Mizell Friday
Joe Paterno is the “winningest major college football coach EVER”---397
in 45 Penn State seasons…A record that will NEVER be broken…
… Joe turns 84 in December… Penn State is now 3-and-3…less imposing then
usual…THE LATEST was a 33-13 failure AT HOME---against Ron Zook’s
ILLINOIS… Nittany Lions have won against unimposing opposition: Youngstown State--
Temple--Kent State… Penn State sells 107,000 seats at Beaver Stadium---a majority of
them ARE GRUMBLING… Paterno went 11 and 2 last year---the Lions SHOULD win
tomorrow at Minnesota---then comes a shot “at home” against Michigan... but Penn State
prospects for the next few seasons---NOT BRIGHT… Recruiting is hurting---Paterno and
two other Lions coaches are “SO OLD” they don’t travel in search of teen-age
talent… Critics shout--“Joe Must Go”… I LOVE the man…
No coach is “more admired”… I fear Paterno is “setting himself up”
for an UNHAPPY FINISH---similar to the “No. 2 all-time winner”---
Florida State’s Bobby Bowden… Please—Joe---don’t dare fate…
“Work a compromise with Penn State”---coach ONE more season, in
2011---enjoying “a victory tour”---an Adoring America will celebrate “The
Great JoePa”… Paterno has no hobbies---but “what a fabulous family”…a great
wife--SUE--of 47 years…5 children, all Penn State grads…17 grandkids…
Joe, don’t think they WON’T run you off---as FSU did a “quite-stubborn”
Bowden… be the “ARCHITECT of your own AU REVOIR…I’m Hubert Mizell, and
that’s what I think.
