Penn State

The Penn State Board of Trustee’s announced tonight that the school has fired head coach Joe Paterno. Paterno announced on Wednesday that he would retire after the season, but to no surprise the university’s board of trustees decided that Paterno would be fired and not allowed to continue as coach effective immediately. Defensive coordinator Tom Bradley has been named interim coach. John Surma, the vice chair of the board of trustees said, “these decisions were made after careful deliberations and in the best interests of the university as a whole.” Surma though was peppered with why fire Joe now and could not come up with a good answer, constantly saying that the move was in the “best interest of the school.” Paterno’s retirement at seasons end had no bearing on the trustees decision and in the end, they didn’t want Joe to go out on his own terms and beRead More »

Penn State trying to control the media indicating yesterday that only football questions would be asked at Joe Paterno’s press conference. Now the school won’t allow the press conference to happen at all School officials have cancelled the press conference, less than an hour before the press conference was set to happen Penn State released a statement indicating that due to “legal circumstances”, press conference won’t be held or rescheduled

Penn State University will be launching a Division-1 Men’s Hockey program in the near future. The school will also be adding a D-1 women’s hockey program. Launching a D-1 hockey program has been on the radar of the adminstration for years and it will finally become a reality as the school now has the funding to make it happen. The school will be building an $80 million dollar arena/facility that will be funded by one donor and will also cover the majority of scholarships for both programs. An official announcement from the school is expected by the end of the month. Penn State officials expect the men’s hockey coaching positions to be highly coveted as one contact told me “big names” have already inquired. Officials have done their homework and expect to eventually join the CCHA, entering a conference with the likes of Ohio State, Michigan, and Michigan State.