RALEIGH – N.C. State coach Tom O’Brien, the ol’ Marine, is looking for more than a few good men.”We need to sign a lot of good football players,” he emphasized at a news conference Thursday. “All our focus is on recruiting.” O’Brien wants to beef up every position, especially in the “thin” offensive line, where […]
Tom O’Brien
Friday Football
Coach O’Brien returns to Chestnut Hill for a business trip that a lot of people are interested in witnessing. Dave Glenn blogs about how fascinating this situation is. As usual, Glenn provides A LOT more information and detail about the things in which readers are interested than the ‘mainstream’, boring media. Similar to Glenn, Eagle […]
Corso Rejects Davis-Love; Lauds Wolfpack’s TOB
ESPN’s Lee Corso appeared on Mark Packer’s syndicated Primetime radio show this afternoon for a conversation on college football. Packer was doing a great job pumping Corso for as many comments as could be generated in the allotted timeframe of the interview when Packer brought up the obligatory ‘isn’t Butch Davis great?’ topic. (Please do […]
Logan: From Booth to BC / NCS OC Comments
Nothing major in this feature on Steve Logan. But, it was interesting and something not to completely ignore in light of Logan’s connections to the Triangle and the overlap with the Tom O’Brien move from BC. One tangent that I’d like to highlight stems from the following quote from the article: Logan, 54, is replacing […]
TOB: FBall Coaching Rankings Shine
In recent years, Sports Illustrated’s Stewart Mandel made quite a name for himself with his rankings of the best – and the WORST – college football coaches. Perhaps NC State fans followed Mandel’s rankings a little closer than other schools because of the presence of our own Chuck Amato. In June of 2005, Mandel listed […]
Why TOB Left BC
Just a quick hit from one of the best blogs around: (Note: this is a week old, but still relevant). I am not going to make a huge deal of something this small…because we have talked about the topic a lot since TOB accepted the NC State job and publicly commented on all of the […]
Mandel: NC State is ‘That Kind of Place’
Just your average, Wolfpack-promoting entry here. This one is brought on by CNNSI’s College Football writer, Stewart Mandel. Mandel runs a ‘mailbag’ column every now and then and this week he was asked the following by Mike E. in Ringwood, N.J.: It strikes me as curious: Why would Tom O’Brien leave BC for an intradivision […]
David Glenn on TOB (Part II)
Your link is here. Money quote: One of the biggest complaints about O’Brien among Boston College fans was that he didn’t take the Eagles to any big bowl games, which is sort of like Billy Joel blaming Christie Brinkley whenever the pair failed to win the Most Beautiful Couple award.
Some TOB Follow-Up
As some of the better bloggers out there reflect on last football season there continues to be a lot of Tom O’Brien news to make sure we don’t ignore over the last day or so. I think that Pack Pride has been doing a good job of breaking down certain aspects of the TOB hiring. […]
