The Lions' Pride

Hopefully he is just trying to be vague in hopes that he can get PSU to give him a raise.

or maybe he just wants those idiotic media blowhards to keep pumping the story so PSU remains mainstream 12 months a year...just saying....he seems like a smart guy, the more attention he gets the better!

BOB earned a raise this year regardless of anything else. He should be around 3.5 per, IMO. If we want to survive this, we need to be willing to spend money. That includes facility upgrades, stadium upgrades, pump money into the staff, etc.

I agree with all this +100

Even if he wanted to leave, which I doubt is the case, there's the little issue of his buyout. Any school, or NFL team for that matter, willing to pay that for a still somewhat unproven coach is absurd.

Good points, but where would the money come from? Attendance is way down and we're paying $12 mil/yr in fines until 2016. I think we have made financial leaps in staff pay and facilities in the past 12 months. Once the new scoreboards go in, the Press Box is the only major stadium deal IMO...and thats not a program changer. Not sure what Lasch facilities remain to significantly improve. I'd lean toward staff compensation being our wisest 'investment' during the next few years.

Well if MD and Rutgers join the B1G I imagine that the per school payout will get a nice bump. This would help solve alot of PSU's financial concerns.

He's well schooled in Belichick-speak. He speaks but says little. I'm not going to read much into it.

He will be unable to recruit successfully if he gives the same reply to recruits. They are recruiting aggressively, so I don't believe he's jerking any of them around. At some level you have to feel he has loyalty to a guy like Breneman and the other EE's ... as well as Hackenberg.

Few reasons why I think obrien stays at least next year, and also why I'd be extremely disappointed if he left.

After getting hired, he stressed loyalty and "seeing things through" in ref to coaching with the pats while psu commits were wavering

When sanctions were handed down, he sold the team on why it was important to stay and that the easy way out isn't always the best route.

Always talks about how the kids on the team are special and how academics and graduating players are a big deal to him and psu being one of the few schools that value that more than wins

if he takes his own advice, he'll be back for a few years and hopefully give his best shot when the sanctions are levied. The nfl will always be there and I'm not sure there are many schools he'd want to coach at over psu.

I dont believe BOB is going to leave for a small market NFL team. I think if he leaves it will be for a big market NFL team in a few years.

Yikes maybe he will look around what a shame that would be. Maybe he came in not realizing any sanctions and he wont want to see it through these sanctions. I dont think this will end well.

That clause was in there if they got sanctioned he would be guaranteed to get paid for twice the years in case they fired him for not being able to win under sanctions. There was a reason that big buyout didn't go the length of the extension as well.

These sanctions, the harshest since the death penalty to SMU, were not what he was expecting to say the least.