Paterno's salary: $500k. Really?

OK, so Paterno's announced base salary is $512,664, according to The Daily Collegian. Can everyone now take a deep breath and rest easy, knowing he makes less than most SEC waterboys? Sure, he gets those freebees all the time from Nike and such, but a half-million dollar salary--for what he does--is NOTHING.

Makes you wonder just how schools like Alabama and Texas A&M feel, after dishing out millions per year for their coaches to lose five and six games, and drop one at home to a certain Sun Belt team. Does this make Penn State fans feel better, knowing their years of tuition aren't really going towards a coach who wins eight or nine games?

I frankly couldn't care what Joe Paterno makes. But I does make me giggle to know he makes less than most decent lawyers. Maybe his father had the right idea when he wanted his son to go to law school. If this doesn't cement Paterno's legacy as a selfless coach who only cares about the game, then I don't know what else people are looking for.

Yeah, I'm a little nieve on this one, but why bother getting worked up about this. What really matters right now? How much Paterno makes, or the possibility that 2007 should never have been thought of as the year, and that 2008 is setting up to be the typical Penn State every-three-year title run. I think we all know that answer.