FB: New England Small College Athletic Conference

[frank uible]

What might have been would only have been d3 football and not some thing fundamental, like for instance, a question of health.

[JEFFFAN]

Can someone remind me what injury caused the Williams QB to be sidelines?  A Williams friend - yes, yes, Amherst grads have Williams friends and vice versa - was asking.

[FourMoreYears]

Discuss.

http://athletics.bowdoin.edu/sports/fball/2018-19/releases/20181115rs5a2p

[quicksilver]

Wow -- that seems like good new for the PBs (I hope!!!!). Well, it can't be worse . . The JB thing just did not seem to work out. I kept hoping for better results, and they just did not happen. I hope that this will be a shot across the bow of the men's hockey coach, who has been similarly inept only with a more storied program, and that this new search will yield better results . . I am also surprised that JB's contract was just for 4 years as I thought that 5-year contracts were the norm (unless Bowdoin decided to eat the fifth year of his contract).

[Nescacman]

Discuss.

http://athletics.bowdoin.edu/sports/fball/2018-19/releases/20181115rs5a2p

We've been saying it could happen all year...he should have been gone last year...wrong guy for the Bowdoin HCOF job...who's next? HCOF Murray???

As far as next man up at Bowdoin,  heard there's a former Columbia D coordinator/D2 Shorter HCOF available....just sayin'!!! 

[lumbercat]

Heard they were turning up the heat on JB but thought he was going to be on 1 year probation. Very surprising- they took forever to gas Caputi but they wasted no time here.

He was a hard worker and a good recruiter but couldn't understand his inability to monetize the talent he has brought to Brunswick. No question Bowdoin easily has the best athletes in the CBB. They beat a crippled Bates team only to have Cosgrove school him in Waterville.

Wonder it the recent friction with admissions over pressure to admit football players led to the development of some growing scar tissue with admissions and the notorious anti football brigade throughout the Bowdoin campus.

Its only speculation. PolBear 73 may shed some light on this.

Wells was very passionate and totally committed to football.... he will land on his feet and look back on this someday as a small bump in the road.

[Nescacman]

Can someone remind me what injury caused the Williams QB to be sidelines?  A Williams friend - yes, yes, Amherst grads have Williams friends and vice versa - was asking.

Maimaron suffered a serious leg injury in the 3rd Q of the Wesleyan game...that was the end of his season...

[lumbercat]

Bobby Acosta OC Bucknell
Bates wouldn't/couldn't  pay him- Bowdoin will.

[Nescacman]

Bobby Acosta OC Bucknell
Bates wouldn't/couldn't  pay him- Bowdoin will.

Seriously, why would he or any other serious candidate take the Bowdoin HCOF job? The school has demonstrated pretty much zero support of football (other than the renovation of Whittier, financed entirely through donations without any commitment of Bowdoin endowment dollars, which we consider "putting lipstick on a pig")...this job is a career killer at this point...

[polbear73]

Nescacman:  While it's true that major donations financed the Whittier Field renovation, a recent Orient article points out that Bowdoin's football budget of approximately $730,000 is second only to Trinity's $805,000 (2016 season) and is evidenced in many ways: 5 uniformed combinations, a full coaching staff, etc.  Even the receipt of the Whittier Field money (and acceptance of a board seat by the major donor) were conditioned upon Bowdoin's taking steps to "fix" football.  Then there is the discussed leniency on the part of Admissions (which means different things to different schools) and acknowledged by Coach Wells. 


Please don't say there's zero commitment to football on the part of the Bowdoin Administration.  And I'm the last guy to be supporting the Bowdoin Administration when it comes to football. 


This parting of the ways is very uncharacteristic of Bowdoin as they have only had 4 coaches in the last 45 years or so (Lentz, 16; Vandersea, 16; Caputi, 15) and was percipitated by the fact that Bowdoin did not receive a return on the aforementioned investment.  Just because money is not used from endowment doesn't mean that there isn't an obligation on the part of the College and significant operating funds were used to a 3-31 result. 


I expect that Bowdoin will receive over 100 applicants as they did to fill JB's job as the chance to do the impossible is irresistable to football coaches.  Add in a chance to be associated with an elite liberal arts college offering strong total compensation, living on the beautiful Maine mid-coast, competitive football facilities and budgets, and the chance to work with exceptional student-athletes, and you have your answer. 


Is the current support for football enough?  I really don't know, but I do believe a good young coach could do more with it than Coach Wells did.  It's too bad, because he's a good guy.  But to answer your question seriously, yeah, a very good coach will take this job. 

[polbear73]

And by the way, NESCACMAN. singling out Bowdoin for not using endowment funds for athletic facility renovation is not a valid point on your part. No college or university in their right mind would touch their endowments; it's all done by donation.  Look at every school in NESCAC. 

[ColbyFootball]

Discuss.

http://athletics.bowdoin.edu/sports/fball/2018-19/releases/20181115rs5a2p

I wonder if the former Colby HC who was a Bowdoin assistant this year will be considered. He's familiar with the nescac. And he would bring his offensive coaching excitement to Bowdoin (struggled to score more than 10 pts in most games at Colby).

[ColbyFootball]

Bobby Acosta OC Bucknell
Bates wouldn't/couldn't  pay him- Bowdoin will.

I been acquainted with Coach Acosta for many years and he would be a fine choice.

[polbear73]

Discuss.

http://athletics.bowdoin.edu/sports/fball/2018-19/releases/20181115rs5a2p

I wonder if the former Colby HC who was a Bowdoin assistant this year will be considered. He's familiar with the nescac. And he would bring his offensive coaching excitement to Bowdoin (struggled to score more than 10 pts in most games at Colby).

Bite your tongue, Colby Football!!!!!!!

[PBPOP20]

Has a successful High School coach every gotten a NESCAC HC job?