If you cannot recruit, you cannot win. And Joe Paterno will never be able to recruit again.
Penn State has a long and distinguished history, as both a football program and as an actual, you know, university. Its athletics program has never been tainted by any sort of scandal before, and that may well be because it has not, in fact, cheated (as opposed to the method employed by so many other schools, which is to cheat but not get caught). But make no mistake, Joe Paterno's unprecedented run as Penn State's head football coach, which practically dates back to the early 17th century, has far less to do with integrity than it does winning. At various points in recent years there have been rumblings in the PSU community that it was time for Joe to go, and all of those instances correlated directly with a failure to win on the field. When Paterno has bounced back and posted strong seasons the sniping has predictably died away.…
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76 - Igor
The real cause of dismay here is the overgrown football mania that haunts US universities. Until we get rid of that this sort of thing will continues to come up.