Boston College Football Recruiting: Bay State Fence-Building Going Swimmingly

In 2012, Boston College football offered 8th of the state's best college football recruits. Just one found his way to Chestnut Hill. This was a bit of a low water mark for the program under the previous coaching staff in terms of bringing local talent to the Heights.

Three recruiting cycles later and Steve Addazio's fence-building efforts in Massachusetts seem to be going pretty well.

Rank	Name	Pos	Location	School	Stars	Ht	Wt	School
1	Joe Gaziano	DE	Westwood, MA	Xaverian Brothers	3	6'3"	230
2	Chris Garrison	TE	Groton, MA	Lawrence Academy	3	6'4"	215
3	Chris Lindstrom	OL	Dudley, MA	Shepherd Hill Regional	3	6'4"	236
4	Aaron Monteiro	OL	Brockton, MA	Brockton	3	6'6"	308
5	Jake Burt	TE	Danvers, MA	St. John's Prep	3	6'5"	230

Boston College finished with four of the state's 5 top recruits per Rivals, as well as a trio of defensive backs in Lukas Denis, Davon Jones and Taj-Amir Torres. The only real miss in the class is three-star DE Joe Graziano, who committed to Northwestern.

While Rivals.com seems to have lopped off Mass. players ranked 6 through 10 in this year's rankings, making year-over-year comparisons difficult, this is the first time I can recall BC landing four of the top five Bay State recruits. BC made out very well for itself in Connecticut as well this year.

2015

Number of Mass. Top 5 signed: 4
Number of Mass. Top 5 offered: 5
Players: No. 2 TE Chris Garrison, No. 3 OL Chris Lindstrom, No. 4 OL Aaron Monteiro, No. 5 TE Jake Burt
Other Schools Represented: Northwestern

2014

Number of Mass. Top 10 signed: 6
Number of Mass. Top 10 ofered: 8
Players: No. 1 LB Connor Strachan, No. 3 OL Jon Baker, No. 4 DB Isaac Yiadom, No. 5 OL James Hendren, No. 6 LB Kevin Cohee, No. 10 DB Kevin Bletzer
Other Schools Represented: Penn State, Connecticut, Wisconsin

2013

Number of Mass. Top 10 signed: 2
Number of Mass. Top 10 offered: 5
Players: No. 3 DT Tevin Montgomery, No. 7 QB Mackay Lowrie
Other Schools Represented: Notre Dame, Michigan, Virginia, Wake Forest, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Villanova

2012

Number of Mass. Top 10 signed: 1
Number of Mass. Top 10 offered: 8
Players: No. 7 LB Tim Joy
Other Schools Represented: Ohio State (2), Maryland, Virginia, Northwestern, Connecticut (2), Northeastern (track)

2011

Number of Mass. Top 10 signed: 4
Number of Mass. Top 10 offered: 6
Players: No. 1 TE Brian Miller, No. 2 DB Al Louis-Jean Jr., No. 6 OL Liam Porter, No. 10 DB Manny Asprilla
Other Schools Represented: California, Iowa, Nebraska, UCLA, Harvard, Nevada

2010

Number of Mass. Top 10 signed: 4
Number of Mass. Top 10 offered: 5
Players: No. 2 OL Robert Vardaro, No. 6 James McCaffrey, No. 9 Dominique Williams, No. 10 Aaron Kramer
Other Schools Represented: Harvard, Connecticut (2), Miami, BYU

2009

Number of Mass. Top 10 signed: 2
Number of Mass. Top 10 offered: 4
Players: No. 3 DB Jim Noel, No. 4 OL Keith Bourne
Other Schools Represented: Georgia, North Carolina, N.C. State, Iowa, Massachusetts, Syracuse, Connecticut

2008

Number of Mass. Top 10 signed: 3
Number of Mass. Top 10 offered: 4
Players: No. 1 RB Isaac Johnson, No. 2 DE Nick Halloran, No. 3 TE Mike Stone
Other Schools Represented: Connecticut (2), Columbia, Duke, Northeastern