Hello Eagle Nation,
It’s been a crazy up and down year. I'm just laughing to myself right now because never in my 20 years of going to BC football games have I experienced a year with so much turmoil. I mean never has a year of watching BC football been so stressful.
Even before the season started, Mark Herzlich is coming back from cancer, with a titanium rod in his leg, and he fractures his foot in practice. Like the guy worked his ass off to get back on a football field and he breaks his foot before the first Saturday and the injury report was that he might be out the first game or two. But being the animal that he is Marky Mark was like “Broken foot? Nah, screw that. I'm playin.”
And it didn’t stop there for Mark. No, it seems like the guy can’t catch a break. After triumphantly beating cancer (and a stress fracture) he was back flying around, making tackles and giving opposing quarterbacks nightmares with his war paint. But he breaks his hand during a game. But, remember, Animal. He wraps his injured hand turning it into a battle club making him look even more intimidating. I'm starting to think that he’s breaking his bones on purpose now just to get stronger. I don’t know just a thought.
But I mean that started before the first kickoff. After that there was the quarterback controversy, would it be Uncle Dave? Maybe Marscovetra? Or will Coach Spaz have to release his secret weapon Chase Rettig a year early?
BC was shut out at home for the first time in over a decade, losing 19-0 at home to Virginia Tech on parents weekend, and got blown out by N.C. State 44-13. I know this is a long list but this season deserves an in-depth look back.
Next on the long list is the Debacle at home against Notre Dame. An embarrassing game on national T.V. that BC lost in the first quarter when they went down 21-0. Then after cutting the lead to 21-10, Rettig is marching the offense down the field and….he takes a funny step and hurts his knee, out for two weeks. This game was the tipping point for the fans and attendance began to decline.
The student run newspaper, "the Heights", were encouraging students to quit on the season, saying there was no hope for this year. That for me was the low point on the season, students around campus talking all doom and gloom about this team leading to a football player saying to a friend in the lunch line, "Im sick of football."
But unlike the flip flopping writers of "the Heights", I still had faith that once Rettig got going BC would rattle off a few wins and make it to the post season. A couple close loses to Florida State and Maryland, had more and more fans dropping out and by the time the Clemson game came around, only the true fans were left in the stands at the Aluminum Monster.
Then all of a sudden, BC beats Clemson and gets the Leather Helmet trophy with Montel Harris winning MVP on his birthday. The win train kept rolling, defeating Wake Forest and holding off Duke in dramatic fashion. Bringing Boston College's record to 5-5 with a home game against lowly Virginia on senior day.
BC didn't disappoint. They came back and won a wild game 17-13 to clinch a winning home record, at least .500 season and most importantly: a birth in a bowl game. But of course this season is no ordinary season and the win came at a price. Montel Harris injured his knee and required arthroscopic surgery and will be out 3-6 weeks, ruling him out for the season finale at Syracuse and putting him in question for what ever bowl BC gets into.
If BC can grab a win from the Orange and finish the season 7-5 they will most likely end up in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl (Previously the Emerald Bowl) and would for the second year in a row be heading out to San Francisco. Their two possible opponents? #19 Nevada or gulp…#4 Boise State.
But hey I'm not complaining cause after all in the last decade Boise State has only lost 15 times. One of those loses? At home to Boston College in the MPC Computers bowl. Lets Go Eagles.
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