My standards are not good? The very high achieving programs that he was/is a part of were the New England Patriots who made it to two Super Bowls while he was an assistant coach there and the Alabama Crimson Tide, who are currently ranked #2 in the AP College football poll.
Why do you keep comparing the NFL to college. It is barely even the same sport. Not only that but you look at his performance at Alabama like he achieved something. Alabama was ranked #1 before he took over. Now they are number 2. So what? If anything you can say he has failed to perform. I would say that dropping one spot does not necessarily indicate this but Alabama's clear weakness right now is on offense. Heck, it lost them the NC last year.
To quote John McEnroe, “You can’t possibly be serious”.
Last year with Bill O’Brien as OC, Alabama finished 4th in the country in total offense and his QB won the Heisman trophy and was the consensus All-American at his position. Yes, their offense was “so bad” last year that they won the SEC championship and made it to the finals in the CF playoff, losing to Georgia who they had defeated in the SEC championship game. Their offense cost them the game? I’d love to have an offense that was “so bad” that it finished 4th in the country in total offense, won my QB the Heisman Trophy, carried me to a conference championship and the national championship game, but then “cost me the game” in the championship.
I’ll admit that compared to last year, they are not as good on offense (currently 27th in total offense) but it’s early and the sample size is small. And Alabama is 3-0 and ranked #2 in the country.
Football coaches move from college to the NFL and back all the time. There are differences. But you indulge in hyperbole by saying they are barely even the same sport. Players move every year from playing in college to playing in the NFL. How do they do that if it is barely the same sport? To a certain degree, football is football and coaching is coaching. The major difference is that pro coaches don’t have to recruit. Maybe that would be O’Brien’s weakness and it’s hard to know whether or not that will be true. Aside from that, the objective data shows that he can coach offense, and that he was a winning coach at both the college and pro levels, if anything, more so in college.
I asked you to explain to me why you think Bill O’Brien is a “terrible coach”. So far you have made absolutely no sense and have explained nothing. If there is something that he has said or done that has just rankled you or made you not like the guy, maybe you should tell me. At least that would make some sense.