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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 2:09 am Post subject:
When the story broke last weekend you just knew this was not going to end well.
Paterno to retire at season's end
By Matt Hinton
By Tuesday afternoon, there was very little question that Joe Paterno's 46-year tenure as Penn State's head coach would be coming to an end within a matter of weeks. The only question was when, and by whose choice. This morning, we have our answer: Paterno has officially announced his retirement, effective at the end of the season. Saturday's visit from Nebraska will be his 315th game on the sideline of Beaver Stadium, and his last.
"I am absolutely devastated by the developments in this case," Paterno said in a statement, surveying the wreckage of a scandal that has laid waste to four decades of goodwill in just four days since reports emerged that Paterno and other Penn State officials didn't respond with enough urgency to allegations of sex crimes by his longtime defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky. "At this moment the Board of Trustees should not spend a single minute discussing my status. They have far more important matters to address. I want to make this as easy for them as I possibly can.
"This is a tragedy. It is one of the great sorrows of my life. With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more."
As it stands, Paterno has overseen 409 wins, 37 bowl games, 29 consensus All-Americans, 22 top-ten finishes, six undefeated seasons, three Big Ten championships and two national championships. Assuming his tenure extends through a bowl game on Jan. 1, 2012, he has a chance to tack on a few more superlatives: At 8-1, the Nittany Lions control their own destiny for the Rose Bowl, and two wins in the last three against Nebraska, Ohio State and Wisconsin will send them on to the inaugural Big Ten Championship Game on Dec. 3. Short of Pasadena, the end will likely come in Florida, against an SEC also-ran in either the Capital One, Outback or Gator Bowl.
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:58 am Post subject:
They're not waiting till the end of the year:
Penn State fires Joe Paterno
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP)—Penn State trustees fired football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier amid the growing furor over how the school handled sex abuse allegations against an assistant coach.
The massive shakeup Wednesday night came hours after Paterno announced that he planned to retire at the end of his 46th season.
But the outcry following the arrest of former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky on molestation charges proved too much for the board to ignore.
One key question has been why Paterno and other top school officials didn�ft go to police in 2002 after being told a graduate assistant saw Sandusky assaulting a boy in a school shower.
Paterno says he should have done more. Spanier has said he was not told the details of the attack.
Sandusky has denied the charges.
Defensive coordinator Tom Bradley will serve as interim coach while Rodney Erickson will serve as interim school president.
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 8:29 pm Post subject:
Jav_sol wrote:
Kudos to Penn State for doing the right thing.
Not too surprised by the reaction of the student body. Like a lot of universities, the football coach is the most important person. (With the occasional exception of the basketball coach)
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