William James O’Brien is an American football coach. He served as the head coach of the Houston Texans of the National Football League from 2014 to 2020. In 2012, he was hired by Penn State to take over a program that had just endured the Penn State child sex abuse scandal. He left Penn State after his second season to become the headCoach of the Texans. He is a graduate of Brown University and Georgia Tech.
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William James O’Brien is an American football coach. He served as the head coach of the Houston Texans of the National Football League from 2014 to 2020. He was also the team’s general manager in 2020. In 2012, he was hired by Penn State to take over a program that had just endured the Penn State child sex abuse scandal. In his first season as head coach, he led the team to an 8–4 record and won ESPN’s National Coach of the Year award. He left Penn State after his second season to become the headCoach of the Texans. He is a graduate of Brown University and Georgia Tech. He has coached in the Atlantic Coast Conference for more than a decade. In 2007, he joined the New England Patriots as an offensive assistant. In 2011, he became the Patriots’ quarterbacks coach and offensive play-caller. The Patriots gave the Jacksonville Jaguars permission to interview him for their head coaching vacancy during their playoff bye week. He never actually interviewed for the job. In July 2012, the National Collegiate Athletics Association sanctioned Penn State with a four-year postseason ban, and loss of 40-year scholarships. In March 2013, the NCAA sanctioned the Nittany Lions with a very harsh penalty from the NCAA and as head coaches of the football program, he resigned from his position.
He also served as New England’s offensive coordinator through Super Bowl XLVI. O’Brien was introduced as Penn State’s head coach at a press conference on January 7, 2012, replacing Joe Pnono. He grew up in Andover, Massachusetts with his parents and two brothers, John and Tom. He attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he played defensive end and linebacker for the Brown Bears from 1990 to 1992. He then coached the Yellow Jackets’ running backs from the 1998 season through 2000 season. In 2002, O’Neill was hired as Notre Dame’s offensive Coordinator before George O’Leary was dismissed. In 2003, he left to coach running backs at the University of Maryland. In 2005 and 2006, his teams averaged 16. 1 and 14. 9 points per game. In 2006, QB Thaddeus Lewis threw for 2,134 yards with 11 TD. After two seasons with Duke, O‘Brien was hired on February 27, 2007 as anoffensive assistant. On February 21, 2008, He was promoted to wide receivers coach.
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