Joe Paterno Presser Highlights: Michigan State
by Adam Bittner on Nov 24, 2010 12:18 AM EST
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PrintWell folks, it's been fun, but this is your last weekly press conference wrap up of the year. Coach Paterno is going out with a bang, too, dropping some news about his future plans. Let's get to it. (Transcript).
- On coaching in 2011: "Yeah, why you got something I don't know? No, I am looking forward to it. I think we've struggled a little bit this year, with the youth and with the injuries and the whole bit. We're not where I would like us to be yet. But, I think with a good spring and a pre-season practice, we could be a pretty good football team next year, and I'd like to be part of it."
- Commended the efforts of Penn State's three first team academic All-Americans, Stefen Wisniewski, Pete Massaro and Chris Colasanti.
- Believes it's doubtful that center Doug Klopacz will play against Michigan State. If he can't go, Wisniewski will move to center and DeOn'tae Pannell and John Urschel will compete for Wisniewski's spot.
- Left the door open to Michael Mauti's return this week. He's doing some things in practice, but not everything, yet.
- The team will practice on Thanksgiving Day like a normal Thursday.
I think they've only lost...I know they've only lost one ball game. So we're playing a really good football team. And I'd like to see our kids go out there and play 60 minutes and walk away from it feeling that, "hey, we can compete."
Q. You mentioned earlier you hope to be back and everything. Do you believe it's -
COACH PATERNO: I didn't say hope.Q. Do you believe it's entirely your decision? Would there be any thought from the university at all, or is it entirely your call?
COACH PATERNO: I don't think it's entirely my call. I'm not running the university. But I would hope that what I want to do would be taken into consideration and go from there.
- Is concerned with players having the week off from classes, though he says the team has used the break to get some younger players back on track academically.
- On senior leadership: "So it's been tough for the seniors to go out there and be the gung-ho kind of guys. We're going to miss them all, because they've been solid kids. But there just hasn't been enough of them for me to tell you that they've dominated the squad or they were the guys that led everybody."
- Joe isn't sure why he's been so successful against Michigan State at home, but he does know his team lost to Sparty in his 1966 championship season.
- Says Purdue is "right on the verge" of being good.
- Andrew Dailey might pursue graduate work after this season.
- Last week's late arrivals at FedEx Field, Pannell, Ollie Ogbu and Devon Still are still "on trial" but will probably play this week. Called them "inconsiderate," though.
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Love the Paterno quote
I loved when he said that while he’s not running the university, he hopes his desires get taken into consideration. I think he showed in 2005 that he’s the most powerful man at the university, and I don’t think he has anything to worry about from Spanier et al.
Let's Go State!
I think that story may get blown out of proportion
…and has been used to show Spanier and Curley as weak. If anything, I think it shows that they’re willing to take action about the football program. They went to Joe’s house and wanted some type of explanation. They basically told him to resign if he couldn’t get his team together. Paterno told them to give him another year to turn the ship around, and he did that.
I figure it’s a win that they even thought it was a good idea to approach Joe at all. Let’s not kid ourselves – Joe’s going to get more leeway than any coach anywhere else (let’s just accept that as fact and not debate whether it’s deserved). As long as his teams win more than they lose, Spanier’s not going to make a move to disrupt the cash flow. But the minute Joe’s teams start to fall apart is the minute that the money stops coming and Spanier comes calling again at Joe’s front door.
"I don’t spend a lot of time dwelling on the negative. I believe that having a good, peaceful mind is the basic premise for a good life."
by Adam Collyer on Nov 24, 2010 8:38 AM EST up reply actions
This excites me
But, I think with a good spring and a pre-season practice, we could be a pretty good football team next year, and I’d like to be part of it."
In Joespeak…if the kids develop the way they can, we got a shot at being in the first Big10(12) Championship game
2010 PSU Football: You do not and will not understand it
Really enjoyed hearing Herbstreit call us a team on the ride on SportsCenter.
He’s not wrong all that much.
"I don’t spend a lot of time dwelling on the negative. I believe that having a good, peaceful mind is the basic premise for a good life."
by Adam Collyer on Nov 24, 2010 8:34 AM EST up reply actions
*team on the rise
"I don’t spend a lot of time dwelling on the negative. I believe that having a good, peaceful mind is the basic premise for a good life."
by Adam Collyer on Nov 24, 2010 8:35 AM EST up reply actions
Agreed
4-1 since the bye. A loss to brutus that was closer than the scoreboard read. Improved play at QB and along the O-line. Playmakers galore at WR and RB. The fun thing in the offseason will be “OMG CAN PSU FIELD A GOOD DEFENSE!?” I don’t think I ever dreamed there’d be a day that the defense (read: LBs) was questioned first.
