Bill O’Brien: Penn State’s Clean Break
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By DERON SNYDER
As word leaked that Bill O’Brien would be the next head football coach at Penn State, some prominent alumni illustrated the same narrow-minded, shortsighted thinking that contributed to the mess at their alma mater.
Apparently, critics such as former all-America linebackers LaVar Arrington and Brandon Short believed that the only acceptable coaching candidates either played or coached at Penn State in the past. Outsiders need not apply.
Arrington, who backed interim coach Tom Bradley for the job, told Rivals.com that he was “done with Penn State. If they’re done with us, I’m done with them. … If they get rid of Tom Bradley, that means they in essence have accepted the fact that we are all guilty. You might as well call it the same thing.”
Short went even further, expressing sympathy for O’Brien. “He has not been made aware of the implications of him being in this position,” Short told ESPN.com. “I don’t envy him at all. He doesn’t have support of the vast majority of former Penn State players and the vast majority of the student body and faculty won’t support him. I feel sorry for him.”
I feel sorry for Short and others who share those views, which very well might include proponents of inbreeding.
