It's official: N.C. State hires O'Brien

so Alabama never reported it, just internet knuckleheads? thanks for being wrong.

 

Bama getting WVU's coach? Seems to be all that was on Tv back in West Virginy this week.

 

Is it just me or does anyone else find it odd that State hired one of the few coaches that Amato was actually able to beat this year?

 

First game with Daniel Evans at QB. BC had no idea what was coming. Everybody else had him figured out after that, which, I think, is why they beat FSU and then lost every game after that.

Took a last second play to win the game, though. And a lot of luck.

 

You still don't see the difference between some fan site rumors and reporting that it was a done deal do you?

 

"Tom O'Brien's contract with N.C. State will pay him as much as $750,000 a year in incentives, including $300,000 for winning an ACC championship.
The new Wolfpack coach will earn a minimum of $1.1 million a year in base compensation under terms of the seven-year contract. Here are the incentives:

* $100,000 for reaching the ACC Championship Game.

* $200,000 for winning the ACC championship and/or reaching a BCS bowl.

* $50,000 for reaching any non-BCS bowl.

* $200,000 for being ranked No. 1 to No. 5 in any of the final polls (The Associated Press, USA Today/ESPN, BCS) or ...

* $150,000 if the Pack finishes ranked No. 6 through No. 10 or ...

* $100,000 if the Pack finishes ranked No. 11 through No. 15 or ....

* $50,000 if the Pack finishes No. 16 through No. 20. (O'Brien will be compensated based on the team's highest ranking.)

* $50,000 for winning five ACC games in a season and an additional $50,000 for each win after the fifth ACC victory (ACC teams play eight conference games during the season).

* $50,000 if the adjusted graduation rate for football players is 55 percent or better.

"This is a fair contract considering the market these days," N.C. State athletics director Lee Fowler said Thursday. "It's driven on the high end by performance. If we do really well, [O'Brien] will be paid really well."

If the Pack won an ACC title, was among the top five in a final poll, won eight ACC games and had a graduation rate of 55 percent, O'Brien would earn a total of $1.85 million, Fowler said.

Former coach Chuck Amato, who was fired Nov. 26, did not have incentives in his contract for winning five or more conference games in a season or for a top-20 finish in the polls, Fowler said.

Fowler said O'Brien is negotiating a contract with Adidas that could pay him $50,000 a year. That would bump his annual minimum to $1.15 million.

Butch Davis, recently hired as North Carolina's coach, has a seven-year contract that pays an average of about $1.86 million a year in annual salary, expense account, television and Nike funds and supplemental compensation.

The supplemental income, which rises from $1 million in Davis' first season to $1.3 in his seventh, will be paid by UNC's Educational Foundation, also called the Rams Club.

Fowler said no Wolfpack Club funds will be used to pay O'Brien's annual compensation.

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I'm glad State got a decent coach. Now I'll have somebody else in the ACC to pull for and think they night win besides Wake and Clemson. Duke doesn't even count.

 

just an update on staff....

looks like Dana Bible will join O'Brien's NC State staff, as Off. Coord. He holds that title now (unless hes already resigned after today's Meineke game) with BC, but he spoke freely about his next job, and when asked about where he is going and what he knows about the team, he referred to them by saying "the 2 times we played them...."

I also wished him well in Raleigh, to which he replied, "thank you."

He's a sharp guy when you talk to him, but the BC fans I know say he might be too conservative....fits in with O'Brien being conservative as well.

Just passing it along.

IMO, good guy to have calling the plays.

 

Thanks for the scoop. I'm good with all that.

 

We heard it here first. The entire BC offensive staff, plus ST and DL coaches. Good call, yo.