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What Did I Say About Coaches Running Their Mouths?

Damnit, Joe Paterno.  First, you find the key to eternal life and have chosen not to share it with the rest of us.  Now, like that wasn't enough, you keep bringing up Big Ten expansion like it's going out of style.

"If I had my choice, someone that can give us the biggest TV exposure in the East," Paterno said, offering as possibilities "Syracuse, Pitt, Rutgers. Not in that order."

Yes, TV exposure over actual skill and accomplishment in athletics.  That's exactly what the Big Ten needs.  I often think to myself, on rainy Sundays, "oh, Charley West you old chap, that Big Ten conference is just too good.  What they really need is to water down their product just a tad more, all for the benefit of their grand TV network."   Then I smoke my pipe and adjust my monocle -- but you get the point.

It seems to be that Paterno has reached the stage in his life where he's just going to speak his mind and damn those who get in the way. I mean, he's been dead for 6 years, who cares if he spouts off at the mouth a little, right? 

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I can't decide

if it’s sad or funny that people on BGN and WVSports believed your post on Rutgers leaving BE for that other conference

by WVUIE97 on May 28, 2009 10:47 AM EDT reply actions  

reason why joe pa doesnt want wvu

doesnt want to get waxed on an annual basis

" I AM CAPATIN CHAOS, and this is my trusty Sidekick cato. Say hello Cato"
Dom Deluise 1933-2009, Cannonball run

by oldtimehockey09 on May 28, 2009 3:57 PM EDT reply actions  

Joe Pa has been dead for 6 years.

  It just hasn’t caught up to his brain yet.

by RichRN on May 29, 2009 5:13 AM EDT reply actions  

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