The SportsProf has an excellent article up about why it’s time for Joe Paterno to plan to leave. When he’s on, the SportsProf is as good a sportswriter as you’ll find, and he’s on here.
As for the topic, I agree with him. I wish JoePa would recognize that his time is over and hand over the program to a younger man. No one wants things to get ugly there. The university and alumni have been and will probably continue to be very accepting of whatever he does, but it’s not fair to them to keep this up. His teams just aren’t as good as they used to be, and his age must be killing them in recruiting.