Penn State legend Joe Paterno dies at 85

[chippewastud79]

A sad final months to an otherwise very good life. One of the greatest football coaches of all time. Its too bad that the people who he had around him led to such a fall from grace over the last few months. Penn State and college football lost a legend.

[CigarNut]

R.I.P!

[hotreds]

Sad that his legacy is tarnished. I figure he quit wanting to live. Hopefully in the final analysis he will be vindicated in some way.

[SteelCityBoy]

Such a sad end. The entire Penn State situation was very sad all around and this just further adds to it. My thoughts are with his family today.

[Emjaysmash]

R.I.P Joe. You're a legendary coach.

[Mikey202]

R.I.P. JoePa. Penn State has lost its heart and soul today. Thanks for alot of years of great football. In the next coming days, everone is going to hear how much he did for everyone that he ever came in contact with, on and off the field, and those he never even met, even me. I grew up 45 minutes west of State College. He was a great person, coach, mentor and example of how to be positive part of this world.He was a class act.

Sad how it all went down in the end.:2 The Trustees and political machine of Penn State be damned.:2

[EricF]

R.I.P. JoePa!!!

[Thrak]

Unfortunately, I'm not surprised.

When the news of everything at PSU starting coming out, my friends and I had a discussion and basically we all believed that if he got let go, he wouldnt make it 1 year without football... thats all he lived for and they took it away.

[marge796]

Thanks Coach Paterno for putting Penn State on the map. We've missed you since the moment you left, you'll never be forgotten!


Chris.....

[OnlyDryReds]

God Bless you JoePa, prayer for you and the entire Paterno family! Ill never forgive the board of trustees, and interm president for what they have done to my PSU.....

[Taki]

Lost a great man today that helped so many others throughout his illustrious career. He will not be forgotten....God Bless ya JoePa and the Paterno family!!
YOU WILL BE MISSED!!

[kelmac07]

RIP JoePa....you will be missed.

[Mr.Erskine]

God speed JoePa.

:,-(

[Gophernut]

RIP Coach Paterno. You were an amazing coach but even a better person.

[longknocker]

R.I.P. , JoePa.

[Hem]

Legendary Coach who's name was tarnished by a corrupt board. I hope they can't sleep at night knowing what they did to that man. All he cared about was football, that was his life and it is ever evident today. Penn State football was the only thing keeping that man alive.

[BHalbrooks]

Unfortunately, I'm not surprised.

When the news of everything at PSU starting coming out, my friends and I had a discussion and basically we all believed that if he got let go, he wouldnt make it 1 year without football... thats all he lived for and they took it away.
I'm not surprised at all.

1. I don't think he deserved to stay at Penn State. He ended his own Career.
2. I used to love JoePa, I watched him a lot (Being from Big 10 country)
3. I hate when people say that he was used a Scape Goat, but the entire situation is completely messed up.

I hope his Family, more importantly Wife, can find Peace in this completely terrible time. Not looking to start an argue, conversation about the Politics involved, just stating an opinion.

[Stephen]

Unfortunately, I can sum up JoePa's legacy with one quote...

[chippewastud79]

Unfortunately, I can sum up JoePa's legacy with one quote...

I think you are refering to Jerry Sandusky. ;) Its unfortunate that the people Paterno entrusted to deal with an issue beyond his control failed him and the university. :td

Hopefully in time his legacy will be remembered as a person who was a family man, the best college football coach of all time, helped hundreds of young men become men and a philanthopist who donated his entire life to Penn State University. It is a shame that recently his legacy was tarnished by the actions of others around him, but in time I hope that he will not be forgotten as a great coach and mentor to hundreds and thousands. :2

[mobarbq]

I think my esteemed fellow Show-Me stater Stephen is probably correct. There were so many nasty comments on Twitter yesterday, and a lot of them from known cigar peeps who frequent Twitter. I ended up unfollowing a few just due to their nastiness. I think the coach did what he had been told to do, as hideous as the whole thing was.

Here's my take on the thing (link to my tweet): http://tl.gd/ffusnf

[Whee]

I don't think the OP meant for this thread to take this turn. Can we keep it respectful here?

If you want to discuss the rights and wrong of the situation there at Penn St., start another thread.



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[Stephen]

I think you are refering to Jerry Sandusky. ;) Its unfortunate that the people Paterno entrusted to deal with an issue beyond his control failed him and the university. :td
Nah, you're kidding yourself if you believe that stank didn't envelop JoePa. I'm not tapdancing on the man's grave, far from it. The point remains that unfortunately, this has greatly tarnished his legacy and he'll forever be linked to it, fairly or no.:2

[Stephen]

I don't think the OP meant for this thread to take this turn. Can we keep it respectful here?
How does what I say contradict what the OP stated and was echoed throughout this thread?
A sad final months to an otherwise very good life.
Sad that his legacy is tarnished.
Such a sad end. The entire Penn State situation was very sad all around and this just further adds to it.
Sad how it all went down in the end.:2
I think you get the point...I meant no disrespect, but the quote is befitting.:2

[Whee]

I think the ********** quote was inappropriate.

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[icehog3]

I think the ********** quote was inappropriate.

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Yes, it was. And it has been deleted.

[icehog3]

Let me be clear here before any backlash begins.

I am not a Joe Paterno fan, nor do I defend his actions.

I deleted a comment in this thread because it was inappropriate for our forum. Period.

[mash]

So for those of you who are critical of what the PSU Board of Trustees did, let's hear how you would have handled it.

Young boys have been raped by a prominent and longstanding assistant football coach, serially over years. The head coach and president are fully aware of what he did, and have been for a long time. The situation has remained buried and the authorities haven't been informed of this. All of this is rapidly becoming public knowledge. You know far more than is going to be released immediately, but you know that intimate details of this will eventually leak out. You understand that the coach is a legend, and taking action against him is a very serious matter, and will be explosive. To not take action will be equally explosive.

As a director of a major college, which happens to have a top tier football program, you would.....

[chippewastud79]

So for those of you who are critical of what the PSU Board of Trustees did, let's hear how you would have handled it.

Young boys have been raped by a prominent and longstanding assistant football coach, serially over years. The head coach and president are fully aware of what he did, and have been for a long time. The situation has remained buried and the authorities haven't been informed of this. All of this is rapidly becoming public knowledge. You know far more than is going to be released immediately, but you know that intimate details of this will eventually leak out. You understand that the coach is a legend, and taking action against him is a very serious matter, and will be explosive. To not take action will be equally explosive.

As a director of a major college, which happens to have a top tier football program, you would.....

Not the way I wanted this thread to turn at all. Feel free to start your own coulda/woulda/shoulda thread. :2

[mash]

Not the way I wanted this thread to turn at all. Feel free to start your own coulda/woulda/shoulda thread. :2

It's already turned. I was simply responding to what other people have said in this thread. It was inevitable when you started the discussion that there would be strong opinions on this topic.