Jim Christian out @ Boston College

[BGesus4]

At first I thought this had to do with cancelling the word Christian from BC as part of cancel culture 😂.

If they reach out to Pitino then it’s definitely happened

 

[Palatine]

If I'm BC I'm calling Johh Becker (Vermont), Tommy Amaker (Harvard) and maybe Joe Jones (BU). I'd have Becker and Amaker as my 1 and 1A...

If I'm Becker or Amaker or Jones, I do not return BCU's call.

 

[Improviser]

Isn't Wake Forest another perennial bottom feeder in the ACC? Tough to dig out from the bottom.

Pitino has the coaching chops and is a very good in-game coach. A few years ago, when he coached at Louisville in a game against Calhoun, Louisville was minus several good players, and Pitino kept them competitive in the game.

He knows how and when to switch defenses and when to press. When at Kentucky, during a year when they had mass defections, he got the slow remaining players to shoot 3's and press, and like they won games by 20 points. I remember their having a player named Pelfrey.

He knows how to do much with little, except when he coached in the NBA.

 

[Improviser]

Was thinking that beilein gotta be a pipe dream

He was canned at Cleveland and got a fat payout. He's no youngster, but what does he have to lose?

 

[Scoe]

The “C” stands for “College”

I thought BC stood for "Before Christ".

 

[UConnSportsGuy]

Ha ha kill me.

Before anyone freaks out, take a look at the date on that tweet.

 

[auror]

Before anyone freaks out, take a look at the date on that tweet.

Oh thank god. I deleted the post. A fwe people on my twitter timeline retweeted it.

 

[superjohn]

Ha ha kill me.

Lolz, no way that happens.

 

[M.S.G.]

Pretty slimy to do it with like 3 weeks left in the season, but you can't argue with his track record. Absolute terrible job, kind of an unwinnable situation to be honest though, tough to recruit up there when UConn / Nova / Syracuse dominate the recruiting in the northeast.

 

[Waquoit]

Lolz, no way that happens.

Are you saying he wouldn't take it if offered?

 

[uconndogs]

It took them seven years to get rid of him..........think about that!

 

[huskymedic]

 

[gtcam]

Providence would be a northeast powerhouse with Pitino. It would definitely be good for the Big East but would hurt UConn. They definitely sticking with Cooley.

He had a 2 year tenure at PeeCee already and brought them to Final 4 in year 2
Don't think the Friar administration would consider Pitino
BUT - Cooley may look at BC and the ACC
I'll bet BC sends feelers out to Dan Hurley or maybe his brother (to counter the recruiting war) but Dan Hurley really hasn't earned that look quite yet, IMO

 

[navery12]

He had a 2 year tenure at PeeCee already and brought them to Final 4 in year 2
Don't think the Friar administration would consider Pitino
BUT - Cooley may look at BC and the ACC
I'll bet BC sends feelers out to Dan Hurley or maybe his brother (to counter the recruiting war) but Dan Hurley really hasn't earned that look quite yet, IMO

Stop it. Dan Hurley isn't taking the BC job

 

[Jorgensen]

I would like to nominate Bob Diaco for BCU men’s basketball. I’m sure he can’t make it any worse than it already is, but he can certainly try his best!

 

[freescooter]

BC has 2 problems, maybe 3 if you count being the odd man in the ACC. First, they have not been good and are in a pretty deep hole. How do they recruit the northeast now? How do you get out? If I were going this route, though I’d sell the campus to condo developers and go after Pikiell. I doubt you’d get him but who knows and compared to Rutgers BC is a walk in the park.

Problem #2 is that BC basketball is the equivalent of UConn football to most of their alumni and fans. If the announcement had been “BC is dropping basketball” 75% of the BC alumni/fan base wouldn’t care that much. Less competition for resources for Hockey and football...

They can go a couple of ways it seems to me. They can try and bring in an older big name to jump start interest, a Pitino or a Beilien type who probably isn’t staying long but will generate some interest. You hope you can find his replacement to build on the momentum. They can bring in a pretty solid local guy like Amaker or one of the other locals. I‘d look at the guy at Yale too. But they sort of went that route before with Christian. Successful Ivy League coach with little success At BC. Or find another Dan Hurley type, successful at rebuilding at a lower level who wants to show his stuff in the most prestigious league in the country. I don’t know who that would be but in some ways it needs to be the anti-Hurley in the sense that you won’t win at BC by out recruiting teams in your conference and you won’t win lots of battles against the big boys in your neighborhood either so you need to be able to coach the heck out of your team. Hurley will win or lose based on the guys he gets. BC needs to find the right guys to fit a system. A young Jay Wright would be the perfect guy.

