JoePa Soon to be Out per Pete Thamel
Pete THamel of the New York Times just tweeted that Joe Pa will not coach next season.
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November 8th, 2011 at 1:08 PM ^
How can Mike McQueary or Joe Pa go into a 15,16, 17 year old kid's house and not be kicked out by the parents? They cannot recruit any kid given theur past actions (or inactions).
They don't have a permanent AD and the president may even be out, so I don't know who will even find a replacement.
November 8th, 2011 at 1:12 PM ^
I wonder if this was one of the HUGE stories that we heard about earlier this summer that was said to be at a school you wouldn't expect in the BIG ten...
Said it would devastate a program, well that def should hold suit here
November 8th, 2011 at 1:14 PM ^
If it were, Wetzel would have released it before the GJ's statement. But yeah, its devastating. I work with a few PSU alumni and they are monumentally depressed.
November 8th, 2011 at 1:19 PM ^
yea, i can imagine .. Millen was just practically crying on ESPN
November 8th, 2011 at 1:27 PM ^
. . . all around. While I hate to see Joe Pa go out like this, he did have a hand in it. The University has to do what's best for it right now. And in some ways, I believe Joe Pa understands that.
November 8th, 2011 at 1:35 PM ^
The last decade he has been nothing more than a figure head. He should not hold the all-time wins record and it's funny how this leaks out immediately following him taking over first place. People knew about this story but sat on it so he could win his game. Eddie Robinson was a man of great class and character and still deserves to have the All-Time wins title. If PSU had a younger more competent coach this never would have happend. That is the reason why Joe Pa should have been ejected years ago. That is also the reason why coaches should not be able to call when they walk away. If you are not able to monitor your program and the things that go on, on your watch then you don't need to be the man in charge.
November 8th, 2011 at 1:55 PM ^
"it is clear that the man who has more victories than any other coach at college football’s top level and who made Penn State a prestigious national brand will not survive to coach another season"
Oh man, the NYTimes knows something we don't...
November 8th, 2011 at 2:14 PM ^
Sad way to go, but completely necessary.
November 8th, 2011 at 2:32 PM ^
What I don't understand is how Sandusky has maintained his innocence through all of this. Upon what does he maintain that stance? Is that just his lawyers trying to help him receive as little punishment as possible? I just don't get that.
November 8th, 2011 at 2:39 PM ^
The timing of Sandusky's "retirement" should be the next angle the media pursues. He's basically treated as Joe's heir apparent until 1999 -- less than a year after the 1998 incident. At which point, Sandusky is informed that he'll never succeed Paterno and then retires in his prime. He was hoping to succeed Paterno. But when PSU becomes a no-go, he doesn't get a job elsewhere. Seems awfully curious.
Paterno says he didn't know about the 1998 incident. Campus police investigate one of his coaches for an alleged sex crime committed in the team lockerroom, but somehow nobody informs the head coach of same? How could Paterno not have heard about the complaint/investigation? Many people seem to have known about it. I find it inconceivable that Joe didn't.
November 8th, 2011 at 3:17 PM ^
November 8th, 2011 at 3:35 PM ^
We are to believe that Joe didn't know? We are to believe all the circumstances of his retirement? Doesn't pass the smell test. Look at Sandusky's retirement banquet. JoPa shows up only in time to give a very uninspired speech and immediately leaves.
Also we are to believe that when McQuery tells JoPa of the incident in 2002 he doesn't tell him details AND Paterno doesn't ask for clarification? Even if you are able to buy all that he still should have gone to the police and followed up with the AD.
Then the grand jury report says victim 1 was brought to PSU facilities and even team practices in 2007. So what's the story there? They only told him not to take boys into the showers other parts of the athletic complex are fine? JoPa didn't know Sandusky was at practices with young boys?
None of this really passes the smell test.
November 8th, 2011 at 2:36 PM ^
Wish I could post this more prominently but I don't have the points. What, if anything does the NCAA do about the Stagg-Paterno Trophy. This trophy goes to the winner of the B1G Championship game. Should JoPa's name be attached to this award.
November 8th, 2011 at 3:23 PM ^
There is already a petition to change it:
November 8th, 2011 at 3:33 PM ^
I don't really know the whole history behind this story, like when everything started coming out, but could this be the "10" story that was being rumored this summer? Also, I understand that football here is incredibly low on the list of what's happening, but I'm just curious.
November 8th, 2011 at 3:59 PM ^
I think the ten was Miami; I'm not 100% on that, though.
November 8th, 2011 at 4:10 PM ^
was the 8. Thought the 10 was still forthcoming.
November 8th, 2011 at 3:49 PM ^
Are truly unbelievable in attempting to justify the failure to take this to the next level. Hey, call the fucking AD and ask how he followed up! The fucking creep Sandusky still had an office and roamed the shower rooms with ten-year old boys! And some of you think JoePa did all he was required to do?
There is no justification for the lack of any followup. JoePa must go and every day that he stays is a display of the lack of institutional control yet again over a powerful football coach.
November 8th, 2011 at 5:58 PM ^
November 8th, 2011 at 7:02 PM ^
Joe Paterno might be done RIGHT NOW:
http://www.chatsports.com/penn-state-nittany-lions/a/Source-Paterno-to-…