R.I.P.Joe Paterno (1926-2012)
 

Joe Paterno legendary college coach died of lung cancer within the last couple of hours after taking a turn for the worse on Friday. Its sad because of the timing of his diagosis which was thought to be treatable just after his removal from his life-long position. I hope with his passing right or wrong people will remember him for what he was, a lasting name of college football and the game in general. R.I.P.,sir.

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports...-2012/related/

Nothing can erase the many accomplishments he did make, and he did get some support after his "leaving", and he did enjoy 85 years and got to have his family/friends with him in the end, RIP Joe.

for better or worse- he will certainly be remembered for his involvement with all things related to penn state football. rip joepa

Yeah, I heard this today while watching an NFL pregame show. He will be dearly missed and will be remembered for his legacy he left for Penn State, and I hope that people will remember him for that and not that scandal because it really wasn't entirely his fault. R.I.P., Joe Pa.

Wasn't surprised to hear this news at all. The old boy has been in horrible shape for a couple of years now. I'm pretty sure the events of 2011 did nothing to help his health.

That's about all I got. My other thoughts are best kept to myself.

This poor man is now in a far better place. :( Only God knows the truth. I hope he did find peace.

Yes, Paterno was a great coach.

But like with anybody, the whole record needs to be known. If he did anything wrong, it shouldn't be ignored or covered up.

Yeah but it shouldnt be lied about either. I recall Espn breaking a story actually exonerating Joe Pa. That the assistant coach that saw the incident didnt tell him actaully what happened. I ll try to find a link in a bit.

There's no separating the man from the scandal, as far as I'm concerned.

But Joe didn't do anything wrong. He handled it correctly by going to his superiors, but they didn't do anything about it. They ignored him and basically just covered it up. They should've gone to the police when they found out about all of this, but they didn't. I know a lot of people don't want to separate him from this scandal, but I don't think he's entirely at fault in this. I just don't. I think Penn State just used it as an excuse to get rid of him.

He went to hell.

I agree with you, Bubbly Shell. He told what he knew. That's that. He wasn't in the wrong.

Otherwise, Rest In Peace, JoePa. Alot of people are hating on him, but when it comes down to it, he was a great coach, and someone's dad and grandpa. Those people deserve to not hear such hateful things, and be allowed to grieve appropriately.

RIP, JoePa

Wow! This is up there for one of the best posts of all time.

Just......sensational. Jesus christ.

Jesus had nothing to do with it by the sounds of it.

Why do people have to speak ill of him? He was a father and a grandfather. Let him rest in peace. He wasn't at fault for the entire thing. Stop saying that he's in hell. He didn't assault those kids, Sandusky did. So stop acting like he's in hell because he committed the act when he didn't. Hell doesn't exist anyway.

As if this wasn't enough of a hot button topic.

To the point, short and sweet.

@Redeemer- ESPN also broke a story that said Sandusky was on campus weeks before the scandal broke...JoePa knew about this for the better part of a decade but Sandusky still had access to Penn St. facilities? He was a naive old turd. Period. He looked out for a pervert instead of the well being of children. I am not saying he's in hell, but he might be in limbo.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...ek-reports-say

He wasn't naive.
Barely four months before the Sandusky story broke Paterno sold his house to his wife for $1.

He knew what was coming.
I don't wish the guy any peace until the victims of this whole affair find some.

And why should he be blamed for it? He did what he had to do. If anything, the higher-ups and Sandusky should be blamed more. Sandusky actually admitted that he was in the shower fooling around with the boys, not Joe. Joe didn't do any of that. Joe went to the superiors and told them what was happening, but the superiors didn't follow up on it. Sandusky and the higher-ups are to blame, not Joe. I'm just sick of people being so narrow-minded without listening to the whole story.

It's a shame that this man has died and yet the school he coached for is rocked by this scandal that he's a part of. Can we please try and separate the scandal from the legendary football coach? This isn't fair to Joe for people to just bash him like this.