# Will there ever be another Joe Paterno?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-another-joe-paterno/629148>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [July 23, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-another-joe-paterno/629148 "2012-07-23T17:23:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![TheBoltEater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheBoltEater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoltEater)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-another-joe-paterno/629148/21 "2012-07-24T20:28:02Z")

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> [@The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](#):
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> That’s great. I can’t way to see his press conferences when he turns fifty, sixty, and seventy.

Well played.

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**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-another-joe-paterno/629148/22 "2012-07-26T03:45:18Z")

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> [@Enderw24](#):
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> I think, long term, this won’t affect sports culture at all. If you win, you’re seen as good. If you win a lot, you can get away with a lot too. The case at Penn State was so freakish on the bell curve scale of “things coaches can do” it’s hard to draw anything concrete away from this as to how Uni sports will change. I mean, other than “report child abuse” which, well, duh.
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> It’s like asking “do you think they’ll fire Giants’ coach Tom Coughlin if he keeps winning Super Bowls?”  
> Well no.  
> “OK, what if, in the off-season, he kills a bunch of hobos?”  
> OK, yeah, then maybe then they’ll fire him.

Now, on the other hand, if Ray Lewis killed a bunch of hobos…

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