What in the world are you talking about? You’re arguing against your own point. O’Brien had interview offers and NFL interest after his first year at Penn State and quite publicly stated that he was staying and “is not a 1 and done guy”, that’s literally where this originates from. After he fulfilled his two year commitment with PSU, he went to Houston for a head coach job.
Please explain how he “bailed on Penn State” and how this somehow proves that he doesn’t give 2 year commitments.
Your last couple sentences about cults - don’t even know what to do with that one. Went off the rails there.
In point of fact, he saved Penn State's ass. He took a program that had a nuclear bomb dropped on it and made it immediately competitive again.
Yes, he saved Penn State’s program after officials, alumni and fans there made excuse after excuse for their way past his prime previous HC who’s success had made him above reproach and unanswerable for his recent poor performance for way too many.
Putting aside Sandusky, you had a HC so out of touch and deluded that he once ran over a cyclist on campus with his car and got out and started berating the cyclist for the incident. All the while the actual football program was in steep competitive decline. It’s just Joe Pa being Joe Pa as the excuses for his behavior and the program’s failures were perpetuated by his “fans”. It took this environment for a Sandusky to occur.
Irrational confidence and reverence for a person is very cult like. Tyrants and Cult leaders actively promote it to control followers, but it can organically happen around successful leaders. No one should be above reproach and unanswerable for their mistakes. It’s foolish and destructive in the end.
My original post in this thread was a tongue in cheek statement about the transitory nature of the coaching profession and the uselessness of contracts in preventing the movement in response to the preposterous theory repeated on this board that even if Belichick really wanted O’Brien last off-season his contract and commitment to Alabama would have prevented it. That’s nonsense. Nick Saban is himself a serial contract breaker. Would Bill put his friendship with Saban above “the best interest of the team”?
Of course the purpose of that theory is to excuse away Belichick’s Patricia and Judge folly to which I say no excuses are necessary. Belichick would not be the first person to overrate the competence of an underling that he really likes personally.
The Belichick excuse making and blame deflecting on this board is excessive and galling. It hurts the honest discussion we want to see and participate in about the present and future of our favorite football team.
I like the Klemm hiring. It’s a good thing when former players go into coaching as they can relate to today’s players on a level that can be most successful.
I’m over last season and happy to have a coach with Bill O’Brien experience running the offense. We’re on to 2023.
