Jay Paterno
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Paterno: In 2026, Signing Players Is In. Recruiting Is Out
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This is that time of year when there are still several weeks until actual football games are played. Excitement for, and anxiety over, the upcoming season is building. While we wait for games, the constant zig-zag of 17- and 18-year-olds making up their minds about where they want to go to college has always held…
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Paterno: American Exceptionalism at 250
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If there was ever a place where one could truly understand American exceptionalism it is at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home just outside Charlottesville, Virginia. Jefferson often spent evenings in the small, square one-room brick and glass garden pavilion to contemplate the day and read. Gazing over the ridges and mountains, he reflected on his life,…
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Paterno: Penn State-Nike Relationship Was About More Than Just the Shoes
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Today marks the end of a long partnership between Nike and Penn State. On Monday, Penn State’s athletic social media featured some pictures of Penn State athletes and the swoosh thanking Nike for 33 years. Since the university is expressing its appreciation, it seemed a good time to echo that sentiment, and do so with…
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What Would Joe Paterno Have Thought of the Protect College Sports Act? History Is Instructive
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It is natural for those who’ve lost a father to think about them as Father’s Day approaches. Over the past several days, I’ve found myself thinking about my father and his life. Today would’ve been one of intense interest for him. The United States Senate Commerce Committee will be marking up the Protect College Sports…
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Paterno: Why It’s Time for College Governing Boards to Rethink Presidential Contracts
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In the news this week came another story highlighting some of the very real challenges facing higher education in the United States. The president of Michigan State University left the school for Clemson. On his way out he mentioned that tensions with the trustees were part of what drove him to leave the school after…
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Paterno: Legislation Is Needed Now for College Sports Reform and Stability
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College sports are a mess. This is the age of uncertainty and instability happening against a backdrop of a financial crisis that no school can outrun forever. Many long for the days when we read only about the glory of young men and women competing for the love of the game and for the glory…
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Paterno: These Core Issues Must Be Resolved for the Long-Term Stability of College Football
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In 2026, college football and college sports face a most uncertain future. Athletic departments are having financial difficulties, and even the largest schools are not immune. Nationally it is common to be operating business models that require “donors” to cover their “revenue sharing/labor costs” each year. Involuntary student activity fees, general funds (tuition and tax…
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Wayne Sebastianelli Made an Enduring Impact on the Lives of Many
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It is part of our humanity that our lives intersect with other people’s lives. It’s unavoidable. And then there are those who move across life’s sky to become like a sun shining on the lives of so many others. On Monday, Penn State, State College, Northeast PA, the medical community here and across the country,…
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A New Era With New Questions: What Will Be?
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Blue-White Weekend is a step to understanding what we will be at Penn State. No one can say exactly what this fall will bring, but there are a couple of certainties about what we will be.
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Paterno: Dangerous Times for the First Right of the First Amendment
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It’s been said that in polite society it is unwise to talk politics or religion… We’re about to test that theory. In the forests of “Penn’s Woods” springs enter streams and creeks headed to rivers that empty into oceans, bays and a Great Lake. The grand design of our planet is amazing when you see…