Boston College Tells Jeff Jagodzinski: You're Fired If You Interview for Jets Job

Boston College coach Jeff Jagodzinski is scheduled to interview for the New York Jets vacancy on Monday. But if he's going to go through with that interview, he'd better be very confident he's going to get the job. Because Boston College is threatening to fire him.

Chris Mortensen of ESPN reports that Boston College athletic director Gene DeFilippo told Jagodzinski that if he interviews, BC would fire him and promote offensive coordinator Steve Logan to head coach. But Jagodzinski will apparently go through with the interview anyway.

It's not clear whether there's anything in Jagodzinski's contract that prohibits him from looking elsewhere, but this is an attempt by Boston College to say that it would rather find a new coach than keep a coach who views the school as a stepping stone.

If Jagodzinski does get fired, he'll find work elsewhere, even if he doesn't get the Jets job. He was a well respected NFL assistant for several years with the Packers and Falcons, and he's won 20 games in his two years as head coach with Boston College. But the work he'll find elsewhere won't necessarily be a better job than his current gig. So Jagodzinski has a tough decision to make by Monday morning.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

1-04-2009 @ 11:32PM

Mags said...

This is so typical of BC: who are they to tell a very successful coach that he can't become more successful. If they go through with this "threat", what other coach or coaches will ever want to come here knowing that this job is apparently a "lifetime sentence" in BC's eyes. Come on BC, it's not like you guys are the cream of the crop, and that every coach in America would desire this job for the rest of their coaching lives! How bush league!

1-05-2009 @ 1:09AM

Jake said...

3 year no interview contract. Jags agreed to extend it to four years last year when he requested and received additional money after last season.

1-05-2009 @ 7:37AM

DUKE said...

GOOD FOR BOSTON COLLEGE.

1-05-2009 @ 8:01AM

KEN said...

some eam put that into coaches contracts they they can not interview with other teams for a certain amount of time

wonder if that is in his contract or not if not if he goes through with th interview i smell a law suit waiting to happen here.

then again i can see the teams point why would you want your coach interviewing for another job after 2 years on the job with you this will mess up the whole system with a new coach comming in as said in the post he won 20 games the past 2 years why would the team want to mess that up ?

1-05-2009 @ 8:11AM

K Smith said...

Now we've seen the coaching version of Manny Ramirez. As a BC alum, let him go to the Jets and he'll squirm when he returns to Foxboro and gets crushed and humiliated next year by the Pats.

1-05-2009 @ 10:45AM

Gene said...

Good for BC. These coaches sign a contract, ask and get an extension and leave if they feel the grass is greener somewhere else leaving the school and the players they recruited behind. If they get fired, they get paid. Once again, good job for Boston College!

1-05-2009 @ 11:20AM

Jim said...

BC's athletic director is doing a great job. And he is simply saying, "enough is enough. We want a committment, with a committed long term coach." Who knows what Jagodzinski told them to get the job at BC -- perhaps something like, "I intend to work here for years, raise my kids here and be a part of this fine institution for hopefully decades to come, as long as BC is willing to make a commitment to me and my family." And then he turns around and plays the recruit-a-coach, stepping-stone game. Who knows? But having said that, Boston College has a Division 1 hockey team that has gone to the national championship game about 6 times in the last eight years and won three national championships in that eight year period, I believe.... and then you've got the men's b-ball team which beat #1 UNC yesterday, and has been consistently and highly copmpetitive with several sweet 16 and final eight appearances in the past 20 years and then the football team has been in bowl games for about 15 years straight and has an outstanding record of achievement over the last twenty years, with no rapists, drug dealers, murderers or other problem recruits and a record of high academic achievement, on par with pretty much only Stanford, Notre Dame and a couple of other Div 1schools -- all of which says they MUST BE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT!