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Article: Retooled offense holds key to Penn State's fate.(Sports)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- August 20, 2005
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Byline: Lindsey Willhite Daily Herald Sports Writer
Continuing series
To lend some perspective on how far Penn State football has fallen, check out this list.
Three Big Ten schools have suffered through at least four losing seasons since 2000: Illinois, Indiana and Penn State.
Those teams, not so coincidentally, also took up the bottom three spots in the 2004 conference standings.
But while the Illini and Hoosiers have changed coaches in an effort to kickstart their flagging programs, Joe Paterno starts his 40th season as Penn State's head coach.
Paterno, who joins the University of Chicago's Amos Alonzo Stagg as the ...