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Akeel Lynch (left) looks
on as Penn State begins
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session of 2013.
Tim Owen
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PSU begins spring practice as year two of the O'Brien era gets under way
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With snow falling and piling up in State College
on Monday afternoon, Penn State head football
coach Bill O'Brien addressed reporters in the
Beaver Stadium media room in advance of the Nittany Lions' first official spring practice of 2013.
Coming off an 8-4 season that somehow exceeded
expectations yet simultaneously disappointed the
first-year head coach, O'Brien said he was extremely excited to get back out on the practice field
Monday afternoon.
"I'm just excited to be off the banquet circuit and
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back on the field coaching," the budding comedian
responded to one of the news conference's first
questions. "Really, at the end of the day, what we
all love to do is coach and be on the field and watch
these guys improve from day to day. We really are
fortunate because we work with a bunch of really
good kids who work hard, who compete. So, the
biggest thing is, we're just looking forward to getting
out on the field."
As O'Brien acknowledged, there are plenty of story
lines that will inevitably dominate the 2013 spring
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