BC Football

Tom O'Brien is out, off to NC State (where he'll be fired within four years -- that stoic personality will fly at BC because the Eagles aren't top story in these parts but the Wolfpack are the only team in Raleigh and they'll expect more than trips to the Meineke Car Care Bowl ... I'm not taking a shot at O'B, that's just the reality of the expectations he'll be facing). Who will succeed BC's all-time winningest football coach? I hear it will be offensive genius Mark Whipple, currently the QB's coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Prior to coaching the Steelers, Whipple won a National Championship with UMass in 1998 and put together great teams at Brown and New Haven. If I'm BC quarterback Matt Ryan, I'd be pretty excited right now. BC should have a strong nucleus returning next year and with Whipple calling the shots for a group of kids who will have a chip on their shoulders from O'Brien leaving the Heights, the '07 Eagles may finally take the next step in both the ACC and in the BCS system. (You heard it here first.)