by Dick Rosenthal on Sat Sep 03, 2022 11:52 pm
BC football is pretty much over and the fundamental reason is poor leadership. First and foremost is Leahy whose decision making over the last 15 years has been nothing short of astonishingly bad. It would almost be impossible to replicate it if you set out to deliberately destroy the men’s football and basketball programs—you might make a mistake and hire someone competent. Greasy Napoleon was allowed to run roughshod for too long, Butt Cut may be the single most incompetent human being to ever get a job with more responsibility than pushing a broom. The hires that those two tool bags inflicted on the program was a wonder to behold, but let’s face it, Scumbag Marty and Mac n Cheese made lackluster hires but escaped to greener pastures before their own lack of competence could be demonstrated. And then, because Leahy’s feelings were hurt because two guys who had options decided to abandon the sinking ship of BC Athletics, we went and hired a guy who basically the entire college football world understands is a staggering incompetent.
So now we have a football program that has been buried so deep, there is no hope that it will get better. Hafley’s lack of head coaching chops are abundantly obvious both in the continuing dumpster fire of an offensive staff and a complete failure to adapt to transfer portal landscape. BC declining to get into the NIL game is just the final nail in the coffin. And while basketball was marginally better last year—not a difficult task when one considers how absolutely lifeless everything about the program was after 13 years of Donahue and Christian—but does anyone think it will get any better than the basketball equivalent of a 6-6 football season? There is no realistic reason to think so. Between now and the end of the ACC TV contract is going to be horrific as anyone who can get out will get out and BC just keeps dragging on the bottom of a completely diminished rump conference. When the money dries up in 2036 or whenever it ends, BC will likely get left on the proverbial ice berg and we will find ourselves in the Patriot League with our eternal enemy, Holy Cross. But, because it’s BC and we can fuck up a two car funeral, we won’t manage to get to this eventuality until after most of the whalepants who might have found some solace in such an outcome will all be dead.