Coach Hunt Accepts UFL Job

This week Robert Hunt announced that he would leave BC to move back into professional football with the Omaha Nighthawks of the UFL. The Nighthawks are going to be led by Joe Moglia who is also founder and CEO of TD Ameritrade. We will miss Robert and perhaps his final contribution to the program can be a stock tip sometime next season. Anytime a staff member leaves, we look at it as an opportunity for us to make the program better.

Certainly in Scott Lemn we had an easy replacement solution at offensive line. In Scott, we will be able to keep an excellent young coach around BC football for the 2011 season. In these situations, established players have to make a new impression and earn new credentials at their position. Kids who might have been evaluated as back-ups a year ago get a chance to start with a clean slate. Both circumstances if attacked right, allow the collective group to get better.

We look for offensive line play in 2011 to be a key ingredient in our ability to be successful. Between Coach Healey, Coach Johnson, and myself, all of whom have some defensive line experience, we will cover that group during our spring ball work in April. A new Defensive Line Coach will be hired in early summer to prepare to lead an experienced group of kids in the fall.

Entering my 17th season at BC, I look forward to getting somebody on campus who has seen it done differently. New ideas are not a threat, they give the organization a chance to self-evaluate and often times grow for the better.

~ Coach Clark

Don't Let the Edge Slip Away

In every season there are those “Trench” times where if you are not careful the routines that get set in place can take away your edge. Athletics needs to involve that “Edge” on a daily basis to have players reach their true potential. Although the Division III model is about participation at its core, even the NCAA statement uses the term “Passionate Participation.”

I shared the following with our group as we move through the cold trenches that February brings at BC. I think the thoughts could have broad based application in directions going way beyond sports. It is in that transfer of principle that our kid’s sports experience will have its’ greatest value.

Most athletes know the right thing to do. Ask yourself the following?
1- I "Always Commit"
2- I "Often Commit"
3- I "Sometimes Commit"

In Phase I the buzz of the Spring Semester starting has begun to wear off. Now is where your discipline must pay off. Whether it be weights, speed class, weekend recruiting assistance, or your classroom obligations remember to respond to what you have committed to, not to how you might feel at the moment.
There is a behavior trap out there and it is called "Just this one time!" AVOID IT. It will swallow you up.

-Coach Clark