On your reply to my big-time usage, it depends entirely on how you define the term but Gary Williams, Bob Cousy, Chuck Daly, Tom Davis, Jim O'Brien and yes even the banished Skinner came to the Heights with better resumes, winning percentages and name recognition. 

On this past search, DeFilippo settled for a marginal coach, plain and simple.  Bigger and better names could have and should have been contacted but let's face the facts, BC is not a desirable place to work at and the oppressive climate under the little man is well known in both the Big East and ACC. It should be the opposite--top 35 school, great location, conference etc.

To shoot down your sophomoric email even further, York won 465 games at Clarkson and Bowling Green, earned 2 Coach of the Year awards (one national and one league) won an NCAA title and was in the top 20 for all-time victories IF he never came home and coached another single game.

I'm very glad that he did and brought BC to the top of the college hockey world. He's a living legend, a BC man and yes, wasn't hired by the current AD.  He also has much more clout and national respect than said AD and refuses to let the Gene or any outsider touch HIS program.  That's a large reason why the Ice Eagles are D1's best.

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Good morning momort.  I don't need to give the new coach a chance, my school did that. What he eventually does with the gracious and undeserved opportunity is up to him.  I hope for the best.

To use your parameters, "To judge this current BC hoops team on anything other than what they are is silly and petty"  so here is my judgment..............

the current 2010-11 BC basketball team is an average team, who record-wise, has done slightly better than expected.  They have also suffered a pair of inexcusable (and embarrassing) losses, at home, to both Harvard and Yale.  This stain will not go away.

Whatever they are, whatever they will be, whatever post-season tourney that they go to etc. is all moot as I am judging only on the present body of work.

Now in closing, kindly learn some manners, don't presume to know what I or others here are intending and address me if and when I do so to you.  Take care.

provpats, no need to apologize.  I truly hope that you do compose better in the future because your illiteracy was both offensive and comical. You can't expect to be taken seriously when you produce garbage like that.

Now to the point at hand.  You can try to spin any record, from any coach, any way that you want but the fact remains that all of the applicable names that I referenced had better than a .513 winning percentage when they came to BC. ALL.

Next, you should grow up, move on and get past Al Skinner.  You seem obsessed with him. Perhaps you are a closet Providence (Community) College fan and that explains your distain?  He's gone, the era is over.

BC basketball is not a new coach versus the old coach scenario. It's all record-based. You win, you are liked and appreciated.  You lose, you get heat.

Stevie Wonder will make his own history regardless of what anyone feels, types, etc.  To date, his history at BC sadly includes two terrible home losses, to a pair of inferior Ivy League teams.  He deserves and should expect an onslaught of negativity for those defeats. In his case, the losses are magnified further because he coached at Cornell for years and even has ex-Ivy coaches on staff.

I have no "nostalgia" factor other than to refute the nonsense that you post/posted. Go Eagles!

Here's my reply again so it is clear to "momort"

The current 2010-11 BC basketball team is an average team, who record-wise, has done slightly better than expected.  They have also suffered a pair of inexcusable (and embarrassing) losses, at home, to both Harvard and Yale.  This stain will not go away.

I am judging the new Coach on what he has done to date, January 7, 2011.  The above is reasonable and accurate. 

Further, I hope he does well as he represents my school. Did you graduate from BC?

Please don't compare me with Longputter or anyone else.  And for the record, the way you and your sheep obsess over him, his salutation, etc. is juvenile. 

I, and I'm sure others, would like good, intelligent banter in here.  I'm new but sharp enough to see that you frequently pick on him, insult him and others if the disagree with you. Why?  Be a good sport and stick to factual issues. 

That way more new people may join, interact and make these forums better.  It's Boston.com not your personal soapbox.

Oh momort.  Now you are trying to my twist words and make false assumptions.  I never said that or anything close to that.  I'm pro BC but I stand by my quote and now clearly see your ignorance and "style". 

BC is a high-level, D-1, ACC basketball program.  Winning matters and a substantial amount of revenue comes from wins.  Again, win and get kudos, lose and face the music, yes even in a city like Boston that is dominated by pro sports.

I'm sure that in March, IF the NCAA selection committee is considering BC, they will rate those losses as "horrible" and think much less of the team.    I'm quite sure that many fans, media members and future opponents lost a degree of respect for the team's legitimacy after those embarrassing losses.  I know that I did and I am a proud graduate, booster etc.

PS" if your overall season record after 2 or 3 full seasons is less than par, missing the NCAAs, below .500, etc."  I'd say that you'd deserve more than an onslaught of negativity; you probably would be looking for a new job. Basketball at this level is not "on the job training".

Vbats, good luck trying to deal with momort and his idiot friends.  He's all talk and wouldn't even accept an invitation to meet @ Conte.

By the way, Mo it's refreshing to see you still can't spell.  I side with V on being an educated poster.  And today you ALLEDGED that you went to BC? With your grammar, you are delusional yet amusing.  This is a gem of a comment "Doesn't he deserve an onslaught of negativity for them?  No he does not"

trbow, good for your objectivity. 

See sheep, someone else knows the ramifications of those embarrassing losses.

It's 2011, why not improve yourselves and make this a better forum.