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Joe Paterno - Official Biography

January 05, 2006

Joe Paterno - Official Biography

Today, all the talk is going to be over who won the Rose Bowl and thus gained the national championship. However, we're going to concentrate on one of the greatest football coaches, and men, who has ever existed.

His name is Joe Paterno, and he just led his team to a victory in the Orange Bowl to win his 21st bowl game. Penn State finished 11-1 this year, and will likely finish in the top three. This after many were predicting Joe's finish as a coach after the last two losing seasons.

What makes him a great man is not his 21-10-1 bowl game record, nor his two national championships, nor his other four undefeated seasons. No, what makes him a great man is his old-fashioned integrity.

You see, in this modern era of recruiting violations, players being given a free ticket through school and failing to graduate, and win-at-all-costs philosophies, Joe has stuck to his moral convictions. They are simple.

Run a squeaky-clean program. And make sure your players get a good education.

“The players who have been most important to the success of Penn State teams,” Paterno has said, “have just naturally kept their priorities straight: football a high second, but academics an undisputed first.”

This is the way football used to be, friends, before boosters who stop at nothing to buy wins, coaches who use players as chattel, and athletic directors and college presidents who specialize in looking the other way became par for the course.

Enjoy today's site, Joe's official Penn State biography. And let's hope this living legend goes on to many more years of victories, and graduating athletes. And may the frequent offenders of NCAA rules out there hang their collective heads in shame.

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Written by baldguy at January 5, 2006 01:08 AM

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