Luke Murray and BC?

[JB75]

BC is brutal. Don’t do it Luke.

 

[UConnJim]

I think many of you are underestimating the new BC President Jack Butler. The prior President Leahy had no interest in sports. Butler does at least according to my family members who are BC grads. He was Chaplain to the Football team so there's that. BC knows full well the impact sports can make on academics. They still talk about the growth of BC/AD (after Doug). Hockey is king at least with my family members but I hope that the interest spreads to football and eventually basketball. It would be great for New England.

I heard Fr. Butler met with BC alums in NYC and the takeaway about financial commitment to sports was underwhelming. Still, he cares about athletics more than Fr. Leahy has.

 

[husky429]

Yeah, but I could sleep with Sydney Sweeney IF she knew me and wanted to sleep with me. (Well, to be fair, and if I didn’t have panic driven anxiety which I would almost certainly have in that circumstance.)

This is why we have xanax, brother

 

[HuskyHawk]

If I'm Luke (with a nice lifestyle/young children and presumably a future inheritance) and I want to become a head coach, I would look at places not named BC. With no head coach/CEO experience, he'd be better off taking a really good situation at a mid major, learn and excel as a first time head coach, and then make the Power 5 move. Way safer, less job stress, less booster pressure to get canned if you are at or below .500, better family life, etc. That's my two cents.

On the other hand, there are lot worse places for a guy with money and young kids to live, work and raise them than Newton, MA. I suspect the pressure to win would be much lower than at some other schools. I can why he might not want the job and also why he might. He went to HS in New Canaan, Fairfield for college, worked at Quinnipiac, worked for Dan at URI before going to Louisville. If he likes New England, BC is the 2nd best job in the region.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Yeah, but I could sleep with Sydney Sweeney IF she knew me and wanted to sleep with me. (Well, to be fair, and if I didn’t have panic driven anxiety which I would almost certainly have in that circumstance.)

I would have thought it would have turned out more along the lines of once she told you she wanted to sleep with you you'd get all excited, and say "thank you! I'm done.", then light up a cigarette.

 

[Fishy]

On the other hand, there are lot worse places for a guy with money and young kids to live, work and raise them than Newton, MA. I suspect the pressure to win would be much lower than at some other schools. I can why he might not want the job and also why he might. He went to HS in New Canaan, Fairfield for college, worked at Quinnipiac, worked for Dan at URI before going to Louisville. If he likes New England, BC is the 2nd best job in the region.

The job he currently has is better than the Boston College job.

Do you think Earl Grant and his family enjoyed their stay in Newton?

 

[HuskyHawk]

The job he currently has is better than the Boston College job.

Do you think Earl Grant and his family enjoyed their stay in Newton?

He probably did. He's getting paid through 2029. BC HC is better than any assistant coach job. But it all depends on what Luke wants for himself.

 

[businesslawyer]

This is why we have xanax, brother

I hear you, but I’m not sure that the cost/benefit analysis of buying Xanax in case Sydney Sweeney wants to sleep with me makes it a good investment.

 

[auror]

The job he currently has is better than the Boston College job.

Do you think Earl Grant and his family enjoyed their stay in Newton?

The BC job will pay triple his current job.

Right now, he's stuck because the good mid majors mostly hire winning lower mid major head coaches (in part because they have a track record and in part because they can import players and staff with them to kickstart things). But he didn't want to take less money to go to a low major. If you don't win at a low major, you're cooked.

So if he wants to be a head coach, he can't just stay in his current job unless he takes the Tommy Lloyd/Jerome Tang 20 year route. His options are take less money and deal with transfer hell year after year in a high risk scenario or take triple the money and be at a resource disadvantage in his league, but with options if he fails.

 

[Edward Sargent]

I don’t know anything about what it takes to be a HC but I imagine it’s a big jump from being one of the best Xs and Os guy to running the whole show. I will be rooting for Luke’s success. Let’s worry about him coming to UConn down the line. Speaking of Xs and Os guys Danny should look to the Boneyard talent for Luke’s replacement😂

 

[alexd]

Does his dad have to go with him???

 

[Kenny11]

This is mission impossible. if he gets them to be an ncaa tournament team, that’s a huge success

 

[GiladKatzDeli]

Easily?! There’s nothing easy about bringing that program back. The haven’t finished above .500 in the ACC since 2010-2011 and haven’t been ranked or made the NCAAT since 2008-2009.

