thisisme08

August 31st, 2011 at 3:17 PM ^

How about the fact that during his tenure at OSU he made multiple media facepalm quotes so the fact that his supposed football IQ test is this terrible just confirms that he is dumber than a box of rocks and Al Davis needs to die already. 

Sac Fly

August 31st, 2011 at 3:21 PM ^

Just another thing they can point at to try and act like they have the smartest football players. Ive heard enough about how they have more players make all-academic team than northwestern and the rest of the big ten, but they pay no attention to the majors like general studies; leisure studies or the mysterious exploring major that no one else in the B1G has.

Geaux_Blue

August 31st, 2011 at 4:01 PM ^

From UV:
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<br>As a reminder that will forever go unheeded, threads about the Big Ten and Michigan opponents are on topic. I will shake my fist at you and scream "why?" if you label a thread about Ohio State OT.

Franz Schubert

August 31st, 2011 at 4:52 PM ^

QB at the highest level as the NFL is, requires many intangibles and first and foremost it requires intelligence. The sophistication of defenses and the complexity of the offenses with all the nuances and check downs make being able to process lots of information almost instantly paramount. This requires a high intellect and just because a dumb football player happens to be black does not in anyway make it racially motivated. Give me a break, stupid is stupid, no matter what color it comes in.

BLHoke

August 31st, 2011 at 7:04 PM ^

I don't understand why the race card has to be played at every single turn. Yeah, the fact that Pryor is African-American is obviously what this is all about for blog site members who would probably list Denard, Desmond and CDubbya2 as 3 of their top 5 favorite Michigan players of all time. If I'm not mistaken, all 3 of those guys are decidedly black. What this boils down to is that society doesn't like stupid people who do stupid things, no matter the race.

GotToBeBLUE

August 31st, 2011 at 7:42 PM ^

Average intelligence is 21 or 22 I don't remember... I scored a 37 for a job while trying to get some wrong (needed to be in a certain range to qualify).
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<br>He's just ... Dumb.

NoMoPincherBug

August 31st, 2011 at 8:05 PM ^

Brian Griese had that 39...played a dozen years in the league despite not being able to run very fast or throw the ball with a ton of velocity, though he was very accurate... there is something to be said for having intelligence as a QB in the NFL.

Pryor ...eh...maybe in 5 years he can go to work selling glass for Sarniak.

BlueNote

August 31st, 2011 at 10:00 PM ^

If you take a multiple choice test and answer randomly, you will in all likelihood have a non-zero score.  Imagine choosing "D" for every answer where the choices are A through E.

Does anyone know what the expected random score is for this test?

Before I go any further down this path, let me just copy and paste from Wikipedia's article on the Wonderlic: 

 

"While an average football player usually scores around 20 points, Wonderlic, Inc. claims a score of at least 10 points suggests a person is literate."

SFBayAreaBlue

September 1st, 2011 at 12:24 AM ^

he took it twice, the second time he got a 22.  Which makes sense, a lot of the questions are stupid trick questions that really test how well you're paying attention and how precise you are with words.  So you should be able to do much better when you've already seen the question types once. 

SFBayAreaBlue

September 1st, 2011 at 12:28 AM ^

In the grand scheme of things, don't amount to much, but there is a reason why teams keep making all the players take it.  There's a risk management aspect to signing any contract, and insurerors will tell you that people who get lower scores are at higher risk to get into off the field or other financial troubles.  

I think in pryor's case, that's a foregone conclusion.  If I were writing the contract, you can bet there'll be a lot less guaranteed money for players that have lower wonderlic scores, (on average, and normalized for draft position/ skill positition, etc.)

RedGreene

September 1st, 2011 at 12:59 AM ^

 

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