Bucknuts Happy Hour: Bye, bye Bill O'Brien | Hello Chip Kelly?
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🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Well, that was quick. The Bill O'Brien era as Ohio State's offensive coordinator lasted all of three weeks. Is Chip Kelly next man up? Patrick Murphy delves into that, recruiting and much more on this version of the Happy Hour.
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| 0:00.0 | The And the Hello Buckeye fans and welcome to another episode of the Bucknuts Happy Hour. |
| 0:31.5 | I am Patrick Murphy with Bucknuts and 24-7 sports. |
| 0:34.4 | And boy, do we have a show for you today? |
| 0:37.8 | It's been a day. |
| 0:41.4 | Let me tell you that. |
| 0:42.3 | Let me take you a little bit behind the scenes here. |
| 0:44.2 | In case you haven't heard, and I'm sure you have, |
| 0:47.7 | Bill O'Brien spent three weeks in Columbus. |
| 0:51.2 | He's gone. |
| 0:51.9 | He's headed to Boston College. This hasn't been officially announced by the Eagles yet but he's headed to Boston College. I think was first reported by Pete Famel. It's done. |
| 1:01.0 | Chip Kelly is expected to be announced as the next offensive coordinator for |
| 1:09.3 | the Buckeyes replacing Bill O'Brien. That'll happened in a matter of a few hours. Tends to be on days like this. I tend to have things going on or I'm traveling. Today I had to go to the dentist and had to I should have just |
| 1:25.6 | assume that this was going to happen because when anytime I do anything this is |
| 1:31.0 | this is what happens but let's get into. We're going to talk about Bill O'Brien, about Chip Kelly here. What the buck guys are losing, what the buck guys are gaining. Later on in the show, we're going to be joined by Bill Kerlic to talk a little recruiting. National |
| 1:44.6 | Signing Day was on Wednesday. Not a ton to talk about but I almost forgot with |
| 1:51.2 | all that going on. We need a beer. It's beer o'clock at the Murphy household. |
| 1:57.7 | So there's the crack. It's a great late's milk stout that's been sitting in my fridge for probably way too long, so I decided today was the day to bust it out. |
| 2:08.0 | It's a little bit stronger than I usually drink on the happy hour, so if I start slurring my words I apologize I don't think we'll get that far but okay so Bill O'Brien this there's been talks about this for I don't know the last week or so, Bill O'Brien got to Ohio State, was here briefly, |
| 2:28.0 | and then all of a sudden reports started to come out about the Boston College job, which was opened because Jeff Halfley, the former Buckeye |
| 2:38.5 | defensive coordinator, left to be the defensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers. |
| 2:44.8 | And that opened an opportunity for Bill O'Brien, |
| 2:48.1 | who has been a head coach before, |
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