Starting to turn on Terrelle Pryor.

Terrelle himself flooded the market with game-worn, autographed jerseys.  Every schmoe in Columbus has one.  It drove prices down.  I think Terrelle probably left his Econ 201 textbook under the couch in the basement at Fine Line.

(Wouldn't it be funny if they retired #2, out of shame rather than honor?  Malcolm Jenkins would be righteously pissed off.)

yea, I'm starting to turn on TP too.  I just don't see his career panning out at Ohio State..

So, instead of burning couches in Columbus, will they be burning #2 jerseys?

This kind of reminds me of what we did with Morgan Trent, or to a certain extent, Braylon Edwards for the "Lloyd Carr's UofM" comment. I like it much better when we can watch another fanbase eat their own.

$150 seems a little rich, but it sure would be fun to wear come Thanksgiving weekend this fall!

BTW- Thanks for the info on his number, didn't realize he wore 2.

I actually had a buckeye friend of mine say this today: "If I were a college athlete, I too would hope my coach wouldn't narc on me for doing that (selling memorabilia)." Yea. They don't know who to blame or for what reason.

The fanbase will scapegoat Pryor because they don't want to believe that everyone in the entire program is dirty.  It's a lot more convenient if Pryor is the entire problem.  Pryor's main crime here is being so arrogant and naive that he thought he didn't have to bother to hide what he was doing.  

I'm sure it's a lot easier for Buckeye fans to pretend that there never was a problem until Pryor got there, and that Maurice Clarett was a "delusional liar" when he talked about the entire, corrupt system in 2004 (or whenever it was).  They will ride the "poor Jim Tressel trusted Terelle Pyror and Pryor took him down" lie until it is proven to be incorrect beyond all reasonable doubt.

Lost in all of the hoopla was a very simple statement George Dohrmann made on the Dan Patrick Show yesterday:

"Yeah, there's more."

Pryor deserves what he is getting, but TSIO deserves what they will soon get even more.

I want nothing to do with "turning on Terrelle Pryor."

broken so many rules if he wasn't told over and over and over again that it was okay. It wont matter when the investigation moves further back to all the other kids the vest threw under the bus.  When they start vacating wins from 2002 they won't be able to blame Pryor anymore.

I agree with all, but the scary thing here is that this is an immature kid who operated in a system that let this go on until it exploded.

Reason I say scary is that he's on the wrong side of a fanbase that has more than its share of fringe idiots. Herbstreit left the state for speaking his opinion. Writers at the school paper have been getting threats for a news story. This kid, whose crime was being sloppier than those before him, is about to get the downfall of the program heaped on his sholders.

Now let's see if "father-figure" Tress and OSU steps up and takes the rightful share blame. Pryor's only why they got caught. He's not a whistleblower or outsider bringing down the  OSU machine. He was their marquee player as of a couple days ago - the face of the program facing suspension for violating minor NCAA rules. Now it's all changed. I don't like him. I'm glad he chose OSU. But I can't help but wonder if this kid understands what's about to happen here if someone doesn't step up.

I'd fire up one of those many fine automobiles and get the heck out of town. The OSU fans have some real wackos amongst them. If guys that have meant so much to the program, like Herbie and Spielman, get death threats for speaking their mind, I'd hate to think how they're going to treat a guy that really was instrumental in bringing down their program. I'd hightail it out of there myself.

But then again, I do have a valid driver's license, so that makes it easy for me . . . .

but the stage of the NCAA investigation is really early. More is going to come out. It probably won't be riveting stuff, but it will be damning.

The NCAA is going to camped out in Columbus for the next several years (ask any USC fan you meet!) performing interviews of coaches, admins, players and staff, as well as other witnesses, and reviewing tons of records and paperwork (more like the lack thereof). 

All of this well after they perform a thorough cost audit of football equipment purchases the last 10 years reconciled against existing inventories, legitimate donations, and spoilage (lost, worn/damaged inventory, etc.).  This will take only a few weeks to complete.

Assistant coaches, players and football staff are most certainly going to implicated in the final assessment by the NCAA.  

I can't wait to see the final cost value on the rampant equipment "thefts" at a public institution like OSU, in a state with an $8 billion budget deficit.  And for what? For the personal gain and adornment of multiple Buckeye players while receiving a complementary college education.  That'll go over like a fart in church.

A lot of very, very good college quarterbacks fail to make the jump to the NFL.  A franchise basically has to be willing to accept a 1st year of losing while their rookie QB gets up to NFL speed.

The lockout will make it especially tough for new QB's  TP really would have benefited.from his senior year of college ball.

If he was smart, he'd go try out for the Argonauts.  That pass happy league would be good for developing his game.

He'll never do that though, probably believes he's NFL ready.

Unless he gets his head straightened out, I doubt he'll ever start an NFL game.

I am going to take a different  approach than I ever thought I would on Pryor, even in my own opinion. Like everyone has pointed out here the cheating whether it be cars or money or drugs or tats or who cares what else has been going on under Tressel well before he was even recruited. Now do I hate Pryor, yes. Do I think he was a spoiled brat in high school with his decision, yes. Was I all that bummed when he didn't pick Michigan, yes because I think elite talent is important but no because I would have struggled to like him. BUT, can someone here tell me what 18 year old kid who has been recruited since he was 15-16 by college coaches and has been loved and praised by every adult and "friend" in his community who isn't full of themselves? Jimmy Clausen was a prick, Lebron James definitely thought highly of himself, Tate Forcier let it get to his head, I was young but apparently everyone hated Kobe Bryant when he entered the NBA. I don't feel like continuing but its not too hard, if you need more evidence go look at how screwed up a lot of young kids in Hollywood get with all the fame and attention. The plain fact of the matter is there are a lot of kids who make bad decisions and let their ego swell up like a balloon. The difference with Pryor is, no one told him NO. No one at tosu ever said you can't break team rules, you can't sell your memorabilia, you can't borrow the car owners car for the weekend, ect. I truly feel bad for the kid in one respect, he only did what people told him was alright to do. Is he arrogant, of course he is, but I am not going to say he deserves to be blamed for doing what the beloved Tressel said he could do. I put this on everyone involved in their program but you can;t blame a kid for being arrogant and taking things when he doesn't have much money when everyone tells him its ok.   I understand if people disagree with me on this but this is how I feel on this one particular Pryor topic.