Q&A with Frank Spaziani

After over 30 years of paying dues as an assistant, Frank Spaziani finally gets his time. Frank Spaziani has been in the game long enough to know how it works – or the way it should work. In a world of instant gratification, his mantra has been if you work hard, stay humble, and pay your dues then good things will come. Which is why, after serving 33 years as a collegiate assistant, 12 of those molding the Boston College Eagles defense into a national powerhouse, the sixty one year-old is not surprised that he’s found himself in the captain’s chair in Chestnut Hill. But if his journey hadn’t led him here, he’d be okay with that, too. Even after he was spurned two years ago in favor of previous head coach Jeff Jagodzinski, it was Spaziani’s love of the program that kept him around. That’s just the kind of guy he is. Mentored by his former