Rivals: Jeff Comissiong To Join Brock, Sirmans On Rutgers Coaching Staff
Rivals.com is reporting that Boston College defensive line coach Jeff Comissiong has accepted the same position at Rutgers ($), and will be joining Ben Sirmans and Dave Brock in Piscataway. Comissiong is the fourth assistant coach to leave the program within the week, which, at least in my mind, answers the question of whether these guys were pushed out or left voluntarily.
Comissiong has been on the BC coaching staff since 2007, coaching the defensive line. Losing Comissiong doesn't seem to be as big of a loss in terms of recruiting as losing Ben Sirmans or Ryan Day is, but it's about warm bodies at this point, no?
Is there an opportunity here for Spaz to hire some young, hungry position coaches to the 2012 staff? Of course. But no matter how you spin this, losing 4/9 of your football coaches in less than a week does not bode well for the short-term prospects of this team.
If the report is true, Spaz now has position coach vacancies at defensive line, wide receiver, running backs and special teams. Inquire within.
More on this over the next few days. For now, leave your thoughts on the departure below.
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Lots Of GREAT Football Coaches On TV Today at Pebble Beach
Gene and Spazoo were not there but I understand that the San Diego Miniature Golf Course extended them an extra day when our Head Coach drained a tricky 8 footer right through the Smiling Clown mouth and his ball spit out into the hole!
Clutch!
by BCEagle74 on Feb 11, 2012 6:03 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Fingers crossed...
Maybe Spaz will announce he’s taking the defensive coordinator spot at Rutgers too.
Boston College, Class of 2010
by polarbearbrother on Feb 11, 2012 6:14 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
No dice
Rutgers staff is now full.
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by Brian Favat on Feb 11, 2012 7:13 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
We are all witnessing a BCS Bowl caliber team completely falling apart in the span of three years. I don’t see how this could get any worse….well of course I could….Coach Flip could give Spaz an extension.
This is embarrassing.
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by A.J Black on Feb 11, 2012 6:17 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
If the report is true, Spaz now has position coach vacancies at defensive line, wide receiver, running backs and special teams. Inquire within.
I have a mean running game in NCAA ’12, think I could be a running backs coach?
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by A.J Black on Feb 11, 2012 6:20 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Maybe not running backs coach, but maybe running game coordinator.
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by Brian Favat on Feb 11, 2012 7:14 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Once again, losing all these coaches doesn't really matter
Cause as long as we have Spazoo we are going to suck. This is only going to put more pressure on GDF (less on Spaz because now he has his excuses).
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by totheights on Feb 11, 2012 6:21 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
LMAO!
Coach Flip could give Spaz an extension
Maybe a lifetime one with a pasta maker and do it yourself kit for “Make Jug Wine at Home Like Prohibition!”
Then again, with the Spazoo cushion, he would have trouble crushing the grapes.
za za zing!!
by BCEagle74 on Feb 11, 2012 6:22 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Jump off the Spazoo Express while you can…
by hoyaeagle on Feb 11, 2012 6:40 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Recruits
What kind of message is this sending to possible recruits? No wonder BC lost out on Lynch, Grant etc. Not to bring the major doom and gloom again, but this is going to kill our recruiting pitch for this upcoming season as well. Gah.
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RU fans must be distraught
Gettimg BC reject coaches.
Hysterical. I wish we could have dumped this steaming load of coach-crement on UCONN
Hope Bollman is bring us some more tOSU guys!
Bollman
You must have missed all those discouraging comments the OSU fans had to say about Bollman on “Bucknuts”. The sympathy offered to us as BC fans was really more relief at getting rid of him on their part. The comments about Bollman’s inability to teach technique and his total reliance on zone blocking schemes do not auger well for us.
by Leonard E Sienko Jr on Feb 11, 2012 8:36 PM EST reply actions
I wouldn’t expect Bollman to recruit much either. Bollman has been an OC at Ohio State since 2001. Coordinators typically don’t recruit as much as position coaches.
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Three of Spaz’s five assistants have significant experience as coordinators — Bollman (OC), Martin (OC) and McGovern (DC) — which leaves us with Devine and Siravo. Next set of position coaches better be able to recruit their tails off.
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Blogs bring out the negative
Bollman was OC at tOSU. Why believe the negative crap on an tOSU blog?
Look at the position he had and the school he was at. My expectation is he will improve BC’s offense.
If you choose to believe everything Spaz touches is bad, then maybe you have a different
Respective.
And please note that Mr Brian regularly deletes and censors my comments where I dare speak of the pervasive negativity here.
Transfers?
