All week I said, 'Let's test him, make him handle some pressure,' ... And I thought he handled it well.
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It's all part of the game. A player gets hurt. Someone has to step up. The squad will encourage the other kids that will have to step in there. Sure it's a loss. We'd love to have him. But we just have to go without him, and the squad understands that.Joe Paterno
We just haven't had some people he can do some things with, ... I think the next couple of years we'll be able to tell.
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I think Paul is as good of a linebacker as there is in the country. I think he has done everything you could ask a kid to do. He has played almost every play. He plays the pass well and plays the run well. He is a great leader.
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I think the university will do what they think is best for the university. As far as I am concerned, that's how I'm going to leave it,
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We are in the business of trying to help kids grow up, ... E.Z. has never been a bad kid. He has never done anything malicious to hurt somebody or anything like that. You kept hoping that he would get himself straightened out with the couple little problems he had and I was glad that everything worked out and he could get back in it and do it because he is going to be a fine person.
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So I don't know how long I can go, ... I don't sit here and say I'm going to coach one more year, two more years. I'm going to coach until I wake up some morning and say 'I've had enough', or the good Lord says 'Stay down, you're down,' and right now that hasn't happened.
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