Open Thread: Life Lessons With Joe Paterno and Mike Krzyzewski

by BSD on Jun 30, 2011 7:00 PM EDT in Football

For those of you interested, I thought I would put up an open thread for the show on ESPN tonight. The show will start at 8 PM ET on ESPN, and then the second hour will broadcast at 9 PM on ESPNU.

Here's a blurb from GoPSUSports.

"Difference Makers: Life Lessons with Paterno and Krzyzewski," was taped June 20 in front of an enthusiastic audience of 900 in Penn State's Eisenhower Auditorium. The program will air Thursday at 8 p.m. on ESPN and continue at 9 p.m. on ESNU.

Paterno and Krzyzewski joined host Rece Davis of ESPN in discussing of variety of subjects, including leadership, teaching, values, the impact of family and rules changes they would be like to see implemented.

The Hall of Fame coaches, who have combined to win and 1,301 contests and six national championships, also took questions from the audience and from Duke students on the Durham, N.C campus via Cisco Telepresence technology.

A quartet of former standout Penn State and Duke student-athletes also participated in the special event to talk about the impact Paterno and Krzyzewski have had on them as students and after graduation. Former Nittany Lions Matt Millen and Michael Robinson and former Blue Devils Jay Bilas and Jay Willliams also took questions from Penn State and Duke students.

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by SarcasmJam on Jun 30, 2011 7:07 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

I'm going to be very disappointed if Joe doesn't mention the fact Coach K is Polish.

"The only scary thing about a one-armed man trying to scare someone is the fact that he feels that his one arm is good for nothing but trying to scare somebody."

by MainLion on Jun 30, 2011 7:22 PM EDT up reply actions

Took your advice.

Picked up the ESPN book. Have a client with week long meetings out of town starting this Sunday, so it should last through the traveling.

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by PSUinBOSSton on Jun 30, 2011 7:27 PM EDT up reply actions

In hindsight, it was quite... terrible.

Not enough scandal, not enough snark (although it’ll confirm who is and is not a jerk at the company), too-often glossing over major corporate moves, and too much self-backpatting by executives. In the epilogue, the authors thank the executives for contributing (they originally did not want to). It was clear they did so with a self-aggrandizing agenda.

"The only scary thing about a one-armed man trying to scare someone is the fact that he feels that his one arm is good for nothing but trying to scare somebody."

by MainLion on Jun 30, 2011 9:17 PM EDT up reply actions

1 drink for mentioning his ethnicity

Shot of Jaeger if he says Polack.

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- A.Lincoln

by SarcasmJam on Jun 30, 2011 7:40 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

ohh Coach K beat him too it!!!

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the Big Ten...or just lose the sweater vest.

by amandakt on Jun 30, 2011 8:06 PM EDT up reply actions

I can't watch this tonight

but I saw about 20 minutes of it this morning. It is everything you’re expecting.

"The friend’s husband was out of his mind drunk, on drugs, too, I think," Chambers recalls. "He thought I was hitting on his wife. He stabbed me twice with a broken vodka glass" BAMF

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by Ben Jones on Jun 30, 2011 7:46 PM EDT reply actions