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by RoDog723 on Jan 24, 2012 12:57 AM CST
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PrintBear Bryant-At the time of his death, he was the all time winning-est coach, last game he coached, he won against Illinois. The date was Jan. 26th, 1983, less than 60 days after he left the sport he loved. Penn State was National Champs in Bryant's last season, 1982. Joe Paterno. Also the winning-est coach at the time of his death. He also won the last game he coached, also against Illinois. He died Jan. 22nd, 2012, also less than 60 days after leaving the sport. In his last season of coaching, Alabama wins The National Championship.
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I think it was more than 60 days
between being fired and death for Joe Pa. Still quite a few coincidences.
One major difference
is that PSU lost to a Bryant coached Alabama team 21-42 in 1982.
If I’m not mistaken that was the game that their punter kicked the ball into the up backs butt. If it could go wrong for them that day, it did. They did smother Herschel Walker led Georgia Bulldogs in the Sugar Bowl that year.
Yes, but PSU lost to Alabama this year as well
so you have that, in their final year of coaching Alabama beat PSU.
You also have that in their last year of coaching each won 8 games. Furthermore each died at a hospital in their university town. Each coach completed 37 winning seasons. Each coach has a statue at their schools stadium. Each coach coached or played in the big four bowls.
If Auburn was in New Mexico and we never played them I would still hate them and their dumb coach and their cheating players.
Any VooDoo involved fifty?
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. ~General George S. Patton~
Not really.
I hate to say it but even the voodoo priest don’t want any part of Joe Pa.
Although there are some coincidences about Bryant and Paterno at the end of it all Bryant will forever be the greatest coach ever and Paterno, unless something comes out in a trial, will go down as the greatest coward ever.
If Auburn was in New Mexico and we never played them I would still hate them and their dumb coach and their cheating players.
by 5026 on Jan 24, 2012 6:15 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Forever-ever?
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 25, 2012 2:40 PM CST up reply actions
I'm pretty sure he'll be remembered for more than that.
And I think the guy that actually saw the rape happening would have dibs to the title of “greatest coward ever” ahead of Joe Pa.
God bless our Dark Lord.
Who says Joe Pa didn't see it.
As much as Sandusky was doing I suspect a lot of folks saw a lot of things.
But I get your point.
My argument about Paterno is that most of his glory years came when PSU was independent. For example in 68 & 69 PSU went undefeated both years, 22-0. They played a grad total of 2 teams during the regular season tbhagt were ranked and they were # 20 & # 17. PSU, back in the day ducked the hardest teams. Even when he won his 2 titles, in 82 & 86 he only played a few ranked teams. In 82 he did beat a 2nd ranked Neb. but lost to a 4th ranked Bama. He did finish the beating two other ranked teams before beating #1 ranked UGA in the Sugar Bowl. (but it was UGA so not unexpected.) Then in 86 he beat a total of 2 ranked teams on the way to the title.
But those were his good years. Other years he either played or beat no one. The Bama series was their biggest game ever year. We still had to play in the SEC. Point being, Joe was good not great at football. His greatness was how honest and fair he was . His greatness was in what he did for young men. But now that is gone and what is left is coaching record that is primarily an endurance award.
And, he was a coward. They worshiped him at that place but he didn’t have the guts to turn in a guy who might have helped his team to win. That is a coward.
If Auburn was in New Mexico and we never played them I would still hate them and their dumb coach and their cheating players.
by 5026 on Jan 25, 2012 4:07 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
It's all been debated before, and I don't care to debate it all again,
but FWIW, he did turn the guy in to the head of the university police. He should have done more, but he did not completely ignore it.
God bless our Dark Lord.
He turned him over to some people
he knew, or should have known, would do nothing. He covered his back side. He didn’t even check on it, instead Sandusky was still around the football complex and Joe apparently just did nothing. He, Patrerno, was either by then (2002) totally out of it mentally and did not remember what he had been told or knew. In other words he was just an old man with dementia or he was a coward.
If Auburn was in New Mexico and we never played them I would still hate them and their dumb coach and their cheating players.
This is so Iran-Contra....
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 26, 2012 10:09 AM CST up reply actions
Crap!
I stepped on the no-politics de facto rule we have here. Apologies.
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 26, 2012 10:10 AM CST up reply actions
At what point does politics transform into history that you're allowed to talk about anyway?
Is it things within your lifetime that you’re not allowed to discuss? BTW, I for one think the Teapot Dome scandal was totally overblown by the media!!!!!
God bless our Dark Lord.
Teapot Dome scandal?
Poor Honey Badger….
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 26, 2012 11:18 AM CST up reply actions
But Fitty's a masterdebater!
'There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment,'- Nick Saban
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