I know Hack's arm is extremely strong, but can he throw the ball further than any past PSU QB's? Who do you think could, and accurately as well?
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I know Hack's arm is extremely strong, but can he throw the ball further than any past PSU QB's? Who do you think could, and accurately as well?
Yeah, Fusina was real effective on long passes down the sideline. Thanks for the Wayback Machine prompt.Collins for strength. He could make any throw as proven in his long NFL career.
Fusina for accuracy. He made average receivers look great.
I know Hack's arm is extremely strong, but can he throw the ball further than any past PSU QB's? Who do you think could, and accurately as well?
How about Blackledge.I know Hack's arm is extremely strong, but can he throw the ball further than any past PSU QB's? Who do you think could, and accurately as well?
I think Morelli had the best arm. He just was not a very good QB. He was decent. Clearly Collins was our best overall with both arm strength and QB ability. I think he played 14 years in the NFL? Not to shabby ;-)
We have had number of pretty good QBs all of whom did not have great arms.
I think Hoss went to WV...did he not?
I agree with Morelli for arm strength (not necessarily accuracy). Didn't Paterno burn his red shirt on the last game one year when we only had a play or two left? Pulled the starting QB whom I can't remember, and put in AM to take a shot at the long ball. We ended up losing.
That was Frank Rocco.Anybody remember Frank Raco? I used to watch his picture perfect passes during warmups - too bad that was pretty much it, warmups
Hostetler went on and played several years in the NFL. I don't think he suffered from being beat out by Blackledge at Penn StateStarted at PSU. Went to WVa when he could not beat out Blackledge--married the coaches daughter and got a Super Bowl ring. Not too shabby. I have a buddy who knew him at WVa (he was the head football trainer at the time).
Of course Todd won the MNC, so there's that.
Hostetler went on and played several years in the NFL. I don't think he suffered from being beat out by Blackledge at Penn State
kgilbert: You are so right. I can't think of another circumstance in Penn State football history where a player was beat out by another player and then went on elsewhere to have an even better career than this example. Some think that Pat Devlin was shafted, but he really just ended up being a good QB for Delaware, not an NFL QB though! Both the Hostetler and Devlin families had lineage with Penn State!Nope. Todd always noted that he got the MNC but Hostetler got the girl and the Super Bowl ring.... So it worked out well for both. But it was hard at the time as the Hostetler's were a PSU family and had more than one play for Joe.
Hufnagel also was the starter in 1973. I know, because that was my junior year. BTW, we lost to Navy that year in a dreary cold Beaver Stadium rain, 7 -6. Perhaps the worse game I ever was at!I remember Steve Joachim. He was the #1 recruit in the nation in 1970. He backed up John Hufnagel in 1971, throwing a long TD pass (80+ yards, I think) to a back-up WR named Jimmy Scott in the opening game vs Navy. He looked like a superstar in the making, but he transferred to Temple after the 1971 season. Hufnagel had 1 more year in 1972, so I guess Joachim didn't want to wait.