Glad you're alright Joe!

TAKEN FROM ASSOCIATED NEWS....

Glad you're OK Joe....

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Penn State coach Joe Paterno is back home after spending several hours at a hospital being treated for dehydration.

Penn State spokesman Jeff Nelson says the 81-year-old coach was released Thursday from Mount Nittany Medical Center after being taken by ambulance from his home after feeling nauseous.

He underwent tests at the hospital but was not admitted.

Paterno has had a busy schedule of late, traveling to Philadelphia last weekend and meeting with fellow Big Ten football coaches earlier this week. Spokesman Guido D'Elia says JoePa was on the phone with recruits Thursday morning before going to the hospital.

Paterno is still scheduled to travel to Austin, Texas, to speak at a dinner Friday night for Longhorns coach Mack Brown.

From Penn State to State Penn

In honor of an article devoted to the top 13 Cincinnati Bengals arrests in recent seasons, The View From North America has his list of all-time PSU “discussions” with the police.

While the list seems small, the list is long and, well, worrying.







1. EZ "Robin Hood" Smith (2005)

One night, for some reason, Smith and four others (Smith, tackle Andrew Richardson, defensive tackle Scott Paxson and guard Tyler Reed) decided to do their best Robin Hood impressions by firing off graphite arrows into a dorm room wall during January. EZ Smith as Robin Hood? Don’t think so. Although the other three were exonerated, Smith was excluded.

Oh, and in 2003. Smith also had two drinking citations too.





2. Seemingly the entire Penn State football team "What did you say to my girl?" (2007)

Some guy makes a comment about your girlfriend. Suddenly, you invite a load of your football friends around for a fight with a guy who dissed your girlfriend. In 2008 Scirrotto was made one of PSU’s captains for 2008. He said he felt like a “new guy”. Thank God you didn’t go to jail Anthony, someone else could have made you feel like a “new guy.”



3. Bobby "Mike TV" Engram/ Bobby "Best Buy" Sayles (1992)

On their way to find a teammate, the two guys think it might be a bright idea to go and steal a TV. Good effort!!
Engram was suspended for the 1992 season, but is still a Penn State hero – especially as his career with the Seattle Seahawks has gone amazingly. And it could have been so different if it wasn’t for Sayles having the idea instead of Bobby E.



4. Navarro Bowman "Let's get it started!", Chris Baker (2008)

If you're going to punch an out of town frat boy's head in, do it somewhere quietly? The HUB's (Penn State's student union) not exactly the best place to do it. Baker was expelled from the team.



5. Dan "Bart Simpson" Connor (2005)

Connor pulls off his best Bart Simpson impression by doing some prank phone calls. Unlike the TV world, who finds it funny, the victims didn't, and Connor was arrested for a criminal mischief phone summary charge. Giggle.

6. Joe Paterno himself (2008)

My favourite moment in sports. JoePa gets in a prang - or nearly does - with a woman. She's rude to him. He's rude back. Her husband yells out: "That's my wife you're talking to". He yells back: "That's your problem". Joe, many-a-husband will use your comments from now on...

7. Richard "Mastercard" Cheek (2004)

As a walk-on, you like to make an impression. Can I suggest there are other ways of making an impression than getting arrested for using a stolen credit card?

8. Michael "Tonya Harding" Robinson, Ed "Michelle Kwai" Johnson (2004)

Penn State's future star quarterback and linebacker Ed Johnson (among others) manage to get a fight in an ice rink. They are all arrested. Robinson needed 24 stitches. That must have been one hell of a fight - Robinson's a big guy. All charges were dropped, by the way, and Robinson led PSU to Big Ten title.

And listen to this: it got so bad that Pitt's bloggers were dissing Nittany Nation.

9. Many others, for getting hammered in public (2002-8)

Ohio State are ESPN's newest No.1

Oh great, the Buckeyes are returning to the Title Game...according to ESPN.com.

