FOOT BALL
SPRING TRAINING
The Nittany Lions get down to business as practice begins
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FIELD OF DREAMS
The Nittany Lions, shown
here during one of last
year���s spring practice
sessions, have 16 starters
and 38 letterwinners
returning for Bill O���Brien���s
second season.
B
ill O���Brien recently described
his first season at Penn State
as a ���whirlwind.��� He was talking about the difficulty of sizing
up, in a matter of months, a
roster full of kids he didn���t
know anything about. Had he
been talking about the other parts of
his first season at Penn State, the offthe-field parts, well, whirlwind wouldn���t
have sufficed. Surviving that maelstrom
was like riding out a tornado at a bus
stop.
But ride it out he did. And O���Brien���s
reward for all that hard work is that
he gets to do it all over again, only this
time with the focus having mercifully
shifted back to the team���s on-the-field
exploits. The Nittany Lions were set to
begin spring drills on March 18 after
holing up in the weight room for four
months following the end of the 2012
