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I'm working on an article on NLOI day.

I have a quote from Tom Lemming saying that, roughly, Joe Paterno pioneered the concept of verbal commitments in the early 90s. I've heard that elsewhere too. I've been digging around the Collegian archives a little, but has anyone seen a better source for this claim? My plan next is to look through other publications, local and national.

Since you're already reading this, I'll share an anecdote: I have a recruiting op-ed Joe Paterno wrote in 1974. It might as well be titled "an open letter to Johnny Majors". He sounds like he hates every second of dealing with primadonna kids and corrupt coaches. I'd post it here, but it's in a PDF - so I'm not sure I'm allowed to post it, and I need to find good OCR software to convert it to text.