Jay Paterno mocks James Earl Jones and Michigan
Jay Paterno, recently elected Trustee at Penn State took some time out this week from his pedophile denial to write an article for the State College newspaper. In it he talks about tradition and the excitement of having ESPN's College Gameday on campus. He also downgrades the opponent who is "only ranked #19".
Paterno talks about the pride an humbleness of Penn State while slamming Michigan, our air of arrogance, and the James Earl Jones video among other things. At least Paterno never mentions his dad. That's the only point in his favor.
October 20th, 2017 at 2:01 PM ^
Oh man, that is gold. Let me paraphrase for those who don't want to click a link:
JayPa sent a handwritten note to Urban Meyer begging for a job and highlighting his exceptional coaching and--get this--public relations skillz!!!
Apparently, he also sent similar notes to Mark Richt and...Dana Holgorsen?
October 20th, 2017 at 9:55 AM ^
Is just salty because he isn't Jim Harbaugh.
October 20th, 2017 at 10:38 AM ^
Look who their Dads are"
Jack Harbaugh: Awesome dude, great coach, hall-of-fame Dad.
Joe Paterno: guy who should be a legend who protected a child molester, over-stayed his welcome, COVERED UP CHILD MOLESTATION, raised a few twat-bag sons, and ENABLED A MAN TO USE HIS FACILITIES AS A HOUSE OF HORRORS FOR COUNTLESS YOUNG BOYS.
Yeah, I'd be salty too.
October 20th, 2017 at 10:41 AM ^
Jay Harbaugh.
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October 20th, 2017 at 10:03 AM ^
PSU shows an astonishing lack of contrition by electing the son of the enabler as a trustee. Are they trying to eliminate "trust" from "trustee?" Is the school that anxious to hang onto its pedophile past?
October 20th, 2017 at 1:49 PM ^
"Healing" would be distancing your university as much as possible from a pedophile enabler and those who most benefited financially and socially from the rewards said pedophile enabler received while enabling a pedophiile, like his family.
Jay doesn't fall far from the hereditary tree obviously. JoPa was a guy who put himself above anything else. Most tenured coaches, especially after amassing 8 figures worth of career income, at some point decide it's time to step down and reward a loyal assistant with the HC. Not self-centered JoPa. Most coaches would put innocent children before the image and success of their team. Not self-centered JoPa.
Jay's no different. If I enjoyed wealth and fame thanks to my dad only to find out my dad knowingly looked away as dozens of innocent lives of the most at risk children were ruined, I'd do everything I can to set things right by devoting as much of my time and attention, and possibly my career to child abuse prevention.
Not this self-centered asshole who instead focused on defending himself and his family, and gravitated right back into the warm comfort of the only place all of his dad's apologists congregate.
Spineless, self-centered asshole devoid of any character or integrity.
October 20th, 2017 at 10:05 AM ^
I'm now just waiting for Scott Paterno to step away from his trough full of cold cuts to tell us how we're the most overrated football program in the history of the universe.
Jay, your father enabled a child rapist. There's nothing you could ever say that will diminish that fact.
October 20th, 2017 at 10:06 AM ^
Joe knew, go blue
October 20th, 2017 at 10:09 AM ^
Mock others before being legitimately lambasted for being a rape enabler I guess?
....I'm embarrassed that at one point in time if Michigan couldn't win the Big Ten in a year I was rooting for Penn State to win. Never again.
October 20th, 2017 at 10:12 AM ^
What a tool. You would never see something like this from Michigan unless it was towards OSU..in which case it would be awesome
October 20th, 2017 at 10:17 AM ^
Much more favorably than it will remember your dad aiding and abetting a pedophile or your students overturning two news van when he was held accountable (did they do that "with class" too?).
October 20th, 2017 at 10:26 AM ^
I don't like Jay ---- but surprised on the vitriol on this article. The audience is PSU fans (not U-M fans), and it's hardly over-the-top.
IMO.
October 20th, 2017 at 10:29 AM ^
The difference from the typical fluff piece is that it's Jay Paterno.