Do you guys think a few players will decide to transfer as a result of the coaching changes? I’m interested to hear your thoughts…
We only recruited one defensive lineman in this class. I doubt he decides to transfer now that Comissiong is gone.
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I’m referring primarily to players already in the program. I really wouldn’t be shocked if a few players leave. Hopefully not, but we’ll have to wait and see.
by BCeagleinNYC on Feb 11, 2012 9:05 PM EST up reply actions
Leonard/NYC!
We have great team speed and the new 4 Wide receiever Spread Offense!!!!
We are gonna light up that scoreboard like a pinball machine!!
Houston is now BC South!
Transfer and lose a year is tougher in football than hoops. BC is still in Boston and a tax free $470K bunny.
What do these decisions to leave tell us?
Four professional men, working for their careers and their families, decide to leave a job, which is guaranteed for at least another year. (Bill in Atlanta did a great reporting job getting confirmation from BCAA of the “final” list of coaches for the season.)
Of no little interest to those concerned about next year’s offense, three of those coaches leaving were on the offensive staff. They had had time to work with Coach Martin and to learn what his plans were for implementing what we are all expecting to be a “new” system. Or at least, they saw Martin and Spaz interact about the new offense. Martin has been there in the football wing in his office, working on his playbook and offense, right? He met with these men, who were to be his staff. They decided to leave.
I mean no disrespect to Martin. I don’t envy his job now. I wonder if he will need a “medical leave of absence” at halftime of the first game, when he finds out who really calls the plays.
Spaz and GDF now must replace four essential assistants in an impossibly short time. I fully expect to hear about the dreaded “nationwide search” strategy being deployed. We all know how successful that has been in the past under this administration.
These decisions tell us what most of us already know; i.e., we have a football program in disarray, without guidance and direction, destined to bottom out very soon.
Operating upon the premise that one should not be critical without offering a solution, I suggest FR. Leahy and the Trustees spend the money, buy out Spaz and GDF, send them into honorable retirement, hire a Boston College grad to be AD, who can hire his/her Head Coach and get us out of this morass.
While I’m ranting [grin], I want to decry the age discrimination I see on this and other BC blogs. Simply because we lost faith in Tranquill’s offense and he was over 60 is no reason to think that all coaches over 60 have nothing to offer and can’t change. Nor can we automatically assume that a youngster will be more aggressive or open-minded. Yes, its more likely with the inexperience of youth, but not guaranteed. Age, guile, and deviousness can often beat youth and inexperience—at least that been my experience when I was younger and as I have aged.
One thing I have noted about the truly elderly, as I care for my parents, they have little patience for incompetence or dissembling. Time is precious.
Get this program going again!! Go You Eagles!!
by Leonard E Sienko Jr on Feb 11, 2012 9:09 PM EST reply actions
Another possibility is that Brock and Day, both passed over by BC in favor of Martin, had no role to play and needed to move on. That sounds like a more logical possibility then the catastrophic possibilities many are floating. Hopefully, Martin has big changes in store. Change is needed.
Sirmans and Commisong are too junior to get too worry about.
And I would not worry too much. Bollman and Martin know plenty of staff prospects.
Also, I wonder if these departures were somewhat planned to occur after NSD so the recruits did not bail. Maybe these 4 did BC a favor by waiting until just after NSD to announce their departure. But really, who knows.
Whew! Thank God They Waited to Leave!!!
Also, I wonder if these departures were somewhat planned to occur after NSD so the recruits did not bail. Maybe these 4 did BC a favor by waiting until just after NSD to announce their departure. But really, who knows.
Yeah, that was a tremensous break, we coulda finished 68th out of 68 BCS teams in recruiting rankings instead of 63rd!
Do you ever try and think before you insult me and Brian??
Wow, lucky break for the Costa Concordia since that next rock as even bigger!!!
With due respect, Leonard, age, guile, and deviousness (and the complacency that comes with being in one position for too long) is what got us into this mess in the first place.
Hence, I don’t think it’s inappropriate to hope for some more youth and inexperience.
That said, no youthful assistant is going to stake his career on this staff knowing full well he may be out of a job in 1-2 years. My guess is Spaz hires 2-3 guys currently out of work to fill the holes on this staff.
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by Brian Favat on Feb 11, 2012 9:28 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Brian
This is why I stopped posting, “The Worse is Yet to Come!’”
I knew it was coming in 2008 when rumors of the Stooge Spazoo were being circulated and before 2011 when i predicted a grim visage 3-9.
This team has to be a ball control perfect smashmouth grinding machine or BC will have a very tough time with the schedule of lots of bowl teams and pre-seson ranked teams.
