00:00joining us right now as he does every thursday it is the head coach of boston college football
00:05bill o'brien good morning bill good morning everybody how we doing good how are you this
00:10morning i'm good i'm good yep a good week here just keep grinding away yeah well you're grinding
00:17and and certainly i'm in uh you never you never want to uh finish with with a loss i i'm
00:23assuming
00:23that last week things a little bit better uh just because uh that was a much closer football game
00:30from your perspective yeah i mean we just uh yeah it's frustrating but you're right you know there's
00:36there's a lot of things that are positive and you know i do believe we're on the right track
00:40you know we're close guys are playing hard we just can't finish you know couldn't finish the game and
00:46and uh did a lot of good things in the game but not enough so we gotta we gotta move
00:50on here we've
00:51had a good week of practice and and uh you know we'll be ready to go on saturday you are
00:56all you're
00:56you're always super honest with us and and i understand you work for the organization you love
01:03it there i just wanted to ask if if it's difficult ever and it's it's nobody's nobody's fault i no
01:10idea what the issue is but i i sometimes see what the what the crowd looks like and i'm like
01:16wow i wish
01:16they could get more fans out there is that ever frustrating to you and and if so what is that
01:21do you just have to get the football team have to be better is that kind of where you're at
01:26on it
01:26no i i i totally understand the question i appreciate the question i mean look i think that
01:32basically i think obviously winning helps i i do think that you know in the three years that i've been
01:39here we we do play in my opinion of an exciting brand of football you know i'm not saying you
01:45know
01:45we're basically a a team that's uh really trying to attain a you know a winning atmosphere a winning
01:52culture i i believe we have the right people to do that you know look when it comes down to
01:57the crowds
01:58and things like that i don't really have a lot to do with um you know marketing the program or
02:03anything
02:03like that but you know look we we play on saturdays we got a great that you know you know
02:09courtney
02:09and curtis they know this is a beautiful place a beautiful campus you know it's it's just so hard
02:15to tailgate here it's hard to you know it's just hard to get to the games um and so hopefully
02:22over
02:22the years we can make it easier but uh you know i do believe that the crowd should be better
02:26i think
02:27we play we have great opponents that come in here uh and to to think that we play florida state
02:32but
02:32again we got to win you know we we have to win we have to do our part and you
02:37know we don't always
02:38do that and i understand that and so i'm just going to try to keep doing my part to help
02:42us win
02:42bill i'm such a fan of yours and i've always said that i think that you are the answer for
02:47turning this program around but turning the page for this upcoming weekend you guys are 30 point
02:52underdogs when you have a team in a locker room how do you motivate guys this late in the season
02:58after a loss like that at home to florida state when there's not a lot of people that think that
03:04you guys can even compete this upcoming weekend i think that's the key right there what you said
03:09you're exactly right i think we're 29 point it started out 30 and a half now it's 29 i'm not
03:14supposed to talk about spreads but but um yeah great great move the great move the number bill
03:19he put a bunch of money on you so no pressure curtis i thought i thought you were going to
03:23say i like
03:24to talk about spreads a lot like a delicious a delicious holiday spread is one of my schmear
03:30yeah well i love the thanksgiving day spread i can't wait for that that's for sure but anyways
03:34um you know courtney i think if you were here on sunday you know these guys are i don't know
03:39it's hard
03:40to explain um they're very excited for the opportunity we had a great practice yesterday
03:45um anything can happen on any given day it's happened before at boston college here where they went
03:51into this game hasn't happened in a while i get it but they were big underdogs and they won the
03:56football game you know we we have to we have to eliminate mistakes notre dame's a great team they're
04:01up to number three now they went from 11 to three in the in the cfp rankings uh it's a
04:07great opportunity
04:08you're going to notre dame you're playing they own a television station they own nbc right so you're
04:13playing on national tv 330 i mean what more could you ask for yeah it's just why you play college
04:19football this is what it's all about i can't wait to coach in the game i can't wait to be
04:23there
04:24and so i think our team is excited about it hey listen anything can happen nobody thought rudy was
04:29going to make the team so i mean you know anything well if you listen to yeah but if you
04:34listen to joe
04:35montana like rudy that's not even a real thing i mean joe like did did that even happen i know
04:42that's a fantastic i mean how about a like spoiler alert i always thought i thought it was legit i
04:48i know he spoke at my high school i'm greg i think you and i are really a lot alike
04:54and we both really
04:55want to believe these great things but like if you google joe montana and rudy he tells the story that
05:01it didn't even exist oh wow okay well speaking of rudy bill but what the my first moment i fell
05:08in love
05:08with sports was a year after they filmed rudy because if you watch it i know you have if you're
05:14out there you'll see a bunch of random boston college signs at the rudy game it's because they
