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Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

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Zurp said:
"Winning a bunch of games for a long time" - that got me thinking. How does Paterno match up with other coaches, based on winning percentage?
Not wanting to do a lot of work, I compared him only to Woody Hayes. And only on his time with Ohio State.
All-time winning percentage at Ohio State - Woody Hayes has a 0.743 percentage.
All-time winning percentage at Penn State - Joe Paterno has a 0.746 percentage.

In-conference games:
Woody Hayes vs. Big Ten opponents: 0.776.
Joe Paterno vs. Big Ten opponents: 0.638.

In fairness to Paterno, Woody's numbers are probably skewed because he never had to play against Ohio State.
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Yep, he was the Boise of his day but with handpicked ref crews on top of it. The sad thing isn't that the pollsters wouldn't give him national championships for those undefeated season. The sad thing is that he somehow couldn't go undefeated every year with those schedules and those refs. The man's entire life--on and off the field--was one grand con job.
 
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Whatever happened to Arabus (sp?), the Tennessee yokel with the donate button? I wonder if he just disappeared after conning the cult for enough money to buy that piece of bottom land. I wished he had stayed around. He was definitely my favorite grifter that came onto the scene to work the cult.

I like to think he looks something like this.

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They keep using phrases like "reasonable people would agree"...Followed by something like "It certainly could be possible that Sandusky was an alien, and probing children's rectums was not rape, just alien scientific research of the human body. Beat Nebraska!"


What a collection of fucking idiots...
 
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Saw31 said:
They keep using phrases like "reasonable people would agree"...Followed by something like "It certainly could be possible that Sandusky was an alien, and probing children's rectums was not rape, just alien scientific research of the human body. Beat Nebraska!"
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A little off-subject, but that reminds me of Trev Alberts. "The fact of the matter is" and then he'd spit off some opinion that not everyone can agree on. "The fact of the matter is that Ohio State would have lost to Iowa in 2002, had they played." (Note, that's not one of his quotes, that I know of. I just think he very well could have said that.)
 
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