I just don’t see it happening with a new OC and the Spazoo who for 15 years made poor and late in game adjustments and his halftime adjustments were comical.
WVU will be on 2012 Big 12 Schedules!!!! WOW!!
I hope to revisit the Mountain Peeps whne they come for rabbit stew, squirrel and dumplings and gator fingers.
Louisiana Swamp People vs. Mountaineer Moonshiners.
74’s cup runneth over.
Caption:
Gene: “I just don’t get it. Why are all these coaches running?”
Spaz: (Pauses). “I guess…” (Puts on sunglasses) “It’s third and long.”
Boston College, Class of 2010
by polarbearbrother on Feb 11, 2012 9:43 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
I didn’t think the mustache apologists could rationalize these staff departures positively. Boy was I wrong.
Yes, these assistants did BC a favor by not leaving until after NSD. So glad we held onto the recruits that we did get, which was still under the NCAA mandated maximum number of scholarships that can be awarded.
Spaz now has just two position coaches that can recruit — Devine and Siravo. That’s two out of seven.
Bollman, McGovern and Martin have all recently served as coordinators and factor less into recruiting than position coaches.
Siravo has been our recruiting coordinator since 2007, all while the Spaz apologists love to pin the 2007-08 recruiting failures on Jagodzinski. So glad BC has retained the Eagles recruiting coordinator from the years that (allegedly) set back this program on the recruiting trail in the first place.
Oh, right. Spaz pushed these guys out since they were unperforming assistants. The same guy that was rewarded for his loyalty with an undeserved HC position by an AD that apparently values loyalty above all else.
At this point, I just feel sorry for those of us that want to rationalize these moves as positive … that this is somehow part of the master plan for putting BC football back on the map. Five OCs in five years. Yeah, all part of the master plan. No red flags here about Spaz/Flip’s ability to keep a staff together.
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by Brian Favat on Feb 11, 2012 9:44 PM EST via mobile reply actions
EO
No one cares what your view on Brian is. Keep to BC sports, or the deleting will continue
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We need a Michael Corleone Move
Let’s christen someone kid and then make our move..
Spazoo walking out of the bakery and gunned down in the lot….
GDF teeing off and a graphite shaft flys into his neck……
Leahy gets ready to say Sunday Mass and drinks poisoned wine…..
In domino….spiritu……
ONLY KIDDING!!!!
Maybe we can get Whitney Houston to belt out the National Anthem on Labor Day night for Miami?
LAMO!
Too soon…
Boston College, Class of 2010
by polarbearbrother on Feb 11, 2012 9:58 PM EST up reply actions
A Potential Hari-kari Moment
This disturbing news will soon be all over the place. Our AD desperately needs to save face for himself, his best coach in 15 years and most of all the program. If there is a reasonable explanation – then provide it. If there is no reasonable explanation other than a complete loss of confidence in the program and its Head Coach by its coaching staff – then resign. No matter the explanation, we have another crisis completely botched by the BC Athletics Department.
June 2012
If GDFxkup is here by then, then BC is saying novenas that Spazoo wins 6 and we get to Boise.
Remember this Gene is wearing BC Hall of Fame insignia pajamas now!!!
OK, he bought them on his own when he put himself in, but Leahy said it still counts!
by BCEagle74 on Feb 12, 2012 7:42 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
A Strive for National Titles At ND vs. The Costa Concordia At BC!
Notre Dame unveils new coaching staff
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP)—The Notre Dame coaching staff has a few new faces for the players to get used to.
Coach Brian Kelly introduced the staff on Friday, detailing the changes that have taken place since losing three coaches—all of them on offense—over the past few months.
"When you do not reach the goals that you’re looking to reach, it’s not just about your players," Kelly said. "You have to evaluate players. You have to evaluate systems. You have to evaluate coaches.
And today was to announce what I believe are some significant improvements within our staff that are going to allow us to move forward. We believe our foundation has been set."
Chuck Martin, the safeties coach and recruiting coordinator for Kelly last season, has switched sides and will be the offensive coordinator next season. He replaces Charley Molnar, who left to become the head coach at Massachusetts.
"When you’re talking about an offensive coordinator, it’s not about what you put up on the blackboard, it’s about your ability to lead and communicate, it’s your ability to get your players to play at the level necessary," Kelly said. "Chuck’s already demonstrated that, and he brings with him the experience of knowing the offense that we’re already running."
It was Martin who coached for four years under Kelly at Grand Valley State and took over the program when Kelly left. In six seasons as head coach, Martin continued to run the spread offensive system Kelly installed and the two will work together again at Notre Dame. Kelly said he will continue to call the plays on game days.
