Nick Saban speaks highly of potential offensive coordinator Bill O Brien
Former Houston Texans coach Bill O’Brien is a leading candidate to replace Steve Sarkisian as Alabama’s offensive coordinator, and head coach Nick Saban spoke highly of O’Brien when he virtually spoke to Houston media ahead of the Paul “Bear” Bryant Awards banquet.
“I’ve known Bill O’Brien for a long, long time, all the way back when he was an assistant at Georgia Tech with George O’Leary,” Saban said Wednesday, according to SportsRadio 610.
“I think when he was with Bill Belichick at the New England Patriots who I think everybody knows the relationship that we have with Bill he was the offensive coordinator there. Went to Penn State in probably the most trying times of any great program, coming off of a lot of crazy stuff, and he did an outstanding job of sort of rebuilding that program, getting players to stay there, having a real representative positive program.