Stewart Mandel is an arse...

For those of you lucky enough not to subject yourself to the ramblings of idiot sports writers, Stuart Mandel is writer for SI.com whose opinions and predictions are about as original as white bread. Anyway, in his last assanine column Mandel ranks his 5 best and 5 worst college football coaches. Among the 5 worst... Joe Paterno. (moment to let that sink in.)

As anyone who knows me will attest, I am certainly what you would characterize a Joe Paterno loyalist. But loyalties aside and looking at the whole thing objectively, unless you are a Pitt or Ohio State lacky, there is no way on God's green earth you could ever categorize Joe Paterno as among the worst coaches in college football. I'm not going to regergitate the records, we all know them by now. All I will say is that if, as popular opinion would dictate, Joe Paterno will go down as one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, coach in college football history, how can you place him among the worst coaches at any point in his career? Especially with 117 D-1 programs and abismal performers all across the board. Granted PSU has hit some hard times of late but how these jack-offs can continue to get paid to spout these ridiculous diatribes is beyond me. According to Mandel...

"26-33 the past five seasons at a Big Ten school with the tradition and
resources to compete for conference and national titles, there's not an informed
observer out there who wouldn't conclude that Coach A is a bad coach"

Well guess where the "tradition and resources" came from butt-face? No offense to Rip Engle but it sure as heck wasn't there when Joe took over. I look forward to the big, fat crap burger that Mandel will have to eat after this season.

Come Alive in '05!!