Joe Paterno Should Be Fired

This has been a year of vindication for Joe Paterno, after a couple of losing seasons, the Penn State football coach led his team to an 11-1 record and capped off the season with a win in the Orange Bowl.

There are no more calls for Paterno's resignation, he has proved that despite his advanced age his football mind is still sharp.

However it's not football fans but women's right advocates who are now calling for Joe to resign or be fired.

Joe Paterno made insensitive remarks when questioned about a Penn State football player who is accused of sexual assault.

"There's some tough - there's so many people gravitating to these kids. He may not have even known what he was getting into, Nicholson. They knock on the door; somebody may knock on the door; a cute girl knocks on the door. What do you do?"

"Geez. I hope - thank God they don't knock on my door because I'd refer them to a couple of other rooms. But that's too bad. You hate to see that. I really do. You like to see a kid end up his football career. He's a heck of a football player, by the way; he's a really good football player. And it's just too bad."

According to Paterno if a cute girl comes knocking on your door, a guy's natural reaction is to sexually assault her. You'd better pray that your cute daughter doesn't knock on one of his football player's room delivering a pizza or a package.

"By the way, he's a really good football player." In other words a gifted athlete has a license to pillage, plunder and rape without having to pay the consequences.

"And it's just too bad." Paterno has oodles of concern for his football player, but not an ounce of sympathy for the alleged victim.

I don't care that Paterno is a football legend, he should be unceremoniously dumped.

Paterno may be a genius when it comes to gridiron strategy, but his football players deserve a coach who is not a dunce when it comes to teaching them to behave like gentlemen.