Boston College Football Recruiting: Donovan Henry Decommits
by A.J Black on Jan 28, 2012 12:25 PM EST
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PrintThe bad news just keeps rolling in for the Boston College football team who lost another member of their 2012 recruiting class. Catholic Memorial's Donovan Henry, who verballed in 2011 to play cornerback for the Eagles, has changed his mind.
The Boston College football recruiting class took a hit when Catholic Memorial running back/defensive back Donovan Henry decommitted and will run track at Northeastern.
A Catholic Conference All-Star in football, Henry is widely regarded as one of the top track performers in New England. This season, Henry has turned in personal bests in the 55-meters (6.58), 300-meters (35.34) and 600-meters (1:24.79).
Another blow to a class that seems to be shrinking by the day. Henry could have added some depth at secondary, a position that was battered last year due to injury. He also could have added something this team needs -- speed.
Curious why he isn't running track at Boston College.
So, in the past week now, BC has lost recruits to Harvard, Virginia and now the Northeastern track team. This offseason has become a play so absurd that even Ionesco would never have imagined it. On National Signing Day, I am half expecting to hear that Steven Daniels has decided to skip college to join the traveling circus.
Boston College is allowed to have 85 scholarships players on their roster, and right now including the guys currently committed they are hovering below 80. And that isn't including any attrition that could occur over the summer in the form of transfers, academic ineligibility, etc. Spaz and Co. are putting this team in a serious hole, and unless they pull off some miracle, BC will be playing as if they are under NCAA sanctions next year. None of this year's recruiting plan of banking scholarships makes any sense.
Any of you readers have any NCAA eligibility left?
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Disappointing
This class is unraveling in a hurry. I have no confidence that Hood is coming to BC either at this point.
Best of luck to Henry at Northeastern.
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All The Wheels Off Now On Veals on Wheels
September 2011, word went out all over America, that Spazoo was CLOWNSHOES!!
Now JOB 1 thru 10 which is recruiting talent !! …and BC’s best house stooge in 15 years has 4 straight poor to poorer classes!
National Sighing Day for sure now!
by BCEagle74 on Jan 28, 2012 2:17 PM EST via mobile reply actions
He Was Too Fast For The Catatonic Calzone Cushion!
Darn you AJ!!!!!
The kid would be too fast and if he played man to man in your face bump and run ball hawking DB!!!
We need 8 to 12 yard soft zone players!!
We will never have nice things here until all the nattering nabobs of negativity are gone!!!
What a complete cluster disgustiad!!!
by BCEagle74 on Jan 28, 2012 2:35 PM EST via mobile reply actions
The word is out
The word is out..it may not be out in the Boston media, because no one in this town cares..but the word is out in recruiting circles. The lack of direction, the lack of enthusiasm, the lack of overall interest in this program across the board. Coaches bailing, players bailing..anyone with half a brain can piece this together and see it’s not pretty.
In this day and age where virtually everything is three mouse clicks away, to think that Division I football recruits, most of whom have an entourage of advisers surrounding them, don’t know that this ship is sinking….please.
Across America, February 1 is a day college football fans greet with renewed optimism of where their programs are headed…in Boston, it’s just known as the Wednesday before the Super Bowl and both GDF and Spaz are grateful for that. Programs succeed where the sport matters and where the pressure to succeed is high. In the case of Boston College neither applies.
Imagine how this would go over in Tallahassee or in Clemson or in Blacksburg? Well you better, because that is your competition, a competition you were even with or ahead of only a few seasons ago and are now a speck in their rear view mirror. Get used to it.
by CoachJF on Jan 28, 2012 3:25 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
JF -- I would quote it all, but your post was yet another magnificient commentary!
All True JF. I heard the death spiral rumors 5 months ago.
I guess your “Get used to it” is the synonym for my “The Worst is Yet to Come!”
BC better pray that Chase Rettig, (or others), do not have a change of heart and transfer off the USSpazoo’s “GDF Monumental Blunder Slow Boat to No Where Yacht”!
There is now a good chance the pressure will build and GDF may “retire” now that he is in the cherished BC Hall of Fame and hopefully will step away in some sort of last chance to scale Mount Everest or take on a new life challenge BS face saving deal!
GTFOMAM!
My post before Spazoo was hired in December 2008 on the monumental disaster level blunder with Jags and even thinking of hiring Spazoo has now come full circle with this low quality and low quantity class and a few more may de-commit or go elsewhere!
Oh I forgot, you, Jane and I are just sucking up to Brian and AJ.
Where was EagleOsprey in 2003 to 2011, 9 long seasons, on the EI and EO sites and the 74 tens of thousands of posts and my personal JesuitJihad versus GDF, TOB, SPAZOO and the rest of the embarrassing problems at the greatest University in the Galaxy?
Here comes the 74 Excuse Train… "Well, theses kids would ahve trouble with the academics…
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I HAVE 4 YEARS OF ELIGIBILITY LEFT AJ!!
Any of you readers have any NCAA eligibility left?
…….and I gradgitated and went to school with commuters and get my Hillslide A65 dorm suite ready, with 5 smoking hot coeds!!!
I am chucking the pigskin to my daughter and can run the 1964 Offense, then again, I was the only 12 year old alive on this site in 1964 running the Tranquill Offense like a young Roger Staubach as a kid, so I am ready to rock the Heights!
Anything change since 1970? Does Father Hanrahan still remember my face?
Yup, here comes 74!!
Viva Viagra, Rogaine, LInsopril, Icy Hot and Geritol!
O M G. The sky IS falling
This class is missing some key positions
- no long snapper
- no punter
- no place kicker
- no center
- no extra QB to go with the 6 we have
- no extra RBs to go with the 7 we have
- No whiny, pathetic fans who give up on BC for any reason
Glad someone is happy with BC’s recruiting class.
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Side note
BC doesn’t offer full scholarships for its men’s track team so that would probably be the reasoning there if he really just decided he didn’t want to play football and just run in college
by BCPhilly13 on Jan 28, 2012 6:34 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
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