Tom O'Brien
Tom O'Brien
College football coach best known for his years as the head coach of the Boston College Eagles and North Carolina State Wolfpack. He won the Big East Championship with Boston College in 2004.
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth5 October 1948
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I think that comes about from never attempting to fail. There's times he'd go out in practice, and I'd say, If you don't throw five interceptions today, you didn't have a good practice.' You have to learn as a quarterback what you can and can't throw.
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I think overall it's an excellent class and it'll be an exciting class with the opportunity to come in and compete towards our goal of winning the ACC championship.
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I think if Coach Welsh was still coaching there, it'd be different, ... I'm nine years removed.
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USG's other announcement today, its earnings report, also explodes the myths advanced by advocates of S.852, that the bill must be passed to save jobs lost through the enormous financial pain being endured by big corporate asbestos defendants. In its press release, the company reports 'Record Fourth Quarter 2005 Net Sales of $1.3 billion.' That the Senate would now shower companies like USG with even more benefits from S.852 is mind-boggling.
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We came out and we established ourselves early, ... and didn't want to give them any reason to be excited.
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We are absolutely delighted that Hockey Day in Canada is coming to Stephenville,
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It's like we've changed jobs. We went from being a Big East school to an ACC school, and so in some respects, we're starting over.
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It's like we've changed jobs, ... We went from being a Big East school to an ACC school, and so in some respects, we're starting over.
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I'm sure there's disappointment that we're out of the ACC race right now, but we know there are still bowl games to accomplish. For the seniors, it's their last go-around. They've got three more weeks, starting with North Carolina.
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It's an exciting time for Boston College. Seeing that this will be our first conference game in the ACC, and we've got to start off with the best, so I think it'll be great for our school and great for our football team and fans that we'll be playing in front of a national television audience.
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It looked like it was awful far off. We were fighting for our lives last year just to survive in the Big East with all the things swirling around us. We were just relieved that, as of July 1, it was over and we were definitely accepted into the conference and we look forward to a long relationship being in the ACC.
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Army-Navy, by far, ... Many rivalries Ohio State-Michigan, USC-UCLA, Auburn-Alabama are regional rivalries within conferences that encompass a state, or maybe two states, whereas Army-Navy encompasses all 50 states.