I just think it’s the last one.

…BSD should go over 2,500,000 all-time page views this weekend. Yay!

I assume its only going to be as head coach. You know they’ll give him some title like “Head of football integrity” or something and he’ll spend all his free time at the Lasch building…or he’ll finally go get that law degree his father wanted him to have.

I think Jones is probably close. Knee, hip, whatever, I haven’t bought into the “this is the last year” throughout this season. The decision to go for surgery (pending what the docs say about recovery) soon after the MSU game actually sealed the “probably staying” scenario for me. If “post bowl = beginning of retirement”, then why wouldn’t he wait until then when he would have TONS of time on his hands for recovery?

Plus, I think he probably forsees being competitive over the next two years. And possibly looks forward to the idea of at least seeing a “Royster-and-Devlin-as-seniors-backfield” before handing over the reins.

But, not going on anything here but gut feeling/instincts. Guess it won’t be too much longer until we’ll know one way or the other.

But my gut tells me he’s leaving.

before he mentally gives out, and when I mean gives out I mean heart attack, stroke, or cancer….that is what it is going to take to get him out…

I’ve had every feeling possible this year. For awhile I thought he was done, once the season started I thought he wasn’t, then he went to the press box. Now my final feeling is that he will continue to coach. It’s all he knows.

Does anybody feel that the riff between Spanier and Paterno will actually make him more reluctant to retire? I just get the feeling that even if Paterno wanted to retire after this season, he would stay just to stick it to Spanier. Joe knows that he has tremendous bargaining power because of the team’s success this season, and I feel like he would use this power to get a new contract simply to prove that nobody else has the power to make him leave. It sounds like I’m slighting Joe, but I don’t mean to…I think he’s earned the right to make the decision, and if that means he has to show up Spanier, then I’m more than fine with that.

I think that he will be coaching his last game this weekend.

Throughout my years of watching Penn State football I have maintained that Joe Pa is inhuman, defying time and the rigors of a physically and mentally taxing profession with his ability to look young, act young and maintain such a mental sharpness.

Yet this year time did in fact catch up to him, and to my disbelief, he is human after all.

I SOOOOOO wish I had time to look back through all of his old articles that cited “unnamed sources on the Board of Trustees” who assured him that Joe was as good as gone, and that there was going to be immediate action to get rid of JoePa.

Yeah, so much for that, Jones.
 
Now he chides other journalists with “It’s a lot easier than actually doing some real reporting on a story they can’t get access to.”

What, Jones – just like you do and your top-secret sources and useless info from “unnamed” trustees?

This? This is why I dislike David Jones. Not because I disagree with his point (he’s 100% right today), but because he’s a crappy journalist.

Claims Joe’s success determines his future in the program. If Joe wins a lot of games it’s up to him and no one can do anything about it.

This season has gone really well, Joe’s not going anywhere.

This brings me to the following:

If Joe equates retirement with death (which he does), and he will be forced to retire if he’s not successful (I’m told he will), then it follows that Joe equates losing with dying.

I’m serious.

so that he has more of a say in Jay’s future…. Jay has 6 kids and Sue doesn’t want Jay to pack up the family and leave for another school. The longer Joe stays, the more experience Jay gets and more of a chance he gets the OC or (gasp, dare I say) HC position….

maybe it should be? I feel so torn on the subject I would feel ok either way I guess…

He’s that powerful of an entity at PSU…

being able to say you had undefeated seasons in FIVE decades will be very impressive (note the optimisim). He’s at four now, I think he really wants to have that before retiring and I think he thinks theres a reasonable chance to have that happen in the next two years (technically 2010 isnt in the ’00 decade, but whatever).

Personally I dont know about undefeated seasons, but good seasons, sure.

But I think he knows this year was probably his final legit national title team. I mean, not saying the next two years will blow or anything, but I think he saw this being the one to say “See? I can still get it done”, get a few more 7-9 win seasons and fade into the sunset.

after this season, what are the odds of a David Jones article saying, “I told you so”, completely ignoring the article just written.

I know there are ALOT of rumors flying around about something besides a football game taking place in Beaver stadium this Saturday. Sue Pa renting all of the luxury boxes, former players in attendance, No band at half time. If this is true, I do not beleive it is for a retirement announcement. Joe would not do it that way if he was retiring.

I do believe that there may be an announcement regarding Paterno. I think it is possible they are going to dedicate or rename the field or stadium ie: Paterno field or Paterno Stadium.