Unable to make up his mind, Engle had his assistant coaches vote on the matter. The assistants voted to stay in Happy Valley. The one vote to leave? You guessed it: Joe Paterno. Not only did JoePa want to leave for USC, but he was apparently pretty upset no one else wanted to at the time. In a interview with the Sunday Patriot-News , Engle said that Paterno gave a pep talk to the staff about why they should become Trojans.
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Subscribe today. By Joe Hermitt jhermitt pennlive. It is one of the great sorrows of my life. With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more. While Joe Paterno was planning to retire at the end of the season, the school decided to fire him immediately. He was terminated on Nov. It was 74 days after he was fired from the job he loved was when he died. Paterno dedicated 61 years to Penn State as both an assistant and head coach and deserved a better ending than what he received.
Photo: Sporting News via Getty Images. Paterno led Penn State to consecutive undefeated seasons in and and undefeated seasons in , and Paterno was the first coach to win all four of the major bowls — Rose, Orange, Fiesta, and Sugar and saw almost of his former charges go on to NFL success.
He turned down an offer to coach professional football with the New England Patriots in and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in During his year tenure at Penn State, he became an icon, rising to become the face and embodiment of what the university stood for. A beloved figure at Penn State, Paterno was known as much for his trademark bottle-thick, square glasses as for his leadership skills. In a new library bearing his name was opened on campus. In he married Suzanne Pohland whom he met when she was a student at Penn State.
The couple had five children together, all of whom would go on to graduate from the university. On November 5 the investigation into the allegations against Sandusky became public.
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