samantha, remember that this is coming from someone who was formerly a huge fan of Joe Paterno.
Paterno could get a little preachy. Well, that's sugar-coating it. Paterno often preached from a point of moral superiority that bothered people. It may have bothered me slightly, but when it came to the old saying "people who live in glass houses . . . ", we believed Paterno lived in a glass house. PSU was one of only two NCAA Division 1 institutions that had never been charged or even investigated for a major infraction. And Joe Paterno and his wife gave over $4 million to the PSU library. The guy was a literature major from Brown. An Ivy-League educated football coach who gave money to his university's library!
But the petty side is that Penn State once turned Notre Dame into the NCAA because a Notre Dame recruiter gave a recruit a meal at McDonald's. So . . . there were people who thought that Paterno had a 'holier than thou' posture.
And they thought he was cocky. He was. When he turned 78, the Trustees of Penn State asked Joe Paterno to resign. He said no.
You might see things different if you look at it from a fundraising aspect, the (illicit?) fundraising brings all the necessary money to recruit players to the point you don’t need to be a great coach when surrounded by talented players that that amount of money at your disposal could attract besides the petty competitive edges that are used to gain an advantage.
Follow the money.