[Husker] Joe Paterno, 1926-2012

[Aaron Wolfson]

It's interesting you bring up Kodak -- it failed change with the times,
which was the main reason for its demise. I won't go quite that far with
Paterno, but I think he did show us how dangerous it can be to lose touch
with how the world works.

Aaron


On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 3:57 PM, David Elfering <aroundomaha at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
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