***Joe Pa has passed. Unfortunately true today (Sunday) updated ***

[Leewillie]

My prayers are with the Paterno family in this time of grief.

[XBAMA]

1982 Penn St wins the National Championship, Coach Paul Bear Bryant passes. 2011 Alabama wins the National title. Joe Paterno passes.. 

 

[MLB10]

oh geeez ....    


Westboro Baptist ‘Church’ to picket Paterno’s funeral

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One of my cousin in laws lives in Pearl, MS.  There was a soldier who died and was being honored w/ a parade.  Westboro was planning on a protest.   Well wouldn't you know it, a bunch of pickup trucks broke down in the parking lot of the hotel that had a bunch of kansas tags and they were miraculously fixed once the funeral procession was over.  Good ol boy network FTW.
http://thehayride.com/2011/04/westboro-baptist-church-goes-to-mississippi-and-loses/

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[Coach Hank Crisp]

oh geeez ....    


Westboro Baptist ‘Church’ to picket Paterno’s funeral

Click here for link

One of my cousin in laws lives in Pearl, MS.  There was a soldier who died and was being honored w/ a parade.  Westboro was planning on a protest.   Well wouldn't you know it, a bunch of pickup trucks broke down in the parking lot of the hotel that had a bunch of kansas tags and they were miraculously fixed once the funeral procession was over.  Good ol boy network FTW.
http://thehayride.com/2011/04/westboro-baptist-church-goes-to-mississippi-and-loses/

Click here for link

Harley riders show up in mass and also surround the Westboro clowns.

[Marshal Dillon]

I am not sure how I will remember him.

I will have to think about it for a while. My reactions and thoughts to current events sometimes change after time passes.

I'm with you, Hank. Before November 2011, I couldn't name another coach other than CPB that I had more respect for. That took a huge hit Nov. 5. Unfortunately, there will always be that taint on his career, but I don't think I will completely forget what he accomplished prior to these disturbing events. God rest his soul, and prayers to his family in this time of difficulty.

I'm 100% behind you guys. Child rape erases all the positives, especially since it went on for another 9 years more.

 

[Jamos]

It's so sad that his career and life ended the way it did, may he rest in peace.

[Merk]

Yes it is. His body of work will always be viewed through the prism of his last and worst mistake. R.I.P Jo Pa.

[2Stater]

I think all of us will have mixed emotions when we think back on Paterno. His legacy will always be tainted and rightly so. His lack of action on Sandusky will always be viewed as totally inexcusable. It's just sad that everything had to end like it did. I truly feel for the Paterno family.

[Chechem]

I think all of us will have mixed emotions when we think back on Paterno. His legacy will always be tainted and rightly so. His lack of action on Sandusky will always be viewed as totally inexcusable. It's just sad that everything had to end like it did. I truly feel for the Paterno family.

Agreed.  Read what Coach Saban and others said about JoPa.  Excellent comments especially from him and Coach Bowden: Click here for link

[2Stater]

I think all of us will have mixed emotions when we think back on Paterno. His legacy will always be tainted and rightly so. His lack of action on Sandusky will always be viewed as totally inexcusable. It's just sad that everything had to end like it did. I truly feel for the Paterno family.

Agreed.  Read what Coach Saban and others said about JoPa.  Excellent comments especially from him and Coach Bowden: Click here for link

CNS was the only one who told it like it was

[ALTideUp]

Here's my take. Joe knew there was a problem and he told someone. When no one did anything about Sandusky Joe should've done more. He didn't and that's on him. But if any of a half dozen to a dozen officials, WHOSE JOB IT WAS TO DEAL WITH SUCH THINGS, had done their job, Joe would have not been in that position.

To Joe, I say RIP. To the police and psu suits that failed to protect those kids and contributed to the downfall of a great coach and a good man, they can rot in hell.

[Catch Prothro]

To all of those who are ripping on Paterno on the day of his death, I say respect the dead. 

