is evidence he’s either completely senile or willing to destroy the program to make Jay look a little better. Even worse than his interview with ESPN, I think.

He still claims it was Jay who tried to talk him into pulling Morelli during the Michigan game, when it was actually Joe who wanted to play Clark.

And people wonder why most Penn State fans have lost faith in this coaching staff.

So I guess we’re looking at a 9-4 year again, huh? I mean, since the supporting cast is basically the same, Clark would have to be exponentially better than Morelli for us to improve.

Who didn’t see this coming?

Maybe we can look past the Morelli years, at least we will have something new to complain about. I think Joe has shown in the past he has no qualms about throwing the team or certain players under the bus. I think it is his perverse way to motivate them. While at PSU I had some good friends who played and they said Joe would say things like this to motivate guys. He would tell the media one thing and the team the complete opposite.

everything he says if for somebody’s consumption, not necessarily everybody’s.

he’s defending his decision to keep morelli in.

i knew all along that i should be blaming williams, butler, norwood, and golden for missing those passes thrown 2 feet in front of them, and 4 feet over their head. here i thought it was the quarterback’s job to throw good passes, when in reality it’s not his responsibility at all. man i was way off. its funny how those same ‘characters’ around mor(on)elli had no problems with robinson 2 years prior

I don’t see it in either the BWI or FOS recap. But, I didn’t listen to the the whole audio-was it in there?

Here’s the full quote though:

“…. I’m repeating myself but I always felt that Morelli got more criticism than he deserved and that I wasn’t going to pile it on by sticking Clark in there and saying even the coach doesn’t like him. I expect for a kid that had worked hard, had been a good quarterback but maybe didn’t have quite the cast of characters around him that he could do some things easier, so I just went that way. But Clark was our second quarterback last year.”

There’s something odd about the wording of that statement. It doesn’t quite sound like “Morelli was good but the players around him weren’t” to me, but it still just shows how weird the treatment of Morelli was.

We have a little saying from Bo that we like to trot out time and again: “the team, the team, the team”… point being that NOBODY is bigger than the team. You read over Joe’s quote and he sure looks like he put the feelings and self-esteem of Morelli in front of the countless number of other guys who don your uniform and busted their tails day in and day out too…

He didn’t pull Morelli because that would be piling on? Heaven forfend you use on-the-field performance and put the guys on the field that give you the best shot to win Joe… I can completely understand being loyal to your players, but to put an individual out in front of the rest of the team is going above and beyond “loyalty”. Think about the message that sends to the rest of the team, especially the younger guys who are trying to earn a way onto the field.

Listen, I know this comes across as harsh and all, but it’s stuff like this that continually makes me think that this PSU team will come up short when it matters most… the coaching staff that is in place at Penn State is inept in areas where you cannot afford to be. Trust me, I can empathize, I had to live through with Mike DeBord (he of: rock, rock, rock fame), Andy Moeller, and the last few years of Mike Gittelson up in Ann Arbor.

Anyways, enough of that… now that Clark has been named the starter, do you guys have any guesses as to how many snaps Devlin will see per game?