Friday night we shared the news with you that Phil Jurkovec, who recently entered the transfer-portal, was taking advantage of a rule that allowed him to make an official visit to Boston College because students resumed classes this coming Monday.
Well, where this is smoke there is fire.
And in this case Phil Jurkovec is the newest member of the Boston College football team.
As you’re probably already aware, college football coaches get weird on social media, especially when recruits are committing to their respective schools.
Saturday afternoon this is what Boston College’s new head coach, Jeff Hafley had to say:
#GETIN // #WeAreBC🦅 pic.twitter.com/AHixe9xrYj
— Jeff Hafley (@CoachJeffHafley) January 11, 2020
Irish fans may be aware of how Brian Kelly tweets out #WeAreND whenever he lands a commitment, consider this Hafley’s version of that because sure enough, a short time later the Sports Illustrated Boston College Maven site reported the news.
So Jurkovec leaves and there are conversations be had about why he didn’t develop at Notre Dame like so many had hoped and forced the hand of the coaching staff to get him on the field.
At the same time, Ian Book has played well enough for long enough to not really make a quarterback controversy a thing. Sure, you can zoom in on his poor performances against Clemson or Michigan and be rightfully upset, but this is clearly a long way from Book forcing a change to him from Brandon Wimbush like we saw in 2018.
Like most things in life there is probably blame that deserves to head to multiple people in this, as Jurkovec never sounded like he earned a real chance to play more and yet again, we speak of a quarterback failing to develop to the liking of most Notre Dame fans under this regime.
If Jurkovec does receive his waiver to play this season for Boston College, he’ll have three years remaining which means Notre Dame could face their former big-time quarterback recruit as the Irish and Eagles are scheduled to play at Notre Dame Stadium in 2022.