JP was from a different generation.  A generation that did not understand or discuss homosexual child rape.  This would be a completely foreign topic for him, something he would be as equipped to handle as an invasion from Mars.  Maybe an invasion from Mars would be easier for him to understand.  At least there were movies on it.  This other topic was so foreign, that his assistant coach did not give him particulars.  The topic was so foreign that, even after details were revealed, JP remained completely baffled. 

So what did he do?  He talked to university administration and police and allowed them to handle it.

What would Bear do?  (WWBD)?  Well, Bear was one of a kind, and this kind of thing would completely baffle him too.  I'm guessing that he would have, at first, done the same thing that JP did, report to administration and police. 

But being the Bear, yes, I believe that he would have done more.  If those first steps did not yield the desired result, Bear would have pushed further.  He would have seen to it that the party responsible from causing the problem would never see the inside of the football facilities again.

But the Bear was a visionary.  Only the Bear could have integrated the University of Alabama football team when many were clamoring for segregation.  JP, despite his wins, was not quite the same coach as Bear Bryant.  He did not have the same vision. 

Or maybe he was just old.  At the age this happened under JP's watch, Bear was long dead.

All this is to say that, respect the dead.  Bear Bryant wouldn't have it any other way.

[Chechem]

To all of those who are ripping on Paterno on the day of his death, I say respect the dead. 

JP was from a different generation.  A generation that did not understand or discuss homosexual child rape.  This would be a completely foreign topic for him, something he would be as equipped to handle as an invasion from Mars.  Maybe an invasion from Mars would be easier for him to understand.  At least there were movies on it.  This other topic was so foreign, that his assistant coach did not give him particulars.  The topic was so foreign that, even after details were revealed, JP remained completely baffled. 

So what did he do?  He talked to university administration and police and allowed them to handle it.

What would Bear do?  (WWBD)?  Well, Bear was one of a kind, and this kind of thing would completely baffle him too.  I'm guessing that he would have, at first, done the same thing that JP did, report to administration and police. 

But being the Bear, yes, I believe that he would have done more.  If those first steps did not yield the desired result, Bear would have pushed further.  He would have seen to it that the party responsible from causing the problem would never see the inside of the football facilities again.

But the Bear was a visionary.  Only the Bear could have integrated the University of Alabama football team when many were clamoring for segregation.  JP, despite his wins, was not quite the same coach as Bear Bryant.  He did not have the same vision. 

Or maybe he was just old.  At the age this happened under JP's watch, Bear was long dead.

All this is to say that, respect the dead.  Bear Bryant wouldn't have it any other way.

I liked your first sentence.

[Coach Hank Crisp]

To all of those who are ripping on Paterno on the day of his death, I say respect the dead. 

JP was from a different generation.  A generation that did not understand or discuss homosexual child rape.  This would be a completely foreign topic for him, something he would be as equipped to handle as an invasion from Mars.  Maybe an invasion from Mars would be easier for him to understand.  At least there were movies on it.  This other topic was so foreign, that his assistant coach did not give him particulars.  The topic was so foreign that, even after details were revealed, JP remained completely baffled. 

So what did he do?  He talked to university administration and police and allowed them to handle it.

What would Bear do?  (WWBD)?  Well, Bear was one of a kind, and this kind of thing would completely baffle him too.  I'm guessing that he would have, at first, done the same thing that JP did, report to administration and police. 

But being the Bear, yes, I believe that he would have done more.  If those first steps did not yield the desired result, Bear would have pushed further.  He would have seen to it that the party responsible from causing the problem would never see the inside of the football facilities again.

But the Bear was a visionary.  Only the Bear could have integrated the University of Alabama football team when many were clamoring for segregation.  JP, despite his wins, was not quite the same coach as Bear Bryant.  He did not have the same vision. 

Or maybe he was just old.  At the age this happened under JP's watch, Bear was long dead.

All this is to say that, respect the dead.  Bear Bryant wouldn't have it any other way.

I liked your first sentence.

Here's the difference.

Coach Bryant knew when to bow out. Coach Paterno did not.

[BAMAWV]

Terrie said it best; he and Coach Bryant will have a great time now.

I doubt Coach Bryant would have spent any time he did not have to with this (now dead) character.

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