Joe Paterno
Joe Paterno
Joseph Vincent "Joe" Paterno, sometimes referred to as "JoePa", was an American college football player, and later athletic director and coach. He was the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions from 1966 to 2011. With 409 victories, Paterno was the most successful coach in NCAA FBS history. His career ended with his dismissal from the team in November, 2011 as a result of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth21 December 1924
CountryUnited States of America
I feel for Paul. He's one of those kids that's never been hurt. He's not only a great player, but he's a great person.
Mostly I want to talk positive; I wanna talk about a bunch of great kids that I coached and made me look good and the university that I've seen grow from a cow college, which it was, only 12,000 people, and when I came here, we weren't at Pennsylvania State University, we were at Penn State College.
When a kid plays football games before he attends a class, something is wrong.
We have to realize a kid will love us one day and hate us the next. That cannot change who we are and what we are about.
Here, I have an opportunity to affect the lives of a lot of young people - and not just on my football team. I'm not kidding myself that that would be true at the professional level.
He is a good football player. He is not a great football player. But the fact that he has gone through this I think has helped him with some other kids. He has been able to go to other kids and talk to them a little.
The kids that were the victims ... I think we all ought to say a prayer for them,
When a kid plays football before he attends a class, something is wrong.
To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say 'two plus two is four' to every kid and be sure that we are right. But in coaching, we have to literally get to the soul of the people we are dealing with.
I still haven't gotten that little something out of my system that I'm still not a kid going to a football game. I'm excited.
I had a great bunch of kids. They all hung with us. The coaching staff hung with us. And we played tough every game. If you've got kids that want to play and react to you, it's fun. I'm having a good time.
(The team doctors) think he's got some ligament problems, but they are going to wait and do an MRI on him as soon as they can and find out just how serious it may be. It's a tough break for him.
I was thinking 'When are we going to get this thing over. I looked at my watch at one point and it was three hours past my bedtime and we were still playing.
We have to understand that if you are going to be really good, you can't make some little mistakes. When (quarterback) Michael Robinson got sacked and fumbled the ball (last Saturday against South Florida) without knowing there was a backside guy coming, we had a terrible job done by someone.