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

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Re: With 372 wins, Paterno is one behind Florida State?s Bobby Bowden for most among major college coaches.

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Late last year, Florida State signed the 78-year-old Bowden to one more year with an option for another, while also designating offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher as ?head coach-in-waiting.

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It will be interesting to see who is forced to retire first. Both coaches want to go out with the most wins, etc.
 
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MD Buckeye;1136700; said:

The killer quote from the article I read was this:

"I don't even care if I get a contract. I'll be very frank with you," Paterno said during the spring practice news conference. "I think the university will do what they think is right, whenever the time comes. Right now, I'm very comfortable." Paterno later added, "If I've got to have a contract to keep my job here, I'm in the wrong place."

Oh boy.
 
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As an FSU fan, the day JoePa retires, Tallahassee will probably be burning couches and celebrating like a National Title has been won.

The same can probably be said from a PSU perspective.

The only thing either one of these guys wants is the all-time victory record. That is the hardest part to deal with as an AD....forcing your head coach out, is conceeding the all-time win record to the other school and coach.

Which is why the FSU and PSU AD need to burn some midnight oil and figure this thing out together.
 
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Question for a Buddhist out there:

If all of your team are in jail and you have to forfeit a game is it the same as that leaf falling in a forest with no one there kind of thing?

Pretty much, except in this case if a leaf falls in the forest it makes a sound precisely like that of one hand clapping.
 
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Best Buckeye;1137046; said:
That's what has been said for years now. :tongue2:

Except this year his contract expires after the season, so the wouldn't technically have to fire him, they can just not give him a new contract and hire somebody else. Then real comedy will ensue in '09 when JoePa still shows up on the sidelines in rolled up pants.
 
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Penn State's offensive output at The Shoe since joining the Big Ten:

1993: 6
1996: 7
1998: 9
2000: 6
2002: 7
2004: 10
2006: 6

Seven games, 51 points.
7.3 points per game.
One game in double digits, and that was the bare minimum 10 points.

Few things would make me happier than to send JoeGramps out winless at The Shoe in conference play, and would love to see us post a shutout along the lines of 49-0. A little payback for 63-14...
 
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Dispatch

Big Ten: Paterno won't get new contract before 2008 season is over

Friday, April 11, 2008 3:07 AM
By Genaro C. Armas


Associated Press

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Joe Paterno and his boss agree: The 81-year-old football coach doesn't need a new contract to keep his job at Penn State.
Paterno's current contract is up at the end of the 2008 season, yet that doesn't necessarily mean the end of his record-setting tenure leading the Nittany Lions.
University president Graham Spanier said in an e-mail that the school and Paterno agree that a contract isn't necessary for the man entering his 43rd season as Penn State coach. The sides agreed to meet, as they have in the past, at the end of the season to discuss the future.

Continued....
 
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Joe Pa

I hate to say this. But even though I am an adament fan of Joe Pa, maybe just maybe HE should decide to hang them up. Joe Pa could still be a consultant and ambassador for Penn State football. He could keep an office at the university. Is he plotting a way to get his son named head coach? Just for conversation sake, what the hell is a Nittany Lion? Someone e-mail me and tell me please.:osu:
 
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