[1] Point to one example of Ohio State doing this.

[2] You owe your seniors the opportunity to have the best season possible.  You don't flush senior day and play a red shirt freshment so that some other team might be better.  That's bullshit.

You play your best guys today, not your best guys ten months from now.  That is not how you build a program, that's how you save your job for another season.

...but I think at the end of the day you have to leave it to Coach Paterno to decide who gives the team the best chance to win.  My experience from following the team is that when he says Player A is better than Player B, he is usually right.

Second, I don't think he has blind loyalty to seniors, rather, I think that seniors win ties in terms of who gets playing time.  But if a underclassmen beats out upperclassman the better player will be on the field.

Finally, I never said he has an obligation to play seniors, I said he owes the seniors their best chance to win their remaining games, as opposed playing Clark or Devlin just so they gets more reps for next season. I think it was implicit in the original poster's point that Morelli is superior to both Clark and Devlin today, but they will be more successful next season if they started playing next week.  I truly believe that if Joe Paterno thought putting Darryl Clark in would give the team a better chance to win, that he would do it.

Joe's pulled quaterbacks before.  Does anyone remember matt seneca a few years ago.  There have been other times before that too.  Morelli is a bust.  Lets man up and face the facts.  Its time for a change.  I dont know that the offense could be any worse with either Devlin or Clarke.  The defense will keep us in these last couple of games, let one of the younger guys try running the offense.

#1 any talk of benching the quarterback after 3 good games, and a game in which he was given absolutely no time to throw anything more than screen passes is absurd.  Total bull crap.  Morelli didn't lose to Ohio St., the complete lack of defensive effort did.  22 minutes is not enough time to sustain enough points to win.  Period.

#2 Just because we aren't going to win the Big 10 doesnt mean we should start getting ready for next year.  Do wild card teams in football start playing rookies going into the postseason?  Hell no.  Why should Penn State be any different?  This is such a stupid conversation, I can't believe I'm acknowleging it.  Mark it down, Penn State isn't going to win the NC next season because Pat Devlin started at Michigan St.  Benching the Sr. is something struggling teams do, not one fighting for a marquee matchup on New Year's Day.  What will impress recruits more?  A team that won the Outback Bowl by beating Florida on New Years Day or beaking K-State in the Alamo Bowl on the NFL network Dec 26?

Use your freaking head.

The picture caption on the sports page for the game reads the Penn State defender who made the tackle in the picture was "Anthony Sareant"

They mean Lydell Sargeant.

F the Post gazette.

You are right.  Morelli didn't lose the game.  On the flip side, he hasn't won any game for PSU either.  But he certainly could be tagged as the reason for a few losses.  

Clearly you know something that flys in the face of the body of work put forth by Morelli.

Here are some quick hits on Morelli this year:

Vs. Bufflo and FIU - 43/65 66.1 500 yards 7 TDs

Against other teams: 116/203 57.1 1353 6 TD 8 INT

Let me point this out......6 TDs in 7 GAMES!!!

So 27% of his yardage and 53.8 percent of his TDs came against Buffalo and FIU.  

Even with the cream puffs factored in:

PSU is 54th in 54th completion percentage
    63rd in total passing yards
    58th in passing TDs
    78th in passing yards per game
    104 teams with longer longest pass play than us.

Pretty paltry...especially with all those "weapons" at wide out.  

Florida - Tim Tebow has scored 30 TDs.
K. State - QB has very similar numbers to Morelli, but Josh Freeman is a True Sophmore.

I'm sorry, Fugi.....I understand where you are coming from, but to dismiss the idea of somebody else coming in totally out of hand doesn't make sense to me in light of these numbers.

I also think you could just as easily make the argument that any recruit looking at this from the outside-in could be turned off by this Coaching Staffs reluctance to make a switch to get a spark.  If I have one college career, I would hate to think if I came in behind some stud that I couldn't compete for the job.  I refuse to believe that Clark would do WORSE than Morelli.  Am I saying bench him....no...but the idea isn't ridiculous.  I think Michael Robinson sat and stagnated behind Zack Mills.  Why let Clark or Devlin totally stagnate behind Morelli.  At least with Mills there was a bit of a track record to lead and win.  With Morelli, there has been nothing but a few games where he managed the game well and some doofus for Rivals telling us all what to believe despite what we have seen.

I think what some people forget is that Morelli is a selfish, self absorbed kid and his teammates know this. There are more reports of AM throwing a temper tantrum(and his helmet)in the locker room after the game. Great leadership AM, he's really taking pride in his role as captain. Please.
Clark is more enthusiastic, and more of a natural leader. I truly think the players would respond better to Clark. What is so vexing is that we don't even give Clark a shot, let's at least SEE if he can make some plays. I want to see Devlin too but that is a total lost cause, give the PD talk a break cause it ain't happening any time soon.