It’s a travel day, meaning a 2:30 a.m. call from a United airlines rep telling me my flight was canceled this morning out if Indianapolis, but there was a replacement flight at the same time.
Now I sit and wait in Chicago’s O’Hare to get home. So the update is going to quick.
Here’s today’s stuff.
The other side of the Lions | Painter offers little test | PSU Notebook |
The thing that sticks out to me the most from this trip, Joe Paterno’s health. We are really beginning to see the beginning of the end. And quite frankly, that’s very sad.
Joe, so it seems, is now starting to realize he can’t do this forever and that is difficult to come to grips with when you’ve done something for close to 60 years.
Some think that he has enough left in the tank to get to a 60th year as a member of the coaching staff, but I just don’t see it right now.
His joints ache, he is up in the press box, riding around in a golf cart, he was wisked away yesterday to the airport after his post game remarks. It’s tough to watch. I don’t see this becoming a distraction to the players unless he cannot coach a game altogether for some reason.
He offered this as he left the interview room yesterday…
“See you next week guys, I guess.”
And that was after a yellow curtan blocked the media from entering the interview room while they got Joe up to the mic and kept him steady. It was very eerie to be honest.
But he keeps plugging along, so does his team, though I doubt we see any movement in the polls for the Nittany Lions.
Ask me today, they are beating Wisconsin next week. Then again it’s 6:47 a.m. central time, I’m in an airport, dead tired, so we’ll see.
Here’s some stuff from our sister paper the Wisconsin State Journal as well.
Title hope fades, Beckum emerges | Buckeyes turn out nightlight | From magnificant to mediocre
