Terrelle Pryor done at OSU
On Twitter from the Cleveland Plain Dealer via @mikerothstein:
BREAKING NEWS: Terrelle Pryor has decided to end his football career at Ohio State, per his lawyer
I think he was thinking of this TP who has nothing but time to study
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http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/pryor_terrance00.html
Student records are private and cannot be FOIA'd
he could walk on campus without getting tared and feathered at this point?
Are scales being set up all across Columbus as an incentive for students to lose weight?
If you think it's bad for Pryor now, wait 'til he officially becomes 0-0 for his career as a Buckeye QB.
Can't say this is surprising. But I AM surprised it took him this long to decide.
TP tried first, but as per usual no one could tell what the hell he was saying.
...to a perfect career.
He was just four Heismans short of his goal. Narrow miss.
He belongs in the pantheon next to Ron Powlus.
/Beano Cook.
He was just overrated, which proably wasn't his fault. TP on the other hand is a certifiable f-ck up.
Powlus was by all accounts a good kid, but he, too, fell a bit shorty of Beano Cook's 4 Heisman prognostication.
Yeah, why have the lawyer release the statement? And where's he getting the money to pay the lawyer. Surely OSU has taken away his key to the equipment closet.
because Pryor does not speak or write well, and needs a measured and concise out. Furthermore, many lawyers would do the work pro bono because the attorney's name is now all over the press. Cheap advertising, I'd do it too. Or, Pryor will pay him for the services when and if he gets an NFL contract.
Good question. I wonder what kind of fee agreement he has with the lawyer. If the lawyer's acting pro bono, I wonder if you can make a case that it's an improper benefit. Seems like a huge loophole if any lawyer can provide legal services for a student-athlete by claiming it was pro bono work.
On a semi unrelated note, I would pay money to see TP walking into that Columbus car dealer and trying to get his new-car-of-the-month.
Even if he's not acting pro bono, extending credit in anticipation of future NFL earnings would also seem like an extra/improper benefit.
You are both correct that free private legal services is potentially an impermissible benefit, but TP may no longer be a student athlete.
Assuming he heads to the CFL/NFL/Nearest Best Buy, he can accept whatever benefits people choose to throw his way.
The only thing that can make this better is if he does not get drafted in the supplemental draft.
Ok, I hate the idea of no NFL this season as much as the next but this wouldn't be a bad silver lining - not only does he not get drafted or make any money but he has to go play in the CFL or something!
even better if they don't let him into the supplemental draft. entirely possible since he bailed before his status changed.
With a lockout there's no supplemental draft, right? It just got better.
Stand up and shout it with me: CANADIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE, BITCHES!
Not true. I've read numerous places that there will be a supplemental draft if someone enters it AKA Pryor.
I don't wish him ill. I just wish him gone.
Who's up next?
How funny...or should i say "sad" that he has a lawyer!
we have lawyers in college, make them release statements, pay them with fraudulently gotten money.
Nice to see he did it for his teammates. That guy has great character.
"It's quite possible Rich Rodriguez's crowning achievement at Michigan was not signing Terrelle Pryor"
Though to be fair, I'd say getting Denard to migrate North contends for #1.
well for three years people were complaining that RR failed to bring in Pryor... honestly does anyone think that is a valid criticism now? Soooooo glad Pryor didn't come here...
So long, freak
the NCAA can't touch him, can't get his records, can't make him testify. See Bush, Reggie. Brilliant strategy and dovetails nicely with the aggressive Gordon Gee spin campaign today.
Once it's official, ohio can pay the remainder of his signing bonus without it being a violation, one supposes
Yeah, I'm a little worried about that. I just hope the damage has already been done. Which part of me thinks it has. Otherwise Tressel would have kicked him to the curb a while ago, just like Maurice Clarrett.
I doubt that leaving OSU will make the school's records about him any more or less protected. You're right that they can't make him talk, though, just like Bush.
EDIT: They could make him talk if he transfers to another NCAA school, of course.
Fuck him.
Couldn't have said it better...
He'll always have Columbus. Forever and ever and ever. Until laser tattoo removal is improved, he will always be a Buckeye. That, or long sleeves:
With the impending doom around OSU and TP how soon does the board think he waits until he gets it removed and /or covered up?
I set the over under at a 12 months. What's your estimate?
I don't think he'll get them covered up, he no longer has access to equipment to trade to get it done
The dumb bastard will probably pull up a u-haul behind the Woody Hayes center and fill it up with equipment from storage when he is cleaning out his locker.
I'm pretty sure that would require a conscience.
The "O" is crooked.
Just like Pryor.
It stands for ZERO ligitimate wons over UM.
Everyone quits teams, leaves teams, disgraces you, disgraces me, whatever