Paterno is still alive...nobody's boiled him in a pot...yet...
Liberty? He's not behind bars; and no charges have been filed against him...he's free to roam like us...but hey, he'll need a ticket to get in the game...like us...Certain rights belong only to CURRENT coaches.
Property? What? Has somebody already sued him and won? Even then, that would be due process, wouldn't it?
Even if you could make it stick that Paterno has somehow lost liberty, even you just posted: "A public employee’s liberty interest can be triggered by a discharge under certain publicly stigmatizing circumstances."
I'd say these were "publicly stigmatizing circumstances," wouldn't you?
As for the underlying point of quoting that, are you claiming that football coaches & university officials with contracts are unfire-able? You're not claiming that little diddy, are you?
if you could make it stick that Paterno has somehow lost liberty, even you just posted: "A public employee’s liberty interest can be triggered by a discharge under certain publicly stigmatizing circumstances
since these ARE publicly stigmatizing circumstances, Paternos liberty interests ARE at stake, as you just posted. Ergo, he can easily raise a potential claim that Due Process has been violated.