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? the teacups
I don’t think that would be good for Joe at all.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
teacups ha ha - that's exactly what I was thinking
"God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy"
Unrelated, but I thought it was funny.
As a Steelers season ticket holder I got the following email. I highlighted the part that made me laugh.
Heinz Field Ticket Office
One of college football’s oldest and most colorful rivalries, the 103rd edition of the “Backyard Brawl” between Pitt and West Virginia will be held this year on Friday, Nov. 26 at Heinz Field. The game is set to kick off at 12:00 noon.
Tickets for this exciting game are available now through Ticketmaster by logging on at Ticketmaster.com.
With students home for the holiday, the University of Pittsburgh is looking for Heinz Field’s famous 12th man to pack the house and help bring home a victory! A possible Big East title and BCS Bowl appearance are on the line for the Panthers.
Don’t miss out! Buy your tickets on-line at Ticketmaster.com today for the “Backyard Brawl”!
Oh, it will be a RARE full house alright. But almost half of it will be WVU fans. On a serious note though, it is a big game and I think it’s a shame it will be played on such a lousy field. Same for the WPIAL championships (which should not be played there anyway) the next day.
“Heinz Field’s famous 12th man”….crack me up!
It's "famous 12th man" is known as Mean Mr. Mustard
"Every player we have, someone-maybe a parent, a grandparent, someone-poured their soul into that young man. They are handing that young man off to us. They are giving us their treasure, and it's our job to make sure we give them back that young man intact and ready to face the world."
-J.V.Pa.
Colonel Mustard?
In the (quiet) library, a.k.a., Heinz Field?
I have to imagine
Walking into a stadium and seeing a sea of yellow would be intimdating…however, then you realize that sea of yellow is the empty seats and that they can’t make noise.
2010 PSU Football: You do not and will not understand it
by jman07 on Nov 24, 2010 8:01 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Listening to 93.7 The Fan yesterday on the ride home from work.
People were calling the show looking to sell their Backyard Brawl tickets. So yea, expect a sea of yellow, Pitt fans.
@EpicTripod
SBN - Pittsburgh
Success With Honor
by Jeff Junstrom on Nov 24, 2010 9:54 AM EST up reply actions
Buddy of mine phoned earlier this morning.
He’s a Pitt fan (UPJ grad) and is coming home for Thanksgiving (this is the same guy who went to the ND/Army game last week, if you saw my post about that in an earlier thread). He said he thought about taking his son to the game, but his dad told him it’s supposed to be cold so he’s bagging that idea.
The cold weather may just keep a lot of “fans” away. But no matter how many “yellow” fans (don’t) show up, you can bet the local media will report it as a sold out and packed Heinz Field.
I don't know how you can stomach that station.
It has Ron Cook on…strike one. It’s Pitt’s flagship station…strike two, and….it’s Pitt’s flagship station…strike three!
Seriously…once they got the Pitt contract they became nothing more than a shill for Pitt.
Its the only sports station...
…now that 1250 is all fooge Disney. Plus, the drive home is only 20 minutes, so I need some sports talk in my life, even if it is Seibel and Starkey talking about the Backyard Brawl.
@EpicTripod
SBN - Pittsburgh
Success With Honor
by Jeff Junstrom on Nov 24, 2010 10:05 AM EST up reply actions
You should try 95.3 FM.
That’s WJPA out of Washington….oh, excuse me…LITTLE Washington (have to say that in W. Pa or else people might mistake it for our nation’s capital…you know, they look soooo similar). On my ride to work yesterday I stopped on it because they were playing “Tuesday Afternoon” by the Moody Blues. Hadn’t heard that song in a looooong time so I listened to it. And right after it they played “Disco Inferno” by The Trammps. Now I ask you…where else can you get that kind of variety? Bob might talk about “playing anything”, but WJPA truly delivers!
or...
you could just call it “warshington” – then everyone would know what you were talking about.
We have little tranquility but tons of tranquilizers.
by mikeissurreal on Nov 24, 2010 1:04 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
That's just the Central Pennsylvania in you'unz, son.
"NOOOO!" - Lycurgus the Lawgiver
Beat Michigan State
by ReadingRambler on Nov 24, 2010 2:39 PM EST up reply actions
I like the urgency that the Big (L)east championship is on the line! All you really have to do is show up in that conference to win…
Pirates, Vikings, Hokies. I'm used to heartbreak. At least I have the Penguins....
"When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth."
