Blogosphere Comments on TOB

General NCS Football Tom O'Brien268

From one of the best independent blogs out there – Eagle in Atlanta (Link)

I love StateFans Nation. They supported me early and have guest blogged here in the past. They are now reporting that TOB is the No. 1 candidate for the NC State job. I have not provided any info or rumors to them. And they seem pretty excited about TOB and his potential there. No one over there asked me, but here is my opinion on TOB going to NC State.

From a great blog entry by Tom Suiter at WRAL-TV (Link)

I think State needed to hire someone who had been a head coach and had run his own program. The last two Wolfpack head coaches came from the assistant ranks, and while some assistant coaches have resumes that are appealing — especially those from big time programs — the right move at this time was to hire a proven head coach, and Tom O’Brien is certainly that.

It’s all there for N.C. State to have a winner, it really is. What the program needs without question is a hard-nosed coach who will instill discipline and who knows how to put together a staff. It needs a coach who has won at the highest level and knows what it takes to win now. History shows that Tom O’Brien has done that.

You never know until they hold the press conference, but I’ll say it here — Tom O’Brien to N.C. State would be a winner for the Wolfpack.

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General NCS Football Tom O'Brien

268 Responses to Blogosphere Comments on TOB

  1. packbackr04 12/07/2006 at 4:32 PM #

    420 ^^ bball is so much different from football in that regard^^ plus, get off herbs johnson. if i didnt know any better i would say alot of you people have a stiffy for herb still. geesh

  2. wolfpacker420 12/07/2006 at 4:35 PM #

    The point was herb sucked against good teams and only beat the teams like the school of the blind. These are the same characteristics that O’Brien has!! Beat up on the scrubs and lose all the big games. At least Chuck beat good teams and lost to scrubs! ha ha

  3. RedTerror29 12/07/2006 at 4:36 PM #

    ^^420, by that logic we should have hired Bunting? Face the facts, long-term, O’Brien’s record is far better than Amato’s…or Herb’s.

  4. RedTerror29 12/07/2006 at 4:38 PM #

    You’re free to follow Chuck to FIU, or wherever he winds up. There’ll be a packed stadium rooting on TOB in September irregardless.

  5. wolfpacker420 12/07/2006 at 4:39 PM #

    Who did he beat along the way in Boise? That’s what i’m talking about, do you think this goon can get to at least the Gator Bowl? Amato did!! Oh yeah and he won!!

  6. lush 12/07/2006 at 4:42 PM #

    ^ relax. have a binger. chucks gone. get over it.

  7. Trout 12/07/2006 at 4:43 PM #

    ^ In the 2 years TOB and Amato were both in the ACC, TOB was 5-3 and 5-3. Amato was 3-5 and 2-6. ‘Nuff said.

  8. lush 12/07/2006 at 4:43 PM #

    and chuck only did that once in 7 years, im betting TOB will get there more often

  9. RedTerror29 12/07/2006 at 4:44 PM #

    If we do get back to the Gator and face Notre Dame again, TOB knows how the beat them! As I gleefully pointed out to my Notre Dame fan girlfriend. Hey, mocking her for that whipping we put on them is all I have.

  10. CaptainCraptacular 12/07/2006 at 4:46 PM #

    *However we just hired a coach that couldn’t win against the one we fired!!*

    2005 Boston College 30 NCSU 10

    *Plus, have you seen your precious O’Brien’s record against top 25 teams?*

    Yes, this year he was 3 and 1 against the top 25, including a beat down of a VT team with higher ranked recruits.

  12. RedTerror29 12/07/2006 at 4:55 PM #

    ^I’ll be dissappointed if I don’t get to see my boy Paul Johnson leading a BCS team in the near future. I wonder if the new contract still has a ridiculously low buyout.

    What are the odds on Fowler lasting the year after going against Murphy and Purcell (and without the support of the unwashed masses)? I hate to think it cost us Johnson, but with who we did land, I’ll take the trade-off.

  13. stejen 12/07/2006 at 4:59 PM #

    I have to agree with GuyPack93. We do owe Chuck Amato some gratitude. The same can be said for Herb Sendek. Remember the previous search for a basketball coach when nobody would touch this program with a ten foot pole, Senkek came and made the program respectable again. Dick Sheriden dug us up from the ashes but he didn’t establish a solid foundation for O’Cain. Chuck (and Sendek) left their programs in good shape.

