longer the head football coach, effective immediately. what do you make of these scenes we re looking at? over the last few days, there was so much passion on both sides of the issue. so many of the students that were there supported joe paterno, really felt like this was a man they had looked up to for so many years, that s why it s so hard for them to take some of this news. even so, in terms of what joe paterno was like, and some of the things he was saying in front of his home. thanking the students for coming out. these types of things, you have to imagine, this is not the type of activity joe paterno would want to see. if you think about the type of man that he is, this is a man that stood for so much. he insisted that his athletes have good grades, he set a high standard, a high bar, so to see students acting in a way that might be rowdy or acting in a way that would some ways disrespect the university, really goes against what in many ways, joe paterno stood for f