IIRC, Joe is also the highest paid public employee in the Commonwealth.

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nekom: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: IIRC, Joe is also the highest paid public employee in the Commonwealth.

I thought Penn State was a private school and only `state associated'. I didn't know the state actually paid salaries there. I guess it doesn't really matter, but I'll file that in my trivia file regardless.

Yeah, it's a grey area, to be sure, but I think that for all intents and purposes Penn State employees are considered to be public employees.

keylock71: Remember to "pray a little bit" for the victims, too... Just a little bit, though.

Joe would do it, but he's too busy counting money.

It's really tough to not agree with this perspective. First it was Penn State football is more important than kids getting raped. Now it turns out he's been protecting his assets from civil suits for months. Link (new window)

How far can this guy fall?

Walker: lennavan: keylock71: Remember to "pray a little bit" for the victims, too... Just a little bit, though.

Joe would do it, but he's too busy counting money.

It's really tough to not agree with this perspective. First it was Penn State football is more important than kids getting raped. Now it turns out he's been protecting his assets from civil suits for months. Link (new window)

How far can this guy fall?

Not that far, he's not that tall.

You're forgetting. In Pennsylvania, Paterno's feet never touch the ground.

He's 84, not much "life" left there

He worked for PSU for 60 years, you're surprised he's got a big pension?

You'd hate to see how much Nick Saban gets paid.

I don't see what all of the outrage over his pension is for. He worked for the school and therefore he is entitled to a pension. If you want to argue about how much he is getting that is fine, but also remember that over his time there he is probably responsible for bringing in 100x more money to the school than this 500k a year they are going to pay him. There are things to be legitimately pissed off at Paterno for, but this isn't one.

He should donate it to the victims fund.

Not much to do in Central Pa. is there?

Link (new window)

Sandusky's lawyer impregnated a 16 yo who worked in his office. He married her later. He was 49.

Yikes. What is wrong with these guys?

GAT_00: I'm actually surprised he hasn't died already. His life is coaching.

Guy on sportstalk radio station in Atlanta mentioned that Bear Bryant died within about a month of coaching his last game. He suggested that JoePa may take a similar course. Kind of makes sense.


/Hoping Sandusky follows suit

GAT_00: I'm actually surprised he hasn't died already. His life is coaching.

yep, i'm figuring it's going to be less than six months. and that will be better for his image. the public loves dead people, even dead people with a questionable past regarding kiddy-farking (see: jackson, michael).

/no, i'm not saying joepa farked a child
//he just willfully covered kiddy-farking up for a decade or more
///maybe god will forgive him

Misplaced outrage is misplaced.

He has actually been pretty underpaid as a head football coach at PSU (See: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2010-coaches-contracts -database.htm). When you put in 60 years at a public institution and make around $1mil, I don't see a problem with a pension that high.

Some of the inferior coaches making more than Paterno in 2010:

Ron Zook
Kirk Ferentz
Jim Grobe
Mark Richt
Jeff Tedford
June Jones
Turner Gil
Charlie Strong
David Cutliffe

That was the deal they agreed to.

nekom: coco ebert: The whole signing over all the property to his wife two months before investigation broke on the national news bothers me more than this.

Yeah, that's pretty shifty. I wonder if it's technically in violation of any laws. Try doing that 2 months before a bankruptcy filing, see what the trustee thinks of that.

In bankruptcy that would be a fraudulent conveyance, the transfer has to age quite a while before it would pass muster.

ark2612: He has actually been pretty underpaid as a head football coach at PSU (See: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2010-coaches-contracts -database.htm). When you put in 60 years at a public institution and make around $1mil, I don't see a problem with a pension that high.

Pensions are supposed to go to people who have been productive for their employer. The only thing JoePa produced for Penn State was a bunch of victims of rape, sexual abuse, and molestation who will never have normal lives.

DrewCurtisJr: He should donate it to the victims fund.

You mean his own defense fund? Because clearly he's the victim here.

ark2612: Misplaced outrage is misplaced.

He has actually been pretty underpaid as a head football coach at PSU (See: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2010-coaches-contracts -database.htm). When you put in 60 years at a public institution and make around $1mil, I don't see a problem with a pension that high.

Some of the inferior coaches making more than Paterno in 2010:

Ron Zook
Kirk Ferentz
Jim Grobe
Mark Richt
Jeff Tedford
June Jones
Turner Gil
Charlie Strong
David Cutliffe

Do you know that all these coaches have in common?

Yup, They didn't cover up child rape.

/had to go there. fish, barrel, etc
//not really bothered by pension. The guy did work for 64 years and hasn't been convicted of anything, yet.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: IIRC, Joe is also the highest paid public employee in the Commonwealth.

in almost all states with a bcs football program at one of their public universities, the head football coach is the highest paid state employee. usually, by a sizable margin.

/sometimes, it's the basketball coach.

Serious Black: ark2612: He has actually been pretty underpaid as a head football coach at PSU (See: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2010-coaches-contracts -database.htm). When you put in 60 years at a public institution and make around $1mil, I don't see a problem with a pension that high.

Pensions are supposed to go to people who have been productive for their employer. The only thing JoePa produced for Penn State was a bunch of victims of rape, sexual abuse, and molestation who will never have normal lives.

well to be fair he also produced institutional shame and massive liability and future civil damages.

/i have no problem with the pension. it's the cover-up of kiddy-farking that bugs me.

$2 million? I'm guessing Paterno doesn't last a year without coaching. PSU made a good deal.

He is worth every penny for keeping Penn State's image untarnished for an extra dozen years.

keylock71: Remember to "pray a little bit" for the victims, too... Just a little bit, though.

Just the tip of my prayers.