There's an old saying that in order to understand where you're going, you have to fully understand where you've been. It's a simple way to explain the full understanding of the present, but it encapsulates how to obtain perspective both in sports and in life. The past, as it stands, can't be changed, but it dictates the bedrock on which the future is both written and interpreted.
If that's truly the case, any look at the 2022 Boston College baseball season requires a full-bodied look at how the team arrived at this week's opening series against Austin Peay, both through the eyes of the 2021 season and through the perspective of a program still growing, still building and still hunting what it knows it can achieve.