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Message: [QUOTE="Pat Kelly, post: 1692249, member: 3752"] [URL]https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2016/03/12/big-revenue-sports-hit-bottom-stirring-scrutiny/iWqaOoo6ZnIIKyksVLYSGJ/story.html[/URL] Obviously blasted football and basketball. I'll bring up a couple points from the basketball portion of the article, as that program currently seems to be a much more difficult fix. The basketball team has had only one winning season since Al Skinner was fired and it was in 2010-11, when they were led by Al Skinner recruit Reggie Jackson, who is currently averaging over 22 points per game in the NBA. Jackson was Skinner's 5th recruit to play in the NBA--there have been no BC players to play in the NBA since. A couple reasons I've seen for the winningest coach in school history being fired was for becoming too complacent, being "too casual", and for running a boring style offense, the flex. Bob Ryan of the Globe ripped him on his way out and seemed to say as much (below). [URL]http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/mens_basketball/articles/2010/03/31/skinners_successful_boston_college_tenure_had_run_its_course/[/URL] Oddly enough, Al was out of the game three years after his firing before being hired at an assistant at small-school Bryant, and before this year finally got another head coaching job at equally small Kennesaw State. Couple interesting quotes from a couple more articles: Current Providence head coach and former Skinner assistant Ed Cooley for a Globe article in January 2014: ""For Al Skinner not to be a head coach is a travesty to college basketball," Cooley said. "It's crazy how he's not a head coach somewhere."" (see below) [URL]https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2014/01/12/former-coach-skinner-moving-bryant/V3bXbeebFmJrGrNtIjrSCJ/story.html[/URL] And for one last article, a little background on Kennesaw State from a December article: "Kennesaw State is 3-8. Its 11-year-old basketball program has been reeling with records of 10-22, 6-25, 3-27,and 3-28 the last four seasons. To say the Owls outmarched expectations in getting a former Division 1 National Coach of the Year to run the program is an understatement." (see below) [URL]https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/12/13/skinner-back-head-coach-kennesaw-state/vJgr0hdEFEquq9hZSQLU2H/story.html[/URL] For a little continuation on Kennesaw State, they finished this year 11-20, including an 8-8 finish, basically matching their win total of the prior three seasons combined. Long post, I know, but as someone who grew up going to many Boston College games and loved watching the teams in the mid-2000s, seeing where the program is now frustrates me to no end. [/QUOTE]

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