[Trentamj]

I am not a Joe Paterno fan, especially because his pre-Sandusky treatment by too many of the Happy Valley people was flat-out idolatry of a football coach, or a ridiculously-long orgy of "Let's-All-Hail-Jesus'-Palm-Sunday-Arrival-in-Jerusalem" parade. One would have thought old Joe had cured cancer or something, based on the way too many people across the country, including my dearly-departed Dad, acted. But, to be consistent, if I was critical about how Joe Paterno was literally placed on a pedestal, while still alive no less (which, to me, is always an effective way of begging Fortune to turn her back on you), I am even less impressed at how quickly Joe Paterno's life and reputation were both cast down in a high-tech media mob action. Ziegler may be wrong about most things, but he is not wrong in pointing out that what happened to Joe Paterno was nothing less than a practice-round for what turned out to be the real tournament in Broward County Florida: the ridiculously-political trial of George Zimmerman. In this case, the medial miscalculated because it failed to account for the fact that George Z was not a sick old man dying of cancer.

[FlJoePa]

The media, freeh, and the ncaa miscalculated with Joe as well - not counting on 650K living alumni that are well funded, active, and very capable of taking them on.

Joe wasn’t a saint. He’d be the first to say so. He was a football coach that made his kids go to class.