Should Bill O'Brien resign today

Would it change a. Nothing 2. Absolutely nothing D. Nothing at all

lidmike said:

Would it change a. Nothing 2. Absolutely nothing D. Nothing at all

It pains me to say this but this post is almost perfect. You didn’t get GRIFTER!!!! or PATRIOT LEAGUE!!! In your response so points off.

O'Brien looked more disinterested in his BC team today on the sidelines than even me. Down 14-0 in 2nd quarter, female side line reporter asks him.. " Coach, what do you have to do to get your offense going ? " O;Brien replied...." I don't know . We can't convert on 3rd down " Turns out he was right on BOTH points. Would anybody here be surprised if O'Brien has already had his agent on stand by notice to make calls about possible NFL job openings for 2026 ? O'Brien is going to pull a Hafley on BC as it looks to me like O'Brien has already checked out mentally on this BC football program as much as most of us still remaining here have.

sayso said:

O'Brien looked more disinterested in his BC team today on the sidelines than even me. Down 14-0 in 2nd quarter, female side line reporter asks him.. " Coach, what do you have to do to get your offense going ? " O;Brien replied...." I don't know . We can't convert on 3rd down " Turns out he was right on BOTH points. Would anybody here be surprised if O'Brien has already had his agent on stand by notice to make calls about possible NFL job openings for 2026 ? O'Brien is going to pull a Hafley on BC as it looks to me like O'Brien has already checked out mentally on this BC football program as much as most of us still remaining here have.

We have a contingent of posters here who will make every excuse in the book for this guy because they like the idea of him. It is what it is. In a span of a month, the team went from tough loss to MSU to losing to a garbage Stanford team, playing flat after a bye in a recovery game, to getting their asses handed to them by a backup QB of a bad 2-2 team. There were troubling quotes after Stanford that got overlooked. The team has completely quit on the field. They’re making sloppy mistake after sloppy mistake. We all know they’re not the 2001 Hurricanes from a talent standpoint but a team that hung 40 up in a road game just almost got shut out by Pitt. BOB and his awful staff has lost this team after a month. That is pathetic.

riceassistparty said:

We have a contingent of posters here who will make every excuse in the book for this guy because they like the idea of him. It is what it is. In a span of a month, the team went from tough loss to MSU to losing to a garbage Stanford team, playing flat after a bye in a recovery game, to getting their asses handed to them by a backup QB of a bad 2-2 team. There were troubling quotes after Stanford that got overlooked. The team has completely quit on the field. They’re making sloppy mistake after sloppy mistake. We all know they’re not the 2001 Hurricanes from a talent standpoint but a team that hung 40 up in a road game just almost got shut out by Pitt. BOB and his awful staff has lost this team after a month. That is pathetic.

What excuse? You guys have wanted every one of the last 5 (maybe more) head coaches gone and it hasn’t done shit. Is it possible, just possibly, not the head coach that’s the problem?

lidmike said:

What excuse? You guys have wanted every one of the last 5 (maybe more) head coaches gone and it hasn’t done ****. Is it possible, just possibly, not the head coach that’s the problem?

Is it possible, just possible, that this current head coach is part of the current problem among other things? Again, explain to me how we score 40 against MSU and 7 against Pitt and the HC isn’t the problem? Who is he developing? Lonergan gets worse every game.

riceassistparty said:

Is it possible, just possible, that this current head coach is part of the current problem among other things? Again, explain to me how we score 40 against MSU and 7 against Pitt and the HC isn’t the problem? Who is he developing? Lonergan gets worse every game.

Yep. 6th time is the charm as they say. Very definition of insanity.

lidmike said:

Yep. 6th time is the charm as they say. Very definition of insanity.

So, no you’re not going to answer the question then. BoB was hired because he was supposed to be better than the other bad hires. He has coached in the NFL. He coached Penn State. And he can’t even measure up to a career defensive coordinator, a first time HC, and the guy who sucked at Temple. But, yes, it’s completely unreasonable for people to be disappointed in a guy with that resume underperforming much, much crappier hires.

riceassistparty said:

So, no you’re not going to answer the question then. BoB was hired because he was supposed to be better than the other bad hires. He has coached in the NFL. He coached Penn State. And he can’t even measure up to a career defensive coordinator, a first time HC, and the guy who sucked at Temple. But, yes, it’s completely unreasonable for people to be disappointed in a guy with that resume underperforming much, much crappier hires.

You can be disappointed all you want. If you think a head coaching change is going to change anything I’m forced to assume you just haven’t been paying attention the last two decades.

lidmike said:

You can be disappointed all you want. If you think a head coaching change is going to change anything I’m forced to assume you just haven’t been paying attention the last two decades.

I didn’t say any of that. Read next time.

TheGuru said:

Is he the biggest fraud to ever grift at BC?

LOL. We also have Spaz and The Gym Teacher in comparison :)

I honestly hate being right about this hire.

riceassistparty said:

I didn’t say any of that. Read next time.

Okay so the guy sucks and we should...keep him?

lidmike said:

Okay so the guy sucks and we should...keep him?

Nah you fire him after less than 1 and a half seasons and get Belichick and his girlfriend to come back to Boston!

lidmike said:

Okay so the guy sucks and we should...keep him?

