PSU announced today that McGloin will be the starter, Jones the #2, and Bolden slides to #3. Let the QB carousel roll at PSU.
LONG OVERDUE
Laughing at McGloin or a defense coached by Gerg?
it will still be too soon to laugh at that game, except in a last-string-of-sanity-has-been-snapped sort of way. I might have laughed that way during the game at a certain point.
It was, in the words of Graham Greene, "a night impossible to deepen." At least until Wisconsin deepened it by successfully running the ball on 72 straight plays.
"You know, for a bartender/bookie, you're pretty judgmental."
seasons had a straw that broke the camel's back. The first Toledo, the second Illinois, the third Penn State. I think the Penn State straw was the final straw for Rich.
So, depending on how you look at it, that game was the beginning of a resurrection.
Had RR beaten Penn State that night, he might still be here. Losing to Penn State and making McGloin look like Montanna was the end for RR.
M'Dog
At that point I went from still seeing 2010 as a promising season to thinking, "WTF is going on?" It was one thing to get shredded by Cousins and Stanzi, but facing a walk-on making his first start, I really thought we'd start to see the D turn the corner. Wow was I off on that one.
i will never be able to laugh at that game either. it caused irreparable liver damage.
I don't know that it is accurate to refer to what he did as "shredding" our defense. I mean, our defense just kind of opened up the flood gates and let everyone and everything through at their leisure. So basically there was nothing to shred.
Not that I loved Rich Rod less, but that I loved Michigan more.
So we can all play Rob Bolden transfer Bingo during the summer.
"The sun is hot."
Did anyone expect anything else?
Go Blue!
I was hoping that McGimli would have gotten a shot here.
No radio. Nothing of value.
In my book, you just won the Internet today. Well played, Moe!
Wiggum: Do they have Krusty partially gelatinated non-dairy gum-based beverages?
Lou: Mm-hm. They call 'em, "shakes."
Eddie: Huh, shakes. You don't know what you're gettin'.
is basically a litmus test for underlying nerdiness. I passed. Or failed, depending on how you look at it. +1.
"You know, for a bartender/bookie, you're pretty judgmental."
I wish I got this, it seems hilarious.
"There will be blood on the field and it won't be mine." -KK
drat and here i was hoping for Paul Jones to start because the two we have seen are so bad that it's time to give the third guy a try.
We must not falter! Show strength, show courage, show pride, but show no mercy!
Penn State will need either Venuto or McGregor in the mix to round out their starting rotation, and if you ask me, they should have put at least one leftie in there to mix it up a little bit.
This doesn't totally surprise me - their QB situation is bad, but at least last year, McGloin was the most productive statistically. Having a freshman as the #2 over Bolden might be a telling indictment on how well Bolden fits into the new regime, I am willing to bet.
"Funny isn't it, how naughty dentists always make that one fatal mistake."
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Jones is a third year player (although has never seen the field).
http://espn.go.com/college-football/player/_/id/503333/paul-jones - it does list him as a freshman, but of course, the linked article says he was academically ineligible for the first two years of his college career. I liked what it said in the article at least, that Jones had "an air of mystery" about him....
http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/61820/mcgloin-the-sensible-choice
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It sucks that we won't get an opportunity to exact revenge on him. Our loss to them in '10 really left a bad taste in my mouth.
Dont know what you mean. I thought it was perfectly fine to play 3 DL's with PSU at our 3 yard line.
/s
So hot. Milk was a bad choice.
McGloin will hand the ball to Silas Redd 28 times per game anyways so, not the biggest surprise in seeing that the guy with the most starting exp is named number one.
Semper Fidelis
This is pretty much like being announced as the starting pitcher for the Chicago Cubs on opening day...

Do we ever play Penn State again? I forgot they were in the Big Ten for a minute.
As I recall, we play them in 2013 and 2014, and then after that, who knows?
Hopefully, we at least have permanent settlements on the Moon by then. Actually, if superconferences pan out, the Moon might be in the Big Ten...
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I remember laughing my ass off at the ms paint of the "Three headed penn state quarterback monster" when we played them in 2010 right before halloween. Then they put 41 on us and I stopped laughing.
NEVAR FORGET
I think Penn State fans are already lookiing forward to Christian Hackenberg.
"A Michigan Man will coach a Michigan Team"
That Bolden didn't transfer. He's #3 now, and when he did play he looked utterly inept to being playing QB at the BCS level. He couldn't even move the ball on Houstons defense. I think he would be better suited at an FCS school. As for McGloin he has progressed as a QB, but I feel like Penn St. will have trouble moving the ball against good defenses. Their QB situation has to be one of the worst in the Big 10.
Seriously McGloin couldn't hit the wide side of a barn last yr.....heck alabama quit playing pass defense by the end of the 1st half..........Watching that game they had a defender just let a wr go and come up, sure enough mcgloin throws the short pass and so far off the wr got decked and the te was down field by himself...............
I'll be shocked if they can complete passes beyond 20yds of the qb, forget los!
The last loss to PSU was all my fault.
I spent the entire first half of the CIL live blog submitting "McGroin!" before EVERY PSU snap.
:-/
Love & Hate are horns on the same goat.
I have seen. If they send me to hell I would rather watch us lose to Appy State there than to McGloin and PSU.
It's a bad night when you watch your teams defense makes a subpar walk on qb look like a heisman contender.
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And the fact that it was a night game on national television made it all the more painful.
Until Christian Hackenberg arrives on campus, being the starting QB at Penn State is like being the smartest kid with down syndrome.
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Downs jokes. Real high brow stuff 'round here these days.
How do you announce a starting QB in the middle of the summer?
You're not supposed to have contact, what could you've seen this week that you didn't see/know the week after spring practice?
“True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise — the other, loyalty.”
But then recall him SHREDDING our D 20 months ago....oh hell, I am laughing again