So let it be written, so let it be done.
Curling.
I wonder how the new HC Bill O’Brien feels today? I doubt that when he took the job he imagined this. I wonder if he’ll stick around? The chances of establishing a .500 record are between slim and none.
He really can’t leave. He has a 5 year contract that doesn’t have an escape clause. If he bails he’ll owe PSU millions.
He’ll just have to deal with the fact that he’s coaching Division III football for the foreseeable future.
I wonder what Starving Artist thinks about these penalties…
I’m starting to picture the “secure location” as a sort of Republican Group W Bench.
ETA: OH! The penalty! Sounds about right. A four year drain on top players will have an impact on the school’s existing culture, hopefully. Taking Joe’s wins away going back to 98 is a nice touch.
I doubt that seriously. Coaches are rarely if ever on the hook for money if they leave. It’s either paid by the hiring institution, or it goes unpaid. Besides which, I’d be surprised if his lawyers can’t get him out of this quite easily. It’s going to depend on what he wants to do.
Yup. Another in a long line of coaches who leave bad situations, if he chooses to do so.
One that particularly acts like a douchebag about it is Todd Graham, who left for Arizona State after less than 1 year at Pitt (and who had similarly left both Tulsa and Rice under similar situations) and had explicitly been denied permission to interview at all.
Broken coaching contracts are a dime a dozen, million dollar buyouts or not.
He didn’t even interview for the position until January of this year.
By that time, Sandusky had been already indicted on dozens of charges. The heads of Paterno, Curley, Schultz and Spanier had already rolled. Local and national media seemed to be revealing new sordid details every week. Writers had been talking “death penalty” (and alternatives) for two months.
What can he have expected?
Isn’t his job going forward what he was hired to do, managing them through this period of restricted play? If anything he should be relieved to have a job at all.
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If O’ Brien were to resign, his contract calls for the coach to repay the university his annual base salary for every year remaining on the deal. As his base salary is $950,000, he would owe the university $4.75 million.
I doubt that he was aware of the gravity of the situation, the cover-up and that the NCAA would act that harshly. I don’t think he would have taken the job. He had to have thought it was a Sandusky thing that PSU was putting behind them. The Freah report wasn’t out. Serious consideration of the “death penalty” didn’t flare up until the report was released.
It’s true that since the Rich Rodriguez fiasco at U of Michigan it is not so easy for coaches to just jump a contract. I wonder though if O’Brien really wanted out he could probably lawyer-up and claim that he wasn’t made fully aware of the cover-up.
Also, it wouldn’t surprise me that if he asked out PSU would release him. PSU has been so damaged by this that they have thrown themselves at the mercy of the court. They signed a consent agreement not to appeal the NCAA penalties. They want this thing gone.
What part of that link refutes anything I said?
Also, are you typically in the habit of taking sports journalists’ interpretation of contract law as gospel? A member of my household happens to work in the legal department of a sports agency with a concentration on NCAA coaches. She works on coaching contracts all day long. I’ll take her word over Sara Ganim’s any day of the week.
“The wheels were wobbling and the doors were falling off and it was leaking oil everwhere. But I never imagined that it would throw a rod!”
Actually, that probably pretty much describes it.
I do doubt that he had any idea that it would get this bad. He had a job and there are other jobs out there without all the baggage that PSU has to contend with.
I don’t see the point of retroactively removing the accomplishments of the PSU football team. They weren’t solely Paterno’s doing and the players involved probably were not complicit in his actions. While I don’t have any objection to the PSU staff being made examples of, even up to the point of their football program receiving the death penalty, it seems that this judgement is predicated on believing in a “just world”. They didn’t deserve such achievements because their coach was a scumbag. As it turns out, amoral scum can be fantastic coaches. One ought to strive to reducing the harm amoral scum can do.
I’m really confused about this development: shower-victim
How is it possible for the “victim” to sue PSU when Starving Artist proved that the attack was impossible?
You can be damn sure that if the case ever went to trial that the defense would call Starving Artist as it’s first witness. He would be more than happy to demonstrate to the jury how it is impossible such an an event to occur.
And since when is it illegal for a middle aged man to call a boy and leave a message saying “I love you.” According to the Beatles, love is a good thing. That’s all you need. Love and anal sex with a minor.
I once saw a clip on YouTube or some similar site, of a herd of Cape Buffalo attacking a lion. According to the narrator (I think it was NG), even after the lion was clearly dead, the buffalo continued kicking and stomping on it. So I guess there are similarly some people who go for that as well.
That said, it would be helpful if these people at least paid some attention to what they are posting about.
In addition to the fact that a victim of abuse can sue even if there was no rape, had you paid attention to your own cite, you would have noticed the following:
Since when is it illegal for a middle-aged RO specialist to make some use of whatever passes as his brains?
Those messages were left in September of 2011 (when the victim was no longer a “boy”).
Brown was a sought-after NFL head coaching candidate. I can only assume that he went to Penn State because he wanted to go to Penn State, not because he wanted to win.
Hear that sound? It sounds a bit like woosh. There it goes again…