some more on BY from later in the presser

by Jay, San Diego, Friday, February 13, 2009, 12:47 (6256 days ago) @ ReginaldVelJohnson

Q. Is there any situation that could arise where Bryant Young would be the defensive line coach?

COACH WEIS: I don't think that that would happen this year. That situation is hopefully one that's going to end up matriculating, but just not at this time.

There's two things. Not that he's not capable of doing it. I want to make sure this is something he wants to do. You know, football players that transition to be coaches, some of 'em it really works and some of it doesn't work.

Because when you realize the coach's hours versus the player's hours, there's two different set of circumstances. He has a wife, bunch of kids. You know, there's other factors here.

But ultimately my game plan of hire changed when he came in as a GA, because it changed from hiring a guy that will be here forever to hiring a guy that you can bring in here that is an experienced guy, that you can groom him to potentially being our defensive line coach.

Q. How did the relationship come about? You knew him from the NFL?

COACH WEIS: I knew him from the NFL. To be honest with you, we started -- we really started talking right after he retired. That's when we really started talking. I invited him out here. I gave him an open-door policy. He could come any time he wanted. He said he was going to do a lot of travel.

Both he and his wife love this place. They just love the place. It's something he wanted to do. He had other options now. He could have gone to work with the 49ers. The Carolina Panthers offered him a job. But he wanted to come here.