The Lions' Pride

They're walking and I'm not at all sure O'Brien is the next coach.

So take a xanax. Have a glass of wine. Let's see who the next coach is.

THEN if it's bad, we can walk.

We're talking about the hypothetical situation where PSU hires a coach of the caliber of Bill O'Brien

Ummm thats impossible. Our football coach is not our university as a whole. Football is a sport that we love, but its not life.

- meeting people at Penn State that I will be life long friends with...thats life
- Dr. Craig Meyers in the college of medicine that may have cured cancer....thats life
- the Smeal College of Business being ranked #1 in Businessweek for the most recruited undergraduate business school in the country that gave me an opportunity at a Big 4 accounting firm out of college...thats life
- learning life lessons and having long lasting memories that have shaped me as a person from my time at Penn State...thats life

I will support our next coach, whomever it is. I sure don't want O'Brien, but I will not stop supporting the university that I love if he is the coach.

I don't want to see more freaks burn their diplomas in front of Old Main again...

Even if they hire him...give the guy a chance!

Do you realize how much money our academics gain because of football? Including Smeal, which I graduated from? There's simply no way my diploma is worth what it is without the football program Joe built.

My friends will be my friends forever. But if the Admin sets out to de-emphasize football by intentionally making a low level hire, then they are absolutely threatening the financial well being of the entire University, and with that the academic well being of the University.

They know that.

if they hire him, he doesnt stand a chance......not on the field and not from the fan base. He has been a failure everywhere he has coached

Here is what people do not get....

Students come to PSU for football and to party... with the amount of kids... we charge a ton and can have some dang good professors to teach them...

If football goes bye bye then less students enroll less money to pay for everything and the good teachers leave which causes the jobs to leave and we become Lock Haven.

Football weekends are so much business if that just vanishes everything is hurt...

Like it or not but the football program is a major player in our academics

I think he is about to become a position coach.... NE seems to be happy to let him walk and no NFL team has made a big play.....

Papa don't preach! I know our stats just as well as you and I love my school. I do think if we are not happy we should be vocal about it.

Dave and Ira publicly said that have no intentions of deemphasizing football.

No. How much? Tuition has nothing to do with football. State funding has nothing to do with football. Research funding has nothing to do with football. I believe those are the three largest sources of revenue for the university. Any profits from the athletic department, which would be peanuts in comparison to the budget of the university just go back into the athletic department. Unless I'm missing something, I don't realize how much money our academics gain because of football.

Some here have attributed joining the Big 10, which IS likely due to the football team's success, and it's association with the CIC as a source of increased funding that we would not otherwise have had access to. However, IIRC, someone posted data in the last few days that Penn State's increase in research funding over the last few decades mirrored that of the entire country and that the CIC did not provide any statistically significant increase. So, I call B.S.