How’s this for a plot twist? Ohio State’s recently-hired offensive coordinator, Bill O’Brien, seems likely to take the open head coaching job at Boston College. The Eagles have a job opening after head coach Jeff Hafley unexpectedly took the Green Bay Packers’ defensive coordinator position.
“Rich Thompson of the Boston Herald is reporting that O’Brien could soon take over the Boston College program since former Buckeye defensive coordinator, Jeff Hafley, left the position open to join the Green Bay Packers.
“This clearly isn’t the best situation for the Buckeyes, as multiple reports had come out that O’Brien was meshing very well with the players and coaches inside the program. The Boston native would return home, but the most important aspect of this decision is about his son, Jack.”
Jack O’Brien having access to elite medical care in Boston would be a notable point of convenience for Bill O’Brien and his family. We have seen this happen before. Joe Moorhead, a prominent offensive coordinator at Penn State and Oregon who was formerly the head coach at Mississippi State, took the Akron head coaching job to be geographically closer to family, with health care being part of his calculus.
USC can relate to the job-switching part of this, not the health care part. Kliff Kingsbury was hired as offensive coordinator for the Trojans in 2018, but when the Arizona Cardinals offered him their open head coaching job, Kingsbury took it without coaching a down for USC. This is the USC parallel with Bill O’Brien, assuming he takes the Boston College job.
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