Toledo, OH-based sports photographer Andrew Weber shot coach Bill O’Brien’s Penn State debut vs. Ohio.

Following the Boise State at Michigan State game Friday night, I decided it was time to pull the impossible! Drive 453 miles overnight from East Lansing, MI to State College, PA to shoot Bill O’Brien leading the Nittany Lions onto the field for the first time in 2012.

Let’s go back in time a little bit

In January 21, 2012 I got a phone call from my assignment edit that Joe Paterno was very ill and had been admitted to the hospital in Penn State. So I packed all of my gear and clothes quickly as I could to drive overnight to State College so I could arrive early morning ready to work. As I was driving I was thinking to my self that Joe Paterno is the biggest name in college football, he is Penn State, he has been a coach at Penn State for 61 years. For something to happen to Joe Paterno would be a huge fall for college football and the State College community.

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