Thoughts On Boston College Football's New Staff

Yeah overall I think we have some great qualities in the new staff – young, smart (post-grad degrees from top schools), BC alumni, servicemen. If that doesn’t whip us into shape what will?

Well after the euphoria of the Beanpot win, back to the sad reality of the football program. Let’s forget for a second about who left, where they went, why they might have left and simply focus on who is in place. Were they upgrades, were they downgrades?

I think that you have to conclude based on their resumes that overall these are downgrades from a year ago. While they may be young and energetic in general, sometimes when you’ve burned all your bridges, you don’t have much choice but to take the up and coming types who just want to get their foot in the D1 door.

Columbia, New Mexico State, a guy who never played football and went to BU (although he sounds like a very intelligent man) and a guy booted as the offensive coordinator at Ohio State who only won 6 games in a mediocre Big Ten, and is best known for pissing people off with his conservative play calling…call me underwhelmed.

The goal should be to make Boston College a destination spot for established assistant coaches from D1 programs and not necessarily, “we grow em, so you can take em”.

Time will tell of course, it always does, but based on what’s going on with the program, (these guys all know Spaz is on the hot seat), I don’t believe this bodes well.

Hope you enjoy your one year in Boston boys. Have a great day.

According to the release: “Desai 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.” Did he take a course on Special Teams at Temple? Or is this knowledge coming from his high school experience?

From his Miami bio:

Dr. Sean Desai enters his second season as assistant director of football operations. Desai works closely with director of football operations Tom Deahn to maintain the day-to-day operations of the football team. In addition, he assists with the administrative side of recruiting.

Desai comes to Coral Gables after spending five seasons at Temple.

In 2010, Desai was elevated to special teams coordinator for the Owls and coached the outside linebackers. As special teams coordinator, Desai worked with All-MAC selection in kicker Brandon McManus. During his tenure, Temple’s kickoff team finished second in the country and first in the MAC in opponent kickoff return yards allowed. The unit was ninth in the nation in opponent field goal percentage (54.5) and 13th in kicks/punts blocked.

Prior to leading special teams, Desai spent a year as the graduate assistant for the defense. During his tenure he groomed All-MAC safeties Dominique Harris and Jaiquawn Jarrett as well as All-MAC defensive end Adrian Robinson and All-MAC kick returner James Nixon.

Desai began his Temple career as a graduate extern for academics under Golden.

Desai served as assistant defensive coordinator, quarterbacks and wide receivers coach for the freshman squad at Shelton (Conn.) High School, his alma mater, from 2001 to 2004.

As an adjunct professor at Temple University, Desai taught in the master’s and doctoral programs in education administration.

A native of Shelton, Conn., Desai attained his doctorate in educational administration at Temple University in May 2008. He received his undergraduate degree in philosophy and political science, with a minor in biology from Boston University in 2004. Desai earned a master’s degree in higher and postsecondary education from Teachers College at Columbia Universityin 2005.

Desai is married to the former Ojus Patel