Terrelle Pryor Chooses Ohio State
Terrelle Pryor has chosen Ohio State over Michigan.
I’m pretty indifferent toward this story, other than the fact that I hate Rich Rodriguez, and since Pryor’s kind of sticking it to him, that sort of makes me happy. Not “pleasantly locked in a hotel room with a naked supermodel and unlimited supply of duct tape” happy, but more like, “I’m glad I got that girl with the chickstache to come home from the bar with me” happy.
It’s amazing isn’t it, that people have been waiting around for months just to find out where a high school kid is going to go to college? I’m sure that there are Penn State and Michigan blogs that are killing the guy, and you know what?
That’s a good thing. Pryor has really taken advantage of this whole spectacle to keep his name in the press and to get himself talked about. And while I’m not about making threats toward high school or college kids, and I hope nobody goes down to that level, he does deserve to be criticized for the way that he has kept himself in the media. From calling a press conference to announce that he hadn’t made his mind up, to the announcement today, he’s milked this thing for all that it’s worth, and he deserves some constructive criticism because of that.
What Pryor’s going to have to understand is; if he doesn’t succeed at the next level, he will become the poster child for busts everywhere. If he even coughs on someone in line at the grocery store it’s going to be posted somewhere, and someone is going to have an opinion. Pryor is a tremendous talent, and that talent can take him a long way. But Pryor has put himself in a situation where if he does anything short of parting the Ohio River, some people are going to be disappointed.
That, and am I the only one concerned that his name is Terrelle? That’s like Terrell plus some hot sauce. As long as he doesn’t cry after losses, I guess the name similarity isn’t a big deal. Cue standard T.O. crying video: