The one thing I said to some people in the university at times when they asked me about the future was, 'Look, everybody just stay stable. We will be OK. I have a bunch of great (coaches) around me. We have to go out and recruit a couple of kids and we will be OK,' ... I'm not sure they believed me, but at least they didn't fire me.
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He is going to make some mistakes, particularly against a team that does as many things as South Florida does.
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All week I said, 'Let's test him, make him handle some pressure,' ... And I thought he handled it well.
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Jim is one of the finest people I've ever known. He was a big brother and a father to me. Jim was one of those people you come across only once in a while. I will miss him very much.
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Few are capable of giving as accurate an assessment of the Big Ten's parity as Paterno, who has watched programs perceived to be inferior improve over the past 10 years not only with better recruits but also with quality coaches. When I first got in the league there were a couple guys I thought I could out-coach, ... I can't out-coach anyone right now in this league.
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He'll be a good defensive end. But we're still short one. We have three or four guys who have potential that need to understand what it's going to take.
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