That Joe Paterno guy seems like a legend! Why don't i ever hear anything about him?

He and Bear Bryant were absolutely the best damn coaches ever!!!! WE ARE

In Green Bay Lombardi had the Power Sweep and in Happy Valley it was the Short Side sweep... was like watching an artist do his thing, BOTH WERE THINGS OF BEAUTY. Too bad the NFL and college have softened the rules to favor passing... this generation will never know the greatness of the Running Back in unison w/ the Offensive Line. RIP Short Side Sweep.

Penn State football fan since 1978! WE ARE FOREVER!!!

Rip Engle was a great coach as well, and Joe Pa used talk very highly of Rip!!!! Then he handed the program off to besides Bear Bryant the absolute best damn legend in college football history!!!! WE ARE

Thanks for sharing this. Joe Paterno was certainly an impactful mentor for many young men. A great coach and a great educator.

We went undefeated two years in a row, and lost the national title game as number one ranked, and I absolutely loved 86, undefeated again and Miami was so damn arrogant and blatantly disrespectful and we intercepted Testaverde 5 times and dominated their asses!!! The secondary was hitting them so hard they didn't want to go over the middle again!!!!! WE ARE

Penn State Football 🏈 Fan since 1999

Whether fair of not, You are often remembered by the last bad thing you did.

That season that Paterno broke Bryant’s win record was also the year that the cracks in Paterno’s personal coaching philosophy started to show. Joe had always been a big believer in younger players “waiting their turn” to play behind upper classmen, assuring them that their day would come. The 1-4 start that season was largely due to Paterno’s stubborn insistence on starting RS Jr. Matt Senneca at QB over Zack Mills, who was a redshirt freshman. Fans were growing restless with Joe’s refusal to simply put the best 11 players on the field. I believe the previous week at Northwestern, Senneca started again and played terribly. Mills eventually came into the game late and led the Nittany Lions to a comeback victory. Mills then started against Ohio State, and PSU went 5-2 over their final 7 games after starting the season 0-4. They definitely had limited talent that year, but that was the start of Joe realizing he had to discard his notions of playing only upper classmen, and that if a younger player was the best at his position, he should get the playing time over older, inferior players. However, that turned out to be the least of Joe’s problems. Over the next ten years, he continued to subscribe to this 1950s-style of ground-and-pound football, even though the game had changed and the dynamic aerial attack was the hallmark of every elite program. Penn State floundered with some pretty weak seasons, and every year, Joe would make overtures about revamping the offensive schemes to be more modern, and every year it ended up being the same conservative crap on the field. The game had simply evolved too much and too fast, and had left the old man behind. In the mid-2000s, when I was in school, I had class with some of the players, and they confessed that they hardly ever saw Joe at practice, and he didn’t know the names of the players, and they felt like he had become merely a figurehead for the program. When they had that one successful season with Michael Robinson, it was IN SPITE of the coaching. Penn State was ridiculously talented that year, but if you go back and watch those games, the play calling is simply baffling. They have all these weapons, and they’re running the most predictable, cookie-cutter plays. They should have been undefeated that year, but the coaches simply had no clue how to put them in a position to win, so the players had to overcome poor schemes and win on on talent, alone. It was tough to watch.

@Salvatore1268

6 ай бұрын

If memory serves me right penn state did not have a special teams coach

@kevinchandler179

6 ай бұрын

But, it shows you how great Joe Pa was, because his stubborn ass evolved finally and starting winning big time again!!! WE ARE

Ima die hard South Carolina fan but if I could have a second favorite team it would be penn state love the culture and program minus that one scandal

It’s remarkable how instrumental Penn State has been to bringing major changes to college football. The 1994 National Championship was totally political in nature. The pollsters wanted to give it to Tom Osborne at Nebraska because he had never won, and they felt “Joe has already won twice.” Paterno talked candidly that season about the absurdity of not having #1 face #2 in order to determine a true champion. Nebraska being handed the Natty was a turning point that spearheaded the drive to establish a college football playoff. A few years later, Paterno threatened to leave the Big Ten after multiple egregious blown calls by Big Ten officials (who were from Michigan) gave away a victory to the Wolverines over the Nittany Lions at the Big House. The compromise to appease Paterno and keep Penn State in the conference was to introduce official replay review.

@kevinchandler179

6 ай бұрын

Paterno never lobbied for votes from the AP or coaches poll, that's why I always loved him!!!! He won 2 national titles and very well should have won 5 at least, but he didn't care!!! He always had the mentality that we did everything we could on the field that given season!!!! WE ARE

@Salvatore1268

5 ай бұрын

Penn state lost the 2005 game at Michigan cause of atrocious special teams play and a late return by steve Breaston 1994 they got really careless in the indiana game and allowed Chris Dittoe to go off on them late The 2005 team across the board was way better then the 1994 team whose defense was awful, but special teams cost penn state and the same day ND lost to USC Imagine a penn state notre dame national championship game the ratings would have been record breaking

@kevinchandler179

5 ай бұрын

What about Avant having his foot on the White Out of bounds before the last play of the game? My Nittany Lions 🦁 got screwed once again!@ WE ARE 🏈 Unrivaled

@Salvatore1268

5 ай бұрын

@@kevinchandler179 the 2002 game was when penn state got cheated by the refs

@kevinchandler179

5 ай бұрын

The team with LJ when he ran for 2000 yards and didn't win the Heisman, sorry your right buddy!!! WE ARE 🏈 Unrivaled

My Nittany Lions 🦁 went undefeated two years in a row 85 and 86, no we were not less talented than the Miami, fact!!!

Success with honor. Yeah, right.

@bobanderson6656

28 күн бұрын

I'm an alum. Title didn't age well, did it? That was the athletic department's motto when the scandal broke. It was bad enough that Paterno stayed too long. PSU football has never been the same since the scandal broke.

JoPa. The greatest Nittany Lion there ever was, is and will be!

We also should have had another Heisman trophy 🏆 winner in 94, Kerry Collins or Ki-Jana Carter should have won the Heisman and national title as well!!!!! WE ARE used to getting screwed!!!! Lol 🏈🏈

I live in Montana. I have zero connection with this school. Joe Paterno dropped the ball for sure in that horrible situation. That said he also has DECADES of selfless dedication to the youth of Pennsylvania and beyond. That take down that statue and cancel this man was purely criminal. It time for the students and Alumni of this amazing institution to rise up amd restore this man to his rightful position. Especially before his wife passes. Noone is perfect. It time...

35 mins of the video is just Sandusky talking about kids

@bishlap

2 жыл бұрын

that was Jerry all right, Jerry Lewis.... LADYYYYY

That title has to be trolling, right? Right?

This didn’t age well

@davidreidenberg9941

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, and whatever Sandusky did had absolutely nothing to do with the football team.

Under the False Veil of the " Success With Honor " BS; that's how ole Jerry was able to get away with what he did. C'Mon; Man! HONOR would have been beating the living shit out of Sandusky after finding out what he was doing. HOW could so many people be so Blind ?

@bigverybadtom

2 жыл бұрын

Certainly turning Sandusky over to the police.

@kidmack3556

Жыл бұрын

One thing that has been pointed out recently that makes me believe Paterno knew nothing; Sandusky's alleged victims were still associating with him on occasion for quite a while, (years) after someone notified the authorities, which led to an investigation by campus police, which initially cleared Sandusky. Made me ask, what kind of parents would allow their kids around someone who had been investigated for child molestation?

@phixxxer11

5 ай бұрын

So true little kids being molested ruined Paterno's good guy image and the school has no claim to being honorable. Shame 😮