Tom O'Brien to N.C. State? Didn't see that coming

C'mon, wicked, you KNOW who you're dealing with here.
They'd rather dig up Frank Leahy and prop him up on the sidelines than hire Brown, who's going to be in line for a better job anyway.

UPDATE -- However, what about Mark Whipple? His time with the Steelers probably washed the State U stigma off him.

 

When's the last time a coached switched teams to a worse program within a conference?

 

Perhaps O'Brien realized the best Boston College could ever apsire in ACC football would be the Meineke Car Care Bowl. If you're going to spend December in Carolina, you might as well spend the rest of the rest of the year there as well.

OK, that's the BU fanboy looser in me speaking out loud.

I'm not sure what the budgets are like at BC and NCSU, but I'd wager O'Brien could get more money in Raliegh than he could in Chestnut Hill.

 

Fuck B.C. and their 17 fans. You consistently fourth in the BigEast, now you're consistently sixth in the ACC. Enjoy it, you fucking traitors.

 

Well, someone found something in their Cheerios this morning.

 

After seeing BC get jobbed in the bowls a second straight year (only the sixth ACC spot this year after the seventh or eighth last year, both times when the Eagles should've gotten the fourth), OB probably figured BC football will never get any respect in the conference. The opportunity was never better, with the U and FSU having down years - this year may have been BC's one chance at the BCS.
There better be a lot of benjamins in Raleigh, though.

 

Fenian, Whipple's name also came to mind after your post. His son is graduating high school this year after tearing up the WPIAL, so that may mean Mark is more willing to move on now.

But do you think the BC folks could deal with a Brown guy running the show? As much as they look down at the UMasses, they have a massive inferiority complex when it comes to the Ivies.

I'm sure some boosters also will push for guys like Tom Lamb and Barry Gallup (yikes).

 

Bruce Snyder, California to Arizona State in the early 1990s, is the last time I can even remember a coach going from one conference school to another, although I'm sure there are other examples. Snyder had Cal on a role and ASU was in the tank with Larry Marmie.

 

Nicely played. Can't believe it took me five reads for that to click.

And the reports I've seen/heard say O'Brien's going from about $750k to $950k with the lateral move.

 

Whipple is coming from the Steelers, so the green-pants-with-whales-on-them set can puff themselves up about "hiring an NFL coach."
After all, Belichick went to Wesleyan, for god's sake.

 

$200K? That's it.

I realize that's a huge difference for most of us on the board, but for a coach that's almost asinine.

If you're not doubling your salary or at least getting a 50 percent raise, why leave? Unless there's trouble brewing ahead at the end of the Green Line.

 

Trouble? At BC? Never.

Notice that the rumors last night were saying there could be an announcement today. Seems like there now might be a snag. Wondering if OB's having second thoughts.