 

[Fishy]

All downhill after they fired Skinner who IMO was a pretty good coach. Never understood why they got rid of him unless they had visions of greatness which is a total illusion for anything other than hockey at BCU.

They were going downhill with or without Skinner.

The ugly side there was not that they fired Skinner, but that they decided to destroy his reputation in the press for no good reason.

BC sucks because there is no compelling reason for them not to suck.

 

[freescooter]

Stop it. Dan Hurley isn't taking the BC job

I could see them sending out feelers to Cooley. I know he is a local Providence guy but he was a BC assistant and he might be interested in competing in the ACC.

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

Not when I watched them, they had a few good guards a couple years ago and were in many games with that class but couldn't win. By no means do I suggest they were in them all to the last minutes/seconds of games but they were competitive for a while. Maybe I only saw the ones they played well in or over their heads.

Pitino would be real interesting for them but would a catholic school hire a pimp?

probably just move him to another catholic school

 

[ThabeetDown]

He had a 2 year tenure at PeeCee already and brought them to Final 4 in year 2
Don't think the Friar administration would consider Pitino
BUT - Cooley may look at BC and the ACC
I'll bet BC sends feelers out to Dan Hurley or maybe his brother (to counter the recruiting war) but Dan Hurley really hasn't earned that look quite yet, IMO

How am I not shocked that someone in this crazy place thinks Dan Hurley 1) is even a candidate for this job but 2) at the same time doesn't deserve it?

You do realize that UConn in the Big East is heads and shoulders a better job than BC? Well, clearly you don't.

This place never ceases to amaze me.

 

[UCTitleTown]

They've become so irrelevant, I didn't even know who Jim Christian was.

 

[Waquoit]

but Dan Hurley really hasn't earned that look quite yet, IMO

Is this the silliest take ever? Even Chief has earned a look at the BCU job.

 

[Fishy]

I could see them sending out feelers to Cooley. I know he is a local Providence guy but he was a BC assistant and he might be interested in competing in the ACC.

There should be zero chance that Cooley would leave Providence for what is an even harder job.

There’s a reach Boston College cannot beat PC regularly for recruits.

 

[freescooter]

How am I not shocked that someone in this crazy place thinks Dan Hurley 1) is even a candidate for this job but 2) at the same time doesn't deserve it?

You do realize that UConn in the Big East is heads and shoulders a better job than BC? Well, clearly you don't.

This place never ceases to amaze me.

Lots of things make UConn a much better job than BC. But if you could be successful in the ACC vs the new Big East, I guarantee 9 out of 10 coaches would take the ACC.

 

[freescooter]

There should be zero chance that Cooley would leave Providence for what is an even harder job.

There’s a reach Boston College cannot beat PC regularly for recruits.

Well as they say, people will do lots of things if the money is right. And it would have to be right. Guys make dumb moves all the time for money. Ask Rollie Massimino. Or John Beilien.

 

[HCCForever]

They've become so irrelevant, I didn't even know who Jim Christian was.

Likewise. Forget BC and Gene DeFilippo and while I'm at it Donna Shalala.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Pitino would be real interesting for them but would a catholic school hire a pimp?

Ask the AD at Iona.

 

[Palatine]

Wouldn't the pope have give BCU special dispensation to hire Pitno?

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Isn't Wake Forest another perennial bottom feeder in the ACC? Tough to dig out from the bottom.

Yes, but the hire of Steve Forbes over quarantine has brought in some positive momentum to the program. 3-3 over their last six which included a OT loss to Florida State.

Two straight top-50 classes since Forbes has taken over. It's something.

Like the Fordham job opening up, Boston College is a coach killing destination, plus both jobs are afterthought programs within major cities. Heck, Amaker's Harvard team gets more attention in Boston than BC.

If I were a betting man, I'd say Becker goes to Boston College. He's done a heck of a job at Vermont and at 52, he'd still be able to get a decent mid-major job if all else fails at BC. For my own selfish reasons, I really don't want Rhodes, Moser, Schmidt and Bennett to leave their respective schools (VCU, Loyola-Chicago, Saint Bonaventure, Saint Mary's) as I really like to watch their teams and they are a big reason for their teams' success.

 

[ucp990411]

Someone said another Jay Wright would be perfect. Only about 325 other schools would say the same thing. Dan Hurley - come on, why would he go to a mid major. John Becker, he'd be crazy to go except for the pay check.
They need someone who can recruit. I thought Christian was doing a great job, they belong in the cellar every year.