Fact: Mark Herzlich is the best player Boston College currently has on its roster. Provided that nothing shady happens in the next year or so, you can pretty much rest assured he'll be off the board by the first round of the 2010 NFL draft. Really, he could have done the same this April, but much to the Eagles' non-chagrin, Herzlich will anchor the defense in an attempt to garner a third straight bid the ACC Championship Game/disappointing bowl bid once they lose.
And that's all well and good, but is Herzlich moonlighting as AD? He made a pretty adamant statement about who BC needs to tab as the next head coach, despite a coaching search that appears to getting pretty national with it as of late - and it's not so much of a shock that he's a Frank Spaziani guy, what with him being Herzlich's coach and the easiest, if not most appropriate hire.
Tough to say what BC does in this situation; it's conceivable that they could please a guy like Herzlich, because how long do they plan on keeping Spaz as coach anyway if he does get promoted? Is he just a stop gap despite being the candidate most likely to stick around? Because truth be told, Spaz has about two decades on the sort of guys that BC is hot for- Skip Holtz and assorted pickings from the Al Groh coaching tree (Al Golden, Mike London).
