Penn State’s Joe Paterno is never short on opinions, and recently there’s been a lot of buzz about his wants to have 12 teams in the Big Ten. Currently, the Big Ten is finished playing well before most other conferences, with a six-week hiatus between their season and the bowls. Paterno thinks that hurts the conference as a whole and keeps the Big Ten from being viable to produce a national champion.
Unfortunately, he also thinks that some people are laughing at him.
“You know, it’s a conference that’s dominated by a couple of people. If I start talking, they’re polite, but …read more

Florida State may have to retroactively forfeit up to 14 wins as the NCAA investigates an academic cheating scandal. While the school has admitted that some of their students cheated and are accepting some of the NCAA sanctions, head coach Bobby Bowden has said that the school will appeal any punishments that will strip victories.
This might not matter much to Joe Paterno of Penn State, but he and Bowden are in a dead heat for number of victories among major college coaches. Paterno currently has 383 wins, while Bowden has 382. He’d only have 368 is the wins are stripped, …read more

…but this guy is. Thank god JoePa can hold his own. I mean, seriously. Who speculates in a QUESTION TO THE COACH that the COACH was involved in some kind of carousing or something. Especially JoePa, someone who’s been getting the early bird discount since before most of his players were born. That member of the media is an insult to anyone who writes or reports about sports.