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

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cincibuck said:
When you can't get a top recruit to even visit... even as he's playing in the state tournament on your campus... you're a recruiting liability. I'll call it now, this is Joe Pa's last season. The AD needs to find a way to kick him upstairs to an office with great view, nice furniture and no phone.
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seeing as according to the 2001 commisioner standard mortality table the chance of the man not seeing his next birthday is 82.20/1,000 with a life expectancy of 6.3 years thats not all that far out there...
 
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SeattleTimes: Penn State's Paterno 101

Penn State's Paterno 101: The first ever first down

By Dwight Perry
Monday, March 24, 2008


"Joe Student" is about to get a whole new meaning.

Seats for "Joe Paterno, Communications and the Media" ? a new course offering at Penn State chronicling Paterno's 59 years of coaching football there ? figure to be snapped up quickly when upperclassmen start registering for fall classes next month.

According to the class syllabus, students will be regaled on such Paterno topics as:
? How he once dealt with telegraph bloggers;
? How to order football uniforms from a 1964 Sears and Roebuck catalog; and
? The day the Wright brothers introduced JoePa to the double wing.
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Don't know if this is the right forum, so Mods, if it doesn't fit, do your dance......

I'm taken aback with the Penn St, and JoePa (and his assts) playing the 'race card' with recruits. Now, if there is a legitimate reason that, say, Penn St can document proof that people of color graduate more frequently, then use it in a positive way. Anyway, I'm very much of the opinion of the fan that asked the Chicago Black Sox player about throwing the World Series, "Say it ain't so, Joe!" on this one. I find it hard to believe, actually do not want to, that this could happen. Call it my naivete, rose colored glasses, or being a Pollyanna. But enough posters on this site, whom I have grown to respect their opinions and facts have mentioned and confirmed that I am now a believer.

If that's the case with Penn St's recruiting, then I understand why Penn St is getting clobbered by the Pitt, OSU, Michigan, southern schools, etc. Ultimately you have to blame the leader of the program, and JoePa is it. I agree with the poster that this is (and should) be his last year, and I'll go even further that it WON'T be an inbred assistant, but they'll go outside for a 'fresh' start. I'd bet vcash on that one. I've always looked to Penn St as a quality program with quality people that played hard and fair. Now it appears that the program is desperate, and are taking desparate measures.

This is a rant :evil:, I realize, but needed to get it off my chest. Kinda like finding out that Santa or the Easter bunny don't really exist, I guess.

Anyway, Tress & Co are running a quality recruiting program, and let their records speak for them. OSU is recruiting a quality individual and it shows, so keep up the good work.


:gobucks3::gobucks4::banger:
 
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Jerry Rudzinski says this should be JoePa's last year.

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Captain's Corner: Time Is Right For Paterno To Step Aside

Has the time finally come for Joe Paterno's coaching career at Penn State to end? That is the very question that has resurfaced recently in the Keystone State, as Paterno's contract expires at the end of 2008 and a decision has not been made on whether or not it will be renewed. Former OSU captain Jerry Rudzinski says that the time is right for Paterno to retire. Read on for more in this version of the Captain's Corner.

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I've seen some video of this press conference. JoePa looked like a 12-year-old kid in Brooklyn eating and talking ... At The Same Time.

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Paterno content with coaching status

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- Munching on a slice of pizza in between sentences, Joe Paterno didn't look or sound too worried about his future.

So what if he's entering the final year of his contract?

"I don't even care if I get a contract. I'll be very frank with you," the 81-year-old Paterno said Saturday in his first meeting with reporters in three months. "I think the university will do what they think is right, whenever the time comes. Right now, I'm very comfortable."

"What do I need an extension for?" he asked before joking that he could coach "just another 10 years."

Asked later whether he would feel comfortable going year-to-year, Paterno said "Absolutely. Absolutely. Why not?"

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JoPa should have stepped down about 5 years ago.. at the latest. Really, it should have been sooner than that. That's not to say that his teams haven't had any decent seasons in the last 5 years (2005, for example) or the last 10 even (1999 had then #1 for some time) but it seems to me these performances are in spite of, not because of, JoPa. He was a great coach, and he has been around a long time. There's really no denying he has earned his way, and despite some "questionable" tactics over the years (Not Jackie Sherril tactics, but there's been plenty of "hmmmm" for those not enamored with Joe.) I think he's "one of the good guys" as it were.

But.. he is now, and has been for a while, a liability to Penn State football. If you look back, you can just watch how it unfolded. Whatever "players" PSU has on roster now (by players I mean above average recruits) came to PSU because PSU used to be PSU and not because JoPa was their ticket to the League. I guess what I'm saying is - if any program is living in the past, it's Penn State. As far as I'm concerned, they've been irrelevant since 2000. Again, they have had a decent year or two since then. Big Deal. So has Kansas.

Incidentally... isn't everyone a "person of color?" Even if that color happens to be white? I've never seen an invisible person...
 
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Come on Joe. If you are going to chow down @ the podium, at least do it between sentences. You don't speak to clearly as it is. Nobody wants to see your food. That just shows me the guy has gotten way too comfortable and doesn't feel PSU can or will remove him from his position.

From his comments yesterday, sounds like an extension may not come next year. I think ultimately he ends up coaching in some compacity, working for virtually nothing or on staff but not getting paid @ all (or until he passes on the practice field). I hate to joke about it, but he joked and said he may go another 10 years.

My guess is they designate a new head coach but he will still be there. In what role, or with what title/authority, I'm not quite sure yet. That to me is an unhealthy situation for the program as well. Try being the new head coach with Jo pa breathing down your neck and questioning everything you do. PSU may be in a tough spot until Jo pa hangs it up or does pass on.


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This is the article that caught my eye this week. Post-Gazette.

Guess what JoePa's preferred work plan is these days? Work from home. That's right, the Head Coach of a Division 1 program, storied, championships and glory in their past, wants to have relaxed office hours and do the bulk of his work at home.

There's another issue in this discussion: Competence. And we're not talking about Paterno's won-loss record. We're talking about his abdication of the day-to-day operations of the football program.
Paterno wants to work from home. Who doesn't? For some people, newspaper columnists, for example, that's a plan that can work. For others -- people in charge of a multimillion dollar business like the Penn State football program and people who are expected lead a coaching staff and a team -- it is not a good plan.
Paterno says he gets more work done at home. Really?
How is he overseeing the program from home? How is he exerting leadership from home? How is he in the necessary day-to-day contact with his players from home?
Truth be known, head football coaches, at least ones who are not figureheads, cannot successfully work from home.
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The minute he expressed a desire to not keep office hours his tenure should be over, kaput.
 
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BB73;1127389; said:
I've seen some video of this press conference. JoePa looked like a 12-year-old kid in Brooklyn eating and talking ...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- Munching on a slice of pizza in between sentences, Joe Paterno didn't look or sound too worried about his future.

...Right now, I'm very comfortable."
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It's clear here what he's doing. He's angling for a Depends undergarments spokesperson deal! What a poser! Just sayin'... :biggrin:
 
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