re: Penn State unveils the Paterno Family Football Experience Room

It’s crazy to think where college football is now, compared to what it was back then. Paterno started at Penn St. in 1966, but didn’t get a national championship until 1982 and 1986. Had some great years in between that time, but I wonder if he would’ve survived some of those subpar years without a national championship in today’s cfb climate. I don’t know enough about Penn St. in that time to understand what the expectations might have been.

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They believe that he did absolutely nothing wrong

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"he reported it to the appropriate authorities, what did you want him to do"

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Paterno started at Penn St. in 1966, but didn’t get a national championship until 1982 and 1986. Had some great years in between that time, but I wonder if he would’ve survived some of those subpar years without a national championship in today’s cfb climate.

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Penn St. in his early years was an independent and did not really play that tough a schedule relatively speaking.

For example, their 1973 team that we played in the Orange Bowl that year was undefeated and was if I'm not mistaken ranked No. 7 due to the weakness of that schedule. Wasn't our best team but we took them right to the wire - played them evenly some would say outplayed them, we outgained them and held them to under 200 total yards and held Heisman Winner Cappeletti to 50 yards on 26 carries. The difference was a flukish 72 yard TD pass on a one handed catch by a Penn St. receiver.

So he chalked a lot of wins early on against weak schedules - he did not really start competing for titles until they started strengthening their schedule in the late 70's.

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Seems to be a resurgence in paterno truthers claiming Sandusky was innocent.

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I think you're getting trolled, amigo