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May 31, 2005

Palko Touring

Filed under: Uncategorized — Chas @ 6:59 am

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.

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.

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