Another Victory For Coach Eddie Robinson

Coach Eddie Robinson. Once again the winningest coach in the history of collegiate football. In October of 2011, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno passed Eddie Robinson for the most career coaching wins in college football. At that point in time,

Paterno was as good as gold and his coaching legacy well intact for mythical status; and then out of nowhere came the allegations of sexual misconduct and molestation against members of his coaching staff. When the smoke cleared the allegations against one of the members of Joe Paterno’s coaching staff proved to be true and Coach Paterno was not guilty of anything; except of the fact that he did not proceed to tell authorities of the sexual misconduct of a member of his staff with children. Paterno knew of this truth but basically turned a blind eye to the events that he had been made aware of and proceeded to go about his life as Penn State’s head football coach. Fast forward to today; the accused assistant coach was found guilty on all accounts, Joe Paterno was forced to resign from his position as head football coach (dying a short time after his resignation) and the Penn State football program was placed on probation, forced to vacate wins and incurred a multitude of different fines and penalties. There is only one thing that a person can truly see from this story that developed before our eyes; everything that is done in the dark will come to the light. The value of honor and integrity and truth has been lost in the world, especially in the world of sports. The fact that many people tried to discredit Eddie Robinson’s record by saying he faced inferior competition was a slap in his face. Coach Robinson led the Grambling State University football program with integrity, high merit and honor and those are the attributes that defined Eddie Robinson. On the other hand, all of the success and accolades that Joe Paterno earned as a coach were vanished by the simple fact that he did not demonstrate truth/honor when he should have and that fact not only cost Paterno his job, but his legacy.