Steve Addazio

Yeah, losing to DeShaun Foster's UCLA is just not tolerable stuff

... not even DeShaun Foster, it was, it was Steve Addazio.

Oh, that's right.

It was, it was, uh-

And I will never forget getting a text message from Eric that said, "Team plane just landed, but I don't wanna see anybody, and that includes you." So he literally went and sat in the stadium, like, in the empty seats of our stadium until, like, 5:00 in the morning because he was so pissed about how that shook out.

And Urban Meyer will firm- famously tell you that is when he had Steve Addazio and Billy Gonzales and Dan Mullen, and they all went and sat around his kitchen table until, like, 5:00 or 6:00 in the morning and decided, like, "We have to change some things.

We, we have to fix what we're doing." And they really did.

They turned the season around.

It's the, the playing down.

I, you know, was it Addazio or Hafley? I think it was Hafley.

Remember how many times, Jack, that they would play down to their opponent? Um-

Yeah, we lost to NIU.

Yeah

... from a head coach now to a f- a f- a...

You know, the, the joke was always bring back Addazio as the offensive line coach, right? Like, as a joke.

But this guy actually did it, you know what I mean?

It's not necessarily like a rivalry as far as hatred, but on field it's, it's been pretty good, um, over the last 10, 15 years.

You know, Steve Addazio still has nightmares about trying to run his field goal unit out there.

[laughs] There was a...

I'm covering the Utes down the road in Boulder, and this game, uh-

It is the Red Bandana Game in honor of Welles Crowther, a hero of 9/11, a young man who was working in New York City, was a former Boston College lacrosse standout and helped many others to safety, risking his own life and losing his own life on September 11th, twenty-five years ago today.

Former Boston College head coach Steve Addazio remembering this morning on ESPN Radio the first playing of the Red Bandana Game on BC's campus back in twenty fourteen.

Yeah, it was a special night.

You know, Jeff and Allison, Welles' parents were there.

Tom O'Brien had a lot of good years.

Even Frank Spaziani and Steve Addazio had decent years.

You know, like Addazio had like, felt like he was seven and five or seven and six every year.

Not great, but also not like what Bill O'Brien just did last year and what it feels like he's gonna do again.