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Paterno wants 12th team

Head coach Joe Paterno was in NYC Thursday night for "An Evening With Joe Paterno" and made it clear where he stands on the conference expansion issue.

The 82-year-old coach said he's tried talking with Big Ten people about adding another team. He specifically mentioned Syracuse, Rutgers and Pittsburgh as possibilities.

Also, by not having a conference championship, Paterno said it's a "handicap."

Paterno joked that adding a team isn't "invading Normandy" and that the alignments could happen quickly if supported.

You can read the whole story here.

Of course, time will tell if the Big Ten will add another program. The three teams Paterno listed seem to be the most logical, although it's anyone's guess as to how long such a process would take.

-Wayne

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Matt Fortuna is a sophomore majoring in journalism and a football reporter for the Collegian. He has previously covered the men's tennis, soccer and basketball teams. A traditionalist, he would like nothing more than to see Joe Paterno throw it back to his Brooklyn days and install the single-wing offense this season.

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Nate Mink is a sophomore majoring in journalism and a football reporter for the Daily Collegian and a 5-foot-10 sesquipedalian from Allentown who has tried to grow facial hair for 20 years. Sadly, he has been unsuccessful thus far. He is anxious to get a new driver's license in September and hopes the bartenders at Zanzibar in Ann Arbor believe he's 21.

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Wayne Staats is a junior majoring in journalism and history and is a football reporter for the Collegian. He previously covered the baseball and women's basketball teams. He never made it far playing competitive football, unless Nerf football in grade school counts.

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