  14. CarnifeX 12/07/2006 at 5:06 PM #

    I agree, I’d like to give a big thanks to Chuck. This guy deserves encouragement from NCSU. He is one guy that bleeds Wolfpack Red. He loves his University and he’s done great things here. Thanks Chuck!

    Welcome O’brien! (if its really happening, its kinda eerily quiet)

    Go Pack!

  15. NCSU84 12/07/2006 at 5:10 PM #

    Take a look at the comments posted here, it doesn’t look very good for Pack fans:

    http://firetob.com/id22.html

  16. beowolf 12/07/2006 at 5:10 PM #

    From Trout’s link:

    Murphy, a pig farmer from Rose Hill, N.C., is the single-largest individual contributor to N.C. State football.

    You think they’re playing to their audience with that? That’d be like describing Sam Walton as a shopkeeper.

  17. tcthdi-tgsf-twhwtnc 12/07/2006 at 5:15 PM #

    “I’ll be dissappointed if I don’t get to see my boy Paul Johnson leading a BCS team in the near future.”

    Anyone think it is out of the question the PJ goes to BC?

  18. RedTerror29 12/07/2006 at 5:17 PM #

    BC was paying O’Brien much less than PJ makes now, and apparently he’s getting a raise. With the salary he’s making I doubt PJ will leave for less than strong BCS program.

  19. packpigskinfan23 12/07/2006 at 5:18 PM #

    maybe not… but he did just get the contract renewed.

    I just really hope that BC beats the snot out of Navy…. or else we are REALLY gonna here it. even if TOB isnt coaching them….

  20. WolfPup35 12/07/2006 at 5:19 PM #

    “That sounds less like fandom and more like masochism to me. Even the players, one could tell, wanted that disaster to be over with. ”

    Yes, it was a disaster, and I’m sure the players wanted it to be overwith, but it was also a learning experience, because before you knew it–BANG we beat FSU at their house, and at our house, and at their house, you get the point. That loss, IMHO, lit a fire under a certain young NCSU QB, and started something that turned out to be incredible! The reason I ALWAYS stay till the end, no matter how bitter or sweet it may be can be explained very simply–I Love NC State!! Leaving a game early sends the wrong message to our student athletes–it makes it seem like we, as fans, do not appreciate their hard work, their drive, or their efforts. Don’t be like Tarhole fans, put down the wine and the cheese, and cheer loud for our kids, they’ve earned it! Pride, Faith, Determination…and by the way, leaving early is giving up. Get the point?

  21. packpigskinfan23 12/07/2006 at 5:19 PM #

    hear…. excuse me.

  22. choppack1 12/07/2006 at 5:21 PM #

    NCSU84 -If you go by any “firX” website – you’re not going to exactly see objective data.

    Herb wasn’t a good fit for NC State because he couldn’t reach the heights we had previously reached – and hadn’t reached the heights that most coaches who coach in the ACC for 10 years reach.

    I think TOB has an excellent winning % – especially when you take away the back to back 4-7 seasons he incurred in his first 2 years. I’m a little concerned about his ability to win the big game too, but still, on the whole, this is huge hire.

    Let’s face it, if someone had told you we’d hire someone who had won no less than 8 games the last 4 years and had finished in the Top 25 the last 3 years from a BCS conference – would you be happy w/ the hire?
    I sure as f-fire woud.

  23. Cardiff Giant 12/07/2006 at 5:33 PM #

    “Pride, Faith, Determination…and by the way, leaving early is giving up. Get the point?”

    At 77-17, giving up is certainly understandable, if not laudable. That game was a bad joke and I personally believe the players would have preferred that everyone left and the score be suppressed.

  24. WolfPup35 12/07/2006 at 5:40 PM #

    Please, Cardiff, please. It’s more about never saying die than the end result. When the game is relatively over, should the players just leave the field or court?? What the hell would that say about our university? What about CTC’s first bowl game, when Minnesota was up by almost 30 points at halftime, should the team have just gotten back on the bus and come home?? What about when Herb’s team was down 10 at the half to a less than mediocre UNX team?? Had they just said, ‘oh well, fuck it’ we would never have seen a 50+ point 2nd half en route to a 30 point blowout of those hated ‘Holes!! My point was not the scoreboard, but the heart. The players have it, the coaches have it, and we as fans should have it. THAT was my point. Regardless of what is happening, our response should ALWAYS be….all together now WOLF……PACK!!

  25. WolfPup35 12/07/2006 at 5:44 PM #

    Oh, yeah, had I left that game early, I wouldn’t have seen Adrian Wilson’s only OFFENSIVE TD.

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