[Husker] Joe Paterno, 1926-2012

[David Elfering]

I think history has a way of evening out the long term judgement. In the
short term people will say what they say out of emotion, having an ax to
grind, stir up the muck or what have you.

Personally I don't feel entitled to judge the guy, but he probably was the
last of the mohicans in both good and bad ways. The last of the old school
coaches like Paterno, Osborne, Bowden are pretty much gone. Now they feel
more like short term contractors. Perhaps this in light of Kodak going away
we're truly seeing the change of times.

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Mike Nolan <nolan at tssi.com> wrote:

> When it was announced that Nebraska was joining the Big Ten, my hope was
> that Joe Paterno would have at least one more appearance on the sidelines
> of Memorial Stadium.
>
> That was not to be, for reasons that went beyond football.
>
> And now Joe Paterno has died, just twelve weeks after much of his life's
> work was tarnished.
>
> Much will be written about Joe Paterno in the coming days, weeks,
> months and years, quite a lot of it unflattering.  He defined, in ways
> both good and bad, an era (or several eras) of college football.
>
> T.S. Eliot wrote:  This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but
> a whimper.
> --
> Mike Nolan
>
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