-The Great One
by blackjackfishtaco on Nov 24, 2010 9:56 AM EST up reply actions
Funny thing is
the teams never bother to “show” up haha
2010 PSU Football: You do not and will not understand it
I have no idea how a 3-4, maybe 5(?) loss team is going to make a BCS game over….well a lot of more deserving teams.
Pirates, Vikings, Hokies. I'm used to heartbreak. At least I have the Penguins....
"When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth."
-The Great One
by blackjackfishtaco on Nov 24, 2010 10:12 AM EST up reply actions
Just the way that the Seahawks/Rams
will end up with a playoff HOME GAME over a team like the Giants/Bears/Bucs/Saints. Its kind of like the movie “The Ringer”. It’s easy to look “elite” when you’re competition has trouble not drooling on themselves or tying their shoes.
2010 PSU Football: You do not and will not understand it
One of the many reasons I love Joe Paterno.
Q. Coach, what your are plans, you and your family, for Thanksgiving Day, and is there anything special going on for the team on that day?
COACH PATERNO: It’s hard to do anything special for the team because of the fact it’s a big game for us and against a very tough football team. I think Michigan State is one of the 10 best teams in the country. I think they’ve proven that by some of the wins they’ve had, the way they’ve handled a couple of situations where they had tremendous adversity and came back.
I think they’ve only lost…I know they’ve only lost one ball game. So we’re playing a really good football team. And I’d like to see our kids go out there and play 60 minutes and walk away from it feeling that, “hey, we can compete.”
But, I don’t know how you do that and give them a complete day off. So what we will try to do Thursday, we’ll encourage them if their families want to come up. We’ll open up the training table. Probably all the coaches and their families will be there. I intend to take our family over to the training table and have dinner with the squad.
But, that’s about it. We’ll have practice, we’ll have our breakdown meetings, we’ll do everything that you would do, except hopefully we’re aware of the fact that it is Thanksgiving and that we do have a lot of things to be thankful for.
Hopefully we can have as many families together as can make the arrangements. And have kind of a family night on the training table.
…………..we may not have won a national championship in 30 some years, but I’ll take that over some hotshot coach who puts things like that (and the three Academic All-Americans) aside to win. Every time.
When you put those black shoes on tomorrow, and you put on that jersey without your name on the back, and you put that plain helmet on, that's tradition. Penn State tradition!
--Who else?
by run4peach on Nov 24, 2010 7:29 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Was wondering about that. I like that their families are going to get to see them for Thanksgiving.
"I don’t spend a lot of time dwelling on the negative. I believe that having a good, peaceful mind is the basic premise for a good life."
by Adam Collyer on Nov 24, 2010 8:40 AM EST up reply actions
I wonder if Sue will be making a tray of lasagna
Or if they’ll break out the homemade wine
"God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy"
Hopefully the food they serve is better than what the Vikings had
I wouldn’t want the PSU athletes to be served food Randy Moss wouldn’t feed to his dogs.
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I heard they're having chicken cosmos
Ain’t nothin’ finer!
"God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy"
I heard they're serving corn dogs from the Findlay Dining Hall.
Some of the “older” posters on here will probably remember those. They were a particularly nasty “comestible”. Some nut (and not in a good way nut….dude frightened me) from my floor (freshman year) hated them so bad he actually mailed one to the president. Not the president of the university….the POTUS!!!
My favorite line...
Q. You mentioned earlier you hope to be back and everything. Do you believe it’s -
COACH PATERNO:
I didn’t say hope.
And some would have you believe he’s not as sharp as ever.
He may be a tad slower....
but, yes, just as sharp as ever.
"The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God." The Government is like the Mob, you can check out, but never leave.
by DerryPharmer on Nov 24, 2010 9:32 AM EST up reply actions
But in his reply to the follow-up from the reporter
he did say “But I would hope that what I want to do would be taken into consideration and go from there.”
Thought it was pretty humorous he said “I didn’t say ‘hope’…” regarding being able to come back and coach, then says it in the next breath about the same topic.
Luring recruits with my new "Posting HD" scheme since '08.
When he is rested.
Hire Mike Pettine Jr!!!!!!!!
by SweepTheLeg on Nov 24, 2010 10:43 AM EST up reply actions
Does Joe want me to respect Dantonio?
Because that ain’t happening. Shoot, I even have a hate week post exclusively about that guy.
"NOOOO!" - Lycurgus the Lawgiver
Beat Michigan State
by ReadingRambler on Nov 24, 2010 9:34 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
he doesn't run the day to day stuff
He just makes all the decisions, godfather style.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
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