CHICAGO -- Another year? positive Ten more? Why not? Joe Paterno is.

CHICAGO -- Another year? positive Ten more? Why not?

Joe Paterno is, like all of his Big Ten compeers "anxious" and "excited" to begin another football season.

Of course, Penn State's head coach is the barely one beginning his 41st campaign.

The talk which opened its annual media days at the Hyatt rule Hotel on Tuesday, is now dwelling to the two youngest coaches in Division I-A football -- Northwestern's Pat Fitzgerald (31) and Wisconsin's Bret Bielema (36) -- as well as its oldest the 79-year-old Paterno. The latter had a large assemblage of media chuckling throughout his 15-minute portion of Tuesday's pres talk

Asked if Penn State's 11-1 2005 season was "what he needed" Paterno said that his family distressed it more, adding that the media criticism brought upon by losing seasons in 2003 and 2004 didn't bother him a bit.