College football bowl thread: Pop-Tarts Muzik

Heh. I had not seen that yet. Your guess is probably on target; Allar will be back for another year. If he isn't, Franklin & Co. must really love the redshirt freshman, Ethan Grunkemeyer.

Beau Pribula was fortunate at PSU ... and unfortunate.

He got playing time in crucial moments in a situation with a top NFL prospect. And yet, he was shoehorned into a role as the "option specialist" which overshadowed his talents throwing the ball. A lot of people who never saw him throw think he's a one-trick pony because of the way Kotelnicki has utilized him. And he's not.

Frankly, I think Rich Rod would do very well to go get him.

 

It's been interesting to watch a lot of the people on PSU Twitter bashing the kid, calling him a quitter for bailing during the playoff, etc. He only went there because he grew up a Penn State fan and picked them over a ton of other options -- including, if I recall, Clemson. Clemson looks a hell of a better with Pribula behind center than Klubnik, IMO.

This said, Pribula should have seen this coming when he was recruited in the same class with Allar. One of you was going to sit, and it was never going to be the five-star kid.

 

Who would have done this coaching? I can’t tell who remained on the staff. And I suppose it’s a moot point now. (If none of the remaining assistants knew a thing re: QB play, for example, that would have been a challenge. )

 

Playing in York County, Pribula very seldom saw top-level competition and was very rarely pushed. He was head-and-shoulders over the York-Adams league. He might have honestly expected to be able to battle Allar for the job.

 

We obviously live in the same area code. My stepson was playing for York Catholic and the year they went 11-1 and won districts was the same year Pribula was a senior. So, we saw a lot of the highlights on the evening news. He threw a good ball then but I felt like he got too much air under it. This was obviously before he got real coaching at the college level so I'm sure that has improved. When Pribula committed to PSU, I joked to my Penn State grad wife (who is desperately trying to talk me into going to the game Saturday), "Oh he's gonna' look so good in a Pitt uniform when he hits the portal." I was kidding but at the same time, this horse race was going to have a loser. Good for him for being smart and realizing he gets a four-year window to either get the NIL bag or showcase skills for the NFL draft.

That said, I'm pretty sure he had an NIL deal locally with Rutter's that I'm sure is going away.

 

I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but this guy's family background set him up very well to understand what's going on. His dad, Tad, was a star small-college wideout (he was about four grades behind me in HS). And his grandfather was a Little All-American at West Chester, a Shippensburg State (now Shippensburg U.) athletic director, and taught a great "Sports in Society" course.

 

I get players jumping into the portal - and HS recruits following the money. Too many players arrive on campus and find themselves buried on the depth chart despite what coaches "said."

When the check clears, teams are invested in you - even better when a powerful alum is "invested" in you. You are more likely to see the field.

 

Did some checking for fun.
A total of 28 quarterbacks rated four or five stars signed in early 2021. Of them, 22 have transferred at least once or have indicated their intentions to do so. And these are the high-end players. Or so the alleged experts say.
In the 2022 cohort, 15 of 24 have moved on at least once.

 

There's only room for one starting QB. Four and five-stars aren't NFL backups, they're not waiting around for an injury to promote them. If there were only 32 college teams instead of 140, it'd be different.

 

Who says America doesn’t innovate anymore? The Pop-Tarts Bowl has perfected the world’s first trophy that doubles as a kitchen appliance.

Pop-Tarts Bowl ups the college football postseason antics — and fun — with its toaster trophy

 

That should be the national championship trophy

 

Yeah I’m gonna brag on him. From the Facebook page for Tuscaloosa County schools (my daughter’s district):