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….the last two paragraphs are spot on.

There is nothing better than gameday in Happy Valley. I have been to Wrigley Field, Fenway Park, Steeler games, etc. and there is nothing even close to the feel of Happy Valley on gameday.

There is one reason for that and it is Joe Paterno. I hope he coaches until he is 100!

I got chills my friend, chills.

Second, has Smizik been hitting the absinthe or something? Did that make any sense?

I just started reading the comments on Smizik’s backpedaling, and also Smizik’s rebuttals of the comments.

Here are two fine gems:

How about this statement Bob? I’ll go on record as stating that Joe Paterno is hands down the greatest coach of “STUDENT-Athletes” ever.

The blatant emphasis on the word student is the key to Paterno’s greatness and legend. DUCY?

The same standard applies. How could you possibly know if he is the greatest coach of student-athletes unless you’ve examined every leading coach in college football history. What about the coaches at Harvard and Yale back in the days when the players TRULY were student-athletes? — Bob Smizik)

Um… you want to talk corruption and semi-pro players in College Football? Look no further than the Ivy League before WWII.

If we define greatness as winning, which is a fair definition in college society, then, by definition a great coach is one who wins a lot .

Otherwise, in college circles, you get fired.

Ergo, JoPa is a great coach.

Teaching, molding men – that counts for nothing today, at least in the college coaching business.

I said it before, and I’ll say it again – the person who empties bedpans in a nursing home does more important work than the so-called heroes of our society – JoPa among them..

(Paterno is not the winningest coach in college football history. — Bob Smizik)

Well no shit, Bob. The commenter never said he was.

Zug really needs to drop a rock out of the sky and smash this nimrod like a bug.

be applied to not being able to rank teams in a single season?

How do we know who is better last year Florida or USC? What about us vs. Texas? What about USC losing to Oregon State? Does that mean OrSU was better than USC?

Isn’t being one of the top ten ever, and arguably the best sufficient? I mean there are several hundred college football coaches today. If there were the only coaches that ever lived, being among the top ten would put him in top 2%.

If he is only one of the top ten in the 50 or so odd years he’s been coaching, he would be in the one half of one half percent.

 If he is one of the top ten coaches of all time (most would spot you that), and you assume there have been 25,000 college football coaches since the sport was invented, Paterno would be better than 99.9996% of them. Give or take.

Can’t that be good enough?

those accomplishments are the standard of coaching i hold others to.

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14 Recs? I’m blushing.

You hit the nail on the head Fugi.

And watching that video again right after was tough.

Joe Paterno IS Penn State. He’s more than the greatest/one of the greatest College football coaches of All-time, he’s the embodiment of an entire institution of higher learning. Penn State has achieved so much in addition to Football in many ways through what Paterno’s presence and principles means to the University. We Alums can only hope to bring a fraction of the same honor, pride, and excellence to Penn State through our life’s work that Joe Paterno has established as a standard for over 50 years at our great University.

Let me put this in another way….

In the great words of M.C. Hammer, “I TOLD you homeboy, U CAN’T TOUCH THIS!!!”

At the risk of sounding cheesy or rude or condescending or whatever, it is something beyond football and that only people close to the school can understand.

Pete Carroll, Urban Meyer, Mack Brown, Bob Stoops, et al. They are all great coaches in their own right. When I say Paterno is the greatest, I say it in regards to the total package. There is nobody even close to Paterno(In Major College Football, I honor the great Eddie Robinson) in a connection to the University. He has never coached anywhere else. He has been connected to us for near 60 years now. He has combined winning, and a certain social bond in State College that no other coach will be able to accomplish. Again, there are a lot of great football coaches around, some of them may be ‘better’ than Joe at just coaching. They also mean a ton to their Universities. No of them will be around only 1 school and for 60 years. None of them will have the ability to join the school when the school was young and shape it the way Joe has. it is just impossible for it to happen again. That is thing, Joe has been with PSU for so long it is incredibly hard to imagine it without him.

I mean no diss to any other coach, but what Joe has done just simply will never be done again, even if any other said coach is a great person as well.

Seems everytime something remotely positive is written about PSU, the Pitt fans start foaming at the mouth and leave a bunch of nasty comments re-hasing the same old crap (i.e. “There’s nothing better to do in State College, unlike in Pittsburgh” “We beat you the last time, even though you were in the midst of your bad years” “Your coach is a senile old man”). Quite amusing, actually.

It’s been a topic of recent discussion over at FOS, and I really don’t feel like starting a new post for it, but…A.J. Wallace’s Twitter feed is less than flattering.

Good to see that Cornley smashes Twitter, though.

Did no one notice his background being a USC receiver with the ball in his hands? If I was trying to make myself look “fresh” or “fly” or whatever, I don’t think that’d be the picture I’d choose.