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Posted by Bandits
Lafayette
Member since Sep 2008
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Posted on 12/15/09 at 2:10 pm to
JoePa is back on the sideline where he should be. Can we keep this classy and not crack on a very nice man?
Posted by pistolpete23
In the present
Member since Dec 2007
7148 posts
Posted on 12/15/09 at 2:20 pm to
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stpetelsutiger


quote:

LJBurton




What are ya'll 12 year olds? Show some respect an pray you make it to 83.
This post was edited on 12/15/09 at 2:31 pm
Posted by Suntiger
BR or somewhere else
Member since Feb 2007
33026 posts
Posted on 12/15/09 at 2:41 pm to
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Admittedly, he's one of the few people in cfb I'm not worried about Miles getting "out coached" by


JoePa has forgotten more about football than Les Miles will ever know.








Posted by brazentits
shangri-langeles
Member since Nov 2009
104 posts
Posted on 12/15/09 at 2:42 pm to
joe pa no pa row pa!
Posted by stpetelsutiger
St. Petersburg, FL
Member since Dec 2003
1160 posts
Posted on 12/15/09 at 3:38 pm to
Dumb shite. All Joe Pa has done is win a lot of football games. Scale of importance 1 to 10 in life it is about a 4. If you think it is more than a 4 your are F*ed UP.
Posted by TravelSmartly
The Nervous Hospital
Member since Dec 2009
1374 posts
Posted on 12/15/09 at 5:44 pm to
Many sports journalists were concerned with how JoPa would react to the changes in the game with the addition of face masks. I guess he showed them.
Posted by Dalosaqy
I can't quite re
Member since Dec 2007
12321 posts
Posted on 12/15/09 at 6:57 pm to
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drockPSU


Nice post. Great story. Don't let the cynics on this board dishonor your coach. Win or lose on New Year's Day, he's a class act.
Posted by psu00
Member since Dec 2009
23 posts
Posted on 12/15/09 at 7:50 pm to
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Does Joe Pa stand on the sidelines...
Dumb shite. All Joe Pa has done is win a lot of football games. Scale of importance 1 to 10 in life it is about a 4. If you think it is more than a 4 your are F*ed UP.




Yeah he's won a lot of football games but he's done much more. Taking his kids/grandkids out of this- he's raised millions of dollars for the University and specifically the library which bears his name. Where else is a University library named after the football coach? His latest graduation rate for the football players- about 85%. He has insisted his players get an education. SuePa has tutored players in English Lit. He's made players do book reports over the summer. He's suspended players from big games and bowls because even though they were academically eligible they did not perform as he thought they should have.

He and SuePa have been big supporters of the campus spiritual center on and are big fundraisers/organizers for the Catholic center on campus. He and Sue have been very involved in the Pennsylvania special olympics which are held on Penn State's campus every summer.

You know him as a football coach (and judging from some posts here some of you don't even know much about him as a coach either). He and Sue do much more but don't go around calling press conferences and promoting themselves all the time. Sorry to those respectful LSU posters here but some on this board are beginning to rival Ohio State fans in pathetic behavior.
This post was edited on 12/15/09 at 8:02 pm
Posted by the crue
Chackbay-Thibodaux
Member since May 2008
3973 posts
Posted on 12/15/09 at 7:57 pm to
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What will most of us be doing when we are 83? Probably not half of what Joe Pa has done.
i just hope i can live to 83
Posted by indynittany
Member since Dec 2009
21 posts
Posted on 12/15/09 at 8:21 pm to
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Dumb shite. All Joe Pa has done is win a lot of football games. Scale of importance 1 to 10 in life it is about a 4. If you think it is more than a 4 your are F*ed UP.


You really have no idea what you're talking about, do you?

Below are two links and a photo.

The first is to a video of Brandon Short, former AA and NFL linebacker giving a speech at this year's senior banquet. You should watch it. Maybe then you'll have some idea of what the Grand Experiment is all about.

The second is a link to a well written article about Joe back when he turned down an offer to coach the Patriots in the early 70s. (His ownership stake would now be worth in the neighborhood of $75 million).

The picture is of the Paterno Library, part of the main Pattee Library on PSU's main campus. He and his wife Sue raised the money and donated over $3 million of their own money to make this happen.

While not all inclusive, this should at least give you some idea about who Joe Paterno is and what he has meant to Penn State and college football.

At the very least, now ignorance is no excuse.

LINK

LINK



This post was edited on 12/15/09 at 8:41 pm
Posted by LJBurton
Member since Feb 2005
1353 posts
Posted on 12/15/09 at 9:01 pm to
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What are ya'll 12 year olds? Show some respect an pray you make it to 83.


Just joking around, pistol.

Mad props to JoePa. The man is a living legend.
Posted by FloridaLion
Jacksonville
Member since Dec 2009
14 posts
Posted on 12/15/09 at 9:39 pm to
Beyond football, here are some more JoePa statistics:

Current Grad rate: 89% (highest of any team in top 25)

45 Academic All Americans during his tenure (34 first team), the school's total of 47 AAAs is 3rd most in FBS and 1st in Big Ten

Helped raise $13.5 million to build new library which bares his name

In 1997, he and his wife gave $3.5 mil for endowed professorships in the University Libraries and the College of Liberal Arts, a graduate fellowship and a scholarship in liberal arts, and a graduate fellowship in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. They also directed support to help build a new interfaith spiritual center and the All-Sports Museum, both located on the campus.

More importantly, because of success on the field, he turned Penn State into a world class university (typically ranked in the top 50 nationally) from its modest beginnings as an agricultural school.

I know this doesn't matter to LSU fans, but this is why Penn State alums love Joe Pa. He means far more to most of us than wins and losses. Would we like to see more wins? I'd be lying if we said we didn't. But you have to agree that their is far more to life than football and Joe has done way more than any other coach will ever do.

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