Bill O'Brien Speaking on Boston College Football's Duke Loss, Prep For Florida State
Nov 3, 2026
I think Mike Norvell's a great football coach.
I mean, he went 13-0, you know what I mean?
I think it's hard to do that, man, but that's the way it is.
We all know what we sign up for.
Rick Stock still is a great coach.
I've known him for a long time, got a lot of respect for him.
We're just gonna prepare for what we see on film.
Speaking of that, when you see a new coach, do you go into your Rolodex
and just reach out to the people to see the style?
No, no, no, no, no.
Do you think teams have some extra motivation playing
in a game like that? Opposing teams?
I don't know. That's a question for them,
not for me. How the hell do I know that?
Just coming out of the game, I think Kaelin looked in.
Not great. Not great. That'll be better this week.
Just Ashton Daniels, what do you see out of him?
Good player. Strong player.
Has made a lot of plays for them. Good scrambler.
Good runner, accurate passer, competitor,
very competitive guy, so good player.
Throwing a lot of interceptions, does he...
Throwing a lot of touchdowns to Graham.
Yeah.
And he's rushed for 375 yards.
Okay.
Good player.
Talked about this before, how the kids respond, how they respond.
Great.
Fantastic.
How's Bo doing?
Great.
Coming to talk to us today.
Doing great, man.
Bo's doing great.
You know, he's a tough guy.
He's a good guy.
He's a team guy.
He's doing great.
Great success between the tackles, but does he have a passing game?
Does he have outside speed?
Is there a way to grow his game?
Yeah, I mean, he's caught passes out of the backfield.
Yeah, he's caught passes out of the backfield.
Yeah, he can do it all.
He can definitely do it all.
No doubt about it.
He came out of the first catch and after that pretty quiet.
How do you think he's progressing over?
He's got to do better.
We've got to do better.
We've got to do a lot better this week.
What have you seen from that kicking game in practice?
You've got to do it in the game. I see it good in the practices.
The punting today was awesome, but it hasn't been awesome in the games.
So it's got to be better in the games.
When you're in a situation like this,
do you look for certain kids to step up and be leaders?
We need the captains. We need the captains to be the leaders.
We've got great captains. We need them to lead.

