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This article is a little ridiculous. I can see the explanation regarding Pitt, who would want to be considered the savior of a horribly coached football team that has little to no chance for success in the foreseeable future. Ironically, he still considered Michigan, where he would be under more pressure from an irrational fan-base who think it is their divine right to win, have been and are still poorly coached, and have little chance for success in the foreseeable future.

As for Penn State, people seem to forget that just a few seasons ago, the Lions were the second best team in the country and two bad calls on the same day, one in Ann Arbor, one in South Bend from playing Texas for the championship in the Rose Bowl and have nearly as much talent as Ohio State and are clearly the second best team in the Big Ten heading into the year and have a legit shot and playing for the title with better coaching on the offensive side of the ball. With that said, you can't fault the kid for going to Ohio State, even though he has about as much of a chance to graduate as Mike Tyson would at Harvard.

Enough already...

He can't be too worried about a national championship, he went to Ohio State!

My days of eating Peachy Paterno icecream are over.

Did anyone else notice that Pryor had great things to say about Tressel & RR and he said he liked Tom Bradley but didn't say one word about JoePa?

This kid is supposed to be a great PA recruit, where was Joe?!

Here goes N'Syncs....Lance Bass sweatin A..z..z with his graduation BS again!! Let it go...why oh why is it everytime PSU gets brought up against OSU...you interject graduation....THERE IS NO DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE YOU F....MORON!!! You are so insecure about PSU and how they are just a regular Joe(pardon the pun)team, that you have to do your damnest to better at something...which your not!! Let it go N'Sync, you WERE NOT EVEN CLOSE in '05, that was an abberation.....i mean you over here saying if,and, or but with all the different scenarios that your team MIGHT HAVE gotten in!! Whats done is done, your a hypocrite as well!!! Sayin on a different thread, that OSU was lucky with the 2003 NCG. But now here you are sayin woulda shoulda coulda!!! Sour Grapes is all this is!!!!

In the local papers it said something about both Paterno and Wannstedt having a mixture of coffee and cigarette breath and he couldn't imagine dealing with that for 3-4 years.

News flash! It's coffee and cig breath after all! I wonder how he will deal with the same sweater vest for the next four years! Will give the kid credit, already polishing his media skills so he will be ready to accept his "heisman" after a horrendous three months decision on wether he should accept it or not! Enough already, time to move on, with or with out Pryor.

I do not believe this story. It just sounds like sour grapes.

Probably had more to do with the silent h in Pitt. That would have gotten Pryor every time. He is better off at UOS (The University of Ohio State) where he has promised to attend. There he only has to spell words four letters long. Tress will help him out.

My days of eating Peachy Paterno icecream are over.
PS Forever | 03/24/08, 08:27 AM

haha the creamery! nice.

Hold on folks....we already know that Pryor showed no interest in Pitt and just paid lip service to PSU. So what's the big deal if the home town kid didn't like his home town Universities. Pryor has OSU in his heart and in his bank account. He picked the best school for him and his family. End of story. Now let him be and let him get sacked many times by those great PSU and Michigan linebackers!

Yes Biminator, we all know from the Freep now that Michigan football players are some of the most of brilliant and accomplished general studies majors on the planet.

This story reeks and the author sounds like a major league pinhead. The guy likes Pryor for wanting to play before 100,000 fans rather than for wanting to play football. hey, dude, it's football, not "how many people love me?" (On the other hand, it's clear that Happy Valley ain't that anymore.)

Yes Biminator, we all know from the Freep now that Michigan football players are some of the most of brilliant and accomplished general studies majors on the planet.

BuckeyePride | 03/24/08, 10:18 AM

At the end of the day our athletes have historically out-performed your athletes.

Our academics have outperformed your academics.

Is your football team a better football team right now: yes.
But I surely don't think you want to compare academics or even historic or overall athletic prowess.

Warden and bliminator have lots of room to talk... Remember when you paid Mr. Time-Out and the rest of the Fab-Five? Im sure those great linebacker will be all over TP, just like they were all over that speedy QB from Appy State.

I canr get over the amount of bad pub TP is getting these days before signing day the kid could do no wrong, but now the kid cant take a **** with out someone from a media outlet being all over him.

Who cares why he didnt go to PSU, or Pitt, honestly they never mattered..

And for a player it is alot more fun to play in front of 100k people than 20k, thats just how it is...

This article is a little ridiculous. I can see the explanation regarding Pitt, who would want to be considered the savior of a horribly coached football team that has little to no chance for success in the foreseeable future. Ironically, he still considered Michigan, where he would be under more pressure from an irrational fan-base who think it is their divine right to win, have been and are still poorly coached, and have little chance for success in the foreseeable future.

As for Penn State, people seem to forget that just a few seasons ago, the Lions were the second best team in the country and two bad calls on the same day, one in Ann Arbor, one in South Bend from playing Texas for the championship in the Rose Bowl and have nearly as much talent as Ohio State and are clearly the second best team in the Big Ten heading into the year and have a legit shot and playing for the title with better coaching on the offensive side of the ball. With that said, you can't fault the kid for going to Ohio State, even though he has about as much of a chance to graduate as Mike Tyson would at Harvard.

INCSOC | 03/24/08, 08:01 AM

i completely agree^

Jkess,

Webber was the only one that took money...that we know of. And Webber is resoundingly disliked for what he did and how he acted when caught.

And we didn't pay him. It was one man. It's a stain that won't go away anytime soon and the University paid dearly for it.

I am sure UM's linebackers won't perform any worse than those from OSU did against Fl and LSU.

Btw, our linebackers did a pretty good job in containing that heisman trophy winner from Florida. Of course, it's too bad we didn't see that with App ST or UO, but then again, I don't recall the OSU D doing such an outstanding job against Illinois, to whom UM did beat.

Here's hoping for Akron or YSU to upset OSU. Now that would be fun to see.