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/
Find a ghost writer, terrelle.
No, I want to read a book written entirely by Pryor himself.
Do they even publish stuff written with Crayolas?
(quick & dirty)
Where is user TPryor when we desperately need him?!?
those singles add up 2 send those grls 2 dentill school
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...
Pete Rose took the ACT?
I thought he was talking about Axl
I'll have to research that.
i want to see a book that was read by Pryor himself
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.
Getting OSU busted = God's work
Getting the Vest out of Columbus = God's work.
Everybody kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me.
never gets old. Still awesome. He was on the Big Ten all academic team, as I recall.
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.
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.
I think that's why he asked.
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.
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.)
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.
with people acting " like I was the only one who did anything."
Wait, wait, don't tell me.... Mother Theresa?
God provides the canvass. It's up to tat parlors to bring forth His ultimate vision.
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.
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...
Maybe she likes to keep her home as hot as Hell. Coincidence possibly?
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.
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.
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...
My sincerest apologies. I did not realize that you guys were all in the omniscient position to know every detail about this guy and his family's life, background, finances, etc... and I did not realize that you had been put in a place to judge him and his family's decisions based upon your omnisicent knowledge of those details.
Sure he made some bonehead decisions and maybe he's not a Rhodes Scholar, but I'm not sure I see why he and his family deserve the vitriol that his been spewed forth on this board.
And maybe this is where I differentiate myself, but everyone deserves a chance to grow from their past mistakes... even ex-buckeyes. Personally, I hope the guy gets his act together and makes a successful career for himself. I hope he and his family can get to a point where he doesn't feel he has to sell his pants to pay bills.
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.
Yes, but it really is true that everyone steals, everyone murders. Right? Wait, what?
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.
Would you hire him? Would you let him date your daughter?
That pretty much wraps up the whole debate. It's pretty simple really.
when you put it like THAT...
When he can admit them.
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.
It might be a dumb thing to say (Pryor's quote), but it doesn't mean it is untrue.
Maybe he meant this guy's work-
Maybe someone more like, oh, I dunno, like Satan????.......
"Awwww come on satan, I'm all greesy!"
-Saddam
Haha, what a douche.
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.
You wouldn't care if Pryor sold his gold pants to buy a human foot on Ebay?
As long as said foot was acquired by legal means.
He could just grab the one that's always in Gee's mouth. Win-win.
I checked ebay and unforuntately they do not have any human feet, only fake ones.