Paterno's expansion plea met with no-go

"Paterno mentioned Syracuse, Rutgers and Pittsburgh as possible 12th members for the Big Ten."

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by The JuggerNitt on May 5, 2009 2:35 PM EDT reply actions

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by ReadingRambler on May 5, 2009 2:53 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm alternating between shaking my head in disgust (not at the political correctness of the joke, but at its lameness)

and laughing

by The JuggerNitt on May 5, 2009 4:50 PM EDT up reply actions

Wow

Like Paterno said, that was a very polite response by Delany.

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by BSD on May 5, 2009 2:55 PM EDT reply actions

Agreed

“Coach Paterno … is as important a coach, leader, teacher as we’ve ever had in college sports,” Delany said. "So what he says gets disproportionate weight, and properly so. Whether it’s in a coaches’ meeting, a meeting of athletic directors or university presidents, his work and recommendation still means a lot. Coach Paterno has a lot of experience in this area. He’s played around with conference configurations. He knows it’s not easy, and he knows what he says matters.

“But the point of it is, [expansion is] a very big issue, it’s a fundamental issue and it’s a back-burner issue right now.”

A very polite no freakin way.

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by jtothep on May 5, 2009 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions

Fundamental & back-burner

Is it just me, ot do those two things not go together? If it IS fundamental, wouldn’t the issue be at the forefront?

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by Roland86 on May 6, 2009 2:17 AM EDT up reply actions

It is a fundamental issue and they’ve decided against expansion, putting any talk of it on the backburner. Fundamental means it’s something important for them to consider/decide about and they’ve done so by deciding it wasn’t worth pursuing without the proper candidate (which seems to be limited to Notre Dame).