By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 22:32 EST, 15 August 2012 | UPDATED: 05:09 EST, 16 August 2012 A new biography of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno sheds light on his fall from grace in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal. The long-serving coach, affectionately called 'JoePa' by students, sobbed uncontrollably and continually after the university board fired him for allegedly overlooking the child abuse scandal involving his former assistant coach, according to an upcoming book by sportswriter Joe Posnanski. 'Paterno met with his coaches at his house. He sobbed uncontrollably. This was his bad day,' Posanksi writes in his biography, Paterno.
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'I don't know what I'm going to do with myself,' Paterno said after his firing from the Penn State football team
Guilty: Former Penn State assistant football coach @placeholder was convicted on June 22, 2012 of sexually assaulting 10 boys over 15 years