Penn State considered benching Anthony Morelli for Daryll Clark? Now they tell us ...

Before last year's renaissance, quarterbacks coach and famous son Jay Paterno took a lot of heat for Penn State's usually paleolithic offense, much of it directly due to the consistent failure of Anthony Morelli to fulfill his five-star, all-world recruiting hype in 2006 and 2007. A scout summed it up before Morelli entered the '08 draft: "He has all the tools you look for in a QB; an athletic body, very strong throwing arm and far better movement then I had expected, but is acutely under coached and unprepared for the job of being a professional QB." Ouch. But maybe, Papa Paterno suggested Monday, that was because Jay wasn't all that enamored with Morelli himself: As a sophomore in 2007, [Daryll] Clark was the backup to senior Anthony Morelli. As the Nittany Lions trudged through an 8-4 regular season, quarterbacks coach Jay Paterno wanted to get Clark some snaps in live action, but head coach Joe Paterno refused. "I thought it would discourage the k...