So why is Jim Tressel pictured? Ohio State is playing Miami in Miami prior to the start of the Big Ten conference. Ohio State is also playing one other BCS school. . .granted they aren't very good, but Ohio State and Jim Tressel are hardly the poster children for this "cupcake" problem.

Pryor is injured. He still hasn't and won't play a down of spring ball this year, so yeah. . .I can see why it would hard for anybody to pick him up in a supplemental draft, when they can't work him out to begin with. Still. . .

Pryor has been more productive as a passer than any other QB in Ohio State history. Granted, Ohio State isn't known for QB play, but Pryor was a HUGE project in terms of his passing ability and he's come a long way. His athletic ability makes up for a lot but Ohio State doesn't ask him to run the football like Auburn expected Cam Newton to.

I'm confused as to why some here assume he doesn't work hard. He sold memorabilia for cash, he wasn't paid to play and the indiscretions occurred back in 2008. He's mature in a number of ways since then. There is no reason to assume that he won't have a Cam Newton like senior season even if it is only 8 games long.

So I'm not sure it's safe to assume that Pryor's development is complete. If JaMarcus Russell can get drafted in the first round, and Pryor's problem is that his coaching at Ohio State wasn't good enough, then someone will pick up Pryor in the first round.

Does nobody here remember what his own senior teammate (Wolfork) said about Tate as the Big Ten Media days? Here, let me help:

"I personally have a lack of respect for them," Woolfolk said of players who don't participate in the voluntary (summer)workouts. "The outlook on them is kind of diseased. Like you don't want to be hanging around those people because they have bad work ethic. But at the same time, it's my role to try to persuade them to come out more"

"The only reason he's not really labeled as diseased is because of the way he was able to carry the team last year before we started losing. People still trust him a little bit, but he's starting to lose that trust."

"Denard has been out there through the thick and thin and been out there all the time regardless if he's hurting," Woolfolk said. "And Tate, he tries to come out, but he's not as consistent as Denard is. And that's allowed Denard to jump a little bit ahead of Tate and I think that Tate's going to have to do a lot of work to catch back up to Denard in camp this year."

So yeah. . . don't believe the words. Believe the actions. . .as he transfers as soon as he's denied a start. . .THAT is the Forcier way. Read about it here:
http://www.qbforce.com/NEW2009/home.html

Some truth here. Joe Paterno could pass peacefully in his sleep tonight and the program would be throwin in to a heap-load of uncertainty. Now realize this. . .if Joe Paterno is the figure-head that most of us assume he is and PSU has been recruiting without him or Hall and still doing what they're doing, then imagine if the AD there can hold that core of the staff that does the work together, and promote a HC from within, they'd be free of the weighs holding down their recruiting (mainly JoePa's age) and FWIW, I think they win a National Championship within three years. They are one to three 5-star recruits in a class away from getting over the hump.

This is true. . .BUT. . .PSU does pretty darn good with what they have, meaning that the coaching and player development there is still top-notch. There is something HUGE that is being missed here. Hall and Paterno haven't been out recruiting in probably the last 8 years (and maybe longer). Pryor is the ONLY visit Paterno has made in that period. . .and yet. . .PSU has had several top 5 finishes in the last several years. There is a core of the staff that is rather young, and they are doing the work. This article reports nothing new. Here is what they should tell you: The 2009 class had 27 players and the 2010 class is ranked at or near the top-10. So early playing time is at a premium. Take that and add in Paterno's ailing health this spring specifically and you have what you have. THAT is the whole story.

It's a chicken-and-the-egg argument. Does a coach make the player or does the player make the program. Well. . .it's a little of both. You have to have good coaches that can generate and sustain the synergy between funneling players to the league and developing talent. Perception is reality. I'm willing to bet that Chris Leak has a whole bunch of former teammates who are playing on Sundays. . .way more than Greg Toler. Personally. . .if what you say is true. . .if a player makes himself. . .then he should go where he'll have the most fun in college. For me. . .winning is fun and Virginia doesn't do much winning.