Luke can coach, so if he has the resources (and I assume he wouldn’t take the job if he doesn’t get those commitments), then yes BC can be very competitive in the ACC fairly quickly. You don’t think in a couple years Luke could have those guys beating the likes of Louisville, NC State, and Miami? If the NIL is the same, I’d rather play for Luke than at NC State or Clemson.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[aburks41]

I see it as a no risk, high reward job. If he gets them to commit lets say $6-7M a year in NIL, he can build a roster can make a NCAAT. If he takes BC to an NCAAT, he'll be able to get damn near any P5 job he wants. If he fails, well then he just comes back to UConn as an assistant and everyone just agrees that BC is a dead program.

Plus, if we are doing some long term planning, I'd like to see Luke get some experience as a HC. Let's say Hurley has 6-7 years left (he's 53). Luke gets BC to an NCAAT in year 3, then gets a job at a place like NC State and crushes it for a few years. Hurley retires and boom, we have our guy.

 

[RowdyFan]

Twenty years ago, BC was a job that you could win some years. I'm not sure that is the case now. In 2015, BC was the only school that voted against increasing the student athlete stipend in a 79-1 vote and they have been late to fully fund revenue sharing. And, their NIL infrastructure is lacking and it doesn't seem they are 100% in. Fan support has collapsed.

If I were Murray, I would go to a mid major school that has a winning culture. You win for a couple of years, gain some expereince as a head coach, and you can move to better job than BC.

Creighton?

 

[uconnbill]

I wish Luke the best, no matter what, but BCU is a hockey school and, once in a decade, a football school. They do not invest in NIL, and basketball is down the list since they left the Big East to say the least

 

[EROCK CONN]

Rival ?

 

[karstenkibbe]

Luke Murray is only only to be 42 next season. Even if BC continues to play like crap with him at the helm for 3-4 seasons, he can jump shit and still be in his mid-40s.

The reward vastly outweighs the risk.

He better jump it @Hey Adrien! Sounds like a ton of fecal matter at BC. Not sure about the reward, but tons of risk in not jumping it.

 

[TheShot1990]

I despise BC for what they did to UConn but if Luke can land an ACC head coaching job he should take it. You don't wanna be "Danny's backup" forever.

 

[jibsey]

He would bring them back to some kind of respectability, my guess. Good luck but sad to lose him.

 

[Hi-Low]

If BC ponies up NIL $ to 7-8 million (which seems uncertain) then probably a no-brainer for Luke to take his shot. But if BC stays disinterested in improving their CBB situation and remains at the bottom of NIL $ then Luke should say no thanks & wait.

 

[alexd]

Rival ?

Huh.. We won 23 in a row against them at one time and that included the stretch in the 90's when they were good.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Rival ?

Yeah, kind of like a concrete slab is a rival to a jackhammer.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Luke can coach, so if he has the resources (and I assume he wouldn’t take the job if he doesn’t get those commitments), then yes BC can be very competitive in the ACC fairly quickly. You don’t think in a couple years Luke could have those guys beating the likes of Louisville, NC State, and Miami? If the NIL is the same, I’d rather play for Luke than at NC State or Clemson.

I hope for his sake they have the money. My concern is what the likelihood is that a program that has historically shown zero interest in spending a dime on NIL will all of a sudden spend a big chunk to compete. I find it highly unlikely they get to the Duke, UNC, VA, Miami, Louisville level. Even after that there’s a lot of teams that will probably outspend them. I’ll root for him, especially since any success will mean he’s out of chestnut hill quicker. Consider me very skeptical though.

 

[arch]

NBC Sports Boston confirmed signing.

 

[ctbro1999]

NBC Sports Boston confirmed signing.

Dang

 

[Hi-Low]

If Luke takes it I assume he goes right away and misses the rest of the Tourney?

 

[Scoe]

This was only a matter of time, suprising he stayed on the staff as long as he did. Would feel a bit weird rooting for him because it's BC.

 

[uconndogs]

So what? Football is 100% more important to BC than hoops is, because what’s important in Boston in the winter is BC hockey. If BC is able to get a whole lot more dough into its athletic department, it’s not going to hoops until BC becomes competitive again in football. And don’t hold your breath on that.

Which begs the question, why does a school like BC continue down this road of major college athletics? Does it truly need that forum to preserve and grow its academic standing?