There was a lot of talk on TV after we beat Minnesota about how we just avoided joining BC as the only teams from a major conference to go winless in league. They also mentioned that BC's football team went winless in the ACC as well. I'll be honest, I haven't followed them very closely since they went to the ACC and I knew the conference change hurt them. But I didn't realize they had slipped this badly! Anybody who followed this closer know exactly what happened with them?
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Mistake No. 1 BC fired Al Skinner
Mistake No. 2 BC hired Steve Donahue, who moved over from Cornell.
Donahue’s arrival meant the departure of what was regarded as a solid recruiting class and the transfer of forward Rakim Sanders to Fairfield.
Donahue won 54 games in four seasons at BC but he won 21 of those games in his first season. He just was not a HM head coach. Donahue is at Penn now.
BC replaced Donahue with Jim Christian, who moved over from Ohio. Christian has yet to recruit any impact players to BC.
Mistake No. 2 BC hired Steve Donahue, who moved over from Cornell.
Donahue’s arrival meant the departure of what was regarded as a solid recruiting class and the transfer of forward Rakim Sanders to Fairfield.
Donahue won 54 games in four seasons at BC but he won 21 of those games in his first season. He just was not a HM head coach. Donahue is at Penn now.
BC replaced Donahue with Jim Christian, who moved over from Ohio. Christian has yet to recruit any impact players to BC.
Rutgers is BC. Extremely hard to recruit in your own backyard. Few recruits want to play for a dead program with no muscle to attract recruits in the same manner as its competitors. Don't see jucos committing to BC either. Big disadvantage.
Skinner's staff was amazing. Ed Cooley and Bill Coen.
There are similarities between BC and Rutgers, particularly with regards to local recruiting. BC's problem is that there just aren't many local kids with ACC level talent.
Most of the HM New England prep school kids come from somewhere else.
BC has one assistant who has a good eye for talent and is a tireless recruiter. He got them Ty Graves, an under the radar big man from South Florida named Nikola Popovic and a guy named Mike Sagay.
He also recruited a kid named Matt Milon to BC. Milon is a freshman who comes off the bench and is shooting 48 percent beyond the arc.
They have a former HC, Stan Heath, as an assistant. I'm not sure what Heath's biggest strength is, probably game prep, as many people (not me) question his recruiting.
Most of the HM New England prep school kids come from somewhere else.
BC has one assistant who has a good eye for talent and is a tireless recruiter. He got them Ty Graves, an under the radar big man from South Florida named Nikola Popovic and a guy named Mike Sagay.
He also recruited a kid named Matt Milon to BC. Milon is a freshman who comes off the bench and is shooting 48 percent beyond the arc.
They have a former HC, Stan Heath, as an assistant. I'm not sure what Heath's biggest strength is, probably game prep, as many people (not me) question his recruiting.
Do you really believe that?
Doesn't Penn State have a good recruiting class for next year?
If Eddie was 16-18 (Chambers was in year 3) no one would be looking for him to be fired.
He's 7-24
But they were perfect losers in conference play this year. Finished 0-19. losing tonight to FSU.
SEASON AVERAGES
SEASON TEAM MIN FGM-FGA FG% 3PM-3PA 3P% FTM-FTA FT% REB AST BLK STL PF TO PTS
2015-16 BC 33.5 5.6-15.2 .366 2.1-7.5 .277 2.6-3.3 .780 3.9 4.1 0.2 1.2 1.8 3.5 15.8
2014-15 FLA 24.5 3.0-8.4 .362 1.5-5.0 .305 1.2-1.5 .810 2.0 2.0 0.0 0.9 1.6 1.6 8.8
2013-14 FLA 7.6 0.1-2.0 .071 0.1-1.3 .111 0.0-0.3 .000 0.7 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.7 0.4 0.4
2012-13 RUTG 28.8 4.7-12.2 .384 1.6-5.1 .320 4.0-4.6 .864 2.8 2.1 0.1 1.0 2.5 2.8 14.9
Interesting career for BC's leading scorer this yr, the one the only.......Eli Carter
SEASON TEAM MIN FGM-FGA FG% 3PM-3PA 3P% FTM-FTA FT% REB AST BLK STL PF TO PTS
2015-16 BC 33.5 5.6-15.2 .366 2.1-7.5 .277 2.6-3.3 .780 3.9 4.1 0.2 1.2 1.8 3.5 15.8
2014-15 FLA 24.5 3.0-8.4 .362 1.5-5.0 .305 1.2-1.5 .810 2.0 2.0 0.0 0.9 1.6 1.6 8.8
2013-14 FLA 7.6 0.1-2.0 .071 0.1-1.3 .111 0.0-0.3 .000 0.7 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.7 0.4 0.4
2012-13 RUTG 28.8 4.7-12.2 .384 1.6-5.1 .320 4.0-4.6 .864 2.8 2.1 0.1 1.0 2.5 2.8 14.9
Interesting career for BC's leading scorer this yr, the one the only.......Eli Carter
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Even more classic in context, the entire team got the ***** at Chipotle this year. So i guess he was moved by that.
As much as I hope BCU flounders in futility for perpetuity I can't agree with this commentary.
Boston.com
Data suggests Boston College would be better off leaving the ACC - BC is overmatched, and not just this season
Not sure what his alternative is, drop to a lower conference, get a lot less money, and win a few more games?
Boston.com
Data suggests Boston College would be better off leaving the ACC - BC is overmatched, and not just this season
Not sure what his alternative is, drop to a lower conference, get a lot less money, and win a few more games?
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The ACC seems not to want anything to do with UConn. That could change since the ACC snatches up old BE teams like I change socks