00:00It pains me to do this. Boston College needs to give up its athletics department entirely.
00:07Oh my god. Wow. Central Connecticut State beat Boston College in front of friends and family at Connie Forum last night.
00:16The football team has not beaten a power conference team. It is, on the hockey team, our one pride and joy isn't even ranked right now.
00:24I don't know anything about the guy running the athletic department. I am not connected to Boston College these days in any capacity.
00:33Boston College was the first sports team I started rooting for. My dad wasn't from here. He went to BC from New York.
00:40And I got indoctrinated into Boston College football and basketball. And what they have become is the worst.
00:49There is not anger. There is apathy. There is indifference. And I don't know who to blame.
00:56Maybe Father Leahy, the president of the school, leaving will help. But he was the president of the school when I was there.
01:01And Matt Ryan was playing football. And we had a really good Ryan Sidney and Yuka Agbi and Troy Bell and Al Skinner, a great coach.
01:10Like, I don't recognize it. And it's so pathetic because the school is a beautiful campus. It's one of the most popular schools in the country.
01:20It's in a great spot. And it's just been squandered because people there think it's Harvard. It's not.
01:28And, like, it's just to me, like, they create these hurdles that they have to overcome when just winning without the self-inflicted wounds is hard.
01:40And it's just, you've got to figure out what you are. And what they are right now is an awful, awful athletic department. One of the worst in the country.
01:48Are they willing to lower their academic standards like they did when Courtney got in?
01:55You nailed that one. No, but they need to.
01:59And, like, Curtis, I 100% agree with you.
02:02If it's ever going to change, it needs to change this summer when the change of the guard happens, when Father Leahy leaves.
02:09I just think that when Father Leahy first became the president, the landscape of college athletics was so different than what it is right now.
02:16And they need to change with the times, and they just haven't.
02:19And that's been the issue. And that's, I think, the bottom line why I feel so badly for Bill O'Brien, that fans are just putting it all on him.
02:27Because when you look at all of the other athletic programs at BC, nobody's doing well.
02:33So it's not just a football problem.
02:35I agree. I mean, right. I think when I was there, they did lower the standards for certain guys, including me.
02:46But they were fine. Like, BC football was legit for 20 years in that it was a bowl team.
02:54But that was like Courtney said, the landscape was different now.
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