Bill O'Brien's growing frustration with some of the Penn State fan base may have had much to do with his decision to leave the university for the NFL.
According to The Patriot-News, O'Brien recently went on a rant about all the things he had to deal with in the two years since he was hired to replace the legendary Joe Paterno as coach of the scandal-plagued Nittany Lions.
"You can print this: You can print that I don't really give a ---- what the 'Paterno people' think about what I do with this program," O'Brien told the Patriot-News. "I've done everything I can to show respect to Coach Paterno. Everything in my power. So I could really care less about what the Paterno faction of people, or whatever you call them, think about what I do with the program. I'm tired of it. For any 'Paterno person' to have any objection to what I'm doing, it makes me wanna put my fist through this windshield right now."
The Houston Texans named O'Brien their new coach late Tuesday, and from the sounds of it the move couldn't have come at a better time for the increasingly frustrated O'Brien.
Of his time in Happy Valley, O'Brien also later added "I'm trying to field the most competitive football team I can with near-death penalty ----ing sanctions. Every time I say something like that and somebody prints it, it's skewed as an excuse. And I'm not an excuse-maker. I'm trying to do the best I can for the kids in that program. That's all I care about is the kids in that program. As long as I'm the head football coach here."
After replacing Paterno in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child-abuse scandal, O'Brien went 15-9 in his two seasons at Penn State.
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