Nothing is official yet, at least not until Jeff Jagodzinski goes ahead with the interview with the Jets tonight or Tuesday that will apparently lead to his termination as head coach at Boston College. But athletic director Gene DeFilippo doesn't sound like a man in wait-and-see mode:

"Jeff is a very good man and an excellent football coach," DeFilippo said. "He did a wonderful job for us while he was here at BC. I wish Jeff would not take this interview and would remain as head coach at BC."

Emphasis is mine, for obvious reasons: When your boss is referring to your performance in the past tense, that is a bad sign.

If Jagodzinski's fired, the school could be on the hook for the last three years of his contract, but the breaking point doesn't seem to be anything specific in Jags' contract as much as the fact that he allegedly denied reports that he'd had contact with New York when DeFilippo asked him Saturday, not long before reporters tipped the AD to a planned meeting between Jagodzinski and the Jets, according to the Boston Globe. It seems there was also a "mutual understanding" Jags wouldn't go job-hunting for at least three years, another potential deal-breaker:

Even if Jagodzinski canceled the meeting [with the Jets] and wanted to return to BC, DeFilippo feels that the issue of trust had been breached, which would make it difficult for the coach to return for a third season.

The Globe also backtracks on the earlier assumption that offensive coordinator Steve Logan is the de facto promotion; longtime defensive coordinator Frank Spaziani, who's survived the Tom Coughlin and Tom O'Brien regimes and was a candidate for the top job two years ago, is in the mix as well. If DeFilippo is looking for "a true BC guy," Spaziani's about as entrenched there as you can be -- although not entrenched enough to ward off the inevitable Phil Fulmer rumor ($). I don't know if ESPN's willing to let him go just like that, guys.