That's right. Joe Paterno, who has been the head football coach at Penn State since like forever, has agreed to stay 3 more years in that capacity.

Joe has been head coach since 1966 and had been an assistant from the early 1950's when he joined his college coach from Brown University, Rip Engle. In the past two years he has had to deal with a broken leg (after a player rolled over him on the sidelines) and hip replacement surgery which occured last month after the last regular season game.

Joe plans to be on the sideline coaching at the Rose Bowl on January 1, 2009 in Pasadena.

I, for one, hope Joe stays another ten years. His activities on behalf of the university as a whole are legendary. He and his wife Sue spearheaded a drive to expand the main library and they were so effective, the building is called the Paterno Library. He has personally donated millions to the academic parts of the university.

Way to go Joe