Friday Nitt Picks

by BSD on May 4, 2007 9:42 AM EDT in Link Dumps

The preliminary hearing for the six players charged in the April 1 apartment fight begins today. I'll have an update for you when I hear anything.

Let me just say Cook is an asshat. No, not that Cook. Ron Cook of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran a hitpiece on Paterno today.

Earlier this week the University announced that student tickets would be distributed through a lottery system. The outcry was tremendous. A rally was planned for Thursday on the steps of Old Main, but on Wednesday the University changed their mind and said they would go back to the first-come-first-serve method. Well, the students decided to have the rally anyway.

"It's something like this that might be a wake-up call to students that the administration does strip us of rights," Keirans told the crowd.

Protesters are so cute sometimes. From the article it looks like the ticket rally morphed into an anti-sexual assault rally. You know what else was cute? With all of their talk of mobilizing 6000 angry students on Facebook, this is what they got.

Man! Rodney Kinlaw looks really angry...and white.

Finally, our friends at Big Blue View asked me to write up a little diddy on Jay Alford. Make sure you check that out. I hope I wasn't too hard on Jay. I will miss him on the defensive line.

You want me on that line. You need me on that line.

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Ron Cook

That's par for the course for Ron Cook: a horribly written column beset with fallacies whose main point is to tear Paterno down. Hey... did ANYONE know Paterno is old?!!? No kidding Ron, that's a news flash.

by Galen on May 4, 2007 9:52 AM EDT reply actions

Where Do People Get This?

So I guess it's no secret that Tom Bradley runs the defense and JayPa and Hall run the offense. Depends, I guess, on your definition of run.

From what I've been able to gather from players and other people close to the team (I know none of this for certain, and make no claims to that effect), this is a typical week in the life of Joe Paterno:

After Saturday's game, win or lose, Paterno goes to his mancave with tapes of the past game or two and of PSU's next opponent. He watches them tirelessly, and by monday, comes up with the general strategy for the week.

On Monday, he communicates the strategy in depth to his top assistants and trusts that they will make it so. The top assistants (Bradley, JayPa, Hall) communicate to the position coaches and QBs what they need to do/work on in order to make JoePa's strategy work. Joe is also at practice.

On Tuesday, Joe does practice and his press conference.

Wednesday through Friday are spent talking to recruits, being at practice to help players, and dealing with any off-the-field / academic issues.

Saturday is gameday, then it repeats.

Some head coaches do more. Many do less. If Paterno is a semi-laisez faire delegator, that's fine with me, it's often an effective leadership style. Besides, you'd think that people would quit questioning his dedication to the University with as much as he's done for it.

by ckmneon on May 4, 2007 2:57 PM EDT reply actions

Leadership

One of the greatest attributes a good leader can have is knowing what to delegate, and who to delegate it to. Do you think Urban Meyer did EVERYTHING on his own? I doubt it...

by Cpiritual27 on May 4, 2007 3:14 PM EDT reply actions