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In-waiting game: No successor for JoePa

By Bruce Feldman
ESPN The Magazine

Thursday, January 8, 2009

It may be the hottest trend in college football. Purdue did it last year, and Kentucky followed suit. So have Florida State, Texas and Oregon. For many successful programs with graybeards at the helm, the head-coach-in-waiting plan seems to make a lot of sense. Got a better way to calm recruits' concerns about staff overhauls, lock up a coveted assistant and put the head coach at ease about how he'll end his career? Didn't think so. "I will not pursue Bobby Bowden's or Joe Paterno's records, t ...

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