Quote:There are a lot of positions on a football team.

To expect a school to develop pro-bowl players at 22 separate positions, for example, is crazy - considering how many players get drafted each year and how many schools there are.

 

That's at least one of the big reasons why you haven't seen stars at certain positions from certain schools.  Not because there is a "Penn State Defensive Backs Curse" or anything like that.

No...I don't expect a college to expect Pro Bowlers at EVERY position.

 

Heck, as great as USC and Miami have been at producing NFL players, they haven't produced great players at EVERY position.

 

Can Penn State improve the NFL fates of their DBs?  Possibly, by successfully recruiting better players and putting them in schemes that translate to the NFL.  If Amos has anything going for him, is that his former college coach, O'Brien, coached in the NFL before becoming Penn St. coach.  He likely implemented some NFL defensive principles and for that matter, offensive principles he saw every day in practice.  Perhaps this will help in his transition.

 

For as many players Alabama has produced over the years, for a long time, they hadn't produced anything resembling a stud WR, which was odd, because over the years, they produced great QBs (Starr, Namath, Stabler), at least one great TE (Ozzie Newsome) and great OLs.  It wasn't until Nick Saban came in, after stints in the NFL, that Alabama started producing stud WRs in Julio Jones and now Amari Cooper. 

 

Maybe this is what it will take for Penn State to produce good DBs.

 

But until they do, I will be skeptical about the long term pro prospects of Penn State DBs. 

 

I haven't been proven wrong yet on that stance.

 

The last time I had this debate on a Penn State DB, this guy was trying to sell me on how wonderful Alan Zemaitis was going to be.

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