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he threw 4 TD passes against perennial powerhouse TROY!

Maybe I’m getting old but these lists seem to get a thousand times worse every season.

don’t tell the PA football fanboys.

I need an eyeroll emoticon badly.

He scored the game-winning touchdown.

but, he did lead us to victory in that game. And that one pass if I remember right was a sure DWill TD, but it drew the pass interference call before he got to it. We owe him a lot for that game IMO. He hadn’t been asked to come in and lead the team in anything but 4th qt scraps all season, and he had to come in for the biggest game of the regular season and was able to lead us to get a TD. Give him a little credit.

Try telling that to the arm punter who ran the 40 in 1.17 seconds

but it does (help you) win championships. The effect of popularity is somewhat lessened in the BCS era, but still exists.

if he blows it miserably under the pressure of being zOMG HEISMAN CANDIDATE1. They might say nothing, but I would love to see them choke on their own words. I totally agree with you. Penn State is all about being the nameless player on the field, not about popularity contests. Let them hype Pryor. Let them stroke his ego, until he starts to believe it himself (because you know the coaches there are doing the same thing). We’ll keep being Penn State, where awards and accolades are nice, but we hold more important things dear than being hyped by the media.

Antoine Randel El was an incredible athlete as well (and that definitely helps in the college game), but was NOT a good QB.

So far Pryor has shown he’s a great athlete, but not shown he’s better than a mediocre to average QB. He was only a freshman last year, so he should improve, but there’s been no indication yet that that is the case, and in fact in his last performance he got pulled (Texas game). How can you not be an effective QB against a Big 12 defense? There were 3 Heisman hopefuls in that conference at QB, in part because of the weak defensive play. But he did show that he was pretty good as a WR.

We’ll see how he is this year, and by the time PSU plays him we’ll have a pretty good idea of how far he’s come, but as of yet, arm-punting is not the defining mark of a good QB.

But he’s kind of maxed out athletic ability. He’s no bigger, stronger or faster than he was last year. It’s one thing to be 6’4" 230 in High School. His High School success was based largely on deveopling early and quickly. But physically, he’s not getting much more athletic.

For all his gifts, he was not a dominant athlete last season. Or did I miss something? Michael Vick was dominant as a freshman. Pryor’s 2008 wasn’t anything near the same zip code as Michael Vick’s was. From a throwing the ball standpoint, they have many of the same problems.

We’ll see, but the love this kid is getting is outragous.

I think everyone agrees he’s a top flight athlete. Everyone agrees he’s fast as hell. Everyone agrees that if you give a guy with as much raw talent as he has a chance to beat you, he probably will.

People don’t object and say that Pryor is talentless, they object to the fact that he’s held up as the second coming of Jim Thorpe despite having done almost nothing to merit it on the field. I’m nauseated by the totally one-sided coverage of him, and I actually trhink he’ll wind up being pretty good.

A comeback against Wisky? Sure it was big at the time, but does anyone remember how State crushed ’em the very next week, or that Wisconsin turned out to be much more of a paper tiger than people thought.

A clutch player? He got pulled in his bowl game in favor of a guy who could, uh, actually pass.

The 9th best player in college football? Based upon last year? Hell, he wasn’t even the 9th best player at his position last year. He didn’t even throw enough passes to be included in the conference QB rating rankings despite starting most of O$S’s games! Of course you’re going to have a decent QB rating if you’re only putting the ball in the air 15 times a game and your’re only allowed to throw bubble screens.

The truth is that Pryor was asked to do very little last year and at times he looked very good doing it. At other times he looked like he was out of his depth. What annoyes the hell out of me is that the media ignores all of the mistakes he made — ignores the picks, the fumbles, the poor decisions, the lazy passes — and focuses only how good he looked at those fleeting moments when he could pull a rabbit out of his hat.

If the media treated Randall Cunningham like this, he’d be in the Hall of Fame right now.

He went to my high-school and it’s true, he is a beast. His little brother Pete Gilmore started at PSU as a running back but transferred to Villanova really early or something.

PSU had lost, and USC had backed off so there was no real pressure anymore.

I don’t particularly agree with that, as I was at the game, and it still seemed tense and that PSU had a chance until basically the very end, but from someone who doesn’t see things through blue tinted glasses and who may not have even really payed that close attention to the game anyway, I could see how someone would think that.

and while he made some boneheaded plays last year, for the moment I’m chalking that up to being a true freshman. He may very well turn out to be a phenomenal QB, but he also may be a bust. Last year didn’t give enough info either way, so as much as the people claiming he’s the #9 player in the country are making unsubstantiated claims, so are the people saying he’s terrible.

Pryor didn’t even get to go to the Big Ten media days, so it’s hard to buy that he’s a leader on the team.

Coach Easy’s back!

I entered two beers into competition, am harvesting hops this weekend, and am working on a bacon flavored beer.

I agree with the overrated perspective, Pryor isn’t proven. He has legs, but doesn’t seem to me like he will develop enough to meet the hype.

We’ve got the much more humble demeanor of DC and his skills and I for one am happy with that. No name on the jersey… the team, not the individual. I hope they are reminded of the “PSU’s student section isn’t that loud” attitude TP has right before kickoff against tOSU.

but I’m also not impressed with Tebow’s QBing skills, but he just replaces the arm punt with the jump pass.

But as numerous examples can be pointed to, you don’t have to be a good QB to perform well in college football.