Phil Martelli, Ed Rendell Believe Joe Paterno Statue Should Be Removed

July 13, 2012 7:49 AM

(A statue of Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium. Credit: Rob Carr/ Getty Images)

Filed under

Sports, College Football, Syndication, Radio.com - Sports, Syndicated Sports

Check Out

By Spike Eskin

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – St. Joseph’s basketball coach Phil Martelli and former Pennsylvania Governer Ed Rendell believe that the discoveries in the recent report about Penn State football are reason enough to remove the Joe Paterno statue from campus.

Both men, speaking to 94WIP’s Angelo Cataldi and the WIP Morning Show, expressed their thoughts Friday morning.

“It’s a tough call, but I think they probably should [remove the statue], but I would leave his name on the library, because the library represents the good,” Rendell said.

“I wholeheartedly agree with [removing the statue]. It’s a black mark,” Martelli said of the statue. ”I do believe so much of what [Paterno] did was for the good; the greater good … I don’t carry the title of coach easily today.”

PHOTOS: Best Female Musicians Of The 2000s
PHOTOS: Celebrity Infidelity Scandals
PHOTOS: Celebrity Birthdays: May
PHOTOS: Top 20 Most Hated Hollywood Celebrities
PHOTOS: Spring Fashion Trends As Told By Celebrities

Phil Martelli, Ed Rendell Believe Joe Paterno Statue Should Be Removed

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/07/16/baffoe-paterno-statue-can-teach-lessons/ Baffoe: Paterno Statue Can Teach Lessons « CBS Chicago

[...] to have the Paterno statue removed from the stadium and ultimately our consciousness—people like St. Joseph’s hoops coach Phil Martelli. It’s natural to want to immediately jettison the bad to protect the collective good of [...]