re: Does Joe Pa stand on the sidelines...

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Admittedly, he's one of the few people in cfb I'm not worried about Miles getting "out coached" by

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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.