Dear Matthew McGloin

If this…

I just want you to know that I do hold you to the same standards as I hold your counterpart, Matthew McGloin.

Then why this?

until you prove to us that you’re ready to be infinitely better (not marginally better) against everybody, you will still be the former walk-on fighting for a starting spot, Matthew McGloin.

Because by definition, you’re holding the former walk-on to a different, “infinitely better” standard than the four-star QB recruit.

Seems like a lot to lay at the feet of a young kid who is probably just as frustrated at the QB carousel as we are as fans. And I’m betting Rob Bolden is pretty frustrated too. These are two kids who I think have done more or less reasonably well when talking to the press given their age, experience, and probable frustration level.

You talk about the two of them being held to different standards? Seems to me you’re holding them to different standards as well. Yes, McGloin has been in the system longer but why is it that everyone keeps clamoring for one or the other to get more game-snaps? Because true experience is developed on the field against other teams. McGloin has just as much as Bolden in terms of game-time experience. Yeah, last year McGloin threw a bunch of picks but so did Bolden. Now, with roughly the same amount of game experience Bolden has what…four INTs and one passing TD and McGloin IS THE ONLY B1G QB WITHOUT AN INT and has generated for more points than Bolden. Gee…I’d say he’s producing better results. He’s played less snaps this year, generated more yardage, generated more points, made way less mistakes, and yet he’s still splitting snaps with Bolden.

We keep pointing to the QB play as the problem, but let’s focus on the real problems…coaching and O-line play (which I think is a function of coaching). Maybe it’s time we cut the QBs…both of them…a little slack and not nit pick and jump all over everything they do or say and give them the benefit of the doubt that they are just as tired of the criticism and the QB carousel as we are. They’re kids, not pro athletes. At this point I’m betting neither one ever sees a snap at the NFL level so in a couple years they’ll both be selling cars at Don’s Used Car lot with their PSU degree and rehashing the glory days. Give ’em a break.

Thank you for supporting Penn State.

Please don’t be a douche-bag; it reflects poorly on all of us.

Calling out a player for… playing slightly better than another player who isn’t living up to expectations? For showing the cockiness we actually like in a QB?

I thought MM was a tad over the top last year, but that was last year. He really hasn’t said anything this year to warrant this unless i missed something recently. He, as has Rob, has said he would prefer one to play but he has made it very clear that if that choice is RB, he was fully support the team and work hard. People do grow up, people do say dumb stuff the first time they get on the big stage, sometimes. It seems like since MM has been slightly outplaying RB lately that now we must bust on him for being overly cocky LAST year. We bust on his Fla performance. If you actually have to jump on a QB’s bandwagon instead of supporting whoever is playing, them bust on them for their performances this year. Did MM cost PSU its only loss this year? No. He also hasn’t won any games on his own this year, but at least keep the anti MM stuff to how he has performed and acted this season. Not sure I understand the point of the drawn out post because you think the kid is a jerk. Lots of athletes are jerks, if he was killing it on the field this would never get posted even if we would all think it. Why use something like this to bust on him when it means absolutely nothing in the entire realm of the competition, unless, no matter how much better MM plays you don’t want him to start because he is jerk. If memory serves me right the younger of the Sacca brothers was quite a jerk too but didn’t get hammered like this.

I thought they had a club with a secret handshake and everything!

1) I am severely undermining Bolden by saying McGloin is just as good (in fact, marginally better) than him. So no, this is not a pro-Bolden, anti-McGloin type thing.

2) The point of the post, which only few people seem to get, is that people (including McGloin himself) should let the performance on the field do the talking and leave it at that.

3) I addressed this to McGloin solely for the continuity of the post, since I thanked him for everything he’s done in the first part. This could easily be addressed to the fans and the media and have the exact same message. In fact, replace Matthew McGloin with Robert R. Bolden in this very post, flip-flop former walk-on with 4/5 start recruit, and it’s the same message.

4) What’s dickish about asking one of our QBs to play better if he feels he’s better? Dickish is the people who were wishing he got hurt, or the people who (in this very thread) joked about getting him suspended.

However, since this is such a touchy subject and people are so irritable about anything anybody says about the players, this will most likely be the last time you hear anything from me regarding any of the QBs. I’m not in the business of hurting anybody’s feelings over something as trivial and as forgotten three years from now.

Am I the only one losing his mind over this? I don’t think I am. Let’s have a group hug, sing a couple rounds of Kumbaya, light up a doob, take a drink, pick a flower, listen to a Windham Hill CD, and think happy thoughts.

for doing what neither DC nor MRob could do, and beat Iowa for us.

Tonight you have proven to me not that you are infinitely better than Bolden, but that should start for the rest of the season