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O’Brien interviewed with Cleveland Browns

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The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Mary Kay Cabot reports that the NFL Cleveland Browns have interviewed Penn State head football coach Bill O’Brien for their head coaching vacancy. They’ve also interviewed O’Brien’s buddy, Doug Marrone of Syracuse, and they plan to interview Oregon head coach Chip Kelly tomorrow. (He’s working late tonight.)

We hope that O’Brien has better sense than to leave Happy Valley for the Dog Pound.

All three of the coaches mentioned are also expected to be interviewed by the Buffalo Bills and the Philadelphia Eagles, who fired their head coaches after the NFL season ended.

Read about it.

Mandel: Suit will push O’Brien out door

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Caught the following thread on Twitter. Sports Illustrated’s ever popular college football reporter Stewart Mandel opines that Corbett’s “frivolous” lawsuit will impel Bill O’Brien to head for the NFL because he’ll tire of the Sandusky thing being at the fore.

I have a few things to say. First of all, the idea of the suit is to restore Penn State to a competitive position, so why should that upset O’Brien? Secondly, the hoopla over this suit is likely to wane long before next football season, fading into the constant level of vestigial background noise associated with the Sandusky scandal.  Antitrust suits drag on for years and years, and we don’t even know whether the District Court will even hear this case. Finally, Mandel is full of shit.

Here’s the stream, as of about 5 PM today.

Mandel: O'Brien will leave because of suit

O’Brien named Maxwell Coach of the Year

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Bill O’Brien has been named Maxwell Coach of the Year. Having finished as runner-up to Notre Dame’s Brian Kelly in the AP Coach of the Year voting, O’Brien turned the table on Kelly in the Maxwell Football Club voting.

Maxwell executive director Mark Wolpert had this to say:

“Coach O’Brien has engineered a tremendous season for the Penn State football program while overcoming obstacles that many considered to be insurmountable. The team’s 8-4 record is a great testament to the hard work of Coach O’Brien and his staff, and to the dedication shown by the student-athletes involved in the football program at Penn State.”

ESPN.com also named O’Brien as national coach of the year, as well as Big Ten coach of the year by both the media and the other conference coaches.

The Maxwell Club will honor its award winners on March 1 at Harrah’s Atlantic City Resort. Thirty-one Penn State senior football players will also be there to receive the organization’s Thomas Brookshier Spirit Award, a well deserved tribute to a courageous and tenacious bunch of guys.