Penn State begins first spring under O'Brien

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- Bill O'Brien is still living out of a hotel room nearly three months after arriving at Penn State to take over the football program.

At least O'Brien is back in his element at work with spring drills finally starting for the Nittany Lions.

The start of practice Monday allowed the first on-field glimpse into the transition to the first new head coach at Penn State in nearly a half-century. O'Brien made his presence known during a fast-paced day of drills.

O'Brien is slowly leaving his own mark of the program, from a remodeling of the weight room to an overhaul of the offense.

The late Joe Paterno ran the program 46 years before his ouster in November in the aftermath of child sex abuse charges against a retired assistant coach.

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