Boston College Football Announces Three Additions To Coaching Staff
by Brian Favat on Feb 13, 2012 2:36 PM EST
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PrintToday, Spaz announced the hiring of three additions to the Boston College coaching staff. Sean Dasai will serve as both running backs and special teams coach. Aaron Smith will coach the wide receivers, while former Eagles defensive lineman Al Washington will serve as assistant special teams coach and defensive line coach.
Here is the official release from BC:
"Sean Dasai will coach running backs and special teams. This past season, Dasai was assistant director of football operations at the University of Miami. From 2007-11, he served in several capacities on the Temple University football staff, including special teams coordinator and outside linebackers coach. Dasai is a 2004 Cum Laude graduate of Boston University and earned a M.A. in higher & postsecondary education and an Ed.D. in educational administration from Temple.
Aaron Smith will coach wide receivers. Smith has served as wide receivers coach at Columbia University since 2007 and was wide receivers coach at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy from 2006-07. Smith is a 2006 graduate of the University of Connecticut, where he played wide receiver.
Former BC defensive lineman Al Washington will serve as assistant special teams coach and will assist with the defensive line. Washington spent last season as linebackers coach at Elon University and served as defensive line coach at Slippery Rock University from 2009-11. He was a defensive graduate assistant at NC State from 2008-09 and served as defensive line coach at RPI from 2007-08. Washington is a 2006 BC graduate and played in the Canadian Football League in the 2006 and 2007 seasons."
Dasai, Smith and Washington replace Dave Brock, Ben Sirmans and Ryan Day, who left for positions on the Rutgers, Rutgers and Temple coaching staffs, respectively. Sounds like despite a report in Rivals, Comissiong is staying and will not join the Kyle Flood's Rutgers staff in the same capacity.
Leave your thoughts on the hires below.
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3 young guys
Do you happen to know the ages of the departing coaches… I could try to look them up, but you seem much better at these things
Agreed. I screamed at my tv that day. Butler’s actions were downright criminal!
by cwm2005 on Feb 14, 2012 12:38 AM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
Butler received a Fatwaboy Curse
It worked.
He and Groh are no longer relevant.
Swofxckford and Littlepage too. They should have suspended Butler for the season.
Disgraciad.
I’m not going to jump to conclusions, Aaron Smith may be a great coach, however, Columbia was 1-9 last year (there 1 win came in OT). Anyone else think its strange that we keep hiring coaches coming from losing programs?
If Tom O’Brien was choosing the staff or Jagz or anyone else besides Spaz I would trust the staff.
by BCeagleinNYC on Feb 13, 2012 3:37 PM EST up reply actions
Anyone else think its strange that we keep hiring coaches coming from losing programs?
Really? NYC!!! LOL, you beat me to the punch!!!!1
Exactly!!1
Winning Coaches and assistants like to……
…………………… WIN!!
Assistants who are in demand rarely move laterally unless its a way to a Head Coach in a money move $$$$ to rebuild like Washington State with Leach or Chryst or countless others who move up from Assistant at Alabama or LSU to lesser programs hoping to get lucky or move back up like Chizik to Auburn.
Or to a way better program??
Word is out, BC is clownshoes and for losers now?
We get scraps because we deserve scraps?
Anyone hear back on how Kevin Rogers is doing on the secret Greek Isle getting treatment for Spazooitis?
TOB? Really?
NC State
5-7
6-7
5-7
9-4
8-5
and he runs off a great kid from a great family that received Heisman attention in Russell Wilson?
33-30 with a slew of FBS wins and 8 schlock bowl wins in 15 years and no conference titles and no BC Bowls!
Really?
Really!
If it was between O’Brien or Spaz, I’d pick O’Brien every time
by BCeagleinNYC on Feb 13, 2012 9:40 PM EST up reply actions
ok, the eternal optimist will bite
I like it. Truth be told of course, we’re not going to know the effect of the others leaving, and these guys being hired, for a while. I doubt too many asst coaches make a big difference on the field, as the coordinators and HC really set the systems and call the plays we’re going to run. Assts do however play a big role in recruiting. It’s just that we’re not going to know how the new guys are doing in that respect for a while either.
