JoePa gets run over, injured at practice

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You're kidding, right?

Joe Paterno is the most respected coach in NCAA football.

Joseph Vincent "Joe" Paterno (born December 21, 1926) is a college football coach, and is currently the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions, a position he has held since 1966. Paterno, nicknamed "JoePa", holds the record for the most victories by an FBS football coach, has coached more bowl game wins than any other coach in college football history and is the first FBS coach to reach 400 victories.

tcco94 wrote on Aug 10^th, 2011 at 2:39am:

That includes most people from outside the USA.

Hagar wrote on Aug 10^th, 2011 at 3:19am:

Then that means they must not know Brett Farve either. But don't worry were doing you guys a favor .

BigTruck wrote on Aug 10^th, 2011 at 3:15pm:

+1

Good thing I'm too much of a gentleman to tell you what an asswipe you are.

Webb wrote on Nov 21^st, 2011 at 12:56am:


You are just too cute in your commentary!

But in all fairness, let's see what others are saying:

"Gregg Doyel, CBSSports.com: “Paterno, cheered by more than 100,000 people on Saturday? Idolized for three more hours? Upheld as a hero, as a paragon of virtue, as everything that is right about Penn State? That couldn't happen, because Paterno is none of those things. Not anymore. Joe Paterno was part of a cowardly system that looked the other way for nine years as an alleged pedophile was roaming State College. More than that --Sandusky was using the Penn State football offices as one of his home bases.”

Richard Justice, Houston Chronicle:“Joe Paterno didn’t do the right thing then, and he wasn’t going to do the right thing now. He was going to do it his way. He was going to please himself, and to hell with anyone who thought he should do it otherwise. In the end, he seemingly couldn’t understand how he failed the school he professed to love so much. He just didn’t understand that he could not coach another game, that he could not stay at Penn State another hour. Paterno simply didn’t understand that it would have been unspeakably offensive for him to coach again. How would the victims have felt? How would their families have felt? How have they felt the last decade when they believed no one would ever be held accountable? They must have felt that Paterno was the law and order in Happy Valley, and that no one — no district attorney, no cop, no one — would challenge him.”

Pat Forde, Yahoo! Sports: “That is the danger in the cult-of-personality dynamic of college sports. Coaches are elevated to such mythic levels that they become larger than the programs they lead and often larger than the universities that employ them. Perspective gets warped. Bad endings often ensue. But the stupefying thing is that nobody – nobody – could ever have foreseen a scandalous ending for Joe Paterno. He had done so much right for so many years. He had won so many games, donated so much money to the school, graduated so many players, made so few missteps – not a single major NCAA violation in a sport rife with corruption. And then this blew up the perfect little athletic world. Jerry Sandusky in the Garden of Eden, his alleged crimes against children undeterred by those around him. A scandal so shocking that even the most jaded mind could not have dreamed it up. Not those allegations. And not in this place.”

David Steele, FanHouse: “A lifetime of winning, setting examples and molding an image can, and should, be completely erased if an act or choice is that heinous and devastating. That admirable record stands small compared to the grotesque size of the violations Sandusky committed, the lives he ruined—and the chances Paterno, Spanier and others had to stop it in its tracks, yet let it go by. Every action, big and small, good and bad, has consequences. Paterno and Spanier are suffering them now. After all this time has gone by, somebody had to remind those men of this. The obligation fell to the Penn State board of trustees Wednesday night. For once, someone at that university didn’t pass it on to somebody else and hope it would take care of itself.”

Andy Staples, SI.com:“Paterno's larger-than-life stature also is nominally why Penn State students took to the streets in protest Wednesday night, flipping a news van, throwing rocks, destroying property and generally causing chaos. Were all of them genuinely upset about the way a coaching legend was shown the door? Of course not. Many were bundles of raging hormones who went out to raise hell because that's what everyone else was doing. The dudes mugging for the CNN cameras gave that away.”