If the tweets are true about JoePA, what is your guess for new coach..

I care more that we get Larry Johnson (recruiter extraordinairre) or get him out of the conference.

Rich Rodriguez?? Just kiddin'.  But not really.

Oh man, this has to be the most interesting last 2 years in college football history. 

An overwhelmingly sad 2 years by most accounts but very interesting.

I'm pretty sure it will be Tom Bradley taking over, right?

I think they need to make a clean break and go outside the family. If there was a handshake agreement in place for Tom Bradley to take over, it likely just blew up because I'm sure PSU will want to avoid any questions about who on the current staff that served alongside Sandusky knew about his proclivities and didn't say anything. Ditto for Al Golden and Greg Schiano.

My guess is that the new AD will show up at Urban Meyer's house with a truckload of money and a promise to top anything Ohio State offers him. Hell, they might even hire an AD with prior ties to Meyer just to improve their chances at landing him.  

It should.  This scandal appears deeply rooted in the entire PSU athletic department.  And it's a hell of a lot worse than knowing about kids getting improper tattoos.  

If this doesn't technically deserve the death penalty, the NCAA should probably rewrite the rulebook.  

Either way, the huge hit PSU is taking from the top down should preclude major national candidates from taking the job.  If you were Urban Meyer, would you want to be known as the coach of "kiddly fiddler U?"

They fill it internally, with Tom Bradley--unless he's implicated in some way, which he may be.  If so, they find some good but relatively obscure name from a lower conference who doesn't really have other options in the BCS conferences at the moment.  

 

psu needs an overhaul of everything and start clean, but it is bad news for OSU's coaching search if they have competition with PSU.

psu needs an overhaul of everything and start clean, but it is bad news for OSU's coaching search if they have competition with PSU.

Plus his stuffed animal.

If he doesn't get a Show-Cause from his shenanagins at OSU, he could be the HC and RR could be the OC.  Dantonio goes to OSU and Dan Enos, fresh off his dis-mantling of CMU takes over at MSU.

PSU needs to send a message that child molestation will not be tolerated. So, I'm thinking that the Pope is candidate #1.

what you did there.

From the AD to the last GSA in the football program.  The guy who hands out towels in the locker room might be able to save his job.  Maybe.

Penn State's biggest problem going forward will be in recruiting.  Who wants to send their son to a program in which child sexual abuse occurred over a long period of time?  Every recruit's parents will have to wonder, "if they let that stuff happen for so many years, what else would they let happen?"  Other schools won't even have to go negative about it (although they will); that question will just be out there.

If Penn State hires anyone who was associated with the program while Jerry Sandusky was there (since the 60s, I believe), those questions will persist.

If Penn State hires a complete outsider who brings in his own staff of people with no Penn State ties, it has a chance to eventually put those questions behind it.

This scandal taints everything about Joe Paterno's legacy.  The scandal will not only cost Paterno his job; it will cut off his legacy immediately.

That is, if Penn State has any brains.

That was the word even before this shitstorm.

I do not think it's a coincedence that one week before all of this hit, Al Golden began renegotiating his contract with Miami.  The funny thing is that at last year's M vs PSU game I was talking to the PSU fans and even though most liked Al, they felt he wasn't ready.

After he got the Miami job, that all changed.  Much like when the girl that's really into you starts dating another guy because you didn't give her a chance, they really wanted him over the summer coming into this year.

My guess is in order:

1.  Meyer

2.  Golden 

Man, after reading "3 and Out" if you think we were a cluster-F trying to bring in a coach from outside the program, imagine being Penn State who has not hired any coach at all since the Viet Nam war.

They probably can't find any old contract forms, and JoPa has lost all the keys to the file cabinets. 

They are going to want someone outside of that program's "dark" window or a complete outsider, since anyone who coached along with Sandusky will undoubtedly have that stench on him at PSU.  My guess is Schiano would be out then.  Maybe Golden in Miami or another young-ish coach from the SEC, like Mullen at MSU.  I don't think a big-name coach will necessarily want to step in there, given the legal issues surrounding the university and the recruiting fallout, but it is a prestige program and (sad to say) these issues are not football-specific, so that could help as well.

I would imagine they need someone morally unimpeachable.  A football John Beilein if you will.  I'm not sure if someone like that exists.  Maybe they can promote Bradley after a VERY thorough interview by the Board of Trustees.

...if I'm the parent of a student athlete, right now Happy Valley is the last place I'd want my son to go. I would think any prospective coach would have to factor that into the decision.

Could be a tough few years for Penn State football. For crying out loud, the Washington Post is calling for the entire football program to be axed!

 

Schiano if they contact him.... I read somewhere that he regretted that he turned down Michigan and wished he had another chance at a big time program

You are a clown for posting this.  Save this shit for bleacher report.  Oh wait, its already there:

 

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/930552-penn-state-scandal-the-top-5-2012-replacement-candidates-for-joe-paterno

Rick Neuheisel

Let's help them get this deal done.

He's retiring at end of season, so the tweets are true.