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

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JoePa's qoute of "Nobody is promised tommorrow is true, but we still must take care of ourselves as we get up in the years. Its too bad "Woody" had his health problems. I think this is one reason he was not with us as much as we would have liked.

JoePa has the right outlook on life as well as his football mind. Everything is kept in perspective for his outlook into his final days. Three years ago half of the Knittylion nation was calling for his head and now suddenly all those illusions have been silenced.

He is a taskmaster there is no doubt about that. I have to give kuddos to this guy as a football coach. He is still teaching football and the game of life to these young men. Certainly Jim Tressel knows this and respects him to the utmost. He is a tribute to what college football and life is all about.
 
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8/2/06

Another decade for JoePa?


By RICK GANO
The Associated Press

CHICAGO - Joe Paterno has enough grandchildren to fill out one starting side of a football team and then some. There are 15 of them and they have a way of buttering up the legendary Penn State coach.
At a family reunion earlier this summer, they helped coax him, at age 79, into joining a family hike up a mountain and then back down.
"I hadn't climbed in 30 years," Paterno said Tuesday at the Big Ten football media day. "I got up to the top, but when I came down it was tough."
When his right leg started bothering him as he descended, Paterno decided it was time to have a physical. That's when he got some good news.
"The doctor says, `You can coach 10 more years,'" Paterno said. When he delivered the message to his staff, he said they all started shaking their heads in disbelief.
Another decade may, in reality, be out of the question, but Paterno reiterated Tuesday he's got no plans to stop what he's been doing at Penn State since 1950.
He became head coach in 1966 and is revitalized by the Nittany Lions' Big Ten title last season, an 11-1 record and an Orange Bowl win over Florida State.
"I feel great. I'm going to coach as long as I feel good about it and excited about it. It's hard for me to put a date on it. It really is," he said.
"I'm going to coach as long as I feel I can do the job."
The dean of the conference coaches had a recent phone conversation with the newest member when he chatted with 31-year-old Pat Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald was named head coach at Northwestern, his alma mater, following the death of his mentor, Randy Walker, from a heart attack earlier this summer.
Paterno already had coached at Penn State for 25 seasons - nine as the head coach - before Fitzgerald was born in 1974.
His advice: "I told him, put on your mirror: `I'm the boss,'" Paterno said, adding that Fitzgerald would now be in the position to make tough decisions that could sometimes hurt people's feelings.
"The conversation was outstanding," Fitzgerald said. "The thing I heard from every coach I visited with: You need to be genuine and you need to be who you are."
Fitzgerald was getting ready for a family vacation when Walker died June 29. One day after he eulogized Walker at a memorial service, Fitzgerald got his dream job under the most difficult circumstances imaginable.
"You're never prepared for something like this, never prepared for losing a friend," Fitzgerald said. "Especially as vibrant as coach Walker was."
Notes:@ Ohio State, Michigan and Iowa were picked 1-2-3 in a preseason poll of media members. "How legitimate is it? I don't know that we know the answer to that," said Ohio State coach Jim Tressel, who has guided the Buckeyes to four straight bowl wins, including a national championship. "We'll find out by the end of November. It's always nice to be mentioned." ... Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith was named preseason offensive player of the year and Penn State linebacker Paul Posluszny the preseason defensive player of the year. ... Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said he's hoping the Big Ten Channel, which will launch in 2007, will go national and be part of basic cable packages. Delany said he would not be in favor of playing conference games on Thursday and Friday nights to make it more attractive. ... Delany said the conference was studying a league-wide system to test for performance enhancing drugs and that it could be in place by 2007-08. "I don't feel comfortable that we are where we needed to be. As a result, we started studying about a year ago," he said.
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Bucklion said:
8 losses a couple years ago didn't. I think the more people want him to leave, the more likely he is to stay...just because.
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You could be very right. My thinking was that he thinks he has turned it around and might just get one more NC under his belt. Four losses will put quite a halt to that and I think he might just think about other things. The big question is, at this age, are there other things in his life?
 
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Steve19 said:
You could be very right. My thinking was that he thinks he has turned it around and might just get one more NC under his belt. Four losses will put quite a halt to that and I think he might just think about other things. The big question is, at this age, are there other things in his life?
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He's made it clear many times the answer to that is no. He is petrified of the "Bear Bryant Syndrome" of basically dying as soon as you stop coaching.
 
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Amos Alonzo Stagg holds the record for longest head coaching tenure at one school (D1-A) ... 41 years at Chicago. Jo Pa will tie that record this year (2006). I've always thought that JoPa wanted that record. That means this year and next, then who knows?

Eddie Robinson (Grambling St.) and John Gagliardi (Saint John's) crush that record with 55 and 52 season respectively, though not at the D1-A level.
 
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Some people are lucky enough to find what they are good at in life and find the place they are supposed to be doing it at. Jo Pa is one of those people. I don't see him ever leaving until he is carried out. Jo Pa will always be the coach even if he is just a figurehead.
After last year we know he still has teeth. Age and experience has a place. As Woody Worshiper said it in earlier post "if Joe Paterno ever entered my home and offered me a scholarship to come play for him, I would find it damn near impossible to turn him down." and I agree.
 
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Paterno Has Broken Leg, Knee Damage
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Paterno had to be carted off the field.

By PSU Sports Info

Posted Nov 5, 2006

Penn State medical staff has yet to determine the manner in which it will treat the injuries, which were sustained during the Wisconsin game. In the meantime, Paterno intends to coach in the Nittany Lions' contest against Temple at Beaver Stadium Saturday.

Penn State football coach Joe Paterno suffered injuries to his left leg after being involved in a collision along the sidelines during Saturday's game at Wisconsin. Paterno suffered a tibial plateau fracture of his left leg and ligament damage in his knee, according to Dr. Wayne Sebastianelli, Penn State Director of Athletic Medicine. Sebastianelli examined Paterno last night and earlier today in State College, with the examinations revealing the fracture of the top of his left shin bone and the knee injuries.
A decision on whether to operate or rehabilitate the injuries will be based upon what will be the most expedient manner of recovery.
Paterno has attempted to have as close to a normal routine as possible today, meeting with the coaching staff, reviewing yesterday's game and beginning preparations for Saturday's home game with Temple. He expects to prepare for and coach in the game against Temple, which begins at 3:30 p.m. in Beaver Stadium.
Paterno was injured early in the third quarter when Penn State tight end Andrew Quarless and Wisconsin's DeAndre Levy spilled into him after a Quarless catch and tackle by the Badger linebacker near the Penn State sideline. Paterno left the field after the third period and, immediately after the game, returned to State College on a University plane to be further examined.
At the statue of Coach Paterno outside Beaver Stadium, a fan bandaged the left leg overnight. A sign was hung on the statue that read: "Get well soon JoePa, we love you!"
 
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