Forgive me, but what is that about? Did they have issues laying with each other or something? My pea-brain forgets big things like this.

I have no idea why Royster wasn’t playing early on.

Scott started out #1, but was being beat out by Kinlaw (Buffalo/Michigan).

After Scott was dismissed, Kinlaw was the starter and was being beat out by Royster (Iowa/Wisconsin/Purdue) than Royster got hurt, and that ended that, until the bowl game.

We’ve beaten everything with respect to the career of Anthony Morelli to death.

He’s a Quintessential Penn Stater. He had great hands, ran precise routes, and made big grabs in 04. Then in comes Williams & King, and on walk Butler & Norwood, and dude has to move to D. And what’s he doing these days? Bringin the motherphuqing wood on opponents. I love it when Joe gets to talkin about players like him:

Q: How far has Mark Rubin come from last year?
JoePa: Oh, I think he’s doing really well. I thought that was probably as good of a football game as he’s played so far on Saturday. Mark, he’s gotten a lot more physically aggressive. He made some plays Saturday that were really aggressive football plays, which he might not have made a couple of years ago because – going back to the question about the couple of linebackers that are ahead of a couple others – well, it’s tough to be aggressive if you’re not really sure of yourself. You go but, should I go? shouldn’t I go? should I go all out? what can this guy do to me? You don’t have the kind of confidence that you need in order to let it all hang out. Rubin is at that stage. And, those other kids will get at that stage one of these days but he’s playing very, very well.

Oh, and of dudes like Graham Zug:
Q: What has Graham Zug done to earn all of the playing time he’s gotten recently?
JoePa: Graham Zug’s a good player. He’s earned it just the way he’s practiced and the way he’s played. He catches the ball well. He’s a good wideout. He may not have quite the speed of the kids he’s played behind but he goes in there and he’s very effective. He’s earned the right to play.
Q:Going back to Graham Zug for a minute… (Is he related to you or what?) He comes from a Penn State family, he’s been coming to these games all his life. How cool and how surreal do you think it is for him to be playing where he had always hoped to play?
JoePa: Some of those questions you’ve gotta ask the kids. They’re all different. How they react to different things… I wish I could say, I know this kid that well, this is the way he’s reacting or this kid is reacting this way or that. I think you’ve gotta talk to the kids about that. Zug, I know his Penn State family and his Dad… and he didn’t have a scholarship. He came here as a walk-on. I just gave him a scholarship this past preseason because he’s worked so hard and he’s doing well. He deserves it. And I think anytime anybody does something where there are doubters that don’t think he can do it and ‘What are you going out there for? You could have gone to a couple of smaller schools and played,’ and all that kind of stuff. And he shows people that, Hey, I’m better than you thought I was. I think there’s gotta be some satisfaction. Now, that would be me. I would be walking around with a sign – ‘See, I showed you.’ – But, that doesn’t mean that’s Zug. He’s gotta be himself. But, everything he’s gotten, he’s deserved. Nobody gave him anything easy. Nobody, even when he came here, thought that he was going to be the football player that he’s become and that’s hard work. He’s worked hard and he’s a great student. He’s a heckuva kid.

He wasn’t a big guy, and we had him running the option with no offensive line, and for three out of four years, without a tailback.

Once his shoulder got hurt, he didn’t have the arm strength to throw a lot the routes that were the “bread & butter” of the offense at the time i.e. 2 yard out patterns thrown 40 yards across the field.