You don’t as an owner, want a guy jumping ship as soon as the next green field appears on the other side of the fence.

Bill O’Brien would do well to fill out his resume a bit further before entertaining another HC elsewhere…especially at the NFL level. It’s also too early to tell if he can actually identify talent, recruit them, and lead that talent to a winning record.

That said…I give the guy credit for leading his guys every Saturday. He’s done better than I think most thought he would. As a Pats fan…I don’t miss his obtuse playcalling though.

What the? “Real Penn Staters” are the people who got you into this mess in the first place.

Talk about a bunch of flip flop fans, a few wins and now they love the guy after treating him like crap ?

Then they could hire Tom Bradley, a real Penn Stater, who they should have picked in the first place.

Wrong Bill. You’re giving legs to the story because you won’t answer the question. Your non answer means that you will, in fact, consider an NFL offer should you get one. I don’t blame you. If the NFL is your goal as a HC then you certainly have every right to leave. But don’t say the press is giving legs to a story that doesn’t exist when your vagueness is what’s giving legs to this story.

I’d love to know what the PSU players – the current team members who were talked into staying, and the commitments for the ’13 recruiting class who were told that O’Brien was going to be their HC – think of O’Brien’s non answer. Yet another coach who preaches loyalty and team above all else… until he gets a better job offer then that’s out the window. More NCAA hypocrisy.

It would be a tremendous kick in the shorts to a fan base that has been kicked in the shorts enough in the last 12 months.

I wouldn’t make much of his refusal to completely rule it out. College coaches are wired to never completely deny interest in other jobs so that their AD will extend their contract ever time they have a good season.

As for his future prospects, NFL teams should consider him exactly because of how well he’s handled adversity. He, in turn, should consider such offers–not so much because it’s the NFL and a nice pay increase, but because he has to now know the job at PSU is only going to get harder. This year they have a bowl ban and had some players transfer out, most of which were not starters. Next he will have to face trying to recruit kids to come to PSU despite knowing they won’t get to go to a bowl unless they buy a ticket until their senior year. A few more players are likely to transfer. The scholarship restrictions also take effect next year, so they will start having serious depth problems starting next year as well. Other schools’ recruiters are also guaranteed to use O’Brien’s possible departure as a weapon against them as well. Also, the Sandusky case will still be front-and-center at PSU until every trial and every appeal is done, including every lawsuit. Normalcy there is much farther off than O’Brien probably realized when he signed his contract.

Most importantly, he has only been a head coach at any level for one season. Greg Schiano, Jim Harbaugh, and Pete Caroll were head coaches in college football for multiple years and we Have not seen a happy enough of body of work from O’Brien. I do believe that he has something to do with Penn State’s success because Tom Bradley did such a bad job and was never given it head-coaching job outside of Happy valley prior to 2011 Or a position on any college coaching staff this year.

However, we all know about the moral side of staying at Penn State And based on track record NFL teams should stay away from former Bill Belichick assistants. Eric Mangini, Romeo Crennel, and Josh McDaniels have all struggled or have had more bad seasons than good. Plus, whenever a Belichick assistant left Cleveland or New England the success that they found was in college. Nick Saban, Pat Hill, Kirk Ferentz, and currently Bill O’Brien are examples. I know that many teams need to change their head coach, but if you see great improvers of talents within coaching staffs the likelihood of them being good head coaches Is better.

Most Pats haters hope they go to they go to the dark ages. You’ve been waiting a long time and you’ll be waiting even longer.

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Robert Kraft was a season ticket holder before he bought the team. He sat on aluminum bench seats during New England winters in a crappy outdoor stadium. He built a new stadium with his own money – think about that, Minnesota. And he gives more money to charity in an average day than you make in an entire year. And he helped break the lockout so that you could watch football while his wife was dying. What kind of a guy do you think he is again?

I wish him well.

This amount will decrease by $2.3M per year, so it’s $6.9M in 2014, $4.6M in 2015, and $2.3M in 2016.

Even 2013′s cost isn’t prohibitive for an NFL owner to consider, given head coaches are making $5M+ per year. However, it’s a nice chunk of change to put up just to see how a guy runs OTAs.

Michael David Smith: Any NFL owner who’s convinced O’Brien is the guy to lead his team to the Super Bowl would gladly shell out $9.2 million to get him away from Penn State.

Consider: if anyone here were asked if they would leave their current job for a better offer under any circumstances, but a “yes” answer was going to be held against you, what would you say?