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RE: Paterno's eastern all-sports league?
(03-24-2014 11:07 AM)johnbragg Wrote: (03-24-2014 10:40 AM)Shannon Panther Wrote: The thing everyone is missing here is it wouldn't have mattered if Paterno got his eastern conference. Brice Jordan decided his legacy as the President of Penn State would be to get Penn State into the Big 10. An eastern conference would not have stopped this. Every University President wants to leave a legacy. That was Brice Jordan's.
But the Eastern LEague would have been part of PAterno's legacy. In a Paterno vs Brice Jordan power struggle, Brice Jordan doesn't win.
No, Bryce wouldn't have. At least, not during Bryce's presidency.
And it wouldn't necessarily be due to the Joe-bots...if you finally got Penn State in the same conference as Pitt and Syracuse, fans would need a reason to go to the Big Ten. Like, "okay, well, we're finally on the same line now, but, hey...time to move west with these other schools we have no history with because our faculty and president have massive tents being pitched in their pants." It simply wouldn't fly.
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