October 20th, 2017 at 10:46 AM ^
men like that are best simply ignored. I'm 100% confident he won't do jack-**** as a PSU BoT member. The true adults on the BoT will completely marginalize him (similar to how they have marginalized Anthony Lubrano).
But Jay will always have his bi-weekly column on "statecollege.com" The 2nd tier website (it's not even the Centre Daily Times!) for a town of about 100K. Hell of an accomplishment!
He's supported by a certain segment of the PSU alumni base, but ultimately Jay is a pissant entitled overgrown ass-hat brat. And that will never change.
October 20th, 2017 at 12:07 PM ^
That's good if the rest of the BoT tries to marginalize him, but from an outside perspective it seems crazy he's even on it in the first place, and has a platform for these types of articles (even if it's only a 2nd tier website).
So hopefully he is mostly ignored and people know he is a pissant entitled overgrown ass-hat brat, but I think it's pretty obvious why a pump up the crowd article from him is going to elicit a more vitriol response than your typcial piece.
October 20th, 2017 at 10:45 AM ^
Except that he talks about legacy and tradition that equates to "success with honor'. I'd say that is NOT the legacy of the Penn State program.
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October 20th, 2017 at 1:07 PM ^
related to the whole Paterno/Sandusky tragedy and last. Anyone associated with Paterno and that era has no place speaking about humility and class, or attempting to point out any perceived "arrogance," considering what happened at Penn State for all those years.
It was actually more arrogant to think the program and Joe Paterno were more important than those kids and it's just as arrogant to think that anyone associated with that tragedy should have any voice relating to Penn State football going forward.
If he wanted to fire up the PSU faithful he should have put it in a memo, not on the internet.
October 20th, 2017 at 1:59 PM ^
However, if I am going to compare Jay against "55-year-old PSU alum who is a Paterno Loyalist" ---- Jay gets more leeway from me in terms of having a "blind spot" as regards Joe.
Jay is Joe's son, after all.
For all of Jay's faults --- (1) entitled, (2) not as smart as he thinks he is, (3) unable to own his own failings as a football coach, et cetera --- he will forever be Joe's son.
Yes, Jay has a big "blind spot" as regards his Dad and as regards Penn State's failings in the previous decades. But unlike the "blind spot" of most "Paterno Loyalists" that I CANNOT tolerate, because of the 2 paragraphs above - I'm more tolerant of Jay's "blind spot."
On this one --- I'm "live and let live." It's an article on a 2nd-tier website that few people outside of Centre County pay any attention to. I'll save my outrage for if/when he tries to do something much dumber in his BoT position.
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October 20th, 2017 at 10:34 AM ^
Because they are the largest or maybe #2 school in the nation.
That's why the NCAA don't care.
October 20th, 2017 at 11:20 AM ^
I don't know what you mean by "largest", but by enrollment, PSU is not even the 2nd largest in the conference. osu, msu, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Indiana all have higher enrollment figures. The penn state system, however, is pretty massive.
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October 20th, 2017 at 10:33 AM ^
you might not want to tug on that, you son of a pedophile-enabler.
October 20th, 2017 at 10:35 AM ^
He is a humble man who has a great deal to be humble about.
That is about a nicely as I can say it, Jay. Google "Winston Churchill" if you want to know a bit more about the man.
October 20th, 2017 at 10:35 AM ^
Just Win. Go Blue.
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October 20th, 2017 at 10:36 AM ^
And I'm sure it has been discussed here, but I literally just found out about it. Shocked is an understatement........You would really think that the university would want to remove itself, not bring itself closer to the Paterno name.
I hope we kick the shit out of those sick pedophiles! Because to me, that's what anybody that is associated to that school is......Sick!!
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How does PSU continue to get top recruits? Jay Paterno as a trustee? Yeah trustee, raping little boys is cool.
October 20th, 2017 at 10:49 AM ^
let me arrogantly call out your arrogance, humbly
so glad didnt grow up a fan/attend there, would require some therapy/mental gymnastics to rationalize their "traditions"
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Jay Paterno's ideas on how to coach quarterbacks revolved around loading the PSU playbook into an NCAA game on a Playstation.
Seriously.
This guy's a moron.
October 20th, 2017 at 11:16 AM ^