Showing posts with label Terrelle Pryor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Terrelle Pryor. Show all posts

Friday, June 17, 2011

Tell us more ... oh, do!


We do so love sports agents.

Folks like Drew Rosenhaus.

“Terrelle Pryor will be a great -- not a good quarterback -- a great quarterback in the National Football League,” Rosenhaus burbled this week. “He is going to be a star. This experience that he has gone through will galvanize him and make him a better person, a stronger person.”

The experience of helping cost his college coach his job? The experience of helping embarrass Ohio State and probably hamstringing the school’s football program for years?

Yes, yes, bound to galvanize him. Bound to.

Then there’s Rosenhaus' insistence that Pryor is a first-round draft pick, when most draft experts have him no higher than a fourth-rounder.

Reality check: Rosenhaus' newest client isn't going in the first round of the draft. And if he sticks in the NFL at all — no sure thing — it won't be as a quarterback.

Other than on those two things, Super Lips is dead on

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Credibility problem? What credibility problem?

So.

In Columbus, Ohio, football players — including Terrelle Pryor, the Buckeyes’ best and most marketable player — are found to have taken improper benefits that will cost them five-game suspensions.

But not until next season.

Too much money involved in the Buckeyes’ Sugar Bowl appearance to suspend them now.

Greed and hypocrisy, thy name is NCAA football.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Even when he was killing those dogs?


Here’s the thing.

If you’re going to wear something in a football game as an endorsement or sign of support — such as Terrelle Pryor wearing eyeblack with the name “Vick” on it — you really need to be able to explain that support.

It doesn’t have to be much, but it has to be coherent.

And saying the following, as the Ohio State quarterback did after the Buckeyes’ season-opening victory over Navy, doesn’t quite cut it:

“Not everybody's the perfect person in the world. I mean everyone kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me, whatever. I think that people need a second chance, and I've always looked up to Mike Vick, and I always will.”

“Everyone kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me ...” What?

“I've always looked up to Mike Vick”? Always?