05:19filmed it at halftime of a game notre dame demolished and lou holtz ran up the score on boston college
05:23oh
05:24they oh they filmed it in that game and the next year was david gordon's kick to give bc the
05:2941 39 win
05:31over notre dame a week after they beat florida state to be the number one team in the country everybody
05:35thought they were going to win the national championship so i would love it if you showed
05:39that game to the team this week that is go ahead yeah no doubt no i mean exactly i mean
05:46i think there's
05:47been some that that being the number one game uh and i i actually to be honest with you i
05:52have a lot
05:53of buddies that played in that game but what was some of my my best friend mike painos he played
05:58in
05:58that game you know so uh pete kendall um you know tom mcmanis uh steven boyd i mean so they
06:06they talk
06:07about that you know and having a lot to do or really supporting the jay fund with coach coughlin
06:11you you hear about that game all the time and that's definitely a part of you know this week
06:16and getting ready for this game bill uh emergency top three football themed films of all time go
06:26the longest yard uh north dallas 40 and uh remember the titans oh thank god i just said
06:35remember the longest shot the mean machine the original the original not the ray nitschke
06:39i think i've only seen the remake yeah greg's number one is unnecessary roughness that's that was
06:45actually a pretty good movie school scott bacularo's had his name in that and uh wasn't sinbad in that
06:53he was in that movie when you talk about being close and now you start to look at how college
06:59football landscape is going to change which i'm i've been all for i've been beating the drum with
07:03the 24 teams making the college football playoffs you take a team right in your conference like wake
07:11force that was you know a couple years ago they were horrendous and they were probably the laughing
07:16stock of the acc now looks like they're going to have a legitimate chance to play in the postseason
07:21how do you think this may be changes moving to this 24 team playoff not just for you as a
07:28coach but
07:29just for bc and how you know people higher ups put into the program great question i think when you
07:39look at uh programs like wake forest and duke and both those programs have done an excellent job right
07:46that they've they've uh they've done a great job with the portal they've done a really good job of
07:50recruiting and you know their administration when you go to those places you know their administration
07:56has has you know really emphasized football when you look at the facilities and the all the different
08:02things that have gone especially like just having been at duke or even georgia tech that you know
08:06know georgia tech's not having a great year but like their facility so i think that our administration
08:12understands that you know we're going to really continue to try to build this program but at the
08:16end of the day again going back to the original question that greg asked like here we have to
08:21continue to do our job as football coaches and personnel staff to recruit and and do as good a job
08:28as
08:28we can of finding the right fits for boston college i believe we're close to that you know and i
08:34i think
08:34we've got a lot of great guys on this team we have to continue to do that when you look
08:39at duke and
08:39lake their teams they got good football teams they've done a good job of recruiting they've done a great
08:45job of bringing in the right guys that fit those schools and we have to continue to do that i
08:50i think
08:50that's a huge thing for us and if we don't if we don't do a good job of that then
08:54we're not going to
08:55be here for much longer bill you can help us make a little bit of news this morning and i
09:00know you i know
09:01you don't care so i know i know you're going to do that and he kind of danced uh danced
09:05around it
09:06this week and i understand that but help us out here will there be a high school football super bowl
09:14at boston college
09:19i i feel very strongly that that will happen okay good i feel very strongly now i don't just so
09:25you guys
09:25know you know basically what happened with gillette right so um i i talked to bob baldwin
09:33other people that run the miaa as you guys know i love high school football massachusetts i grew up
09:39with it i played in it i absolutely love it i got a lot of friends that are high school
09:44coaches here
09:45one of my close friends played at brown with me brad sidwell the head coach at taunton brian st
09:49pierre at st john's prep you know coach dibby also at cm you know all these all these guys right
09:56uh the perrys up at andover you know just awesome people and so we are working hard to get that
10:01done
10:01i believe we're going to get it done we won't be able to play all eight games here just because
10:06it's too short notice if that makes sense we put a we put a bubble over our stadium once our
10:11stadium
10:12ends to for the spring sports to be able to work out in there so we've got to like push
10:16that back a
10:17little bit but i believe we're going to be able to play uh you know some of these games in
10:21our
10:22stadium i'll probably get in trouble for that no i don't really care no i don't care i believe it's
10:27going to happen greg and hopefully it'll be announced here fairly soon that's awesome i love
10:31it all right yeah it's pretty cool for the kids wish you luck yeah it's it's a big one for
10:35you guys
10:35and we appreciate you taking the time this morning yep thank you guys appreciate it okay there he is
10:41bill obron
10:41you
