And in other news on Twitter, it is being reported that Terrelle Pryor has put jersey, his shoulder pads, his cleats, his helmet etc. on EBAY.
Gotta cite? My search-fu is weak, but all I came up with is jokes.
Of course not. He was already not going to play the first 5 games (of 12) and he must know the likely outcome of the current investigation. Now he can say he wasn’t fired, but quit.
I’m sure the scandal will blow over, and Pryor will have a fine career in the CFL.
Pryor has a tendancy to put his foot in his mouth, so hopefully he will spill the beans on OSU’s deepest darkest secrets. Fans around her are mostly happy to see him gone and seriously hoping he just keeps quiet.
I think once he and his teammate friends completely disassociate from OSU, they will reveal things at least in part. I don’t believe any of their actions as described are illegal, so it seems the only consideration for not talking is the teammates that remain. I don’t think Pryor will talk just yet because he doesn’t want to aid the investigators who will likely sanction the program which will affect his friends on the team. In a few years, when teammate friends have left and the sanctions are winding down, with no fear of new sanctions, he will talk. But he may just affirm what the investigators find and not reveal anything they didn’t find.
The Wonderful World of Tressel Presents: Vestocchio
Enjoy.
And a courtesy jab at the SEC. very well done.
I know the topic has been determined to be OT, but I just wanted to let those interested here to know that tonight at 9pm ESPN2 will have a 2 hour special about the Fab Five at the University of Michigan. It will be replayed again on Saturday @ 11am on ESPN-Classic channel.
Any further discussion about this should go in a new thread.
I would love to be the the guy that is investigating this OSU situation. If there is a smidgen of truth to the allegation that Pryor was taking equipment at will, having it signed and selling it, that is enough to nail OSU’s bucknuts to the wall.
Start with the equipment room. Find out how much was sent to them by Nike. Do an inventory. Figure out how much a team like that really needs. Where’s the rest? How was it accounted for?
Pryor, and probably his close buddies, were supposedly was helping themselves to shoulder pads, game jerseys, shoes, and anything else he could get their hands on. Were the #4 guys on the depth chart given the same access? If not, then there exists a problem and a violation. It smacks of “lack of institutional control” if you can’t control your equipment room. The equipment room is a pretty easy thing to monitor and account for.
Not to say this doesn’t occur in other programs but supposedly the OSU/Nike deal was especially sweet.
Let’s frame it another way. What if the National Science Foundation had granted a multi-million dollar grant to a university. Yet, it was found out that the university had no controls and individuals were helping themselves to computers, technical equipment and supplies with no accountability. What if they were selling the stuff? There would be Congressional hearings. What if it was the same university? No controls, right?
On to a personal pet peeve: These deals between Nike, Adidas, Rebock and the rest are especially galling. Every pro and major college team in football, basketball and hockey is getting equipment free from these companies. It’s not just that they are getting enough equipment to supply the team, they are getting it in multiples. A major college basketball player can wear a new pair of shoes every game. A star NHL hockey player can use a new stick on every shift, not just every game.
Who pays for it? Any parent that is trying to advance their kid’s athletic aspirations. Why do you think this stuff is so expensive? It’s because so much of it is being given away for free. Somebody pays for it and it’s not the pro’s or major college teams. Kids see their heroes using this name brand stuff and have to have it. The parents cave in. A hockey stick that should cost $50 costs $200. Parents have to pay thousands of dollars to have their kid play public school football partly because the equipment is so expensive.
I can only hope that the NCAA nails OSU on this issue and starts to look at the whole corrupt mess. But that’s only a hope. Probably won’t happen.
Hey the Roughriders won the rights to Pryor in the CFL. I hear the fans of the Rough Riders are saddened.
Whoopie!
Is Pryor just another Clarett in the making?
I think it’s possible. He will not be an NFL QB resembling anything other than a back-up at best.
He’s arrogant, which means he will alienate everyone associated with the CFL, the Roughriders, and probably OSU, especially when the real crap hits the fan.
And what is the prediction of that crap? His leaving only confirms my suspicion that there is something pretty serious buried there. Tressel knew he was going to go down, so he stepped down before they hung him. Pryor would have stayed to play those last 7 games if he could have. My guess is that as the investigation continues, he’d be suspended for the season and lose his chance at the CFL money.
Any supplemental draft (if it happens at all) by the NFL is not going to help his ego at all. He’ll be lucky to be picked in the 4th round. I hope the Bengals or Browns take him.
I’m not surprised at all this. It goes on all over the country, which is why I think the NCAA is the most corrupt organization in the country. I’d love to know what those guys in their nice offices at NCAA headquarters pull down every year. That’s an organization that exists for one reason… to make themselves rich.
If the football and basketball players would join up into a union of some sort, they’d have the NCAA by the balls. 90% of them are there to make it to the pros anyway, so who cares if they go to class? I certainly don’t. Let them hone their athletic skills at the university, and let them make money playing for the university. Let the NFL and NBA kick in cash for being a nice farm feeder system. And you know what? They’d STILL make obscene amounts of money.
You’ll really flip when you find out what Nike, Adidas and others are paying universities just to be able to provide them with free equipment and uniforms. It’s advertising for them, and I’m sure it comes out of the advertising budget one way or another, so I don’t have a problem with it.
and the beat goes on. Sources: Terrelle Pryor indulged in golf
OK everybody, listen to and read this. This is how the NCAA system works. If you are comfortable with it then go live in la-la land. Otherwise, you should be incensed. Incensed at Pryor, OSU, the administration at OSU, the NCAA, the BCS, the companies like Nike and Addidas, and everyone else that promotes this fraud that has been perpetrated on the public for the sole purpose of enriching people that insist on promoting a fantasy.
And yes, what happened with Pryor and OSU is probably, laughably miniscule to what goes on in the SEC and other programs. But that’s not the point.
Time for a resurrection of this thread.
Now tOSU has given itself the ultimate penalty. It is throwing Tressel to the wolves so that the NCAA won’t tag it with the feared “Lack of institution control” label.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6749330&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines
The President, the AD and the whole athletic dept. should go down. The basketball program is just as bad.
The most laughable part is the horror of the win streak against UM being in jeopardy. Let’s see here, a school that was cheating beat a school that was cheating. Hmmmmm, how does that go down? 'Splain it to me.
How is athletes selling their stuff “cheating”? It conferred no on-the-field advantage. It was against the rules, but it wasn’t cheating.
It was against the rules but it’s not cheating? That’s a good one. I’ll write that down. Everyone can use that when they get busted. Get some background on the facts of this case. What they were doing was a violation of NCAA rules. The coach was made aware of the situation and didn’t do anything about it. Meanwhile, he signed a statement saying he was not aware of any violations within the program. Condoning and protecting such behavior is an unfair advantage in that it allows players to profit from their participation in a way that wouldn’t be allowed in a program that was following the rules. Is it any wonder that guys like Pryor and Clarett found a home in Columbus?
You can argue the merit of the rules, and we have, until the cows come home but they are still the rules. Some programs try to follow them.
Now it looks like tOSU has made some kind of underhanded agreement with Tressel to take all of the blame and absolve the rest of the corrupt institution in order to minimize the NCAA penalties. They are all a bunch of sleezebags.
UM alum? 