Penn State Coach Joe Paterno (official thread)

[osugrad21]

DDN

Paterno still has no exit strategy

Associated Press

Thursday, October 11, 2007
Joe Paterno's record 42nd season as Penn State's football coach has been a trying one on the field, where his team has lost two of its last three, and off, with a recent string of players in legal trouble.
It's not enough to make the 80-year-old JoePa think about calling it quits, though.
Asked if he would ever consider installing a succession plan at PSU, Paterno said he'd never thought about it.
"If the time comes when I start thinking, 'Hey, I'm going to get out of it this year or next year,' so forth, then obviously I've got to think of the scenario," Paterno said.

[osugrad21]

Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Paterno says he took part in traffic incident


Thursday, October 11, 2007
By Ron Musselman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State's continuing pattern of off-the-field incidents took an unusual turn yesterday, reaching to the top of the program.
Penn State coach Joe Paterno confirmed for the first time that he had a verbal run-in with a female driver Friday after a near accident on campus.
Message boards have been full of rumored accounts of the incident, but Paterno made no secret of it.
He told more than 300 people at the Penn State Quarterback Club luncheon about his near miss. Information exchanged at the weekly luncheon is normally treated as off the record and not open to the media. But multiple sources who attended told the Post-Gazette about Paterno's exchange with the audience.
According to the sources, Paterno said after his close call he pulled his car over to the curb and got out.
He then approached the other vehicle and shook his finger at the driver. He warned her to, "Watch it."
"Be careful," Paterno said. "I have your license number, and I will call the police on you."
According to the sources, Paterno said a male passenger then walked up and chastised him, saying, "That's my wife you're talking to."
Paterno said, "That's your problem."
The woman then snapped back at Paterno, telling him, "I'm going to call the police on you."
Paterno reportedly told the woman to go ahead.
She did just that.

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[BuckeyeMike80]

According to the sources, Paterno said a male passenger then walked up and chastised him, saying, "That's my wife you're talking to."
Paterno said, "That's your problem."

He might be a senile old coot, but that's a good line

[sandgk]

So JoePa gets his version of the story out ahead of the woman's in a paper. How about that?

[billmac91]

so an old driver vs. a female driver....i'm not sure who to trust on this one

i don't think theres anything more dangerous than a woman on a phone driving a car.....i've nearly been hit 2 or 3 times just this last week

[sandgk]

Originally Posted by billmac91

so an old driver vs. a female driver....i'm not sure who to trust on this one

i don't think theres anything more dangerous than a woman on a phone driving a car.....i've nearly been hit 2 or 3 times just this last week

Nothing in any report states that the female driver was on the phone - don't cut JoePa slack based on fiction.