To be honest, Mack deserves to be up here. I guess at 79 years of age, it was my last shot. But seriously, Mack is a friend and I congratulate him on a great year.
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He'll be a little bit like E. Z. Smith right now, ... I'm not sure he's better than the guys ahead of him, but he practiced yesterday and he'll practice the rest of the week, and we'll go from there.Joe Paterno
I need another big game like I need a hole in the head. I'm sure Bobby feels the same way.
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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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But they still want to be able to sit down with you, and you tell them what you feel about them. The thing that has changed more than the kids is you guys media. The media has changed so much. If I get up in the morning, I push a button on my remote, . . . and I got Lou Holtz or I got Jim Donnan on. That is not bad because there is so much interest in football, but it is just a different world.
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It was a decision that was made and I made it, and now since Steve ran it back to the 45-yard line, I wish I'd done it different.
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