BC Coach Bill O'Brien will be Laetare Sunday speaker
The 74th annual Boston College Laetare Sunday celebration—the BC Alumni Association’s oldest tradition—will take place on March 30, featuring an address by Bill O’Brien, the Gregory P. Barber ’69 and Family Head Coach of Boston College Football.
Bill O'Brien
Laetare Sunday is the fourth Sunday of Lent and marks the season’s midpoint. The day will begin with Mass at 9:30 a.m. in Conte Forum, with University President William P. Leahy, S.J., presiding. A brunch will immediately follow; the cost is $25 per person.
A veteran of both the college and professional coaching ranks, O’Brien was named head football coach at BC in February of last year. He guided the Eagles to a 7-6 record—including a 6-1 mark in home games—and an appearance in the Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl, held at Yankee Stadium in New York City.
O’Brien’s first head coaching post was from 2012-2014 at Penn State, where he earned the Paul “Bear” Bryant National Coach of the Year and George Munger Coach of the Year by the Maxwell Football Club honors. In 2014, he became head coach of the National Football League Houston Texans, leading the team to five winning seasons. He returned to the college ranks as quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator at Alabama for two years before taking the same positions in 2023 with the New England Patriots; he had previously worked with the Patriots as offensive assistant coach, wide receivers coach, quarterbacks coach, and offensive coordinator during 2007-2011.
The Dorchester, Mass., native began his coaching career in 1993 at his alma mater Brown, and went on to posts at Georgia Tech, Maryland, and Duke.
For more information on the event, contact Katherine Walter at bcspirit@bc.edu or ext. 2-1607.