Steve Addazo set 2 goals for his team to start the year.
One of them was to become Bowl eligible. The other, was to do exactly what they did today...win game 1 of the season.
Fact is, the football team that lights up the fields of Boston College has been dormant over the past few years as since their last Bowl win, a victory in the 2007 Champs Sports Bowl, their yearly win totals have steadily decreased dropping from 11, to 9, to 8, to 7, down to 4 and finally to an abysmal 2 win. They lost their streak of 12 straight years with a Bowl game at the end with a 4th place finish in 2011 and haven't been to the postseason since.
Rookie: Chase Rettig is entering his final season with the team and despite throwing for 6,253 yards in his first 3 years with the Eagles he has won just 13 games while losing 23. Those 23 losses are certainly not Rettig's fault but there is blame to go around. Each and every year the Eagles insist that they are getting better but in the end, the result of bad scouting made by men already long ago fired comes back to bit them in the behind.
Don't get me wrong, the Eagles WILL get better, that is just how college football works but when you look at the team that they have assembled this year, should they get their act together amidst this 10 game NCAA season they really do have the possibility of being better than just better. This 2013 team COULD be great.
It has been a long time since the Eagles have been up there with Texas A&M or well any of the big time college football power houses but they took the first step towards climbing back up to that lofty perch with a win today.
Riding the brand new presence of newly instated coach: Steve Addazo, the duo of Rettig and fellow senior: Alex Amidon combined for 146 yards through the air with a touchdown and an average gain per pass attempt of 11.2 yards. Amidon had a career night hauling his most receptions (13) since joining the team in 2010 and his largest yardage night in almost a full calendar year. As for Rettig, he would toss for an additional 139 yards with 23 completions on just 30 attempts.
Rettig also spearheaded a second half rally for the Eagles as after heading into the break, they trailed by a touchdown. Rettig would make it work though as he quickly tied the game in the 3rd quarter by hurling a 49 yarder right into the arms of Amidon. Upon a string of dominant defense the Eagles got it back to Rettig who eventually led the Eagles into a position where once the ball was handed off to running back: Andre Williams BC had a 21-14 lead. (Williams finished the night with 114 yards rushing).
The Eagles would be faced with a fun final few minutes as they would add an exclamation point to fun afternoon at Alumni Stadium by clobbering Villanova QB: John Robertson and forcing the game sealing fumble. One drive later and with the Wildcats driving, they picked off a bad pass over the middle of the field and soon assembled in the welcome formation that is the QB kneel.
It really is only a tiny sample but the Eagles won their first opener since 2010 today and that can only mean good things.
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