I will say this. Many at BCI have not liked our results or our recruting for a while. I’ve seen comments about there not being enough young, dynamic guys to invigorate the program, on the field and in recruiting. So here you go. Whatever the real reasons, several guys have left – who by your accounts were not getting the job done – and they’ve been replaced by new, younger blood. So I’d say we have cause for optimism.
Yeah, yeah, I know, the real change needed is at HC, but since that isn’t happening, I’d think most of you would be pleased by the staff turning over a bit for younger, “hungrier” assts. The other point – they’re nobodies from nowhere – well, that’s how assts move up and make a nmae for themselves. I dounbt we’re going to go poach Alabama or Oklahoma’s assts.
While it’s great to have younger, “hungrier” assistants — particularly Washington, always liked Washington — recruiting is fundamentally based on relationships. Regardless of what you thought about Brock, Day, Sirmans or Dawson’s performance recruiting, those guys were able to establish beneficial relationships with HS coaches in some key areas of the country where BC recruits. E.g. Sirmans recruiting St. X and bringing in Kuechly, Duggan and Daniels.
All three of these new guys are making a huge leap from their current positions and are more or less being thrown into the fire recruiting at a BCS program. Assuming that this staff stays in place longer than a year, there seems to be a fairly large learning curve to scale and the relationships that Brock, Day and Sirmans were able to build will have to be re-bulit.
I hope these guys are hungry, because they are going to have to bust their asses to re-establish those relationships and scale the learning curve quickly, lest BC be stuck holding the bag of another weak recruiting class in 2013.
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Need to establish relationships in the Midwest and DC/MD/VA areas. If we lose the St. X connection, I’ll be upset.
If I’m not mistaken St. X was a TOB connection and we didn’t lose it. Its a very similar program to BC as is Bosco. As long as alumni of those programs continue to do well without getting jaded by the coaching mess, the pipelines will stay intact.
by DCash on Feb 13, 2012 6:08 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
St. X sends a fair amount of non-athletes to BC each year. Just one of the Jesuit connections.
Agree as long as we don’t completely run this program into the ground, we should get a fair bunch of St. X kids.
I’m from the DC area and still can’t believe we don’t recruit that area better, especially after our move to the ACC. Bunch of great Catholic programs (DeMatha Catholic and Good Counsel in particular) that we never seem to get any kids from. Would love to see this change.
Haden wasn’t Good Counsel.
Bryan Murray and Josh Ott are the only ones in the last 10 years. DeMatha… have we ever had a DeMatha kid?
Earned Maryland Consensus All-State honors as a senior offensive lineman at Good Counsel High School; was joined on the team by fellow BC freshman Josh Haden
Did he transfer from Good Counsel to Friendly at some point?
http://www.bceagles.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/murray_bryan00.html
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by Brian Favat on Feb 13, 2012 10:20 PM EST up reply actions
99% sure Haden was always at Friendly.
Think the “joined on the team” is referencing the All-State team, not GC.
Ahh, read it wrong.
Editor, BC Interruption
by Brian Favat on Feb 13, 2012 11:24 PM EST up reply actions
Our Recruiting Pipeline Needs A ROOTER SPAZOOTER
We are not getting the star kids from these schools!
END OF FXCKING STORY!
Dasai Graduated BU in 2004
He is coaching running backs and our special teams (very critical stuff). So okay – can someone please explain why he is qualified? He graduated BU in ‘04 and has a doctorate and masters in education. Swell – did he play football in high school? Did he at least play hockey for BU? I don’t get it. And the other guy coached wide receivers at Coast Guard and Columbia? God help us.
by Fukowi on Feb 14, 2012 11:25 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
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