January 4, 201115 yr Terrelle “The Truth” Pryor is my favorite college football player and it isn’t just the way the Ohio State quarterback can shred defenses. Pryor is a godsend to anyone who believes the business of college athletics is little more than a smoke-and-mirror show of situational ethics, selective enforcement and tightly controlled public relations designed to dodge taxes and make millionaires out of administrators. Perhaps no player has ever exposed the system and its handlers more clearly than Pryor leading into Tuesday’s Sugar Bowl against Arkansas. He may not have consciously planned to do what he’s doing – although I suspect he has a clue – but he’s become a WikiLeaks in shoulder pads; a “30 For 30” special in real time. When he isn’t violating some NCAA rule, he’s shining a light on the absurdity of how the sport’s power players managed to rewrite said rule so its cash flow could continue unabated. Each Pryor quote seems to prompt the system to respond in some bumbling, embarrassing way that only makes things worse. Consider The Truth’s last two weeks and the suits constant scramble to clean everything up. http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-pryor010311
January 4, 201115 yr Awesome. If this was Calipari and a UK basketball player, the NCAA would not have given the players the option of a 5 game suspension. They would be automatically on probation. This is not an isolated incident with OSU players. They, however, are in the Big 10 and those things tend to get lost in the shuffle by the press.
January 4, 201115 yr I'm really hoping all this nonsense is just the start of the NCAA imploding on itself.
January 4, 201115 yr Awesome. If this was Calipari and a UK basketball player, the NCAA would not have given the players the option of a 5 game suspension. They would be automatically on probation. This is not an isolated incident with OSU players. They, however, are in the Big 10 and those things tend to get lost in the shuffle by the press. Whatever!!
January 4, 201115 yr Whatever!! Though I fully do not buy in to the Big 10 conspiracy theory, the NCAA has proven they are not in the business of fairness, but rather in the business of being in business. The Big 10 has by far the largest support nationwide with the most money. I would say it is plausible.
January 4, 201115 yr Defend who? I don't think there is an NCAA bias towards the Big 10 and I also don't think the NCAA is out to get Kentucky like the above poster is inferring. If you want compare apples to apples, the OSU suspensions and the AJ Green suspension were the same except for the OSU players got 1 extra game for not coming forward sooner. Pretty similar punishment for the same offense and we know AJ Green does not play in the Big 10.
January 4, 201115 yr Defend who? I don't think there is an NCAA bias towards the Big 10 and I also don't think the NCAA is out to get Kentucky like the above poster is inferring. If you want compare apples to apples, the OSU suspensions and the AJ Green suspension were the same except for the OSU players got 1 extra game for not coming forward sooner. Pretty similar punishment for the same offense and we know AJ Green does not play in the Big 10. The only difference is that it sure looks like they did what was best for everyone financially by allowing them all to play in the bowl game. A.J. Green had to start his suspension right off the bat. Why do the OSU players get to delay theirs until a more convenient time?
January 4, 201115 yr I don't even thing the NCAA can answer the question you are asking but I don't think the answer is because they are in the Big 10! I would say the money the BCS game genreates is a big factor and the fact that OSU was an at large bid and selected to play in the game by the Sugar Bowl. I don't think the Sugar Bowl reps would not have selected OSU for that game had the players been suspended prior tot he BCS selections. I am not even saying it is right for them to play in the game but they were ruled eligible by the NCAA so they are playing. To me this is not an OSU/Big10 issue, it is the problem with the NCAA.
January 4, 201115 yr I don't even thing the NCAA can answer the question you are asking but I don't think the answer is because they are in the Big 10! I would say the money the BCS game genreates is a big factor and the fact that OSU was an at large bid and selected to play in the game by the Sugar Bowl. I don't think the Sugar Bowl reps would not have selected OSU for that game had the players been suspended prior tot he BCS selections. I am not even saying it is right for them to play in the game but they were ruled eligible by the NCAA so they are playing. To me this is not an OSU/Big10 issue, it is the problem with the NCAA. That would make some sense, except the BCS and NCAA are different entities.
January 4, 201115 yr Author I don't even thing the NCAA can answer the question you are asking but I don't think the answer is because they are in the Big 10! I would say the money the BCS game genreates is a big factor and the fact that OSU was an at large bid and selected to play in the game by the Sugar Bowl. I don't think the Sugar Bowl reps would not have selected OSU for that game had the players been suspended prior tot he BCS selections. I am not even saying it is right for them to play in the game but they were ruled eligible by the NCAA so they are playing. To me this is not an OSU/Big10 issue, it is the problem with the NCAA. NCAA gets ZERO money from the BCS FYI...
January 4, 201115 yr The only difference is that it sure looks like they did what was best for everyone financially by allowing them all to play in the bowl game. A.J. Green had to start his suspension right off the bat. Why do the OSU players get to delay theirs until a more convenient time? Because it's a unique opportunity.... Duh....
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