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This is a disaster waiting to happen.



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I'll bet Jopa feels that reviewing plays during a game is a huge waste of time. He thinks they first have to line everyone back up the way they were. Then everyone moves the same way as they did on the play in question. Can you trust a guy that just interferred on a pass to do it again in slow-mo while everyone is watching? And fumbles? How the heck are you gonna get a guy that fumbled in mid-air to stop,--in midair-- for us to review? It just won't work.

I watched him on their media day broadcast
it was like "My Cousin Vinny" part II

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Yeah, I listened to him talking and it was sad. How's he going to make split-second decisions and remember everything going on? It's pathetic.

I saw that Big 10 Media-Days interview he gave this week.  They asked him about the taunting rule.  He had no idea what they were asking about.  He'd never heard of the rule or concept.  As much as I liked the JoPa of Coach Bryant's day, I'm saddened by this JoPa. 

"It's time to retire, JoPa."

Cardboard cutout of JoPa on sidelines would be more involved.

"And that will extend to play-calling.

Paterno admitted his role on the sideline decreased in recent years due to injury."

His 60 year old son was doing the play calling before.

One thing is for sure. Penn. St. has been pointing to this rematch for a year.

107,000 fans in Beaver Stadium. Loud.


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Doesn't he say he is going to be more involved this year every year? He may have Alzheimier's.

The dieing breed of a Great coach that is ruining himself by hanging around. He may also be scared because he is a afraid if he quits he'll die. RTR!

He's a figurehead who gets credit for the victories while he wonders what just happened on the field. Probably wants to be the oldest coach in history.

I'm with Chech. This really is such a sad situation. He needs to retire to avoid tarnishing the great rep he has built up over the years.

It'll never happen. He can be 90 years old, using a walker, can't tell you the time of day, but he will still be the HC of Penn State. I blame this on the Penn St. Administrators for letting this become such a sick joke. At least, FSU made Coach Bowden step down, they had to for the sake of the program. Think about it, the O-coordinator is Joe's 60 year old son. The entire saff is ossifying.

Well said!!  #+

Penn. State fans are great. Serveral of their fans came up to us after last years game and said how good a team we had. Also later in the season last year JoPa's son sent UA a letter thanking CNS, CMM for a great game.

At the 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, and 1990 games they brought fans from Pa. that were great. I remember the respect each university has for each other.

A great college rivalary. Penn. State- The Crimson Tide

All the millions JoPa has given Penn. St. university will let JoPa retire when he wants to.

25% of the university buildings have JoPa's names on them. He built Beaver Stadium to sit 107,000 fans. That is huge!

 
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PSU was notorious for homecooking, especially pre-Big East. Half of his victories are questionable.

Penn State-Alabama is what a college rivalry should be.  I wish they would play every year.

No Big Ten team wants to commit to that kind of exposure.

I agree with the homecooking. I also agree many victories are questionable. What do you mean by pre-Big East?

JoPa counted his PSU victories just like Bobby Bowden did when he was at Howard University ( Samford) and later FSU . Neither JoPa or Bowden played in the SEC.

Should JoPA should retire. Yes.

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I loved the Penn State 10 year series in the 80's. I always looked forward to that game. We came out on top 6-4 I think. They cheated twice though so it was really 8-2.

My bad--- PSU was independent prior to joining the Big Ten. But their schedule each year before joining the Big10 was pretty much a Big East schedule. What I was thinking of was prior to the Big East these schools were in the Southern Conference (Va Tech, WVU, Richmond, etc.). PSU was independent.  Good catch, pmull.

You are correct that as an independent they played a soft schedule consisting of schools like Rutgers, Pittsburgh, etc. Easy to see how Big East came into the conversation.

Villanova, Temple, Rhode Island, Maine, etc.

Wow, the schedule was weaker than I thought. Even the Big East today will not let it's BB member Villanova be a football member. JoePa needs to retire before WV exposes his whole career as a fraud.

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I don't know what would ever convince JoPa to retire.

That's something the PC media never mention about MANY of his victories, they were over total cupcakes. Football "powers" like Lehigh, Army, Navy, Pitt, BC, Ohio, Wisconsin (when they were awful), and other weak teams. The toughest team they played on their schedule on a regular basis was West Virginia.

I vividly remember the game where Bama scored a touchdown in the back of the end zone and they called the guy out of bounds.  Joey Jones was on that team, but he wasn't the guy that caught the ball.  He was standing right there when it happened though.  It was such an obvious touch down, even watching it live, that the TV announcers didn't know what to say when they called him out of bounds.  They struggled for a plausible excuse, but came up with nothing.  It was extremely disappointing as a kid to know that grown men had cheated Bama out of a victory.  Adults weren't supposed to cheat.  That game really opened my eyes for the first time as to how the world really works.

This makes me think... I wonder what coach has the most victories against ranked opponents.  Hmmm....

I'll take your avatar for $500 Coach     :D

Oh my... it was even worse than I remember.

the football Gods thumbed their nose at us that day ...  >:(

The ref who called our guy out-of-bounds was a Penn State grad. Two years later against Nebraska, the same ref called a Penn State receiver, who was obviously out-of-bounds, as being inbounds and scoring the winning TD against Nebraska. After these 2 fiascos, not even the NCAA could say there was no bias, so now a grad can not referee a game involving his alma mater.

Interesting.  I did not know that.  It certainly explains a lot.

I think either Sports Illustrated of some other magazine did a story on it. This would have been when you, and most of the other posters, were a snot-nosed kids and wouldn't have read about it.

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I was 11 at the time of that game.

I was working in Louisiana then.  It was 1983 (I had to look it up).  Neither team ended up nationally relevant that year, but it was still a classic. Alabama fought back from a 34-7 deficit to 34-28. Alabama’s Preston Gothard caught the apparent touchdown pass with seconds remaining.  His feet were both in bounds and his hip landed across the back of the end zone when he fell.

That was the second worst call by a ref in an Alabama game that I ever saw.  The first was against Tennessee in Birmingham (1971).  Anybody remember that one?

I don't remember the Tenn call in 1971. We won 32-15 so that makes a bad call easier to take. A bad call I remember is the 73 (72 Season) Cotton Bowl against Texas. We lost 17-13. Texas scored on a long run and the replay showed the ball carrier stepped about a yard out of bounds to avoid a tackle.

Don't forget the '65 Orange Bowl when Namath's TD was ruled no good and we "lost" to the Longhorns.

This is the one I remember the most. No doubt a terrible call.

JoPa we want NoPa so please GoPa.

The most terrible call I ever saw at a Bama game:

Legion Field.  Alabama kicked off through the south end zone to start the game.  The field was Astroturf (painted lines).  Tennessee ran 3 plays.  The 3rd play made it to the 30-yard line.  After the official placed the ball, it clearly straddled the 30-yard line.  At first the refs signaled first down, then Coach Bryant walked out onto the field and called for a measurement.  The ball was astride the 30.  Bill Battle (UT Coach) walked out from his side of the field.  The chains were stretched, the official bent down and checked, then he turned to Coach Battle and signaled "Inches to go".  Coach Battled walked farther out to confront the officials.  A flag was thrown, and Battle was escorted back to the sidelines.  Then UT was penalized 15 yards, back to the 15 yard line.  They punted from there to almost midfield.  Alabama scored soon after, and the rout was on.

Anybody else remember?

Let's rename that the "best" call you ever saw.

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I was living in Louisiana in 1983. I didn't see you?