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Paterno won't coast into retirement. (Insider: college football).
Joe Paterno has fallen. The nation is waiting to see whether he'll get up.
Paterno has stood tall--very tall--for most of his 36 years as head coach of Penn State. There are the national championships in 1982 and '86, the five undefeated seasons and the 327 career victories, not to mention the piles of money he has given to the university's library system.
But you didn't need to be wearing glasses as thick as Paterno's to see the ugliness of the last two seasons. Penn State went 5-7 in 2000 and 5-6 last year, the first time the school had consecutive non-winning seasons since 1965 (Rip Engle's last season) and 1966 (Paterno's first). The last time the ...
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