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Paterno Book

  • With the book coming out tomorrow, I expect there will be many posts on the subject. Thought we could start a thread here. I saw this very interesting excerpt this morning:

    Joe Posnanski Says He Told Joe Paterno He Should Have Done More To Stop Jerry Sandusky

    Were passing along certain details as we come across them.

    deadspin.com

    "You can take bowl games and you can take external things from people, but you can't take a warrior's heart."

    fullback dive

  • Link here from the New York Times review. It reads mostly fair, except where It says of 2001:

    "How could this have gone on for so long without Paterno’s knowledge? At least one instance of molesting was clearly reported to Paterno in 2001 — details are fuzzy about how much detail Paterno absorbed — and all the coach did was report the case to the university’s athletic director."

    He reported it to Schultz too, did he not? Frustrating that the so called best paper in the country gets a very important detail wrong.

    ‘Paterno’ by Joe Posnanski, a Biography of the Coach - NYTimes.com

    In “Paterno,” the sportswriter Joe Posnanski traces the rise and fall of the Penn State football coach.

    www.nytimes.com

    "You can take bowl games and you can take external things from people, but you can't take a warrior's heart."

    fullback dive

  • Does anyone know when it will go to I-tunes? I would to download the book onto my I-pad.

    This post was edited by psuflip on 8/20/2012 at 2:32 PM

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  • I hope my kindle gets it at midnight

    frxank

  • frxank said...

    I hope my kindle gets it at midnight

    It didn't

    frxank

  • I read the book last night and didn't learn anything new. I think it's fair to Joe. The book should be good for non-Penn Staters who have no context of who Sandusky was and how well respected he was in PA prior to the allegations.

    chuck415

  • I think what most of America and PSU bashers are ignorant to is the relationship or lack thereof between Joe and JS. The assumption is that because he worked for him for so long there was a close personal relationship. I'm not an insider, nor do I play one on message boards, but in actuality based on what I have read and absorbed in the past 20-25 years as a member of Nittany Nation, that is clearly inaccurate. They co-existed as boss and employee, but in the final 5 years of Sandusky's tenure Joe was unhappy with the performances of JS's defenses. Joe encouraged JS to retire early and was the only member of JS's chain of command that did not give carte blanche approval to JS's retirement demands.

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  • NitneeNut said...

    I think what most of America and PSU bashers are ignorant to is the relationship or lack thereof between Joe and JS. The assumption is that because he worked for him for so long there was a close personal relationship. I'm not an insider, nor do I play one on message boards, but in actuality based on what I have read and absorbed in the past 20-25 years as a member of Nittany Nation, that is clearly inaccurate. They co-existed as boss and employee, but in the final 5 years of Sandusky's tenure Joe was unhappy with the performances of JS's defenses. Joe encouraged JS to retire early and was the only member of JS's chain of command that did not give carte blanche approval to JS's retirement demands.

    You're right. Posnanski's book has a lot of insight into the very bitter relationship that Joe and Sandusky had, probably the best info I got from it. Joe tried to move Sandusky out of the DC role into an admin position and also tried to get him to be head coach at a satellite campus team that never materialized.

    This post was edited by chuck415 on 8/21/2012 at 11:47 AM

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  • I read Act IV forward tonight and basically found what I had already believed to be true to be true. I guess that still just makes me a kool aid drinker...

    Some interesting pieces to me included:
    Joe was going to Pittsburgh for an induction ceremony into the Pittsburgh Sports Hall of Fame the Saturday McQueary reported the JS incident to him and was out of town the following week on a Nike trip.
    The level of detail regarding the dislike Joe and JS had for one another in the Sandusky chapter.
    D'Elia not wanting the "In hindsight" portion of Joe's press release included as he thought it would be used against Joe (he was obviously correct), and Joe being more concerned with the phrase about going to work every day for 41 years and not wanting to mislead.
    Posnanski's ability to call the media a bunch of hacks without having to call them a bunch of hacks.
    At least 2 more Paterno books to come from Posnanski.
    The pages of my new book look like a kindergarten class pasted them into the binding. Is this by design?

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  • I hate to link to the WWL, but right now their lead link is the Paterno Biography will debut at #1 on the New York Times best seller list. There are some really interesting Paterno quotes/info in the book, which I'll post when I can, but I highly encourage buying the book. It's a very enjoyable read and gives good insight into the man many of us revered.

    "You can take bowl games and you can take external things from people, but you can't take a warrior's heart."

    fullback dive

  • fullback dive said...

    I hate to link to the WWL, but right now their lead link is the Paterno Biography will debut at #1 on the New York Times best seller list. There are some really interesting Paterno quotes/info in the book, which I'll post when I can, but I highly encourage buying the book. It's a very enjoyable read and gives good insight into the man many of us revered.

    I plan to buy it this weekend up in in SC so the money can go to a local business that has been affected by everything. It's been tough resisting picking it up so far.

    LBU 03 ●

  • LBU 03 said...

    I plan to buy it this weekend up in in SC so the money can go to a local business that has been affected by everything. It's been tough resisting picking it up so far.

    Great idea.... I'm going to do the same thing.

    PSUMel

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