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Jay Paterno on family's report
February, 11, 2013
By
Adam Rittenberg | ESPN.com
Former Penn State assistant Jay Paterno joined "Mike & Mike" earlier Monday to discuss what his family is hoping to accomplish with its response to the Freeh report and how it impacts his late father's legacy.
You can listen to the full interview here
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Wow!
Now I better understand how that crazed criminal Jerry Sandusky got
away with molesting young boy. Right under the people working for Penn
State football programs nose. Guys like "Jay" worked there?
If I see Jay Paterno walking down the same side of the street, coming towards me. I'm crossing over to walk on the other side.
If I see Jay Paterno walking down the same side of the street, coming towards me. I'm crossing over to walk on the other side.
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Jay
and the Paterno's are idiots! Do they think picking at a scab is going
to let it heal? If anything it will just make it bleed again.
This clearly biased and shameless attempt to try and absolve JoePa of any blame is just going to backfire on them big time!
This clearly biased and shameless attempt to try and absolve JoePa of any blame is just going to backfire on them big time!
I
listened to Jay on Mike and MIke.. Golic is a moron. Jay was quoting a
professional on Child Abuse yet Golic repeatedly says "But I know that
can't be the case". I guess Golic should be the top FBI Agent on child
abuse.
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Reports: Cam Cameron to be LSU’s next offensive coordinator
Former Baltimore Ravens coordinator in line to take over Tiger offense
By CODY WORSHAM
Tiger Rag Editor
Cam Cameron will be hired as LSU’s offensive coordinator, according to multiple reports and current and former LSU players.
On Friday, CBSSports.com cited an anonymous source who said Cameron had already accepted the job, but as of late that afternoon, neither side had signed a contract. LSU sports information director Michael Bonnette also tweeted Friday that no announcement would be made regarding LSU football.
Tiger freshman receiver Avery Johnson and former Tiger offensive lineman Josh Dworaczyk both tweeted the news on Friday, as well. BBI’s Derek Ponamsky said on 104.5 ESPN’s “Sports Today” radio program that the move was imminent.
Cameron, who was fired from the same position with eventual-Super Bowl champs Baltimore on Dec. 10, will likely take the job in an official capacity toward the end of this week or the beginning of next week, after the LSU staff returns to campus from a break.
It is expected that current offensive coordinator Greg Studrawa will return to his duties as offensive line coach. Quarterbacks coach Steve Kragthorpe, whom Studrawa took over for in 2011 after Kragthorpe was diagnosed with Parkinson’s just months after his hiring, could move into an administrative position with the program.
A long-time friend to LSU head coach Les Miles, Cameron was fired from Baltimore after a 31-28 loss to Washington, primarily because of his stubbornness and refusal to accept input from others on the staff, sources around the team said. The team was 9-4 at the time, but the offense was flustering, and many Ravens fans praised the decision to fire Cameron.
“Cam was doing a heck of a job here,” Ravens head coach Jim Harbaugh said after the firing. “He did a heck of a job here for a long time. I believe that and I also believe that right now at this time, the timing says that this is the best thing and this is what we’re going to do.”
Cameron, who hired Harbaugh as an assistant while head coach at Indiana in 1997, later credited Harbaugh for making what he called “the hardest decision of [his] life.”
“It was a brilliant move,” Cameron told the New York Times. “Everyone on the team took a look in the mirror after that.
“We were inconsistent. And if I’m in charge, I’m saying: ‘Why are we inconsistent?’ We need to get the team’s attention.’”
Cameron took the Baltimore OC position in 2008 and was instrumental in the development of 2013 Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco. Under Cameron, Flacco threw for a franchise-record 13,816 yards and 80 touchdowns in his first four seasons. The two combined for 44 wins, an NFL record for QBs in their first four seasons.
“Listen, Cam has done so much for my career,” Flacco said when Cameron was fired. “He brought me here and trusted me enough to bring me here. I was definitely stunned.”
Before the Baltimore stint, Cameron also worked with Drew Brees and Phillip Rivers in San Diego from 2002-2006. Under Cameron, both made Pro Bowl squads, and Cameron’s 2006 offense led the NFL in scoring.
Cameron’s head coaching stints include a 2007 spell with the Miami Dolphins, who went 1-15. Cameron was also head coach at Indiana from 1997 to 2002, when he was replaced by former LSU headman Gerry DiNardo. Both DiNardo and Cameron, who coached with Miles at Michigan from 1987 to 1993, stood in Miles’ wedding.
The LSU offense has finished 85th, 86th, 86th, and 112th in total offense over the last four seasons.
