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Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)
- By Zurp
- College Football
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Feel free to move this. Maybe it should go in the Urban Meyer thread, or the coaches comings and goings, or... whatever.
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So... it's long been discussed and believed on the Penn State boards that Urban Meyer was supposed to replace Paterno. It's just one of those things that they all believe. Joe Paterno hand-picked Urban Meyer to replace him when he retires. This idea seems really silly. Let's look at the timing:
- Urban Meyer coached at Florida up until 2010.
- In 2011, Meyer was an announcer for Fox, or FS1, or something. I forget.
- In 2012, Meyer was coaching at Ohio State. I believe he was hired before the bowl game in 2011, right around the time of the game against the cheaters.
- In 2011, the news with Sandusky and stuff exploded. It was during the season.
- Paterno mentioned no plans to retire until that scandal. At the time of that scandal, he announced his retirement at the end of the season. There was some line that the news repeated. Something like, "The Board should waste no more time on this decision - I'm retiring at the end of this season." I absolutely do not believe he was planning to retire before that news hit.
Going into that thread, the first dude says that he thinks everything was settled - Meyer would replace Paterno. He's off by a year, but that's not worth crying about. Of course, nothing is confirmed with anything other than, "yeah, that was the plan!" He's basically using the internet to prove that the internet is right.
This is very much like the story where a referee told a Penn State player that they're just lucky to be playing football, after the scandal. Depending on who's posting that, the team Penn State was playing changes, the unfair play in the game changes, and even the player to whom the referee was talking changes. But it's still a truth in their eyes.
Ha - but show them Joe Paterno running off the field, or an OSU fan getting punched in the head, and it's "photoshopped" by a "Pitt fan".
Was it ever confirmed that Urban was supposed to replace Paterno after the '12 season, prior to the debacle?
I thought that was true based on a clip were Urban called a PSU game in 2012 and used the term "We" when doing color commentary on the team.
- Urban Meyer coached at Florida up until 2010.
- In 2011, Meyer was an announcer for Fox, or FS1, or something. I forget.
- In 2012, Meyer was coaching at Ohio State. I believe he was hired before the bowl game in 2011, right around the time of the game against the cheaters.
- In 2011, the news with Sandusky and stuff exploded. It was during the season.
- Paterno mentioned no plans to retire until that scandal. At the time of that scandal, he announced his retirement at the end of the season. There was some line that the news repeated. Something like, "The Board should waste no more time on this decision - I'm retiring at the end of this season." I absolutely do not believe he was planning to retire before that news hit.
Going into that thread, the first dude says that he thinks everything was settled - Meyer would replace Paterno. He's off by a year, but that's not worth crying about. Of course, nothing is confirmed with anything other than, "yeah, that was the plan!" He's basically using the internet to prove that the internet is right.
This is very much like the story where a referee told a Penn State player that they're just lucky to be playing football, after the scandal. Depending on who's posting that, the team Penn State was playing changes, the unfair play in the game changes, and even the player to whom the referee was talking changes. But it's still a truth in their eyes.
Ha - but show them Joe Paterno running off the field, or an OSU fan getting punched in the head, and it's "photoshopped" by a "Pitt fan".
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