re: your Joe Paterono rant - WORD.

I’m a heartbroken fan of the former and now disgraced patriarch of college football.

We Penn Staters need to move on. But, we can’t do that without facing the truth; the Penn State football we thought we knew, the good, clean program we held up so high, above Florida, above Alabama, above Oklahoma, above Texas, above, above, above, was far more below than we could ever imagine.

Will football disappear from central Pennsylvania? No. Because it can’t. Too many lives depend on it. In tough economic times the last thing anyone is going to do is send more people on food stamps. Football will go on, and the students will still hold fundraisers for great causes, and a lot of work will be done in the classroom, and the alumni will continue to be ethical, successful entrepreneurs. But, you can’t leave all of those symbols of something that wasn’t real. I hope my fellow Penn Staters eventually come to see that. Unfortunately, I think the nation is set up to be shocked once more.