With Dave Brock, Ben Sirmans, Ryan Day and Jeff Comissiong all leaving the Boston College football staff in the past week, Spaz will have to quickly reload the coaching staff to keep the momentum going for next year’s recruiting class.

Let’s take a closer look at the recruiting impact of these staffers departures.

Of the four staffers lost, the loss of Sirmans will arguably have the biggest impact on BC’s recruiting efforts going forward. The list of players Sirmans helped bring to the Heights is fairly impressive: all three St. X backers Steven Daniels (2012, 2011), Sean Duggan (2011) and Luke Kuechly (2009), as well as:

2012 — Bryce Jones
2011 — Brian Mihalik
2010 — Bobby Swigert
2009 — Rolandan Finch, Nate Freese, John Wetzel
2008 — Donnie Fletcher, Chris Hayden-Martin, Isaac Johnson

Sirmans helped recruit Ohio, Western Pennsylvania and Central New Jersey, and his list of recruits over the past few years bear out this trend. Of the 13 players Sirmans was lead recruiter on, seven of those players came out of Ohio, three from Pennsylvania, two from Massachusetts and one from Kentucky.

Ryan Day’s recruiting areas included Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern Florida, and the New Jersey/Maryland area. His list of recruits over the past few years includes:

2012 — Justin Simmons, Frank Taylor
2011 — David Bowen, Spiffy Evans
2010 — Josh Bordner, C.J. Jones
2009 — Johnathan Coleman, Conor O’Neal
2008 — Stephen Atkinson, Mike Goodman, Josh Haden, Max Holloway, Bryan Murray, Okechuckwu Okoroha, Justin Tuggle

Of Day’s 15 recruits, six of those came from Florida, four from Maryland, three from Pennsylvania and one each from Delaware and Georgia.

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