even with a surprise season, can BC then turn around the recruiting model now mired in Colonial Conference level recruits?
I guess we are gonna find out in 10 months.
Biggest Need
Was OL and every other offensive skill position.
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oh no!
we did not recruit a punter!
we did not recruit a kicker.
it is all down hill now…..
by eagleosprey on Jan 23, 2012 12:45 PM EST up reply actions
Glad to see you are happy with how the program is heading. Have you made your donation to the Flynn Fund yet?
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Positive: bolster the OL
Negative: no highly rated skill position players coming in, not competing with any other BCS AQ programs re: other offers received from this year’s class, have 13 commits when need 18-19 (with NSD 10 days away), have one 4* academically eligible recruit in the entire class, and that player just recently got an extra star, other ACC programs are eating BC’s lunch (that was supposed to be delivered to the maintenance staff but 74 was slacking)
This years recruiting failures are indefensible.
But you know how many winning seasons BC football had in the ten seasons before 1997? Three. THREE!
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by Brian Favat on Jan 22, 2012 11:07 PM EST via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
GDF told me I was the best Senior Gofer in 15 years!!
And… what that mean nasty Brian Favat thinks doesn’t matter and that other guy AJ!!
The Veals On Wheels Van #1, well, a wheel came off and I skidded into a dipst dumpster, but thank God I had the big extra cushion seat Spazoo bought for me, so my butt hurt was minimized.
Coach Spazoo, well is is way ahead of you guys here on the thinking curve.
I may be young, fragile and inexperienced, but when my wheels come off, I still make my deliveries, although too late, but still I am a work in progress and I am what I am.
No excuses here, but Mama Spazoo was feeling ill and the veal was not on sale so we went with pepperoni Hot Pockets and the maintenance staff got diarrhea.
You kids think being a Senior gofer it’s easy to recruit for van drivers and quite frankly, GDF gave me 4 stars and that’s good enough for the Globe and Mark Bluntshammed and he always tips me $0.50 cents and sometimes $1.00 when I throw in an extra calzone.
This site is indefensible.
but . . . .
you guys rarely take the time to balance your lust for the negative with some positives.
your cranky — Eagle74 enhanced — negativity is fine, IF THERE WAS SOME BALANCE.
by eagleosprey on Jan 23, 2012 12:47 PM EST up reply actions
Eagle Action is the Answer to your Question
Where are all the Spaz apologists that claims that he would finish strong on the recruiting trail this year?
Your silence is deafening.
….and it always will be deafening….
since 2003..TOBlunders0-15 too!
Recruiting ratings....since the 2009 Class
I don’t think one bad class can kill a program
but 4 in a row can!
You Don't Tolerate Poor Performers
Everything we are seeing is sadly and pathetically predictable for a poorly managed organization. What you have seen at BC happens in all sorts of organizations from companies to other non profits. You get mediocre performances from a nice guy and his nice guy manager cuts him more and more slack. In the meantime, the operations start slowly but steadily deteriorating. Until one good manager with authority high up in the chain comes along and raises a shit storm or until change is finally brought about after operations have reached crisis proportions and its survival is at stake – nothing changes. It looks like BC is waiting for a crisis before doing anything – because Gene and Frank are so well liked. No – I don’t think you have to be a prick to be a good manager – but when you have anyone who isn’t cutting the mustard – YOU GET RID OF THEM QUICKLY – because that is your job and there are too many other good people (who also may be nice guys) who deserve a chance. BC is pissing away a lot of money right now.
by Fukowi on Jan 23, 2012 8:30 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
oh no! (part II) (or a SEA PSALM grad who took "Behaviors in Organizations" run amuk)
The horrors of this year’s recruiting class (all written about in CSOM blather) are not just effecting the football program,
. . . .
BUT THREATEN TO DESTROY BC TOO!!!!!! F*CK we are doomed. The worst is yet to come. OH NO
Run, Run, Run, Run
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by eagleosprey on Jan 23, 2012 12:52 PM EST up reply actions
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