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11-18-2007, 10:26 PM
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Now this becomes worse for Penn State --
On the heels of the recent charges, there was this thread on FOS --
"Penn State Worst Program in Nation"
By which was meant, worst behavior.
From the thread - the all too typical FOS cycle of denial.
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PSU worst program in nation: telling article about PSU Pro Day 
Just read this article and the catching part is about 3/4 of the way down where Scouts from the recent Pro-day were telling folks that PSU is in the worst shape of any team they have visited.
www.centredaily.com/sport...64697.html
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Followed by the inevitable attack on the messenger:
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Re: PSU worst program in nation: telling article about PSU Pro 
You posted an article from one of the biggest Joe haters in the world who quotes a waitress secondhand?!? BWAH HAHAHAHAHAHA! Are you Bracken? You can tell me. I know you're not Jerry Keller.
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Which inevitably ignores the core message of the article in question:
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If you watched the Oregon- Arizona game on ESPN Thursday night you couldn’t miss the news crawling across the bottom of the screen stating that Penn State defensive tackle Chris Baker and linebacker Navorro Bowman had been charged for their part in the HUB incident, followed by the news that recently-dismissed tailback Austin Scott had waived his arraignment on charges of rape and sexual assault.
That’s the image of Penn State football that’s out there now. And there’s this? When Penn State held its Pro Day earlier this fall, several NFL scouts had lunch at a local restaurant and asked their waitress what was going on with the Penn State football team, telling her that the behavior here was the worst of any program they’d visited.
That’s what’s out there now. And it’s not the work of an anti- Penn State media corps. These incidents happened. They weren’t invented by some talking head or ink-stained wretch in search of an exclusive, sensational story to sell to the National Enquirer.
The question is how to rein it in. And the answer is as elusive within the team framework as it is in society. That’s why there are prisons and rich lawyers.
Joe Paterno is tasked with coming up with some sort of action to address the situation. After all, he gets the credit for the Grand Experiment that once produced doctors and lawyers and major players on Wall Street. Now it falls to him to try, in the winter of his life, to correct the course of this program.
It has become a daunting task, one that has to sap a disproportionate amount of energy from a well that’s not as deep as it once was.
And you have to wonder how much longer he can fight it. Oops, bad choice of words.
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11-19-2007, 01:41 AM
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11-20-2007, 07:36 PM
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The State Supreme Court rules that JoePa's salary must be revealed to the public.
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Penn St. must disclose Paterno's pay
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- The state retirement system must disclose the salaries of Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno and some of the school's top administrators, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
The 4-2 decision said a lower court that had ordered the disclosure properly balanced the public's interest in knowing details about retirement system finances against the effects disclosure might have on reputations and personal security.
The case was the result of a December 2002 request by a reporter for The Patriot-News in Harrisburg who sought the salaries of Paterno and three other Penn State officials from the State Employees' Retirement System.
The retirement board had granted the request, but disclosure was put on hold while the university appealed.
"We hold that the public does in fact have a right to such information to the extent necessary to justify all guaranteed disbursements from the fund," wrote Justice James J. Fitzgerald III for the majority.
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11-20-2007, 07:41 PM
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It is truly starting to get sad.
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Starting???
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11-20-2007, 08:05 PM
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Originally Posted by BB73
The State Supreme Court rules that JoePa's salary must be revealed to the public.
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The case was the result of a December 2002 request by a reporter for The Patriot-News in Harrisburg who sought the salaries of Paterno and three other Penn State officials from the State Employees' Retirement System.
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Gee, it only took them five years...
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11-29-2007, 04:31 PM
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And the answer is $512,664 - aside from other compensation - money from television and apparel contracts, that Paterno may earn that is typical of Division I-A coaches.
Oh, yes - and he wants to coach for another three, four or five years ....
God help Penn State.
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