I hate that he left, but he never complained and was an upstanding guy. I think Clark’s a better QB because of him.

Having said that: am I the only one who didn’t think his play in the Ohio $tate game was that special? His one pass was waived off, and all he did was run into the endzone. I’m pretty sure Cianciolo could have gone 0/0 and there are quite a few running options near the endzone.

I hope you don’t sit on the bench where ever you go because that would make you look silly.

And I’m thankful he was part of the tOSU win. However, if he was all the hype made him out to be, I believe he would have started games this season.

If he doesn’t go I-AA he may just end up where he started. On the bench, waiting. Hope that doesn’t happen though, best of luck.

this would have happened in a position we were deep in, it wouldn’t be that big of a deal. The only people to blame are the coaches for not filling the QB cupboards before this year. On scout they are doing a lot of complaining about how he was never considered for the starting position and that fueled him leaving, etc. etc. But I feel it would still be a big deal if it was Clark gone and only Devlin to handle things. So the lesson to be learned here is we should be recruiting better. Another issue is why highly touted QB recruits recently have not wanted to come here and why does Devlin not think he can be developed currently.

Overrall, he doesn’t want to be a part of the PSU family anymore? Peace out, and good luck with whatever you do. But we need to sit down and wonder how we ever got into this situation, how to fix it, and how to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

Donnie Collins from the Scranton Times:
http://community.thetimes-tribune.com/blogs/pennstate/archive/2008/12/10/report-devlin-to-transfer.aspx

"UPDATE, 7:29: I just got a message from Penn State sports information director Jeff Nelson.

“I have not heard anything about Pat leaving,” he said.

I’m hesitant to call this a done deal just yet, but there are strong indications that Devlin is leaving. At least officially, though, nothing is coming out from Penn State."

Any chance this is BS? You called it a “internet grumbling”, so just curious if this could be wrong.

If it is true, this is really saddening to me, I heard it was always his dream to be at PSU (even though he originally committed to Miami), there’s a bio video of him on gopsf.com and his family was all Penn Staters. It just looks like he grew up how I’m assuming a lot of us grew up: surrounded by PSU. I hate to see him go, but the situation with Clark coming back next year and him only having one year of eligibility after that is a bad one to be in, so I don’t blame him for being frustrated.

Shit.

Any possibilities for him going to Delaware, esp after seeing the success Flacco had there transfering from Pitt? Or does a Patriot League team pick him up, thoughts?

I hope this isn’t true, but if it is, it screws us on numerous levels.

1. Immediate future- Offensive playcalling in the Rose Bowl gets puckered up tighter than my ass in San Francisco on the worry that Clark gets hurt.

2. Next season- See above if we can’t land Newsome. Get used to 6-4 games like ’04 Iowa.

3. Next next season- Potential redshirt freshman starting.

This puts us in a world of hurt if true.

My guess is he ends up at Delaware. He’ll have to sit out a year if he wants to play at a D-I school. Then he only has one year left. So he might as well stay at Penn State if he’s ok starting just one year.

Best of luck to him whatever he does. He’s a good kid.

I just got word from a very reliable source that he has, in fact, left the team.

Best of luck to Pat, I hope we can get a decent recruit this year, if we do we’ll be fine.

If he doesn’t want to be part of this team, oh well. Life will go on without him. Think of it this way – our next QB (Newsome, Boyd?) will get three years as a starter.

Why are QBs always such whiny, selfish prima donnas? Plenty of other players sit and wait their turn, or are satisfied with some 4th quarter PT. But back-up QBs always seem to transfer. Why is this?

I’ve been a Clark supporter all the way, but there is also something special about Devlin. I’m just shocked. THIS SUCKS! I was really looking forward to watching him play.

Why is it that every other top tier team in the country has their bench full of 4 and 5 star recruits waiting their turn but we can’t hold on to more than 1? Even when we get one they underperform or they leave.

This is part of the ongoing CURSE of JAY PATERNO. May God have mercy on the 2010 Nittany Lions. We are in deep trouble if we don’t get a big time recruit this season.

You can only have 1 starting QB and 1st team all Big Ten QB Daryll Clark was it. I’m sorry to lose Pat, but he didn’t win the job and had to wait his turn…Clark is a special player that is a great leader and we are lucky to have him for another season

to see a guy like Sam Bradford who is the same year as him (redshirt sophmore) have all that success (maybe even Heisman) while Pat was ranked much higher than Bradford coming out of high school (Pat #4 QB by scout.com in 2005, while Bradford was the #17 QB). Funny thing is Mitch Mustain was the #1 QB in 2005 and he’ll have to wait till 2010 to start.

I’ve never seen a QB at Penn State throw a prettier deep ball than Devlin (in the time I’ve been here…we haven’t had insanely amazing QBs in the last five years). Best of luck to him though.

I suppose this was unavoidable in many ways. You can’t really argue with the choice that the coaches made in August — we’re in the Rose Bowl, right? Pat’s a talented kid, and he’d apparently rather be a two-year starter at a lower level than a one-year starter at Penn State. That’s his decision. It creates a metric assload of problems for Penn State

I think it’s a little short-sighted. Clark’s not exactly indestructible. Still, he wouldn’t be leaving unless he had a destination in mind. That’ll be interesting.

worry, ZUG can play QB.

He will drop back and throw to himself.

Seriously, this stinks! I really liked PD and thought he had more upside than DC.

But DC was Jay’s guy.

If we don’t get a QB in this years class, we’re looking at a potential return to the Dark Years after the 2009 season.

…is the failure to land high-quality QB’s on a consistent basis.

Still, this could help us tremendously in recruiting. Any of the remaining top-notch high school QB’s suddenly see a situation where a top-ten program is going to have a starting position available in their true sophomore year.

The timing of this is actually kind of good.

NOT

Not the Seattle Post. Damn it. I grew up reading that paper.

before the Rose Bowl? That I don’t get.

Transfering? If he was going to transfer he should have left last year…I could have lived with that. It just seems like he’s going out of his way to leave us in a lurch.

I’m annoyed.

He cleaned out his locker and will not participate in the trip to the Rose Bowl?

That seems very strange to me. There must have been a blow up or something that would have caused him not to finish the season in the bowl game and then announce a transfer.

What is the real scoop?