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Too early to determine Paterno’s legacy

By Bob Ryan

 |  Globe Columnist  

  January 22, 2012

It was not supposed to end this way. Joe Paterno should have retired in full glory, hailed as the ultimate combination of football acumen and humanitarianism. Greatest, Most Noble Big-Time College Coach of all-time? It should have been, “Hold all calls; we have a winner…and his name is JoPa!” That’s the way it should have been.

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