Reports are all over ESPN and Fox. The current BC AD (Martin Jarmond) has been on the job only since 2017, and has had some success getting BC President Leahy to spend more money on athletics. The UCLA AD announced his retirement and a search was performed and it looks like Jarmond (who used to be an assistant AD at Ohio State), and who has no ties to that conference or to the west coast, has the job. Of course, peculiar timing and there is an initial urge to read too much into this. But for the past 10 years (Leahy has been president of Boston College I think since the mid 90's), BC has had a poor track record of maintaining AD's and head coaches. So, this could just be business as usual in Chestnut Hill. BC used to have a respectable football program, but BC hasn't kept up with or invested in what the sport currently requires. Jarmond fired Addazio in December and hired a guy (Hafley from Ohio State - but I don't think Jarmond and Hafley were there at the same time) with no head football coaching experience. Par for the course. So now BC has a first year head coach during this pandemic, who has never been a head coach before, and the guy that hired him is leaving town. And going to a university that has it's own cloud over its ability to play football, based more on the political climate as opposed to anything else. Make sense?
Looks like Boston College about to lose its AD to UCLA?
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