Larry Brown interviewed Florida State coach Bobby Bowden. Denny Burke summarizes:
In a recent radio interview (listen here), Bobby Bowden said that Joe Paterno’s statue should be removed from the campus of Penn State. In his own words:
If I was Joe Paterno’s family, I would want it taken down. Every time they play a game in that stadium, the cameras are going to flash down on that statue of Joe, and it’s going to bring up again this thing with Sandusky. To me, Penn State needs to get that behind them somehow. They gotta pay for the sins — that’s going to cost them a whole lot of money — but every time they see that statue, they’re going to bring that up. I’d hate for his family to have to go through that the rest of their lives.
Bowden was also asked about Paterno’s legacy. . .
Read the rest here.
That is a good reason to remove it but I can think of another. Joe Paterno does not deserve to have an iconic statue now that we know what kind of person he was.
Cathy Midtsem
Cathy, I agree.