SportsAndLady;786526 wrote:Pryor is the best and most decorated QB to ever play at OSU...I would love to have him back for half of next season. I'm not going to be pissed at someone for doing what I probably would have done in the same position (sell shit for money, tats, bag of weed, etc.). People say "oh buy he got Tressel fired!" No, he didn't. Tressel lied and is paying for it.
Tobias Fünke;786538 wrote:So in the same situation as Terrelle Pryor, you'd have done things the same way?
SportsAndLady;786549 wrote:I mean if I was an OSU football player and I saw TP just got a grand for a championship ring, I'd probably go sell it too. It's just a ring. It's an outdated product. They were cool in the 50s because there isn't much evidence of a football player from the 50s. Now we can just turn on ESPN classic or hell just get on the internet and see someone play. If my grandkids wanted to see proof that I was a good football player, I'd show them video, not a damn ring.
Tobias Fünke;786555 wrote:Well I guess there's nothing to debate then.
areyoukiddingme;786553 wrote:TP's ACT was not 32 or better. Do some research. A football player at OSU can get in at 26-30 and sometimes as low as a 24.
derek bomar;786558 wrote:are you kidding me?
77Legend;786369 wrote:Imagine if he would have never chose OSU. Would all of this be coming down like this?
LJ;786633 wrote:Wait, whats the rule on getting a loan based on your future earnings? Isn't it 1 $25k loan in your final year of eligibility? or $10k? Something like that
Funny thing, on that same thread, lhslep said (before the above info was referenced), "what about all of the those $20,000 cars some OSU football players drive?"Indianapolis, Indiana, May 3, 2001 -- The NCAA board of directors recently voted to allow student athletes to receive money for giving private lessons and also to take out a one time $20,000 bank loan based on future earnings.
According to a report in the Associated Press, to qualify for the loan, a student would have to be considered a likely first round pick in men's basketball, women's basketball or baseball, and at least a third round pick in football or hockey.
When can they get the loan? Seems like Maybe Pryor qualifies?enigmaax;786645 wrote:This rule came up when it was discovered that Tim Tebow bought a hyperbaric chamber while still at Florida. The link I had previously no longer works, but there was an old OC thread where we discussed it.
Funny thing, on that same thread, lhslep said (before the above info was referenced), "what about all of the those $20,000 cars some OSU football players drive?"
http://www.ohiochatter.com/forum/threads/15190-Tim-Tebow-s-Hyperbaric-Chamber
Well we all know that all OSU players/athletes get at least a 24 on their ACT. A 5 star recruit who barely qualified with a 17 or 18 on the ACT could never get in OSU.areyoukiddingme;786553 wrote:TP's ACT was not 32 or better. Do some research. A football player at OSU can get in at 26-30 and sometimes as low as a 24.
Couldn't find anything that said at what point (freshman year, etc.) they qualified. Only that they were projected as a certain round pick. I would guess if that rule is still the same, Pryor qualified.LJ;786652 wrote:When can they get the loan? Seems like Maybe Pryor qualifies?
lhslep was actually saying that the cars/loans for OSU football players could easily be paid for with the money they already receive. As for all the deals going through compliance, that has been maintained all along by the salesman anyway. The confusing thing to me is that they said that originally, but then Doug Archie (is that the compliance guy?) disputed that he had actually talked with the salesman on any of those deals. The couple of blurbs made it seem like Archie was discredting the salesman, though the salesman was saying the deals were legit from the beginning.LJ;786652 wrote:ABC 6 just released a statement that Auto Direct and Jack Maxton sent ALL car deals through compliance before they were completed.
So I wonder if Pryor and his mom bought it with the thought of him bolting to the NFL in the supplemental draft? Honestly with the car loan rule, I don't think the new car is so shady at this point.enigmaax;786683 wrote:Couldn't find anything that said at what point (freshman year, etc.) they qualified. Only that they were projected as a certain round pick. I would guess if that rule is still the same, Pryor qualified.
LJ;786690 wrote:So I wonder if Pryor and his mom bought it with the thought of him bolting to the NFL in the supplemental draft? Honestly with the car loan rule, I don't think the new car is so shady at this point.
areyoukiddingme;786553 wrote:TP's ACT was not 32 or better. Do some research. A football player at OSU can get in at 26-30 and sometimes as low as a 24.
BR1986FB;786708 wrote:Pryor = Lebron James in how he was enabled/coddled by Tressel. Dan Gilbert and all of the people before him did the same with Lebron. Both, unfortunately, learned hard lessons.
thedynasty1998;786763 wrote:
Such a poor poor comparison.
BR1986FB;786765 wrote:Not at all.
thedynasty1998;786771 wrote:You are comparing the best basketball player in the world, who has never been in trouble to the QB at a college. That's a pathetic attempt at insulting Lebron.
Coincidence that LeBron took Pryor under his wing? (From 10-29-09)BR1986FB;786795 wrote:I'm comparing them in how Tressel enabled Pryor instead of turning him in and Lebron in how Gilbert enabled him and let him have run of the franchise. BOTH were given special treatment (more than they deserved) by their respective franchises. I never said Lebron was a trouble maker but, like Pryor, he was spoiled ROTTEN by ownership.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4584704Sometimes it can be very difficult on [a young athlete]. I'm trying to be that guy who can really help him get through a lot of situations which he's never seen before but now he's seeing and understanding.
Lebron's enabling goes back prior to playing with the Cavs. The Pryor situation where he recently drove this new car with 30 day dealer plates to the Buckeyes team meeting basically says "fuck you" to all of the critics. Very poor timing. Kinda like a high school kid saying "fuck you" to the OHSAA by styling around in a Hummer? I completely forgot about him taking Pryor under his wing.sportswizuhrd;786798 wrote:Coincidence that LeBron took Pryor under his wing? (From 10-29-09)
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4584704