[Penn State News]

This spring, six Penn State football players were arrested and charged for crimes stemming from an off-campus fight April 1 in which at least 15 Nittany Lions were present. The charged included a couple of star players, although what apparently bothered coach Joe Paterno the most was how many of his kids were willing to be involved.

And so Paterno, 80 now but no less tough, no less disciplined, hatched a plan to set things right within his program. He'll let the local legal and student judicial process play out, but regardless he decided that to keep people from thinking his team was trash, it'll spend the fall cleaning it up.

According to Paterno, the Penn State football team will clean Beaver Stadium after each home football game this fall. It'll gather garbage, sweep stairs and maybe even hose parts down.

Taking out the trash - NCAA Football - Yahoo! Sports

[Lefty Noob]

"We're all going to do it, everybody," Paterno told the Harrisburg Patriot-News according to this article. "Not just the kids that were involved. 'Cause we're all in it together. This is a team embarrassment. I wouldn't call it anything much other than that." Good for him. Great way to try and build character and reinforce discipline.

[azrael492]

Todays players need more old school discipline.

[simple simon]

and all the money they earn is still going to the club teams which is great

[Lefty Noob]

Originally Posted by azrael492

Todays players need more old school discipline.

Amen to that. Good thing there are still coaches like Paterno around willing to do stuff like this.

[EmpireWF]

Gotta like this punishment for the team. Now only if UofM would learn a lesson from Paterno.

[bears9]

i love the puunishment but something that i cant picture is Anthoney Morrelli throwing a Game winning TD pass then get into the into locker room then Joe Pa says " great pass Anthoney now get bag and strat cleaning " if they show that on TV ill lauugh