Tough Choice For BC

Boston College had a busy day yesterday. First, the basketball team went to North Carolina and exposed them as frauds. Then they gave their football coach, Jeff Jagodzinski, one hell of a tough choice.

Jagodzinski has a tough choice between interview for an NFL job or fired from your current job. It has been reported that if Jagodzinski interviews for the New York Jets job, Boston College AD Gene DeFliippo will fire Jagodzinski and replace him with one of his own assistants.

Jagodzinski has been the head coach at Boston College since 2007 and has taken Boston College to two straight ACC championship games. Before that he was an NFL assistant, more recently the offensive coordinator of the Green Bay Packers.

Boston College on the other hand has seen this situation before. Tom O'Brein, Boston College's former coach, left the school in early 07 to take the job at North Carolina St. O'Brein left weeks before recruits sing their letter of intent. Many recruits decided they didn't want to go to Boston College and went elsewhere. Boston College doesn't want to be burned again by their head coach.

So who do you rout for? No one. This is a classic example of two people fighting over, power, leverage, and respect.

Who Wins? No one. The players most of all are the ones hurt the most. They are the ones twisting in the wind, while the grown ups are fighting and bickering. The players are the ones who have to be the adults. Just ask Robert Marve.

But this is the world of high stakes college football. In the NFL, teams looking for a head coach, can't interview a coach without asking permission from the team he is working from. In college football a coach can come and go whenever he pleases and leave everyone hanging. If a player wants to leave they have to wait a year before they can play again.

This is just the jacked up world of college football. So sit back and enjoy the fight between Jagodzinski and Boston College.