Boston College-Jagodzinski Mess is a Win-Win
College Football January 7th. 2009, 12:15pm
Boston College football coach Jeff Jagodzinski wants to test his NFL value. So he’s trying to secretly interview with the Jets and maybe other teams. His plans haven’t necessarily been kept under wraps, and Boston College is pissed. The school wants to fire him. Seems pretty cut and dry, no?
BC’s decision is easy. When it hired Jags, the school made it clear that it wanted somebody who was in it for the long haul. Jags obviously snowed ‘em. He jumped into a sweet gig where he was aided by a Heisman-contending QB one year, and an experienced team the next. Smart guy.
With his stock way up - two straight ACC Championship trips - and he wants a shot at the NFL just in case before the Eagles tank next year and his options dry up.
It looks like Jagodzinski is in the process (right now!) of being fired. Good move for BC - the guy can’t recruit (65th best class next year, according to Rivals; that’s lower than Duke, Boise State, and Tulsa, among others) and with his senior-laden team losing a bunch of players to graduation, it’s probably the right time to bail.
Win-Win! Well, except for BC - now it has to suffer through at least 2-3 mediocre seasons with a new coach and weak talent.
(Unrelated: The son of the BC AD went to college with us and played quarterback. Good kid.)
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January 7th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
BC is living in a pipe dream if they think they are going to get a coach to stay there for a long time. If a cocach ever turns BC into a perennial national title contender there’s no way BC can afford to keep him unless the guy is in love with the BC program.
considering BC has doesn’t have a rich football traditionn I find it hard to believe there is a guy like that out there. I’m not saying they shouldn’t fire him, but to think someone wants to be with BC for the “long haul” is ridiculous.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
I was looking at their recruiting a couple of days ago. I think this year’s class is so weak because they aren’t graduating a lot of players and they signed 29 players (33rd overall on rivals) last year. I don’t think there were many spots open. BC wanted a lifer and Jags wants to be a NFL coach. I didn’t work. However I think BC overreacted. If their plan is to replace Jags in-house then what difference does it make if they replace him, this, next or two years from now? Keep a good coach for as long as possible BC. However, this is great for VT.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
great for VT and great for everyone else in the ACC.
expecting a lifer, IMO, is nuts.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
BC football is at best sixth in the Boston landscape. Think about it. You’re always going to be behind the Sox, Pats, Celts, Bruins, and college hockey.
Chestnut Hill is nice, but it’s not that nice. Not to mention a Boston 10 is at best a Carolina/Florida 3. Not all that enticing.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
can Doug Flutie coach?
January 7th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Who cares about recruiting rankings? Ohio State always ranks high, but according to cursed and spencer their O Line and receivers are complete dogshit.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
hey RS, any thoughts on the Cuse -13 tonight at home against DePaul?
January 7th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Who cares about recruiting rankings? Notre Dame always ranks high, but according to their record and science their entire roster is complete dogshit.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
yeah, 2 title games in a row and a fiesta bowl trip (all losses) but all of their players are dogshit
January 7th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
no data to back this up, but it is thought that most of the recruiting sites tend to inflate the value of Irish recruits. not sure why that is. clausen can still prove this theory wrong with a good jr year.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
What’s he going to do with the Jets? Change Favre’s diapers?
January 7th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
(planned on adding more to that) If I were him I’d test my NFL value away from the Jets, why not go after the broncos job?
January 7th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
The data to back this up is the performance on the field
January 7th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
It is hard to recruit to BC because Boston is racist.
/Social science.
Recruiting sites tend to bump up the value a recruit based on what school is recruiting him. If ND is recruiting someone, they must be good! Alas, Weiss is looking like a medicore recruiter.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Tressel will continue to pump out 1st round NFL picks, but when he runs into a dog (Robiskie, Boone), he needs to bench their asses for more talented players. That’s a pretty big weakness.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
@ KC: There was more than likely a few extra stars added to Montana’s son (like, more than the maximum five). Also, way to kick ass in the bowl pick’em thing.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Of course. Montana’s son had to formally announce that he had accepted the invite to the Under Armour AA game next year……He deserves that seventh star.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Isn’t calling someone you went to college with a “kid” pretty condescending? Especially since you are both in your thirties(read: old).
January 7th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
^Made me feel better about turning 22 next month. Thanks.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
22? You haven’t even learned how to drink properly, youngin’.
/33′d
January 7th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
That made me laugh.
No way this guy gets the Jets’ gig anyway. Looks like he’s trying to get fired, Costanza-style.
January 7th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Actually Clown, Tressel had some lousy classes to start out his tenure. In 2004 they were 25th, then 11th, then 7th, then 13th, then 16th. Hardly elite. These last two years we’ve been one of the best in the nation.
Technically the seniors this year were a part of either the 05 or 04 season.. they lost 8 games in their careers (not bad for the 25th best class).
Although I think Todd Boeckman was a part of the 1996 class.
January 7th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
More Boeckman.
January 7th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
TBL- I would stay away from every Cuse line the rest of the season. You never know what you’re going to get from these guys. Harris is probbaly playing tonight, but Devendorf is banged up. Flynn looks so disinterested in these games against supposed “inferior” opponents. They’re going to get bit one of these games.
That being said, DePaul has looked atrocious away from home and has no shooters which play into Syracuse’s hands. I don’t gamble on Cuse games so play at your own risk.
January 7th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Ya, I definitely wouldn’t put money on Cuse with that big of a spread. They have a habit of playing down to their opponents. They turn the ball over too much, and can get hurt by good shooting teams.
January 7th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Well that 05 and 04 class got their ass saved by Pryor….if he hadn’t come in all they would have been doing is watching Boeckman laying on his ass…..then again maybe not since the Big 10 sucked fucken balls this year.
January 7th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
They haven’t exactly been very good against non big 11 competition. Dog shit may be harsh, but elite they are not.
January 7th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Tom Lemming is the major cause of the ND bias.
January 7th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
If you consider 30s to be “old”, them at 56, I must be practically Neolithic.
Get the hell off my lawn.
/Eastwood’d