🏈 Joe Pa out immediately at PSU (was to Retire at Season's End)

[psychojoe]

http://espn.go.com/college-football...ons-joe-paterno-retire-end-season-sources-say

Its a shame that a great career will end under a cloud.

 

[CaptainTide]

Sad to see him go. And he just became the winningest coach!

A shame, but good luck to him in his life after coaching.

 

[CrimsonPirate]

Meanwhile, sources have told ESPN that Paterno is planning to coach the 12th-ranked Nittany Lions in Saturday's home game -- their last home game of this season -- against No. 19 Nebraska.

I don't understand this quote. If he's retiring at the end of the season, then of course he will coach the Nebraska game. There are two games left after this weekend.

 

[CrimsonPirate]

Oops. Duplicate post.

 

[BAMAFSTBACK]

The only shame is that the cops weren't called. PENN STATE BOT's need to clean house.

 

[UAgrad93]

I think the indescision of Joe Pa to dig a little deeper and ask for details as to what the GA saw, will haunt him for his remaining days. I think that if he had asked, the GA would've given the sordid details and his decision would've been to call the police. As it was, he passed it on to his bosses and it never went further.

 

[bamascw]

I think he should step down immediately

 

[bamabigdawg]

The GA came to his house "distraught" and told him he saw Sandusky in the shower with a boy that appeared to be 10 yrs old. How in gods name would you need to look any deeper into the details of that before you called the cops on that pos. The GA's dad should be strung up for telling his son to leave and do nothing, Joe Pa should too for covering it up all these years. And the GA should be for that matter for walking out of the locker room and not getting the kid out with him

 

[Crimson&WhiteGecko]

I cannot help get the feeling that this whole thing was thrown under the rug (by whomever) in order to keep any pressure away from forcing Joe Pa, thus losing the chance to beat out the wins record.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Joe Pa to Retire at Season's End

Word is the PSU BOT is about to announce Joe Paterno has coached his last game...

 

[Southern Bama]

Jo Pa is gone as of now.....

Just got fired.
http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefoo...buse-scandal-board-of-trustees-meeting-110911

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Word is the PSU BOT is about to announce Joe Paterno has coached his last game...

Yep, CBS is reporting it...

http://eye-on-college-football.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/33212862

[h=2]BREAKING: Joe Paterno out at Penn State[/h] Posted on: November 9, 2011 10:13 pm

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Posted by Adam Jacobi

On Wednesday morning, Joe Paterno announced that he would retire at the end of Penn State's football season. On Wednesday evening, the Penn State board of trustees decided that wasn't enough.

The trustees cleaned house at a Wednesday night meeting, announcing that both Paterno and PSU president Graham Spanier were done with the school effective immediately. That means Joe Paterno's legendary, 46-year career as head coach of Penn State is, as of today, officially over. Tom Bradley, who has spent the last 33 years coaching alongside Paterno, has been named the interim head coach.

Paterno, 84, leaves Penn State as the winningest coach in major college football history, having just passed Grambling legend Eddie Robinson in his last game.

The status of Penn State athletic director Tim Curley and of vice president/treasurer Gary Schultz is still to be determined. Both men face charges for perjury and failure to report child abuse in their roles in the Sandusky scandal.

We will bring you more details on this story as it develops.

 

[foshman]

Sadly they had no choice. Despite all the good Joe Pa did this one mistake was too big to grant him a mulligan.

There are so many unanswered questions about this. Watching it unfold, and the way it unfolded, makes me wonder if Spanier and co. deliberately withheld information from Paterno in 2002 like they reportedly did in 1998.

 

[Argo]

Tough tough decision for the Penn State BOT. I think they made the right call. Sad that something like this has happened to Joe, because he will forever be tarnished.

 

[ElephantStomp]

I understand the firing, but to me it seems as though JoePa is getting the brunt of the blame more so than the AD and GA that decided not to call the police and the& $!"&& that has been charged with the crimes.

 

[bamaupsman]

Paterno is the recognized face of PSU.
He turned his head to the gravest of betrayals of trust.
He deserves whatever he gets.
He made the bed. He can sleep in it.
I used to admire him and placed him on a pedestal with Bear. Now he is nothing short of loathsome.
There are no excuses.
I have spoken my last on this.

 

[Tideboy]

Had to be done. Lost a ton of respect for him.

 

[ElephantStomp]

I don't understand why they haven't fired the AD and the GA?

 

[ElephantStomp]

But, it did need to happen

 

[Tideboy]

I don't understand why they haven't fired the AD and the GA?

I bet it's coming. They have to clean house. IMO, the GA (now receivers coach) needs to be broomed immediately. I cannot FATHOM how he at 28 or 29 as a GA saw Sandusky sodomizing a 10 year old, and did not immediately intervene and get the child to safety. Instead, he calls his Dad for advice!!?? I hope he serves some jail time if there is any legal angle that will stick.