Father Himes's Homily and other links

While many of us spent last Saturday getting frustrated by the BC-Northwestern game, thousands of BC alumni and members of the BC community gathered for the Sesquicentennial Mass at Fenway Park. BC posted a video of Father Himes's homily. It is not sports related but definitely worth the watch for those know Father Himes or missed the celebration.

Steve Logan is now on Twitter. So far it is mostly promotional updates for his radio show, but he won't be able to keep his personality out of social media for long. He's already slipping in wine comments and critiques of ESPN.

Paul Myerberg -- the mainstream media writer who has been most critical of Spaz -- is moving to USA Today. Congratulations to him. He deserves the bigger platform.

Volleyball lost to Georgia Tech.

Field Hockey lost to Virginia.

Others mentioning Football's "malaise"

In digging into UMass's football potential, Presnap Read captured the feeling that most of us share: "malaise." If the New York Times writers have a good feel for the mood of BC fans, why doesn't our Athletic Department?

Boston College is suffering from a deep-seeded malaise; the Eagles have seen their win total drop in each of the last four years, bottoming out with a four-win finish a year ago. The program lacks direction: Frank Spaziani is the favorite son of the administration, but he has painfully mishandled the program since inheriting a strong foundation in 2009.

B.C. hasn’t been this devoid of hope entering a season since the mid-1990s — before Tom O’Brien rebuilt the program, the Eagles spent three years scuffling under Dan Henning. That situation has one major parallel with the Eagles’ current issues: Henning replaced Tom Coughlin, theoretically taking control of a team on the rise, but like Spaziani, he failed to match his predecessor’s success.

As in 1997, when the university replaced Henning with O’Brien, the Eagles might need to make a drastic change in order to regain its footing in the A.C.C. Someone like O’Brien, who altered the entire culture of the program, would constitute a drastic change — especially after Spaziani, who seems befuddled by the program’s steep decline over the last 36 months.

Using terms and words like "befuddled" and "mishandled" is never a good sign. I appreciate that Presnap also points the blame at Spaz and not Jags.

While there were other factors in the attendance issues for the Spring Game, the black eye it is bringing to the program doesn't help perception.

I would say that BC needs to do something, but if you are reading this blog you already know.