Q: Now that Penn State’s Board of Trustees has fired football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier, will these men get golden parachutes or any retirement benefits? - Michelle Hutchinson, Marietta A: Paterno, who had been Penn State’s football coach since 1966 and had worked at the school since 1950, is “theoretically” in line for a pension of more than $500,000 a year, according to The Associated Press.