JoePa......

[NEVolFan]

Found this interesting.....and familiar, well to a certain extent anyway.

JoePa.....

Four years ago, Paterno was putting together a 4-7 season on the heels of a 3-9 2003 season and losing records in 2000 and 2001. I was among the blasphemers who said that it was time for the then 78-year-old legend to retire. And if he wouldn’t go quietly, I wrote, Penn State had to fire him

The game had passed Paterno by, and he wasn’t going to start learning new tricks at his age. It was clear he could no longer do the job for which he was hired — to win football games. He still wouldn’t play freshmen. His offensive and defensive systems no longer worked. He was starting to populate a proud program with aspiring felons. He had to go.

Paterno hasn’t gotten smarter in the last four years. In fact, he’s no doubt less capable of running a team today than he was then. But he made one critical decision after that 2004 season that will allow him to keep calling himself the head coach of Penn State football as long as he still draws breath: he took off the headset and handed the team over to as capable a staff of assistants as there is in the game.

 

[BeecherVol]

Found this interesting.....and familiar, well to a certain extent anyway.

JoePa.....

Is that Joe in your avatar?
He has more hair than I remember.:hi:
Im here all nite.

 

[hmanvolfan]

Is that Joe in your avatar?
He has more hair than I remember.:hi:
Im here all nite.

Be sure to tip the waitresses.....

 

[Stevorino]

And had Fulmer been that smart to pass it over to a great staff, he could be doing the same.

Instead, King Kiffin will come in and work with a great staff.

 

[**ORANGEBLOOD**]

I guess I will be the a hole...wrong forum.

 

[SavageOrangeJug]

And had Fulmer been that smart to pass it over to a great staff, he could be doing the same.

Fulmer would never hire anyone he thought could be a threat to replace him.

 

[tabrams]

Fulmer would never hire anyone he thought could be a threat to replace him.

Bingo!! we have a winner!! and that's why he got sh@tcanned!!!
lol:

 

[Orange_RBS]

Fulmer would never hire anyone he thought could be a threat to replace him.

Its not always about handing the headset off but bringing in someone who could greatly asst with the headset. Fulmers name alone would have kept him at UT for years to come had he brought in someone that could have put up 35 points a game instead of a little known HC out of Richmond. I love CPF and appreciate everything he has done and is and will always be a legend at UT but it was time!

 

[gainesvol82]

Be sure to tip the waitresses.....

Nah, make sure to shaft her.... :thumbsup:

 

[gainesvol82]

Its not always about handing the headset off but bringing in someone who could greatly asst with the headset. Fulmers name alone would have kept him at UT for years to come had he brought in someone that could have put up 35 points a game instead of a little known HC out of Richmond. I love CPF and appreciate everything he has done and is and will always be a legend at UT but it was time!

The problem was that no legitimate assistants would coach under Phil "Fingers in the Playbook" Fulmer. Phil's history of not fully handing the reigns over to the assistants finally caught up with him.