From the WASHINGTON POST:
…Forgive [Bill] O’Brien for not quite understanding Nittany Lions fans’ obsessions over where his team will dress before Saturday’s season opener or what route the players will take to the stadium. “I don’t even know the names of the streets,” he said the other day, “which I’ll probably get in trouble for saying.”
Throughout this offseason — his first as a head coach at any level and the likes of which no head coach has ever experienced — O’Brien has publicly teetered between honoring Penn State’s rich-but-now-tainted history and making the decisions he believes will help rebuild the program. But when he arrives home after work and greets his 10-year-old son, Jack, who is stricken with a rare brain disease and is confined to a wheelchair and can’t talk, O’Brien has a touchstone. Third-and-one, tense? Come on.
“As long as you work hard and you know that you’re doing the best for this football program every single day, what else can you do?” he said. “You get over losses a lot quicker . . . because you go home and you see that kid, and you move on.”
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