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Bill O’Brien would be the new head coach at Boston College, opting to return to his hometown for a high job as an alternative of taking the offensive coordinator place at Ohio State he accepted simply final month, an individual with direct data of the transfer informed The Associated Press on Friday.
BOSTON: Bill O’Brien would be the new head coach at Boston College, opting to return to his hometown for a high job as an alternative of taking the offensive coordinator place at Ohio State he accepted simply final month, an individual with direct data of the transfer informed The Associated Press on Friday.
The particular person spoke on situation of anonymity as a result of the college was nonetheless working to finalize the rent.
The Boston native, who was the New England Patriots offensive coordinator final season, replaces Jeff Hafley, who left Chestnut Hill to be defensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers. The Eagles had been 22-26 in 4 seasons underneath Hafley, who had been the DC at Ohio State.
O’Brien had been employed to be the Buckeyes OC on Jan. 19.
O’Brien was final a head coach for the Houston Texans, the place he went 54-52 from 2014-20. Since then, he has labored for Alabama and the Patriots as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
O’Brien additionally labored for New England from 2007-11. In his second stint with the Patriots, O’Brien presided over an offense that struggled underneath 2021 first-spherical draft selection Mac Jones, whom he’d additionally coached at Alabama.
The Patriots went 4-13 final season and fired Bill Belichick, changing him with Jerod Mayo.
Boston College earned six wins in every of Hafley’s first two seasons in Chestnut Hill, opting out of a bowl recreation within the pandemic-tainted 2020 season after which scratching from the 2021 Military Bowl due to a COVID outbreak.
BC went 3-9 in 2022, a season beset by accidents and the identical quarterback shuffling that characterised a lot of Hafley’s tenure within the Heights. When the Eagles opened this season 1-3, Hafley’s job was in jeopardy; 5 straight wins earned them one other bowl berth.
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AP Sports Writer Jimmy Golen in Boston contributed to this report.
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