Penn State, Paterno, and Pitt: How Did They Miss on So Many Pennsylvania QB's?

Its 1943 and the Soviets are surrounding the beleaguered German Army Sixth Army at Stalingrad. US Marines are locked in bloody combat with Japanese Imperial troops on Guadalcanal and Penn State Head Coach Joe Paterno is tired. Traveling, recruiting, old coach type of tired. The kind of traveling tired that's worse then old dog tired. Old Joe has put many miles on his 1932 Ford Roadster trying to land his man but he just can't get Johnny Lujack, the great high school passer from Western Pennsylvania, to change his mind. Can't Johnny just say no to Notre Dame and come play for Paterno at Penn State? After all Joe just took Johnny to see that new hot Hollywood picture called Casablanca and the kid really liked it. Old Joe even patted the boy on the back as they left the theater and did his best Brooklyn Bogart growling. Johnny, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. But it wasn't to be. Johnny went to Notre Dame and in the decades to come other great quarterbacks ... (link)