I had nothing. Coming out of the long weekend, there wasn’t much else to offer. Maybe there will be something in the afternoon, but the morning had no news. So a big hat tip to Chris who e-mailed me about this article from Wilkes-Barre:
Tyler Palko was proud to lead the University of Pittsburgh football team to the Big East championship and a berth in a BCS game last season.
Now, he wants even more.
“We’re not anywhere near where we need to be right now. That’s someone talking who’s a perfectionist,” said Palko, who enjoyed a breakout season as Pitt’s starting quarterback last year.
“I want to win a championship. The Big East championship’s nice, but I want to win a national championship. That’s the kind of mentality that needs to be back. It’s coming, slowly but surely. You can’t build Rome in a day.
“But we need to get back to really earning our respect. You have to go out and fight for it.”
A former West Allegheny High School star, Palko was a featured clinician Saturday at coach George Curry’s annual Quarterback Clinic at Berwick High School. The 6-foot-2, 220-pound senior looks to possess the perfect mentality to guide an up-and-coming Panther program that needed to win several key games down the stretch to capture the league crown.
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He’s excited to work with new head coach and former Panther Dave Wannstedt.“It’s a mentality. He’s from Pittsburgh,” Palko said of Wannstedt. “It’s not that coach (Walt) Harris wasn’t tough. But coach Harris wasn’t from this town. You have to be from Pittsburgh to understand. It’s a little bit different.
“This city is just hard-working, blue-collar people who want perfection. They want to win and they want to win now.”
Slight factual correction, Palko is a Redshirt Junior, not a Senior. We aren’t ready to see him leave quite yet.
Apparently in Berwick, Ron Powlus, Sr. is not worth mentioning. The clinic is technically the Curry & Powlus Quarterback Skills Camp (PDF).
Though, let’s be fair. Only Coach Curry has his own instructional videos available.
I just hope that this sort of clinic Palko helped at, is within the quasi-legal rules of the NCAA. Probably is, as long as he isn’t used for marketing purposes.
