Say this for Boston College men’s basketball: We are talking about it. In August.But we’re talking about it for the wrong reasons: the dismissal of two longtime radio announcers who believed things were fine for months until a stunning reversal. It’s a strange, infuriating story. A mystery, too.Did newly hired first-time head coach Luke Murray make the call to replace them? That’s what announcers Kevin Collins and Josh Maurer were led to believe when they were told last week that they’re out after nine seasons together. It’s what Collins, who has called the past 13 BC seasons, told Awful Announcing for a story that published Monday.But on Tuesday, there were a lot of (predictable but persistent) whispers that Murray was incorrectly blamed. In which case, did Boston College deputy athletic director Craig Anderson make the decision? He told Collins and Maurer it was Murray’s decision, Collins told The Athletic. Were they misled?“It’s one or the other,” Collins said.If Collins and Maurer were told shortly after Murray was hired in March that the school was going in a different direction, it would have been disappointing. But they would have had time to find something else for the 2026-27 school year.Instead, they were fired last week after both asked several times in the preceding months about their status, their fears put to rest each time. Technically, they were informed they would not be getting new contracts — they signed one-year deals each summer with Van Wagner, which owns the rights to BC games. That is the same as being fired.And it’s terrible timing. After months of trying in vain to have even a single conversation with Murray.It’s one more setback for a program that last won an NCAA Tournament game in 2007 and a department that is playing catch-up in this era of paying athletes. Boston College doesn’t need this. Not after the initial excitement over hiring Murray, the 41-year-old hotshot (and son of actor Bill Murray) who helped Dan Hurley win two national championships as an assistant coach at UConn.It would cast some doubt on his readiness. It would serve as a lesson to him. It serves as a lesson to anyone trying to do this job.