Cody Worsham is the editor of Tiger Rag and a graduate of LSU journalism. Follow him on Twitter by CLICKING HERE, or email him at cody@tigerrag.com.
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When a playoff arrives, polls (mostly the coaches') won't count
By Dennis Dodd | Senior College Football Columnist
Nick Saban's opinion won't matter in the new playoff devised by BCS chief Bill Hancock and his cohorts. (Getty Images)
There's lots
to be decided before college football's first final four. Starting
with the fact that a playoff will not have the words "final" or
"four" in it. Something about upsetting the NCAA and its
trademarked-to-the-teeth, lawyered-up grip on those otherwise publicly
accessible words. The commissioners are still busy naming their new toy, but one element is becoming clear: the polls are in danger. Their relevance to be diminished by a selection committee that will have its own members, stats, numbers -- and agenda.
The goal is to be transparent but let's be honest. The NCAA basketball committee -- the best comparison to its playoff counterpart -- has yet to let a media member into the room to see how the bracket sausage is made. BCS executive director Bill Hancock suggested in July that could happen, with limitations on what could be reported.
That's progress, but there is so much we don't know about what they don't know about running a playoff, the future is murky. The only certainty is the polls are about to become game garnish, nothing more than conversation pieces in a sport they have influenced for parts of nine decades.
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As the old ways die out, the coaches' poll has the most to lose. It has its identity and relevance the past 15 years thanks to the BCS. With the system going away after this season, what use will there be for the coaches' controversial measuring stick?
First, it won't be a measuring stick. The football committee will distance itself as far as possible away from any comparison to any poll. There are rumblings that the coaches themselves are fed up with the aggravation. Those who do vote (when their SIDs don't cast ballots for them) complain of voter fatigue. Arkansas coach Bret Bielema told me last week he'd have no interest in voting in a poll that doesn't mean anything.
"There might be somebody who says, 'Let's keep doing it just so we can have our own poll,' " said veteran pollster Tommy Tuberville, also on the board of the American Football Coaches Association, whose members produce the poll. "The comparison [to the selection committee] would be a conflict of interest."
The coaches' poll already is a conflict of interest -- a massive one. I've written so many times on that subject my fingers are sore.
In the playoff age, the coaches' poll will wither, if not die, due to irrelevance. If it is smart, that new selection committee will release one set of midseason "rankings" then head back into its bunker. The basketball committee doesn't even do that. Its chairman emerges for a series of media conference calls.
Don't be surprised if the football committee gives us an idea where their heads are at, but not much more during the season. Anything more risks comparison to the human polls and more controversy. This is their playoff, their system, their opinion. One only they will have to justify -- with as little outside influence as possible.
"They're going to have to have a poll during the year just to keep people's interest, to see what people are thinking," Tuberville said.
And "they" will. There's AP, which will continue to produce the most objective, neutral poll in existence. Objective and neutral because it doesn't want to be part of the process. It's been that way since 2005 when AP pulled its poll out of the BCS. You've got to admire that stance. Just don't tell me that the coaches' poll is more relevant.
Not with salary bonuses still out there based on final rankings. Not with a poll manipulated by the participants.
You've got to look at the future as a postseason manipulated by a committee rather than a football poll. That has its own set of issues but none of them involve Nick Saban suspiciously voting Oklahoma State fourth in 2011. We're being told the football committee will probably be made up of a representative from each FBS conference (10 in all) -- perhaps an athletic director. There will be a few other ex-officio members, perhaps retired administrators. (Two suggestions: retiring Florida president Bernie Machen and retired former Texas A&M AD Bill Byrne.)
Whoever participates, they haven't grasped how their lives will change. They won't be able to go out to eat with their wives. Really. All it would take is one wise-ass snapping an ill-timed cell phone pic of Roy Kramer raising a glass of wine. Next thing you know it's on Deadspin and one of the most respected figures in the game is defending his honor.
That's why Kramer -- innovator/BCS inventor/father of the modern SEC/college football genius emeritus -- is out as a committee candidate. He told me so in September.
It won't end there. In this age of Freedom of Information Act requests, committee members will get the ol' media colonoscopy. Don't forget criminal background checks. There will be those too. All we need is the public airing of some unfortunate 30-year old college prank by one of the members. And heaven forbid if a committee members gets a DUI or is sued -- for anything.
And you want the polls to count? They won't in the future. They're about to become that game garnish, conversation pieces. The real sausage will be made in a bunker somewhere by a group of august individuals who can't go out in public, have nothing to hide from Deadspin and can't so much as endure a traffic ticket.
And somehow, that will be progress.
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