According to the site, OSU could still make it if they lose to USC early on in the season (which we think they will).

Georgia's No.2 despite a rough schedule, and Oklahoma are a 3 with a laugher of Big XII schedule - which doesn't include Missouri. And USC are No.4 - although with most of the difficult teams to play at home, we think they'll be a the future No.1 - even without the ineligility of wide receiver Joe McKnight for Spring Practice, which gives some insiders jitters about his future SC career.

And the Nittany Lions? 25th spot.

ESPN writer Mark Schlabach said: "Penn State suffered a big blow during spring practice when All-America candidate Sean Lee tore the ACL in his right knee, but 16 other starters are expected back. Quarterback Daryll Clark should be more mobile than departed starter Anthony Morelli and there's a boatload of talented receivers coming back. Road games at Ohio State and Wisconsin are tough tests." Wisconsin and Ohio State tough tests? And let's not forget Michigan and Illinois at home, eh?

TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!!

I'd like to take back any remarks I said about Ryan Perrilloux

It's not often that I say the words: "I'm wrong". But today, "I'm wrong". The atmosphere's not been the best for Penn State, but no-one used a dead woman's credit card, as Florida Gators safety Jamar Hornsby's alleged to have done.

And the Gators fans aren't too happy either.....

Gator fans called this "a new low". Coming from Gator fans, who are described by many as being the lowest of the low??

For that, I've GOT to put up the tune...."Changes" by Tupac Shakur. How does this connect to young Jamar? The tune at the beginning is called "The Way it is", but "Bruce Hornsby".



Incidentally, young Jamar's been kicked off the team.

Meanwhile, Penn State linebacker Knowledge Timmons was told by a judge to serve a year in a program for first-time offenders. I guess that running up stairs at Beaver Stadium just wasn't enough for this judge, was it???

By the way, he's not going to 'do a Vick' and end up behind bars, so he might well be ready for the Coastal Carolina game at the start of the year.

From Penn State to State Penn: The Full Article

Here's the full article published on Skysports.com about Penn State's disciplinary issues...

If there's anyone who's got bigger problems in the world of college sports than Penn State's Joe Paterno, then we'd like him or her to put their hand up....please, let's see it.

Paterno harks back to a day when the players weren't trying to be Mr Jerry Rice, Mr Endorsement, or Mr No.1 Pick in the NFL Draft. The kids came to play the sports, they behaved, and that was it. Sure, the kids made the mistakes, but those were forgiveable.
But now, Paterno's biggest problem is trying to get his 2008 team from self-imploding.

I feel sorry for Joe Paterno. The man is one of humanity's sporting greats, helping to turn Penn State University from a small farming school into the 50,000 student monster in the middle of rural Pennsylvania. Sure, he's had a library named after him - but the 110,000 size Beaver Stadium is really 'The House That JoePa Built'. 30,000 students dressed in white losing their voices at several home games in the last few years would agree.

His Big Ten Championship - his only one in recent years - got him ESPN's "Coach of The Year" status, but recent incidents over the last few years - which have seen over 60 of his players arrested for off-the-field incidents - has seen as reputation tarnished. While the 2007 offseason wasn't great, the 2008 offseason has been a nightmare.

Chris Bell - recruited in 2006 as one of the best wide receivers coming out of that year's - was thrown off the team for allegedly threatening one of his teammates with an eight inch blade. Andrew Quarless, one of Penn State's star tight ends last year, was arrested for his second bout of underage drinking. Starting defensive tackle Chris Baker? Suspended for fighting in the PSU equivalent of the student union. Linebacker Knowledge Timmons? Suspended for the same thing.

And if you add to that a mass brawl during the summer of 2007 that seemed to involve every part of PSU football bar the coaching staff and running back Austin Scott's arrest for alleged rape during the 2007 football season, it hasn't been a great year for Penn State football. Hey, forget about the fact that Penn State lost to Illinois and Michigan State this year! Next year they'll be happy if they beat Coastal Carolina!

