BlueDragon

August 16th, 2011 at 11:46 PM ^

From my unscientific explorations of bars around the city, the consensus on Tressel seems to still be that "he made one mistake".  His legacy in Columbus and nowhere else is not in question.

Pryor is a bit murkier.  Some people have been hating on him for months, even before Tatgate broke.  Others point to Pryor's record as a starter and hope that he will make it in the NFL in some capacity.  Overall, though, fans are still very much in mourning over the loss of Tressel, and feel that the program has been punished enough.

BRCE

August 17th, 2011 at 12:35 AM ^

I guess I have built up a bias on these matters over the years. No one will ever confuse me with a Terrelle Pryor fan (I loathed him ever since his recruitment), but I really hate how the NFL sticks to the letter of the law in almost Nazi-like ways.

They refused to lift the archaic blackout rule, no matter how economically depressed a market might be. They throw all common sense and free thought out of the window and not only enforce sub-mental things like the tuck rule and "complete the process" when the game is on the line, but arrogantly refuse to change interpretations of the rule even after the public unanimously tells them "uh, that's not real football." They let members of their old boy network like Ed Hocholi flag Ndamukong Suh for an "unnatural football act," stand by the call despite never informing us what the rule entails and how Suh was guilty, and fine Suh on top of it.

It's just an overcodified, dictatorial, often non-sensical league and I'm sick of it.

Mr Miggle

August 17th, 2011 at 6:02 AM ^

Following the rules is Nazi-like?  Isn't ignoring the rules for star players the root of a lot of the problems we're seeing in sports?

It sounds like your problem with the NFL is that you dislike some of their rules. It would naturally follow that you dislike when they get enforced. You say they're dictatorial. I'd say that deciding when you want to follow your rules and when you want to ignore them is the way to exercise more power. I'll take the NFL's approach any day over the NBA star treatment officiating.

Jivas

August 16th, 2011 at 11:33 PM ^

Is due to today's Yahoo Sports report. While it seems unlikely the current players will lose eligibility in the very near future, there's at least some chance, so there may be a slew of players trying to get in.

Tater

August 17th, 2011 at 1:03 AM ^

I think they are waiting for 12 Miami players and the Brown brothers, who are now at KSU.  That's 14 fresh slabs of meat they could be passing up.  I don't blame them for waiting.

LSAClassOf2000

August 17th, 2011 at 6:49 AM ^

Pryor may very well be one of the first people in sports history - college and professional - that is his own syndrome. Wherever he goes, programs fall, coaches get canned, supplemental drafts get postponed, car sales go up and tattoo parlors see brisk business. It's uncanny.