PSU needs to keep throwing the ball.  Players like Michael Robinson come along once in a lifetime.  This isn't 1950.  PSU need playmakers to come to keep signing up and if PSU's QB play blows or doesn't utilize the playmakers they have, they aren't going to get them moving forward.  Like Colin Cowhurd said yesterday........this whole 5 yards and a cloud of dust ideology doesn't really appeal to the best atheletes in the country anymore.  18 year old African Americans who run 4.3 40's could care less about the 1982 PSU National Champions.  That isn't their reality.  That is our memory.  As Terrelle Pryor stated on Rivals this week......he's wants an exciting offense.  I don't think that entails handing the ball off 50 times a game.  If PSU can't win on Morelli's arm, I think they have to go down trying.  And one more thing........could Morelli have fit the word "so" into that response any more than he did ?  For a 2nd I thought I was reading a piece of satire written for the BSD.

This guy has been absolutely hammered about being a dumbass ever since he ditched Pitt to sign with PSU. Don't know if his HS coach had some agreement with Pitt, but he's been spouting off about this from day 1. What kind of coach does that shit, especially to a player that played great for him?

That kind of non-stop crap has to get to you. Now, every error is spotlighted and pointed to as proof of his boneheadedness. Morelli's probably still sensitive about it, but I was hoping his tirade last December got it out of his system. I'm sure a win and a decent game against Michigan would do wonders for both his peace of mind, and for putting these comments to rest.

Is he All-American material? Certainly not yet. But I actually agree with him: keep the stats, and give me a damn win. I personally don't care if he's got a 40% completion rate, a 1:1 TD/INT ratio, and fumbles twice a game as long as he keeps putting W's up.

The Northwestern comeback was caused by 3 M-Rob turnovers in the first half and M-Rob rebounded.

Morelli has 2 in the first half but didn't blow a lead.

I'm not seeing how the top one is any better than the bottom one.

LEt's not forget that at halftime of the Northwestern game in '05 we were all calling for Morelli to be put in. But then MRob led that comeback. Until Morelli leads a comeback, he will never be as good as MRob in most people's eyes.

Having said that, I think the pass to Bell was a clutch play. It set up the score that put ND away for good.

He does need a media coach though.

Your comment about Morelli's defining moments versus MRob's isn't fair.  At this point in MRob's QB career, I'd say his defining moments in my mind were A) concussion versus Wiscy B) overthrowing a WIDE open TE against Iowa by 10 yards which would've been a walk-in TD and C)fumbles and INTs against USF and Cincy.

It's a critical eye that remembers his fumble against ND last year and this year, his three INT pick 6's (doesn't anybody on offense know how to tackle?), his terrible sacks.

What about his 46 yard TD to Butler to start off 2006...or his clutch play versus UTenn...or his perfect pass to DWill when UM's fat DT fell on him and rattled his brain cage...or the TD to Bell on Saturday?

Just because a kid doesn't have media savvy doesn't mean the Nittany Nation should pile up on him.

Rex Grossman.

Seriously, if the over/under for points on offense in your bowl game this year is 1, I'm taking the under.  Beating mediocre to poor teams all year isn't proving anything.

I feel bad for Morelli but lets not forget that last year he went until the last game of our Big Ten schedule to throw a touchdown pass.  If he had not thrown for a touchdown, we would have been the only Big Ten team not to air it for 6 against another Big Ten team.  That kind of tidbit, unfortunately, sticks with you no matter what happened in the Outback Bowl.

I can understand Morelli's frustrations with the media, but as of now he's swimming in blood with journalistic sharks circling impatiently.  

Yeah but Mrob was beaten out by Zach Mills how many times before he got his shot?  Then when he was announced the started in 05 everybody moaned and groaned "here we go again" because everybody wanted Morelli.  Like somebody said everybody wanted Robinson yanked at halftime of the Northwestern game.  

Robinson had more heart than Morelli, and he had the "it" that so many pro players talk about.  However he wasn't a great QB.  He could improvise because he was a superb athlete, and Morelli is just a straight drop back QB.  

How about we start blaming Galen Hall for the TERRIBLE (I cannot emphasis that enough) playcalling so far.  Morelli can throw the ball 80 yards yet we insist on running 5 screens in the first quarter of games.  I think the jury is still out on Morelli because the offensive line isn't great, getting better but not great, and the playcalling is god awful.  However Morelli does seem to have trouble leading receivers on slant routes. (those get called twice a game)

Ciancolo had a TD Pass to Tony Hunt in the 4th Q on a screen pass.

He was taken behind the shed last year by ND and knocked around. Now he has to beat them this year but in front of everyone in a sold out Beaver Stadium...if I had the talent he had I know for sure I would not have the game of my life with all that pressure even leaders who show the most poise and courage hit bumps.

Are any of you old enough to remember Chuck Fusina or John Shaffer?  Both were prototypical PSU QBs with not very good stats but darn good W-L records.

I agree with AM.  I don't care what the stats are as long as PSU has a "W" at the end of the game.

Yes, it is frustrating watching other teams run their sleak "pro-style" efficient offenses, and it would be fun if PSU could create a '94 type offense every year, but after suffering through 2000 - 2004, all I want is a "W".  Actually 10-12 of them every year, and I don't care how they do it!  (except that they do it legally)