Joe Paterno - himself the subject of much newspaper ridicule after a car prang last year - must have told his team 400 times about their off-the-field behaviour. Yet nothing has happened.

Something has to change, and it has to change fast. Paterno needs to gain the control of his team again, because it seems to be vanishing into thin air. Sure, you don't do your own behavioural CV any good when you're involved in a car prang that ends up with you yelling at a woman and her husband, but Joe Paterno IS the coach of Penn State football and needs to be respected that way.

Otherwise, Penn State Nation will once again feel angry, annoyed, and failed.


If there's anyone who's got bigger problems in the world of college sports than Penn State's Joe Paterno, then we'd like him or her to put their hand up....please

Paterno harks back to a day when the players weren't trying to be Mr Jerry Rice, Mr Endorsement, or Mr No.1 Pick in the NFL Draft. The kids came to play the sports, they behaved, and that was it. Sure, the kids made the mistakes, but those were forgiveable.
But now, Paterno's biggest problem is trying to get his 2008 team from self-imploding.

I feel sorry for Joe Paterno. The man is one of humanity's sporting greats, helping to turn Penn State University from a small farming school into the 50,000 student monster in the middle of rural Pennsylvania. Sure, he's had a library named after him - but the 110,000 size Beaver Stadium is really 'The House That JoePa Built'. 30,000 students dressed in white losing their voices at several home games in the last few years would agree.

His Big Ten Championship - his only one in recent years - got him ESPN's "Coach of The Year" status, but recent incidents over the last few years - which have seen over 60 of his players arrested for off-the-field incidents - has seen as reputation tarnished. While the 2007 offseason wasn't great, the 2008 offseason has been a nightmare.

Chris Bell - recruited in 2006 as one of the best wide receivers coming out of that year's - was thrown off the team for allegedly threatening one of his teammates with an eight inch blade. Andrew Quarless, one of Penn State's star tight ends last year, was arrested for his second bout of underage drinking. Starting defensive tackle Chris Baker? Suspended for fighting in the PSU equivalent of the student union. Linebacker Knowledge Timmons? Suspended for the same thing.

And if you add to that a mass brawl during the summer of 2007 that seemed to involve every part of PSU football bar the coaching staff and running back Austin Scott's arrest for alleged rape during the 2007 football season, it hasn't been a great year for Penn State football. Hey, forget about the fact that Penn State lost to Illinois and Michigan State this year! Next year they'll be happy if they beat Coastal Carolina!

Joe Paterno - himself the subject of much newspaper ridicule after a car prang last year - must have told his team 400 times about their off-the-field behaviour. Yet nothing has happened.

Something has to change, and it has to change fast. Paterno needs to gain the control of his team again, because it seems to be vanishing into thin air. Sure, you don't do your own behavioural CV any good when you're involved in a car prang that ends up with you yelling at a woman and her husband, but Joe Paterno IS the coach of Penn State football and needs to be respected that way.

Otherwise, Penn State Nation will once again feel angry, annoyed, and failed.

National Champs to National Chumps

LSU's joy at a National Championship last season was turned into pure misery today when highly-talented (and troubled) quarterback Ryan Perilloux was kicked off the team for an apparent failure of a drug test.

This guy had a ton of talent, a great arm, and could escape out of a pocket. He could well have helped LSU win an SEC West title and perhaps a spot in the BCS.

Now, a freshman Jarrett Lee or junior Andrew Hatch? Puhleeze. Maybe Les Miles SHOULD have gone to Michigan after all.

The rest of the SEC won't be feeling sorry for LSU. But again, here's another story about a talented quarterback gone astray. Hmm...I wonder where the NFL have seen that before??



Tigers fans (I know a few), must be kicking themselves - or want to kick Perrilloux.

Connor goes to Carolina

Dan Connor, linebacking hero at Penn State, has been drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the THIRD ROUND of the NFL Draft.

The Panthers got a steal.