Paterno Legal System: ALL Penn State Players Must Clean Stadium
May 31, 2007
It’s official, Joe Paterno wants to set things straight with his players. Paterno, 80, still has the drive and character to discipline his players. You may remember when the 6 PSU players were arrested for their conduct. The legal system did it job. Now it is time for the Paterno Legal System. If one player is in trouble the entire team is also in hot water. Yahoo Sports has released the following information that may make you think twice about taking out the trash.
 Yahoo Sports–
He’ll let the local legal and student judicial process play out, but regardless he decided that to keep people from thinking his team was trash, it’ll spend the fall cleaning it up.
According to Paterno, the Penn State football team will clean Beaver Stadium after each home football game this fall. It’ll gather garbage, sweep stairs and maybe even hose parts down.
It’ll be Notre Dame on Saturday, nacho spills on Sunday.
It’s a job that usually goes to members of club sports on campus – say, rugby or crew – which do it to raise money so they can compete. Paterno said the clubs still will get the $5,000 for the job, but his guys, fresh off playing 60 minutes of major college football the day before, will do all the work starting Sunday morning.
“We’re all going to do it, everybody,” Paterno told the Harrisburg Patriot-News after a banquet in suburban Philadelphia. “Not just the kids that were involved. ‘Cause we’re all in it together. This is a team embarrassment. I wouldn’t call it anything much other than that.”
This is easily the greatest punishment in recent collegiate history, an absolutely diabolical, telling, high-impact bit of discipline that should remind one and all that what Paterno has been doing out in State College, Pa., all these years is more than just win 363 football games, including 20 the past two seasons.
–Some Content Courtesy of Yahoo Sports
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