Joe Paterno returning to Penn State in 2011 - ScarletBuckeye

jn25code · 11-23-2010, 02:55 PM

will return for the 2011 season,at 84 any thoughts on this ????

Killer Nut91 · 11-23-2010, 02:59 PM

To me, he is becoming Brett Favre. He just won't go away.

Only JoePa didn't do the whole retire/unretire thing like Favre.......or send pics to 20 year old women....

Anchorman · 11-23-2010, 06:11 PM

Agree Killer. Time for Joe to go! And Favre need to as well. Childress was not a big fan of him coming back and that is one of the reasons he got canned!

Arapahoe · 11-23-2010, 06:52 PM

JoePa probably isn't coaching much anyways now. I bet he's just been a figure head for the program and his coaches do 95% of the work.

IceBreaker · 11-24-2010, 09:29 AM

He's probably just the teams motivational speaker lol.

OSUBasketballJunkie · 11-24-2010, 04:27 PM

Pittsburgh

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Cook: Paterno's stance puts Penn State in bind

'Oh, hell, I don't think it's entirely my call. I'm not running the university ... ' but ...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
By Ron Cook, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

I hate to call anyone a liar, but that's exactly what Joe Paterno was Tuesday when he announced that he plans on returning next year at 84 for his 46th season as the Penn State head football coach and his 62nd season with the program.

When asked whose call it is for him to retire, Paterno said, "Oh, hell, I don't think it's entirely my call. I'm not running the university ... "

That's a flat-out lie.

Paterno does run Penn State.

Not only that, he's holding the university hostage.

Penn State president Graham Spanier must have choked on his lunch when he heard of Paterno's plans to coach at least one more season. "I didn't say I hope to. I'm gonna," Paterno said with -- what? -- great resolve, defiance, perhaps even arrogance. The old man's spunk is admirable, I'll give you that. But what if Spanier doesn't want Paterno back? That possibility certainly seems reasonable, although Spanier would never admit it publicly. What if he thinks it's silly, as so many of us do, that Paterno continues to hang on even though he doesn't coach much or recruit at all anymore and is little more than a figurehead? What if he thinks it's time for a change in his football program, that maybe a younger coach could do better? Penn State is 7-4 heading into its final regular-season game Saturday at home against No. 11 Michigan State, has been blown out by its three opponents that are ranked and lost by 20 points to Illinois on homecoming.

Good luck to Spanier trying to make that change.

Did I mention Paterno runs Penn State?

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OSUBasketballJunkie · 11-26-2010, 01:15 PM

Dispatch

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When Joe Paterno announced that he planned to be back next season, the 83-year-old Penn State coach was asked whether he could still fulfill all of his duties. Some alums say he doesn't hit the recruiting trail the way he once did; he says he is a victim of his own notoriety.

"The business about recruiting is a difficult one for me at this stage," he said. "Not in the sense that I don't want to do it physically or what have you. But if I go into a town these days, it's a run on me.

"Everybody who's teaching in the school who's a Penn State graduate, or in business, there's always a lot of people coming around and a lot of hoopla. In the old days when I could just get in the car with an assistant coach and we could hop all over the place and get into four or five schools in a day, I could get it done. Nowadays, it's tough for me to get out of a school because there's so many demands on me when I get there. If I can get into three schools in a day, that's very unusual. Most of the time, it's just one or two."

Those close to the program say that he hasn't done it at all in the past two years.

louts8wings · 11-26-2010, 08:37 PM

the guy will die in a film room!

rubbercity87 · 11-26-2010, 10:00 PM

Yeah, I dont see old Joe going out like Woody did.

OSUBasketballJunkie · 12-12-2010, 03:23 PM

Link

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Paterno has yet to discuss future with Penn State leaders

Saturday, December 11, 2010

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Four days before the Nov. 27 regular-season finale, Joe Paterno said he planned to return as Penn State's coach in 2011. But Paterno admitted then that the decision would not entirely be his.

Athletic director Tim Curley also issued a statement that day and concluded by saying: "[We] look forward to our annual postseason discussion with coach Paterno about next year."

Paterno, 10 days shy of his 84th birthday, said Friday during the Nittany Lions' Outback Bowl media day that he hadn't spoken to Curley or university president Graham Spanier about his future since the season-ending, 28-22 loss to Michigan State.

"I haven't even thought about that," said Paterno, whose three-year contract expires after the 2011 season. "You guys are the guys talking about that and thinking about that. You're ready to bury me, and I'm not. ... We got to play a tough football team."

When a reporter pressed Paterno further, and asked him if talk about his future bothered him, Paterno shot back: "You bother me."

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