Joe WANTS to talk, the Administration doesn't want him to....
Then immediately after, this breaking news tweet.
BreakingNews Breaking News Penn State said to be planning football coach Joe Paterno's departure, sources say
Oh this is going to go over real big.
He’s toast
The whole thing is horrible.
I thought Ohio State was going to be the embarrassing part of the Big 10 this year with their “scandal” of turning a blind eye to free tattoos for some players.
Penn State makes OSU look like saints.
He holds a weekly talkshow with radio affiliates. I believe he’s contractually obligated to do that. I don’t see how he’ll be able to get out of that. And what about next week’s news conference? Do these bozos at the administration think it’s going die down between now and then? What about press day at whatever bowl they go to which could be a top bowl? They better plan on cancelling his radio show and news conferences for the rest of the year.
They’ll send him packing after he goes to another bowl game. Well, we know what matters to Pedophile State University.
Michael Mann needs to be canned for shoving his hockey stick up the world’s collective butt.
Poor Joe. Retirement will kill him within a month. Just like it did Bear Bryant.
After watching the way the media has handled this event its my opinion that the media knows Paterno will retire at the end of the year (his contract is up) and are in a hurry to get him fired before he retires.
I sense that the media knows they are less able to impact public opinion on the political front (note the Herman Cain attempts at lynching) so they have decided to show their virility by going after an 84 year old Joe Paterno who was going to retire after the last game of the season.
Really sad that a great coach may have been done in by a gay child molester hired by the state to be his defensive coordinator.
Penn State University needs to drop the “S” and just be known as “P-U!”
Paterno has a chance to be a stand up guy here. He should come clean, retire, and make a commitment to the victims in this to spend the rest of his days on this earth as their advocate.
But he has also done some pretty decent things in his life.
In an era when coaches demand exorbitant contracts and get paid millons when they get fired, Paterno has for years signed contracts that are way under the value for a program such as Penn State.
He still lives in the same modest house on campus that he has for decades.
Paterno and his wife have donated millions to the University to endow academic ( NOT sports) related programs and scholarships.
He has definitely stayed too long as coach...he did not know when it was time to go....but these calls for summarily firing him are wrong. He should be allowed to finish out the season, then retire.
Many of the same peopel, and media sources, now calling for him to be summarily canned, were the same ones DEFENDING Michael Jackson against pedophilia charges...anyone see the hypocrisy here?
And look for the Nittany Lions to run the table...win out this season, and the Big 10 championship, AND win their BCS bowl...probably finish up at #6-8 final national ranking..
A couple of questions;
1. As I understand the situation, two officials of Penn State have been arrested for lying to a grand jury. Why would they lie when they must have known where this would lead?
2. Does a possible financial impact have anything to do with all the lying, failure to report crime, cover-up, etc?
Football= money/income for the college=sweep the rapes under the rug/keep your mouth shut=we are shocked=CYA mode!
“Penn State said to be planning football coach Joe Paterno’s departure, sources say”
It’s so weird, how they phrase these things. Either they’re firing him or he’s resigning. If you’re forcing him into retirement, then he’s not resigning. So when the time comes for him to leave, you let him say he’s doing it for health, family, or whatever. But you don’t say you’re planning his departure, because that implies he’s being fired; you might as well come out and say it at that point.
But what does it matter? PR is all a bunch of bosh.
This whole thing is sickening - if I walked into a locker room and witnessed an old creep buggering a ten year old boy, my first instinct would be to crack his skull with something and then call the COPS. Joe Paterno is up to his sorry butt in this scandal, and he can rot in hell with the rest of these perverts.