Terrelle Pryor on Improper Benefits - "I felt like I was doing God's work."

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Terrelle Pryor on Improper Benefits - "I felt like I was doing God's work."

Well, um, I'm not sure what to say other than to quote and link this article.  Terrelle Pryor details the story of selling his Gold Pants for $3,000, money he says he used to pay his Mom's rent and heat bills.  

Whenever I write my book the proof will be in there, the receipt that the money I gave my mother was to pay the electric and heat bill. The truth is going to come out one day when the time is right. I don't think I deserved (being punished) in that way, because of the reason I was doing it. I felt like I was doing God's work in a way, and I was getting driven into the ground.

Strangely, he mentions nothing about tattoos, loaner cars, etc.  Some people are just crazy enough to believe their own nonsense.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/jim_trotter/05/09/terrelle.pryor/

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May 9th, 2012 at 12:33 PM | protip (Score:5 Normal)
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Find a ghost writer, terrelle.

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May 9th, 2012 at 12:40 PM | No, I want to read a book (Score:5 Normal)
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No, I want to read a book written entirely by Pryor himself.

May 9th, 2012 at 12:55 PM | Do they even publish stuff (Score:5 Normal)
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Do they even publish stuff written with Crayolas?

May 9th, 2012 at 1:06 PM | Ask and ye shall receive: (Score:5 Normal)
CalJr3000
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(quick & dirty)

May 9th, 2012 at 1:16 PM | Where is user TPryor when we (Score:1 Normal)
profitgoblue
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Where is user TPryor when we desperately need him?!?

 

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May 10th, 2012 at 11:52 AM | sry bizzee doing god's work (Score:5 Normal)
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May 9th, 2012 at 2:33 PM | I would love a book by Pryor (Score:2)
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I would love a book by Pryor penned by the man himself.  I just don't get why he'd want to write one.  The stry will get old soon- kind of like how people rarely if ever bring up that Rose cheated on his ACT's and effed over the Memphis program.  If I were him I'd just let it all go and let it die down and hope that he can develop into an NFL player- but he seems to want to write one...

May 9th, 2012 at 5:08 PM | Pete Rose took the ACT?  (Score:4 Normal)
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Pete Rose took the ACT? 

May 9th, 2012 at 7:09 PM | I thought he was talking (Score:4 Normal)
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I thought he was talking about Axl

May 9th, 2012 at 2:37 PM | Hmmm... (Score:1)
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I'll have to research that.

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May 9th, 2012 at 3:48 PM | the honorable TP (Score:3 Normal)
dearbornpeds
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     i want to see a book that was read by Pryor himself

any bowl will do

May 9th, 2012 at 12:41 PM | He will, (Score:5 Normal)
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but then he is gonna be pissed when he finds out the writer he hired doesn't look like Casper and can't walk through walls. 

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May 9th, 2012 at 12:34 PM | Getting OSU busted = God's (Score:5 Normal)
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Getting OSU busted = God's work

May 9th, 2012 at 1:56 PM | Getting the Vest out of Columbus... (Score:5 Normal)
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Getting the Vest out of Columbus = God's work.

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May 9th, 2012 at 12:36 PM | Everybody kills people, (Score:5 Normal)
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May 9th, 2012 at 1:10 PM | Reading that quote (Score:3 Normal)
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never gets old.  Still awesome.  He was on the Big Ten all academic team, as I recall.

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May 9th, 2012 at 1:24 PM | It still baffles me that (Score:2 Normal)
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It still baffles me that Aaron Craft was on a higher academic All-American team than Novak was.  What could an underclassman at Ohio possibly be doing that is more challenging than what Novak is doing at Ross? Those lists are crazy.

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May 9th, 2012 at 4:37 PM | Do you know anything about (Score:4 Normal)
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Do you know anything about Aaron Craft's academics? Just because he chose a lesser academic school than Novak, doesn't mean he's a lesser student. Just because Michigan is better than Ohio State doesn't mean that our smartest basketball player is always smarter than their smartest basketball player.

May 9th, 2012 at 9:40 PM | I think that's why he asked. (Score:1)
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I think that's why he asked.

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May 9th, 2012 at 11:15 PM | I'm sorry but Ross is a (Score:1)
jackfl33
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I'm sorry but Ross is a premier institution, Novaks peers are the best and brightest. Craft seems like a very smart kid, but he's presumably taking 100 and 200 level classes (as he should be as a true soph). I would be, as I said before, baffled if Craft's workload was comperable at this point.

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May 10th, 2012 at 1:37 AM | O-chem vs. Econ (Score:1)
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I don't know how the schools are in OSU and UM's Ross, but I'm an econ major who switched from microbiology.  Kraft is pre-med and Novak is business.  I think I can offer some insight.

O-Chem for pre-meds is WAY harder than any econ class besides perhaps econometrics.  (Caveat: for me at least.)

May 10th, 2012 at 11:25 PM | Yea I think the thing that (Score:1)
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Yea I think the thing that makes a huge difference in this situation is the premier nature of the Ross institution. It's a top 5 buisness school, and Ohio is not a top end pre med program.

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May 9th, 2012 at 3:08 PM | I guess that explains his surprise (Score:2 Normal)
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with people acting " like I was the only one who did anything."

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May 9th, 2012 at 9:48 PM | Wait, wait, don't tell me.... (Score:1)
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Wait, wait, don't tell me.... Mother Theresa?

May 9th, 2012 at 12:37 PM | Tattoos (Score:5 Normal)
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God provides the canvass.  It's up to tat parlors to bring forth His ultimate vision.

