Such a clever disguise, those thick glasses and plain dress shirts are.
It's no surprise Joe Paterno, Penn State's 77-year-old football coach, is often described as looking "grandfatherly."
Forget that this week.
There has been nothing pastoral about this patriarch. He has been on a warpath during this week's preparation for tomorrow's Iowa game that's fitting of his team's pathetic stint of losing.
No one, it seems, has been able to escape his determined hostility.
Not the media, and certainly not his players.
Even fifth-year senior captain Zack Mills wasn't safe the Paterno ire.
"[Monday], he got on me," Mills said. "He wanted me to dump it off when I threw it downfield."
As one of the team's most experienced players, Mills probably got the royal treatment from Paterno when compared to other units on the team.
Paterno kept an extra-close eye on the offense this week in practice, according to Mills. Usually Paterno divides his time equally at practice, but this week he spent 70 to 80 percent of his time with the offense.
No. 1 on the old coach's hit list was the offensive line, a dubious but deserving distinction for a group that couldn't keep the heat off Mills and only cleared the way for 18 rushing yards against Purdue.
"Coach was on them probably the most out of everybody," Mills said.
Mills' account of practice this week is consistent with what the coach has said publically for two weeks.
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