"Al is entering a situation that was identical to mine.
"You never want to enter a situation by taking anything off the table," he said.
"We're fast entering a situation where just about any app can be run as a website.
It's something really special to me — to enter a situation with the experience of a veteran but the enthusiasm of a young (or younger!) player.
When I enter a situation I have this sense that somehow I have permission, whether I have asked for it or not.
But law enforcement officials tend to use greater safety measures, especially when entering a situation where not much information is available.
However, for a quarterback with relatively little college experience, entering a situation in which he is expected to assume a starting role and to perform well right away would not be easy.
Given the scandal that rocked Penn State this season when Sandusky, a former defensive coordinator, was charged with molesting 10 boys over several years, and the dissension in a tradition-rich environment, O'Brien enters a situation that is challenging as well as unprecedented.
Despite the government's prioritising and subsidising of Stem subjects (science, technology, engineering, mathematics), where men still dominate, over arts and humanities, where women do, we are entering a situation in which more women, including working-class women (who attend university at a rate twice that of their male peers), are calculating that university debt is worth it.
When Game of Thrones returns for its fifth season on Sunday, it will be entering a situation not unlike the one Ripley encounters in Alien: Resurrection, when she stumbles into that laboratory filled with tanks containing multiple bloated, twisted clones of herself.
