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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 4736948, member: 549"] [MEDIA=twitter]1698298997478166713[/MEDIA] [HEADING=1][SIZE=4]-> Four more in misery[/SIZE][/HEADING] [HEADING=1][SIZE=4]Boston College[/SIZE][/HEADING] They were a pandemic sensation, somehow navigating the entire 2020 season with just one case of COVID-19. Back then, it seemed almost impossible and worthy of recognition, as strange as it may seem now. But it also might help explain how the Eagles overachieved in Jeff Hafley's first season as head coach by going 6-5, including a strong 5-5 record in the ACC. In retrospect, a lot of the sports anomalies from 2020 might well be explained one way or another by looking through the COVID prism. It’s possible Boston College won a few extra games because it had healthy players while most football teams were struggling to put their full teams on the field week in and week out, much less trying to navigate practice. Either way, the Eagles have dropped off a cliff since then. They went 4-12 in the ACC in 2021 and 2022, won just three games last season and opened 2023 with a ghastly 27-24 overtime loss to a Northern Illinois team that also went 3-9 last year. Hafley, the 44-year-old former Ohio State offensive coordinator with an NFL background, came out of the pandemic looking like a future star. Now he looks like a guy struggling to keep his career afloat in an impossibly difficult job. <- [/QUOTE]