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Houston Texans head coach Bill O’Brien Says Penn State Will Be Back

By Mike Marteny

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Ex Penn State head coach still believes in his old team

Houston Texans head coach Bill O’Brien was on a conference call with the Pittsburgh media on Thursday in advance of his team’s game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh on Sunday when the topic of his old team came up.

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O’Brien had this to say about his former team:

Coach O’Brien had the unenviable task of taking over for the legend Joe Paterno at Penn State. He also had the misfortune of following the whole Jerry Sandusky scandal, and him and his team bore the brunt of the NCAA‘s punishment.

He made the jump to the NFL after last season when the Texans came calling.

I guess it’s nice to know that your old coach still believes in you.

The Nittany Lions are having a bit of a rough patch lately. They got blown out by a struggling Northwestern team, then dropped a game they really should have won against the reeling Wolverines in Ann Arbor.

This has turned their optimistic 4-0 start into a can-we-win-six-games-to-get-to-a-bowl panic-fest.

There was a calm surrounding the program when the news dropped earlier this season that the Bowl ban would be lifted for this season. The NCAA decided that the current players had suffered enough for the sins of the past, and everyone thought it was a foregone conclusion that the Nittany Lions would get back in to the bowl festivities.

Now they have home games against Ohio State and Maryland that both look ominous. They are at an Indiana team that can put up points in a hurry. They get an improving Temple team at home before traveling to Champaign to take on Big Ten doormat Illinois. They they host Michigan State to end the year.

Can they win two more of those? Bill O’Brien thinks so!

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