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Eagles!!!!!

I just noticed on www.bceagles.com that the football section (and some others) now have a link for a NIL Marketplace. You can engage with players for a variety of services. https://opendorse.com/bostoncollege-eagles?sports=Football

Our world has changed!

It's Friday and I'm chilling. What do you got for tunes.

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Going to try and keep up as best I can today. Hafley also has a presser to talk about signings at 2...Obviously, a majority of these guys were already known, but still wanted to try and keep a running list here...

-Kemori Dixon - LB (George Washington HS) (VA)
-Judah Pruitt - OL (Malcolm X Shabazz HS) (NJ)
-Jonathan Montague Jr. - QB (Clayton HS) (NC)
-Turbo Richard - RB (Northwestern HS) (SC)
-Charlie Comella - DB/ATH (Xaverian HS) (MA)
-Jayzen Flint - DE (West Catholic Prep) (PA)
-Pape Abdoulaye Sy - OL (NFL Academy) (Senegal)
-Cedric Lott - WR (John Horn HS) (TX)
-Ashton McShane - CB (McKinney HS) (TX)
-Jordan Lafontant - OL (Brunswick School) (CT)
-Ryan Boultwood - TE (Mt. San Antonio) (CA)
-Syair Torrence - DB (Christian Brothers Academy) (NY)

For those hoping Henry Hasselbeck's de-commit from Michigan State might mean he'd end up here, he's chosen to go play for Chip Kelly instead

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To BC!!!

You know the old saying: Can't tell the players without a scorecard? It has never been truer and never more difficult to be the scorecard maker.

For many years we all have studied the high school players and their high-lite tapes. We learn their names and try to discern the likelihood they might go to BC to bolster this or that area of the team's need. When we are fortunate enough to get a commitment we hope it sticks and we even aim to flip a player or two from elsewhere. We check the recruiting stars and see how the team ranking ends up to help us decide if we are headed in the right direction.

Now we have little idea from month to month who will be on our team, much less who will be "BC Guys" for life. The historic reality of thinking we'll be good the next year because we know their names (a foolish idea but nonetheless real) has been replaced by having little idea who the hell half or more of them are. That seems a hard way to build fan loyalty, much less team loyalty.

Then again, loyalty has become a pretty self-related notion at this point.

Could it be possible that the fire was intended to destroy the upper deck seating such that BC would be compelled to remove the upper decks? Such removal could be then used as the pretext for BC to make the decision to drop down to FCS.

College Football is not the same place it was four years ago when we hired Hafley. The transfer portal and the new rules regarding payments to athletes have changed everything. Ultimately Hafley’s success and his ability to stay a head coach will rest almost exclusively on his ability to adjust.

Obviously a little late in this (no power at my place in Waltham until roughly 11 tomorrow night) but big news yesterday with O'Keefe medically retiring...

This was also confirmed by USC’e’s 247 writer….

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6’5” WR from Texas Tech

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With today being September 1st coaches can now reach out to high school juniors directly for the first time, so if you follow recruiting on social media you'll start to get a sense for which players the Eagles are looking at from that class. We'll highlight some of those guys and contact a lot of them for stories.

This is not going to be BC's biggest recruiting weekend of the year since it's Colgate but there will be some visitors.

The big thing is most of Lawrence Academy's players will be in the stands and getting the whole VIP treatment.

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Boston College has offered '24 quarterback Ryan Pugliese, who they regard as a really good pro-style prospect. He may well come into focus as "the" guy they're wanting to lock up from that cycle. Ole Miss and Temple have also offered but there's already a relationship there in spite of his youth.

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There don't seem to be concerns about the status of Matt Ragan's commitment to BC but getting locals on campus frequently is always a good sign that those relationships are strong.

Ty Chan is committed to ND but he's not going to be in attendance.

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Also hearing that commits Joe Griffin and Ish Zamor are expected to be unofficial visitors this weekend. Again, the relationships with these high schools is very strong and that has been a priority. Because of what BC's doing in the pass game the reception from receivers has been very strong and they're sensing guys are really excited to play in the offense.

I think the Missouri and Florida State games could be the biggest in terms of pushing for guys to visit but they also seem to be playing it by ear. If they go on a run with several wins in a row they'll probably try to parlay that into a big weekend.

To Bellevue after holding out hope for this year’s recruiting class

In case you are interested!

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