The Lions' Pride

Not long ago BOB said "Paul Jones is eligible FOR NOW." So yes, you are right. He is eligible now. However,t he tone of that comment should be taken seriously. It didn't sound like it was certain he would be eligible come August/September. I hope he remains eligible for his sake and the team's. We have to see how this plays out, which means waiting a few months. You have no idea, nor do I if he will remain eligible or not at this point. It's up to him and how bad he wants it.

Last year Joe said as much. I'm paraphrasing, but Joe said something to the effect of "He's going to be a real good football player if he can get his act together with his grades". So yeah, I do expect a coach to tell us either A. Nothing or B. Avoid the question. or C. Tell us the truth. Bob has not shown to be a liar to this point, so I will give him the benefit of the doubt until he's shown otherwise.

Cold hard facts. I know of one cold hard fact about P.J.. Paul Jones was academically ineligible last year, and it was due to a lack of credits, not a grades problem. The rest is speculation.

Do I know anymore details than that? No. Do you? Possibly. If you do please share these detailed facts and I will concede.

Hamilton says that the 2 year layoff will hurt Jones. I dont buy that. A lot of players redshirt and there arent that many redshirt Freshman starters at QB in the NCAA. Another fact is that Jones was basically as highly rated as Hack is coming out of highschool and unless we struck out with 2 highly sought after quarterbacks, Jones just might pan out. All we really have to go by is that BlueWhite game two years ago, and he kicked a lot of ass in it. More than Bolden or McGloin have ever since.

[Edited down to avoid straying off topic]

P.s. no-one knows if he missed qualifying last year by 1 credit or 10. Both would have cost him his eligibility last season. Each would reflect a completely different picture of what kind of student he is.

I agree. Sometimes, I just like to debate or play devil's advocate and Hamilton and Sneaky are always good sports.

Catching up on all the posts from today, but nicely said rmj, two nights in a row. These are the simple facts

a) the QB race is wide open
b) the caliber of our offensive coaching just increased exponentially
......and most importantly.........
c) we won't know who will be the starting QB until August at the earliest and all these posts are pointless until that time

I think this rolls up 7 pages of posts into one cliff notes summary (without all the bashing)

Sometimes its fun to just pick a side and argue. The only person I wont argue with is my wife.

Danny O'Brien is a hot and cold quarterback. Trust me I know. He had Torrey smith a stud wide out. And a stud running back in da rel Scott. O'Brien is the type of player who is very high maintance yes he has a great arm. But he doesn't do well with adversity. He is kinda soft. Once cj Brown started playing well for Maryland he wanted out.

Wisconsin fans better pray DOB doesn't have a bad half, or sacked. Oh yeah his number 1 issue is that he holds the ball too long at times if the o-line doesn't get time.

And he will make some dumb decisions too. Like throwing a last minute int to west va, that lost us the game last year.

So essentially DO'B would've given us the great arm but nonexistent pocket awareness and high maintenance, threaten-to-transfer-at-the-first-sign-of-adversity mentality of Bolden combined with the inexplicable 'randomly throw right into multiple coverage at an inopportune time' tendency of McGloin? All packaged together into one charmin-soft qb?

Missing out on Danny "Don't Call Me Matthew McBolden!" O'Brien is a huge blow for PSU. We could've garnered last years production all without having to endure the constant ingame qb shuffling.