SportsAndLady;883735 wrote:No I don't think so..does it make a difference? (honest question)
The only real difference it makes is that none of the examples/comparisons are remotely relevant. The NFL isn't going to suspend Tressel or any other coach for anything they did while at a college. They aren't going to suspend players for NCAA violations, either, and Pryor's suspension isn't about violations.
Pryor was suspended because he purposely made himself ineligible for the upcoming NCAA season as a way to try and get into the Supplemental Draft. If he had declared for the regular draft after being suspended, the NFL wouldn't have blinked and this conversation wouldn't be happening.
If the NFL just let Pryor into the Supplemental Draft with no questions asked or no ramifications, it would've opened the door to any NCAA player who wanted to exhibit some control over where he's drafted to wait until the regular draft is over, sign with an agent, declare himself ineligible for the NCAA, and try and scam his way into the Supplemental Draft as a result. Pryor's suspension wasn't about not serving his NCAA suspension or not talking to the NCAA. It was all about his poking holes in the NFL policy.
