re: #5 _RememberTonyC

I have two kids in college. I was horrified by the reaction of the kids last night. I have worked in the sports media for 33 years and understand very well what Penn State football means to the community in which it is located. Many of the kids let their emotions get the best of them because their hero (Paterno) seemed so “God like.” Well, after a few days many of those kids will probably see things differently. They are mostly immature 18-21 year olds. My beef is with Paterno, whom I have disliked for many years because I never believed him to be the man that so many thought he was. I can cite many examples from my observations of him in the past 30+ years to support that view. Penn State football is religion in the Keystone State, particularly in State College, PA. And Paterno was like the Pope. So the “morality bar” should be set much higher for a man like Paterno. Good riddance.

My dad, a Pitt grad, always despised Paterno for (at least as he saw it) killing the once celebrated Pitt-PSU rivalry over Pitt’s refusal to join Joe’s Eastern Sports conference. As someone who probably knows more about that whole situation than I do, what do you think? Was my dad right, or just a biased alum of a rival school?