Jay Paterno
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The College Football Decade Ahead
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Let’s look ahead in the crystal ball to see what those of us lucky (or maybe unlucky) enough to still be around may be looking back at when December 2029 rolls around. Here are some fearless predictions for the next 10 years.
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College Football Season Wrap: What’s Really Wrong with the Playoff; Buckeye Big Ten Dominance
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Now that the regular season is done and the first bowls are just a little over a week away, it’s a good time to look at the College Football Playoff and examine the Ohio State dominance of the Big Ten.
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12 Penn State Football Games from My Youth That I’m Thankful For
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Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s in State College was a magical time. Part of the magic was autumn Saturdays in Beaver Stadium. Here is a Thanksgiving list of games from my youth from 1973 through 1985 for which I am thankful.
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Be Careful What You Wish For: The True Costs of Fans’ Unrealistic Impatience
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By Veterans’ Day 2019 we’ve already seen the firings of head coaches at Arkansas, Rutgers and Florida State. The most rash of these firings were at Arkansas and at Florida State where head Coaches Chad Morris and Willie Taggart had yet to even complete their second seasons.
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The Literature of College Football
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It gained an unshakable hold on us. Evidence of the game’s hold seeped into popular culture, including references by great American writers. Over a century ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald became a convert as a Princeton freshman when the Tigers and their eastern university brethren were among the elite o
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Corporate-Speak Run Amok: A One-Size-Fits-All Presentation
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After a few years on Penn State’s Board of Trustees and a few years of listening to corporate-speak in presentation after presentation, I’ve decided to create the following talk as a public service.
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A Beginners Guide To Exploiting California’s NCAA Legislation
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One constant remains in college sports: when rules change, creative minds begin lining up how they will exploit the gaps. Everyone from agents to attorneys to alumni are looking for ways to ride this new wave of money that is about to flood the market.
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Autumn’s Call to Remember
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According to the calendar this is the last weekend before fall. But for those more in touch with their soul than a cold scientific definition of the seasons, fall has already begun. And here in Happy Valley autumn is a time of incredible beauty and a time of reflection.
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“With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more.” –Joe Paterno With those 11 words, issued as part of a statement in the early days of the Sandusky scandal, Joe Paterno became a central yet misplaced focus of the story. How did that happen? This and much more becomes clear in…
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Historically Speaking, the Transfer Portal Is a Cakewalk
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“The Transfer Portal.” The words alone evoke strong reactions from college football fans and coaches alike. Most of them are not positive. So as we hit the 150th anniversary of the first college football game, here is a history lesson from long ago days when players had far more freedom than they do now.…