If he actually wants to be here, sure. You’re not getting anyone better. But, if he continues to look as checked out as Belichick at UNC, there should probably be a meeting of the minds. The job is hard enough when you’re fully bought in. But he is giving “checked out” vibes.

sayso said:

O'Brien looked more disinterested in his BC team today on the sidelines than even me. Down 14-0 in 2nd quarter, female side line reporter asks him.. " Coach, what do you have to do to get your offense going ? " O;Brien replied...." I don't know . We can't convert on 3rd down " Turns out he was right on BOTH points. Would anybody here be surprised if O'Brien has already had his agent on stand by notice to make calls about possible NFL job openings for 2026 ? O'Brien is going to pull a Hafley on BC as it looks to me like O'Brien has already checked out mentally on this BC football program as much as most of us still remaining here have.

Did he ever check in? He reminds me of Pete Gillen, another grifter who had an exit plan in place prior to being shitcanned time and time again.

lidmike said:

You can be disappointed all you want. If you think a head coaching change is going to change anything I’m forced to assume you just haven’t been paying attention the last two decades.

Drop the program to the Patriot League or just drop it all together. That being said, The Grifter is a shitty coach.

riceassistparty said:

If he actually wants to be here, sure. You’re not getting anyone better. But, if he continues to look as checked out as Belichick at UNC, there should probably be a meeting of the minds. The job is hard enough when you’re fully bought in. But he is giving “checked out” vibes.

Let’s say he doesn’t want to be here. What does that tell you? This is a guy who willingly stepped into a Penn State job after some pretty heavy sanctions and was pretty successful.

riceassistparty said:

We have a contingent of posters here who will make every excuse in the book for this guy because they like the idea of him. It is what it is. In a span of a month, the team went from tough loss to MSU to losing to a garbage Stanford team, playing flat after a bye in a recovery game, to getting their asses handed to them by a backup QB of a bad 2-2 team. There were troubling quotes after Stanford that got overlooked. The team has completely quit on the field. They’re making sloppy mistake after sloppy mistake. We all know they’re not the 2001 Hurricanes from a talent standpoint but a team that hung 40 up in a road game just almost got shut out by Pitt. BOB and his awful staff has lost this team after a month. That is pathetic.

All of this might be true, but he’s only responsible for about 25% of the roster, with that being all underclassmen (or transfers). BOB hasn’t had a good season either; but it’s not his fault the roster sucks. You can’t blame BOB for either the Stanford or MSU losses. Those were strictly on the players’ mistakes on the field. Cal too, although I thought BOB had a bad game too

BabyJagz said:

All of this might be true, but he’s only responsible for about 25% of the roster, with that being all underclassmen (or transfers). BOB hasn’t had a good season either; but it’s not his fault the roster sucks. You can’t blame BOB for either the Stanford or MSU losses. Those were strictly on the players’ mistakes on the field. Cal too, although I thought BOB had a bad game too

I can and I will. Went to the locker room at halftime with a timeout and left a potential 4 points on the field.

lidmike said:

Let’s say he doesn’t want to be here. What does that tell you? This is a guy who willingly stepped into a Penn State job after some pretty heavy sanctions and was pretty successful.

If he doesn’t want to be here after the first sign of adversity, he was never going to succeed however one wants to define success. He knew the challenges coming in. He had a successful first season. A realistic goal for his second season was 6 wins. He now is sitting here at 1-4 after a soft as puppy shit schedule and his team and his staff look about as disinterested as any team we’ve seen recently. Bill O’Brien is not the victim here.

BabyJagz said:

All of this might be true, but he’s only responsible for about 25% of the roster, with that being all underclassmen (or transfers). BOB hasn’t had a good season either; but it’s not his fault the roster sucks. You can’t blame BOB for either the Stanford or MSU losses. Those were strictly on the players’ mistakes on the field. Cal too, although I thought BOB had a bad game too

So, when players don’t make mistakes and the team wins, we all would be giving BOB credit for cleaning up a mess. However, when they do make a bunch of mistakes and we lose, he doesn’t deserve any of the blame? And why can’t BoB be expected to coach up sub par talent? What exactly are we paying him to do? We paid more than we normally do for this exact reason - to maximize the talent on the team. And I don’t think anyone can argue that he’s even come close to doing that. Just look at Lonergan. He has gotten worse every game. And QB coaching is BOB’s area of expertise. I guess we can just blame all the players for everything if that makes us feel better. There is plenty of blame to go around and BOB has earned his fair share.

BabyJagz said:

All of this might be true, but he’s only responsible for about 25% of the roster, with that being all underclassmen (or transfers). BOB hasn’t had a good season either; but it’s not his fault the roster sucks. You can’t blame BOB for either the Stanford or MSU losses. Those were strictly on the players’ mistakes on the field. Cal too, although I thought BOB had a bad game too

He could replace the entire roster if he wanted to. 10 years ago I would agree with you but not now.

I don’t think Nick Saban wins with this roster. I don’t see any talent on the field. But also fundamentally flawed. Did you see our DB try to make a one armed tackle on Pitt’s first TD?! That was so so bad! Did not even attempt to wrap up.