Before he became head coach of the Boston College football program, Bill O’Brien spent more than a decade coaching as an assistant at various colleges including Brown, Georgia Tech, and Duke.
The Dorchester native’s first NFL job came in 2007 on Bill Belichick’s Patriots staff as an offensive assistant. He was hired as an offensive assistant after turning down a more lucrative offer from the Saints.
“This won’t surprise you at all,” O’Brien told Julian Edelman during a recent episode of Games With Names. “The Saints were going to pay me like $120,000, the Texans about $120,000 and Bill was like ‘I can pay you 55.