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May 9th, 2012 at 12:37 PM | If you want to help your mom (Score:5 Normal)
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If you want to help your mom pay her bills, trade in your sports car for a rust bucket.  Selling equipment from the locker room and receiving free tattoos is not considered God's work.

May 9th, 2012 at 5:11 PM | question I have is if he was (Score:3 Normal)
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question I have is if he was selling his stuff to pay his mom's rent, how can she afford to buy him that 350Z...

 

May 9th, 2012 at 12:39 PM | $3,000 in heating bills? (Score:5 Normal)
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May 9th, 2012 at 1:06 PM | Maybe she likes to keep her (Score:5 Normal)
Wolvercane
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Maybe she likes to keep her home as hot as Hell. Coincidence possibly? 

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May 9th, 2012 at 1:31 PM | Did you read the article, by (Score:5 Normal)
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Did you read the article, by chance?  She had lost her job, was 3 months behind on the rent, and using the gas oven to heat her place for her and his little sister.  I'm not defending what that guy did, but let's show a little class before you start dragging family into the smear campaign.

May 9th, 2012 at 2:38 PM | There might be some sympathy (Score:5 Normal)
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There might be some sympathy if this was the first thing we had heard about TPs finances. The problem is that TPs mom was supposedly the one signing all the new leases for his many cars. You can't have it both ways. If he was driving around in a beater, and wasn't wearing gigantic diamond studs in his ears, this misght almost be admirable... if still against the rules. Instead it looks like a meaningless ex post facto justification of his behavior.

May 9th, 2012 at 2:46 PM | Meanwhile he was getting (Score:5 Normal)
His Dudeness
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Meanwhile he was getting thousands of dollars of ink on his arms in return for merch. If he really cared about his families plight he probably should have taken money and said no to the ink...

or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.

May 9th, 2012 at 3:30 PM | My sincerest apologies.  I (Score:-1 Flamebait)
May 9th, 2012 at 3:39 PM | I'm actually sympathetic to your view, but (Score:3 Normal)
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I think the issue is that it's Terelle Pryor we are talking about. If this was some random Buckeye football player, while I'm sure the board would still make fun, IMO more benefit of the doubt might be given to his explanation regarding his family. You must admit that Pryor doesn't exactly have a track record of being a truthful stand up guy of great character.

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May 9th, 2012 at 4:50 PM | Yes, but it really is true (Score:0 Flamebait)
May 9th, 2012 at 6:33 PM | Sorry, but that's just bunk.  (Score:5 Normal)
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Sorry, but that's just bunk.  There's a lot of factual public information out there and it pretty reliably points to the idea that Terrelle Pryor is a lying shithead.  He deserves the vitriol.  If we can't make judgments until we know "every detail about this guy and his family's life, background, finances, etc" omnisciently, then we'll never form opinions on anything, ever.  And frankly we'll end up in a lot of dangerous situations if we ignore the amount of evidence such as we have on Terrelle Pryor and sit on a high horse not making judgments until we know more.

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May 10th, 2012 at 10:52 AM | Would you hire him? Would you (Score:3 Normal)
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Would you hire him? Would you let him date your daughter?

That pretty much wraps up the whole debate. It's pretty simple really.

 

or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.

May 10th, 2012 at 8:06 PM | jesus (Score:1)
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when you put it like THAT...

May 10th, 2012 at 12:38 PM | He can have a chance to grow and learn from his mistakes (Score:3 Normal)
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When he can admit them.

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May 9th, 2012 at 12:39 PM | seriously!? (Score:2 Normal)
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God wanted him to lie and break rules. Sounds like to me he is starting already to promote a book that will probably be a picture book of tattoos and cars that someone else did and he put his name on it.

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May 9th, 2012 at 12:39 PM | It might be a dumb thing to (Score:3 Normal)
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It might be a dumb thing to say (Pryor's quote), but it doesn't mean it is untrue.

May 9th, 2012 at 12:40 PM | I missed the Bible part about tats (Score:3 Normal)
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Maybe he meant this guy's work-

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May 9th, 2012 at 1:55 PM | COULD IT BE, SAY MAYBE, SOMEONE OTHER THAN GOD? (Score:3 Normal)
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Maybe someone more like, oh, I dunno, like Satan????.......

 

May 9th, 2012 at 9:46 PM | "Awwww come on satan, I'm all (Score:3 Normal)
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May 9th, 2012 at 12:40 PM | Haha, what a douche. (Score:0 Flamebait)
May 9th, 2012 at 12:41 PM | Honest truth: I could care (Score:4 Normal)
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Honest truth:

I could care less if Terrelle Pryor used the money to buy whatever he wanted. He could have bought 3000 dollars with of cheetos, multiple lbs of medical marijuana, 30 cases of Patron, a human foot on ebay, etc. and none of that should matter.

He earned those awards and should have the right to do with them what he wants. The NCAA rulebook is full of shit. 

The only part of that scandal that bothers me is Jim Tressell acting holier than thou when he banned them at the start of 2011 as long as they could play in the Sugar Bowl. He should have stood by his guys and started a revolution against the NCAA. Instead he proved what an incredible moral fraud he was. 

May 9th, 2012 at 12:47 PM | Human Foot (Score:5 Normal)
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You wouldn't care if Pryor sold his gold pants to buy a human foot on Ebay? 

May 9th, 2012 at 12:49 PM | As long as said foot was (Score:1)
coastal blue
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As long as said foot was acquired by legal means. 

May 9th, 2012 at 5:46 PM | He could just grab the one (Score:5 Normal)
Victor Hale II
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He could just grab the one that's always in Gee's mouth. Win-win.

May 9th, 2012 at 1:03 PM | I checked ebay and (Score:4 Normal)
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I checked ebay and unforuntately they do not have any human feet, only fake ones.  

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