David P. O'Brien (March 16, 1956 – March 1, 2014) was an American collegiate athletic director at Long Beach State College in Long Beach, California, Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
[2] O'Brien was athletic director at Long Beach State from 1989 to 1996 and oversaw two major moves: cutting the football program in 1991 and building the Walter Pyramid, the basketball arena which opened in 1994.
The football team struggled and was voted out of the Big East Conference shortly before O'Brien resigned from Temple in January 2002.
[6] The school announced a move from the America East Conference to the Colonial Athletic Association in 2004.
[9] O'Brien died on March 1, 2014, at the age of 57 at his home in Lower Gwynedd Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, of cancer.