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Decanonized Mythologized Disgraced Ped State Monster Coach Joe Paterno (Zombie Icon)

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Now this becomes worse for Penn State --

On the heels of the recent charges, there was this thread on FOS --

"Penn State Worst Program in Nation"

By which was meant, worst behavior.

From the thread - the all too typical FOS cycle of denial.

PSU worst program in nation: telling article about PSU Pro Day
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Just read this article and the catching part is about 3/4 of the way down where Scouts from the recent Pro-day were telling folks that PSU is in the worst shape of any team they have visited.

www.centredaily.com/sport...64697.html
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Followed by the inevitable attack on the messenger:

Re: PSU worst program in nation: telling article about PSU Pro
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You posted an article from one of the biggest Joe haters in the world who quotes a waitress secondhand?!? BWAH HAHAHAHAHAHA! Are you Bracken? You can tell me. I know you're not Jerry Keller.
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Which inevitably ignores the core message of the article in question:

If you watched the Oregon- Arizona game on ESPN Thursday night you couldn’t miss the news crawling across the bottom of the screen stating that Penn State defensive tackle Chris Baker and linebacker Navorro Bowman had been charged for their part in the HUB incident, followed by the news that recently-dismissed tailback Austin Scott had waived his arraignment on charges of rape and sexual assault.
That’s the image of Penn State football that’s out there now. And there’s this? When Penn State held its Pro Day earlier this fall, several NFL scouts had lunch at a local restaurant and asked their waitress what was going on with the Penn State football team, telling her that the behavior here was the worst of any program they’d visited.
That’s what’s out there now. And it’s not the work of an anti- Penn State media corps. These incidents happened. They weren’t invented by some talking head or ink-stained wretch in search of an exclusive, sensational story to sell to the National Enquirer.
The question is how to rein it in. And the answer is as elusive within the team framework as it is in society. That’s why there are prisons and rich lawyers.
Joe Paterno is tasked with coming up with some sort of action to address the situation. After all, he gets the credit for the Grand Experiment that once produced doctors and lawyers and major players on Wall Street. Now it falls to him to try, in the winter of his life, to correct the course of this program.
It has become a daunting task, one that has to sap a disproportionate amount of energy from a well that’s not as deep as it once was.
And you have to wonder how much longer he can fight it. Oops, bad choice of words.
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The State Supreme Court rules that JoePa's salary must be revealed to the public.

si.com

Penn St. must disclose Paterno's pay

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- The state retirement system must disclose the salaries of Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno and some of the school's top administrators, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

The 4-2 decision said a lower court that had ordered the disclosure properly balanced the public's interest in knowing details about retirement system finances against the effects disclosure might have on reputations and personal security.

The case was the result of a December 2002 request by a reporter for The Patriot-News in Harrisburg who sought the salaries of Paterno and three other Penn State officials from the State Employees' Retirement System.

The retirement board had granted the request, but disclosure was put on hold while the university appealed.

"We hold that the public does in fact have a right to such information to the extent necessary to justify all guaranteed disbursements from the fund," wrote Justice James J. Fitzgerald III for the majority.

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BB73;1001831; said:
The State Supreme Court rules that JoePa's salary must be revealed to the public.

si.com

The case was the result of a December 2002 request by a reporter for The Patriot-News in Harrisburg who sought the salaries of Paterno and three other Penn State officials from the State Employees' Retirement System.
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Gee, it only took them five years...
 
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sandgk;1011211; said:
And the answer is $512,664 - aside from other compensation - money from television and apparel contracts, that Paterno may earn that is typical of Division I-A coaches.

Oh, yes - and he wants to coach for another three, four or five years ....

God help Penn State.
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There is no way that they went to those lengths and spent that much money to protect THAT number from public disclosure. For the PSU administration, this was about the much larger issue/principle of avoiding accountability in general.
 
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Gatorubet;1011960; said:
That, and Bowden fighting him for the all time win and take-your-program-down-the-toilet-for-personal-reasons records...
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It seems like Paterno and Bowden subscribe to the theory of the angry father to his son "I brought you into this world and I can take you out"

They sure aren't helping out their programs by hanging around (awaiting Captain Obvious)

Although it's helping tOSU, I admit that I find it sad to watch Paterno when he seems so fragile and so uninvolved and ineffective.
 
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I saw this too. It just proves that he doesn't really "coach" the team. He is just the face of the football program. Last year at tOSU, when he shit himself and ran into the locker room, PSU didn't miss a step on the field. TOSU would probably fold in that situation. Kind of make you wonder how many decisions he make during the football games.
 
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Nordberg;1012322; said:
I saw this too. It just proves that he doesn't really "coach" the team. He is just the face of the football program. Last year at tOSU, when he shit himself and ran into the locker room, PSU didn't miss a step on the field. TOSU would probably fold in that situation. Kind of make you wonder how many decisions he make during the football games.
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I wouldn't sell JT's staff short. I know he calls the plays on offense, but I bet they could cover for him if he had to leave the sideline during the game for a period of time. In a perfect world the head coach isn't going to be doing a lot of X's and O's during the game. The HC usually makes the big decisions and might offer guidelines to the coordinators about what he wants them to do. If you're a HC and your team falls apart when you aren't there you need to hire some new assistants.
 
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A&M redfaced over Paterno cheer

Posted: Friday December 28, 2007 07:13AM ET

Texas A&M officials were left red-faced Thursday night when an unidentified Yell Leader joked that Penn State coach Joe Paterno "needed a casket" during a joint pep rally. The Yell Leader, a male student cheerleader who organizes cheers at football games, was on stage during the pep rally when he grabbed the microphone and unleashed on Paterno, 81. "Joe Paterno's on his death bed! And someone needs to find him a casket!" the Yell Leader screamed. Stunned PSU fans started booing. The Yell Leaders quickly left the stage, and the pep rally continued. A&M interim president Eddie Davis and athletic director Bill Byrne apologized to their Penn State counterparts, A&M spokesman Alan Cannon said.
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Wow.
 
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