I will be honest here – I am so inured to the culture of corruption, and Monty Python’s Black Knight caliber of willful and idiotic denial…I didn’t think anything UNC scandal related could shock me anymore. Then I read this, and you should as well: Prepare to be disgusted. Horrific doesn’t even begin to describe [...]
Boston College Fires Al Skinner, Lavin to St. John’s [Updated 3 pm]
Boston College basketball coach Al Skinner has been fired, according to sources at Boston College. A press conference is scheduled for noon today. We will have much more later. For the moment, Eagle in Atlanta has put together his initial list of potential candidates (faster than Lee Fowler was able to find a single telephone [...]
Atlantic Division Preview – The Case Against…Boston College
As college football season approaches, I noted how difficult it was to pick someone to win the ACC’s Atlantic Division. On the flip side, I could easily argue the case against every team. The “slow season” for Wolfpack news is an ideal time to explore this in more detail. Previously, we talked about Clemson, Florida [...]
Friday Afternoon Discussion Topics
It has been slow recently, but there were a few interesting articles/topics to highlight this afternoon. The first deals with an athletic director “think tank” that for some reason doesn’t include our own Lee Fowler. The topic of this year’s meeting in Durham, NC was athletic budgets in the recession: DeFilippo said it’s difficult for [...]
Top Basketball ADs and Boston College News
Here is a list of the “Top 10 Athletic Directors in Basketball”. Two ACC athletic directors made the list, but for some reason the author forgot to include Lee “I know basketball” Fowler. There is a suggestion on that site (not from us) for the author to come up with a list of the 10 [...]
Eagles No ‘Fun’ for Nashville
Another year…another bowl with an Atlantic Coast Conference tie left reeling after a visit from Boston College. This comes to us from the Nashville Business Journal: Vanderbilt University may have been the big winner in the 2008 Music City Bowl, but Nashville came up short. The New Year’s Eve game between Boston College and Vanderbilt [...]
It’s Official – Jagodzinski Out at BC
Here’s your link. I suppose once DeFilippo went public with his insane threat, he kind of had to go through with it. For the idiots in BC’s fanbase, it is probably a proud chest-thumping moment. For the rational folks, thoughts of “who would work this Al Davis-like guy?” are in the forefront. We previously discussed [...]
What A Great Guy: BC AD Defilippo Says He’ll Fire Jagodzinski If He Interviews w/ Jets (Updated 9am)
This probably will serve as a little insight as to why Tom O’Brien left Boston College for Raleigh: ESPN’s Chris Mortensen is reporting that Jeff Jagodzinski will be fired as the coach at Boston College if he proceeds with his scheduled interview with the Jets on Monday. According to Mortensen: “Despite the threat from athletic [...]
850 “The Buzz” Highlights Lack of Professionalism From BC’s AD
Click over to their blog for good analysis and comments (well, most are good). Quote from Jackhole DeFilippo: “We’re having fun now,” he said. “We’ve won before, but we had no fun. This is still a game, it’s not life and death. The fun is back in Boston College football. Tom did a wonderful job [...]
Why TOB Left BC
Just a quick hit from one of the best blogs around: (Note: this is a week old, but still relevant). I am not going to make a huge deal of something this small…because we have talked about the topic a lot since TOB accepted the NC State job and publicly commented on all of the [...]