OT: Amaker candidate for Boston College job

Submitted by PeteM on

I realize that there have been a few other posts about Tommy Amaker's success at Harvard, but just noticed this piece indicating that he is a leading candidate for the Boston College job:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2014/03/18/donahuesuccessorsforweb/FE…

Obviously, moving from the Ivy League to the ACC would be a step up in facilities, income and potential recruiting.  That said, my sense is that Tommy is in a good position at Harvard.  Whatever he lacked as a floor coach here, his recruiting has made up for there.  Anyway, while I know that worrying about an ex-coach's career choices isn't exactly the point of this blog (especially when we're all pretty pleased with the current coach), I have always thought Tommy was a good guy, did a decent, if not great, job here and thought that Harvard made a lot of sense for him.  Coaches always seem to move to the higher league, bigger name etc. but I think this move could be a mistake and am curious if anyone has thoughts on that.

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Shakey Jake

March 20th, 2014 at 9:40 AM ^

Only a non competitive person would stay at Harvard. Tommy is still young and a competitive guy, at least that's what I believe. He'd be cheating himself if he stayed at Harvard if the opportunity to go to a bigger program presented itself. I might be proven to be wrong but we shall see. 

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mgoblue78

March 20th, 2014 at 10:16 AM ^

Not Capapari-Pittino-Krzyzewski money, but within spitting distance of a million when you count everything.  It's as much or more than a lot of other coaches at higher profile schools. He's had a chance to go to the ACC before - he met with Miami in 2011 - and used it to sweeten his package at Harvard.  Had he gone to Miami, he would probably be making half to a third again more than he is making at Harvard. But he stayed. 

I think it is more likely that he uses BC's and VT's interest to do the same again, and stay at Harvard.  

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