The Lions' Pride

To me he just didn't/doesn't make as much sense as others. Would be shocking imo to see him named in the end

Do you all attach a lot of credibility to what this Laschout says? Are his sources so superior to all the other media sources? Wasn't he the same guy that was saying that Urban Meyer was going to be your coach?

I don't understand why anyone at PSU could think that someone like Saban would be interested in (1) following a legend and (2) coming to a program that is about to undergo at least of year of very embarrassing legal announcements. Maybe in a couple of years, a coach of his caliber would be interested in the position but I just can't see that they would be interested now.

of course it's a PSU planted rumor. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that you don't hire someone like this to run a business that nets $50 million dollars each year.

Using Saban as an example. PSU offers say 6 years, 40 million dollars (don't laugh, PSU could EASILY offer that and not lose any sleep). Almost 7 million dollars a year, you honestly think he'd sit there and go, no? Money talks, BS walks.

The rest of this is easy. Following Paterno per retirement is one thing. Following Paterno after this fiasco? Vastly different, and nowhere near the pressure since it's pretty certain Joe will no longer be around the next time PSU plays a game.

Everyone thinks that PSU is going to hire the safe and easy coach. I get it, I really do. But the numbers make NO SENSE.

PSU hires Bill O'Brien for example. Instead of 108000 people, there's 95,000. 13,000 x 6 = 78,000 fewer tickets annually. At $60 per ticket: $4,680,000 in lost revenue just in ticket sales alone. Now add in the lost money in the STEP Program, and in donations. Suddenly you're up to over 10,000,000 in lost money PER YEAR, and that's conservative.

Repeat after me. Penn State has NET at least $50,000,000 in profits over the last 6 years average (if I recall the reading right).

Like it or not, College Football is a business. You don't hire the safe and easy guys to run a 150,000,000 business annually. You hire the best guy, at whatever the cost. In this instance PSU will have to overpay, but guess what, if that's what you gotta do, then you have to do it.

It's laughable the amount of people who honestly believe that PSU is going to hire some nobody coach. Absolutely absurd.

I'm not buying the O'Brien rumor and I don't need a reporter/columnist to tell me. It doesn't make sense right now. It could be weeks before O'Brien is available to anyone, and I don't think PSU wants to deal with uncertainties right now. Not to mention, I question whether he has the pelts to run a major college program. It just doesn't make sense.