The Lions' Pride

yep, its gone from down in the dumps threads, to threads about actual recruiting. I'm glad to be back and talking about football again! WE ARE

lol your negativity makes me laugh... It's like a grumpy old man... The other old man is gone (what everyone called for, for so long) and you can't even enjoy it? lol Cmon man, cheer up.

+10000 on the second half of your post.

Well Sneaky, are you trying to get me back down in the dumps. Not going to let that happen, BO'B has taken HC job and invigorated the whole program and
myself included, hopefully you'll catch it too!!!!!!!!!!! GO STATE

Your ignorance makes me laugh, so we are even. I'm also not being negative. I'm asking how a man who hasn't done anything yet has people so excited? I would enjoy Joe leaving if I thought PSU hired the right man for the job. I, unlike you and clearly many others, am in a wait and see mode. I'll wait until he does something before I blow my load all over the guy. You and others, are willing to blow your load freely before the guy has accomplished a single thing. Tell me one thing the guy has done that you can hang your hat on? Which recruit landed? Game won? coaching performance for PSU???

Well, it's all relative. Look at what the last coach was "accomplishing." I'm pretty excited to have a coach that doesn't retain any of our offensive coaches and at least gives a $hit about recruiting. That's not reason enough for you to get excited, pete?

I think you hit the nail on the head when you asked "Is that how low Joe had you?" Its actually pretty sad, but I too am just excited to have a HC who actually recruits and does things like, you know, his job. But I'm with you in wait and see mode. But I think there's little doubt that the coaching situation is better now than it was 3 months ago.

+1000

Sneaky, now you starting to get me down again, thought BO'B was starting to do a good job keeping recuits and getting new one's Possiblity of having some one with a little experience work with the QB's and running new Off. was starting to get me going. Well I guess I just got carried away, now I'll just have to sit around and Piss & Moan about team..

Jetli

you don't know what I mean by modern football? It's ok I know you were just joking with me.

Let me say this I don't have blind faith in Coach O, but I'm not going to sit here and pretend that the last coaching staff put us in the best position to compete for national titles. Now with a change maybe we found that coach maybe we did not. Only time will tell and I think that is what has people excited they feel there is a chance again. They feel we may have a coach that will close the deal on top recruits instead of watching them go to our rival schools. I can only speak for myself but I am excited, its a new chapter of Penn State football.

O'Brien may fail, he may not, only time will tell. How is that not exciting. But this hole argument that he cant do it because he has never been a head coach is ridiculous. Urban, Saban, Miles, munchak, Golden, spurrier and oh yes Joe Paterno where not born with head coaching experience. If I remember correctly Joe never had hc experience when he took the job. I think that turned out ok.

Pete, you do bring up some great points but we do have a reason to be excited. Since you used a boss analogy I will as well. Have you ever hired someone or been hired and just couldn't wait to work with that person? I have been on both sides of that fence and I am excited about the coaches he has hired and doing his best to hang on to the recruits we have as well bring some new ones in that we had long written off. That makes me excited because yes he is doing his job but also reaching out to other kids we need desperately but had written off.

I am a Bronco fan and I would love for NE to win because I hope BOB gets a Super Bowl win and can flash that rock that will be around his finger in recruits living rooms.

Sneaky, I think the reason a lot of us are excited is that we have NO IDEA what to expect. We could suck next year. We could win the Big 10. For too many years, we've pretty much known how the season would turn out before the season started. Play pretty good defense unless we face a really good offense. Beat the really bad teams, lose to the really good teams as well as Iowa, OSU and Michigan. And no matter what, keep doing the same thing week in and week out, year in and year out. Now we have a coach that at least talks a good game. He's promising to give us what we've been asking for. What's not to get excited about? If he fails, we move on to the next coach. If he succeeds, we were there to watch him from the beginning.