Well the picture on the site says it’s from the interview and he looks pretty good. Obviously hard to tell from one picture. But his color is pretty good, and his face doesn’t look to drained.

I’m not sure if I would’ve rather heard his story prior to the meetings or after. The fact that it is released after means the story will have a longer life to it as it’s not likely anything significant will be released by the university. This also means that the university may not issue much of a response to it (which may not have happened at the meetings either).

Either way, I think it’s a good thing that Paterno is doing his best to take control of the narrative. Whether this changes people’s opinions is unknown (although, honestly, if you claim that your mind is already made up without there really being any facts, I find your opinion to be worthless anyway), but it at least allows us to get a better understanding of what he knew. I just hope that there are real answers (which it’s Joe, so I expect him to not hold back) and that the interview is objective.

I’ve been left raising an eyebrow after hearing Joe answer seemingly simple questions about football because of the long winded, indirect response. I understand that he always had a way of dancing around questions in a meandering type of way, but this was amplified significantly in his elder years.

With tough questions, I’m afraid that his inability to answer directly will only do more harm than good. Fingers crossed that he says all of the right things in the right way.

many times takes longer then knee-jerk reactions. So the story should change some, as time goes on, unless more damning information comes out, which we know a few people are hoping for. The problem is so many people are only capable of handling one input, and take awhile to let additional thoughts move in, if at all.

Has this been confirmed by any credible sources?

If he’s a tenured professor, then he should be able to say whatever the hell he wants and do interviews with anyone he wants to. That’s the whole point of tenure – to let faculty pursue research, etc, with freedom.

Thinking perhaps there was some tiny thawing of the hate, I did read most of the comments. The tears dried, and the blood pressure went up. I do wonder sometimes at the script-like hate comments. (Almost word for word from site to site.) There must be a lot of copy and paste because original thoughts are few and far between. Lots of sad and unhappy people.

Actually, did learn one unrelated fact that was Coach’s salaries. While I knew they were modest, didn’t realize just how modest. Reminded me of when I graduated and started earning about the same or more than my Dad after he’d worked about 30 years. Realized then what a sacrifice it had been to send me to college.

Is not a bad thing. Let’s face it, he was a football coach, would you really want this guy leading the charge? Of course, people will use this against him.