{"id":50486,"date":"2011-11-15T15:58:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T20:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=50486"},"modified":"2011-11-16T08:34:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T13:34:37","slug":"pasqualoni-on-penn-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/11\/pasqualoni-on-penn-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasqualoni on Penn State"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Huskies head football coach Paul Pasqualoni, a Penn State alum, says the situation unfolding at Penn State has been very difficult for him. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Huskies head football coach Paul Pasqualoni says that for him, like all alumni of Penn State University, learning about the charges of sexual abuse of young boys by a former coach and its aftermath has been \u201cvery difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pasqualoni, a 1972 Penn State graduate who began his professional career as an elementary school teacher before moving into coaching, addressed the Penn State situation in answer to a question during his first regular press conference following a bye week on the Huskies\u2019 schedule. UConn will host Louisville on Saturday at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, with a noon kickoff.<\/p>\n

Former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was indicted on charges of sexually abusing young boys earlier this month, which led to the dismissal of several prominent Penn State figures, including university president Graham B. Spanier and legendary head football coach Joe Paterno.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think for everybody it\u2019s been difficult. I\u2019m a Penn State alum and I feel, as I\u2019m sure all Penn State alums do, very bad about it,\u201d Pasqualoni said. \u201cI got into this business of coaching to be a college coach, to be an educator, to work with young people. My core values and ideals, my philosophical approach to my career is as a teacher; even when I went into the NFL I still saw myself as teaching. I was just teaching older guys. That\u2019s all. I have a 12, 11, and 9-year-old involved in sports every day, so that part of it has been very hard for me philosophically [because of] what I believe my core values are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pasqualoni said that in the aftermath of the revelations against Sandusky, the Penn State Board of Trustees is acting \u201cin the best interests of what\u2019s good for the institution and for higher education.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Board of Trustees at Penn State is doing absolutely what they think is the best thing to do for Penn State,\u201d said Pasqualoni. \u201cPenn State \u2026 is much more than a football school; there\u2019s a lot more to it than that. All the way around, the answer to your question [is] it\u2019s been pretty difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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