Penn State fan here, I came across your website when I was looking for insight into how your playcalling method works(the guys with the blue or red armsleaves, and the posterboard with the logos on it). Well played game on Saturday, you earned the victory, best of luck this year.
However, I also saw this post and it reminded me of all that is wrong with message boards.
Robert Fox
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RE: Don't care for Bill O'Brien |
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Posted: 9/1/2012 6:57:03 PM |
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| He comes across as a very unlikeable guy, almost like he's had things handed to him most of his life, and he doesn't deal well with adversity. Maybe that's not true, but he didn't handle himself well in this interview at all. |
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No offense to long time poster Robert Fox, but when the shoe fits, well.
"''and he doesn't deal well with adversity..."
if Mr Fox took 2 seconds to google Bill O'Brien, he would have found one of numerous stories about Jack O'Brien, their special needs son. Here's the intro from the Sporting News:
STATE COLLEGE, Pa.—The episodes come so often and so random, are so mind-numbing in their frequency, there’s never really an opportunity to reflect on the sheer terror of it all.
Multiple times every day, Jack O’Brien stops breathing.
“I’m always waiting,” Colleen O’Brien says. “Please take that breath. Take that breath.”
A breath of life, a breath of perspective.
“People ask me about pressure in this job,” says Bill O’Brien, Penn State’s new coach. “Really? Pressure?”
Here is Bill O’Brien’s view of pressure: His son, Jack, is 10 years old and has the rare neurological disorder Lissencephaly. He can’t walk or talk, can’t feed himself, can’t do things typical boys can do.
And he has seizures, sometimes 10 a day, and as many as thousands a year. From episodes that last seconds, to those that last minutes. All feel like hours, and every single one takes another piece of he and his wife Colleen’s punctured souls while they wait for their son—rigid and non-responsive—to eventually emerge from the place only he knows.
I only hope that the adversity you face in life, Mr Fox, is nothing like the adversity that Bill O'Brien faces. The next time you spout your mouth off, perhaps you should take a second to think about what you write.