Martin will also be in charge of the quarterbacks on a day-to-day basis with a four-man race for the starting position under way.
"I just want to win football games at Notre Dame, period, end of story," Martin said. "I think that’s part of why (Kelly) made the decision. He knows I don’t have another agenda. I’m not into these stats. I’m not into building my offensive empire resume. I’m kind of a nomad. I’m an offensive guy, I’m a defensive guy."
Also gone are Ed Warinner, the offensive line coach, and Tim Hinton, the running backs coach who joined Urban Meyer’s staff at Ohio State.
Replacing Warinner is Harry Hiestand, who spent two years in the same role at Tennessee and the previous five years with the Chicago Bears of the NFL. Kelly said Hiestand is a perfect fit, and shares his vision in making the line a key in how the offense develops play by play.
"What’s important to me is that every day when I walk in the meeting room to get ready for these guys and we start our football meetings and we start practice is that I bring it every day," Hiestand said. "I’m going to ask them to bring their best effort every day when they go to practice and when they go to compete and we start spring ball."
Tony Alford takes over the running backs position after coaching wide receivers for the past two seasons under Kelly. Alford will also coach the slot wide receivers and has become the staff’s recruiting coordinator.
Scott Booker, a former intern, will coach the tight ends and be the team’s special teams coordinator. Last season’s tight end coach, Mike Denbrock, moves over to coach the outside wide receivers.
Prior to coming to Notre Dame, Booker spent five seasons as a defensive backs coach at Western Kentucky and Kent State.
Rounding out the staff changes is Bob Elliott as safeties coach. Elliott comes to Notre Dame from Iowa State, where he was the secondary coach last season. Elliott’s 33-year coaching career has been mostly on the defensive side of the ball as a secondary coach and defensive coordinator.
"He gives us, from the defensive standpoint, an incredible knowledge base," Kelly said of Elliott. "I think he will add not only to our preparation, but to the skill development of our players in the secondary."
Kelly also said Elliott possesses the ability to recruit from coast-to-coast after with a resume of coaching stops at Iowa, Kent State, Ball State, Iowa State, North Carolina, Kansas State and San Diego State.
Kelly said the combination of new and old staff gives him a staff that can improve the program he’s started to build at Notre Dame.
"That brings a synergism to your staff when you have new ideas, new ways of doing things," he said. "I think when you combine that with what we believe are some very good systems in place, I like that synergy."
LA MORAL
Our coaches were working under an incompetent Head Coach Clown and AD.
No one really shined, and then again, you have to be in the right place?
LA MORAL: (Like Aesop, I always have to have a moral!)
These BC Coaches sought out new better jobs and opportunities AND were not replaced for the above ND reasons. BC is now just getting scraps and warmed over released bodies, or guys who Ohio State fans were all too glad to get rid of?
Since word was out about recruiting and Spazoo last September (Courtesy of Yours truly!) our Napoleon GDF missed the great 2012 hiring window of many outstanding choices, and BC did not want to eat 4 years of his own doing or the GDFxckup’s Spazoo contract extension, and this is where we are.
4 years was too many big meatballs for GDF to present to Sleeping Leahy and the Twinkie Trustees!
BC is now, a few warm energetic Coaches bodies short, a few huge tax free $470K ++ scholarships open, but we still have the simple joy of knowing GDF put himself in the BC Hall of Fame and is one of the highest paid AD’s in America!!!
What a relief!!!
Posters Rationalizing for Frank and Gene
There have been extremely few positive results in Spaziani’s tenure. Assuming the nearly absurd idea that 4 assistants leaving [nearly 40 days after: the new OC was hired 12/26/11, Bollman was hired to replace the worst offensive line coach in team history 1/6/12, Dawson a wholly unimpressive ST coach quit football 12/21/11, and Devine, said worst offensive coordinator, was shown a position where he could damage less -1/6/12, the staff was announced as finalized -1/12/12 and most damning one week prior to the start of spring practice] does not harm the program is correct, which I will oblige despite its ridiculousness for a second, do you really want the same guy who hired Tranquill, Rogers(who he couldn’t work with?), Devine and Dawson as offensive staff to make the new hires?
by bc1987 on Feb 12, 2012 1:52 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
It’s true – he doesn’t know what to look for on he offensive side of the ball. He’s a defensive minded coach – that’s clearly his specialty. We should hire a consulting firm or something to hire offensive candidates.
by BCeagleinNYC on Feb 12, 2012 2:04 PM EST up reply actions

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