Personally, given what I have seen of both teams history with QBs and playing time, I see the OSU situation as a situation where a QB has quality competition, but in playing can benefit from a continuous stable of highly-related WRs and for the most part far superiority in most other areas of the offense, defense, and special teams (which both affect the challenges and opportunities for the offense) compared to the competition. This can create a significant uncertainty and transition to the pro game-look at the success of OSU QBs.
In comparison, PSU general has less and less (and some think an extreme lack of) competition, which leads to some QBs getting 2 and even 3 years, when they went through some underperforming periods or there was a very qualified backup sat. I think where the real development opportunity comes at PSU is to do as much or more with less against the top of the B1G.
Not that (all or any of) these young high school prospects look at things this way. but I think the more certain path with a bigger upswing for Allar is at PSU.
I find the Ewers situation, if described as you do, very funny. Fortunately for OSU they have 3 other quality options that have been on campus LESS than 2 years-a luxury PSU should try to emulate. From what I can tell there are still the same number of seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour, hours in a day, and days in a year in State College as there are in Columbus.
