Joe Paterno is set to begin his 43rd season with Penn State this year, unfortunately without the services of touted recruit Terrelle Pryor. Now having lost out on the two-sport Pennsylvania product, the Penn State Board of Trustees are taking a long, hard look at Paterno’s immediate future, reports the PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE.
The Penn State Board of Trustees is expected to address Paterno’s future during meetings today and tomorrow at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washington.
Leaving aside the jokes that go along with the fact that board is meeting at the same hotel where former New York governor Eliot Spitzer had his extra-legal rendezvous with prostitutes, Paterno is 81 and a bit given to taking a tumble. He also doesn’t have the needed working hip to cheat.
Granted, it’s difficult to force an icon out the door, what with coming off an Alamo Bowl victory and a number of off-the-field incidents that have been handled satisfactorily. That’s why you quickly slip a Medic Alert bracelet on the senior and glory at the angry incoherence.
12:53 pm on March 21st, 2008
Are you suggesting that it’s okay to retire Paterno as long as you put him in a room painted to look like the sideline and a really big TV on one wall plays old games on a loop?