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QB/WR Terrelle Pryor ('10 Rose, '11 Sugar MVP)

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Ohio State freshman quarterback Terrelle Pryor will be a handful for opposing defenses
Saturday, August 02, 2008
Doug Lesmerises
Plain Dealer Reporter

Columbus- Terrelle Pryor was everywhere.

Not every Ohio State Buckeye with a controller in his hand at Wednesday's video game charity event made the choice to utilize the quarterback in the No. 2 jersey. Though Pryor wasn't present himself, he was running around in EA Sports' NCAA Football 09 more often than was No. 17, incumbent OSU starter Todd Boeckman. Now this was a video game in which speed kills and a mobile quarterback is a huge edge - but football (and life) sometimes is more like a video game than any of us want to admit.

"I think Pryor is going to be great at Ohio State," OSU receiver Ray Small said. "Just to put him in the game shows you how good he's going to be - his rating in the game shows you how much confidence everyone has in him."

When the Buckeyes start preseason camp Monday and open the season against Youngstown State 26 days later, No. 2 is going to be in there for real.

Since he finally became a Buckeye on March 19 after extending his recruitment an extra month, Pryor's role in the OSU '08 offense has provoked endless speculation.
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Ohio State freshman quarterback Terrelle Pryor will be a handful for opposing defenses - Cleveland.com
 
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TheIronColonel;1218807; said:
I think the problem with comparing TP to VY is that, while they are physically similar at the beginning of their collegiate careers, we don't know what kind of men they'll turn out to be. VY was a leader; he put his team on his shoulders again and again and carried the day. TP might be a guy who can do that, but we sure as hell don't know right now. Even comparing them is putting too much pressure on the kid - how do you go about playing when, without setting foot on the field, you're being compared to the best player of our era (no offense, Urban)? That's a hell of a load to carry.
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TheIronColonel;1218807; said:

I just hope that TP will be the best player he can be. From all appearances, he's got one hell of a high ceiling and a decent work ethic. I hope the pressure and spotlight don't overwhelm him and that he can just do his thing. Most of all, I hope he doesn't wind up feeling buried by expectations and can enjoy his college experience. I mean, you only get to be 18-22 once.
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****>i'm glad to see posters grappling with more than the usual 'can't wait' and hyperbole.

****>the Davis Curtis SN article makes the comparative/heroic point: it's but one of the blizzard of such articles that regurgitates height weight speed names adjectives and ...'more'. The "appearances", as the Iron Colonel puts it here. One simply does not know from afar [and many don't either from 'near'], what 'pressures' a person, let alone what's 'too much' pressure. Coach is a priceless relationship, as is teacher. But like any human relationship, the quality of it comes down to your values...and walking that talk.

****>in that sense, 2008 is a watershed year for these coaches and players period. Ohio State teams traditionally do NOT handle success or high expectations well. Few do, fewer still climb that championship hill again after getting smacked real good the last attempt at the summit...and again after charading the first debacle for a year. There ain't no 'charms' in it, 3rd time or otherwise...but every man has his own rabbit's foot to rub. Yes this team is very talented, and as deep as any in 'storied lore'. But beyond that, do such comparisons serve the mission, the focus, of this team now?

****> IMO JT's been all over this question for months. His response? We have but clues.
+ The cryptic "more cerebral" in characterizing spring practice.
+ BuckCrazy's new scheme/play tidbits.
+The "Like Tebow" TP asides.
+Leaping 4 years ahead of the Troy Smith 'watching film' timetable.
+Bringing in those very few who've 'been there' AND handled that situation repeatedly over time vs great competition. [note: has anyone seen any content about what the 49er stars said to our players?]
+Asking what's more important to each player than 'the ring' of his favorite recognition. [Laurinaitis & Jenkins have discussed this.]
+Asking how to keep 'the hunger'...IMO, a 'keep on doing' part of JT's famous cryptic remark, "the fun is in the process". And the new acronym for 2008, FUN.
+Asking if 'getting back to the pedestal' - a form of trying to relive yesteryear yet change the outcome so as to 'fix' or 'get revenge' for where no man can go again - is the kind of motivator that best focuses, perseveres, overcomes adversities now and impending.

****>2008 is not quite like 1969, where we were the consensus #1 with the 'greatest CFB team ever' and the future NFL #'s and #1's to prove it. How many blowouts did we 'receive' that year based on perceptions - some self-fulfilling prophecy combo of our confidence/arrogance and an opponent's 'knowing we can't win'? Until...as in countless human stories over time and change since time immemorial...some comparatively scrawny kid came along and said on the field, "Mommy, the Emperor has no clothes on".

****>Come what may, and in spite of our chosen self-limits in our offensive thinking, i'm exceedingly glad this staff and these players are asking, and wrestling with, the greater questions in life. And i suspect that the 'enjoyment' they speak of, is a world apart from the usual self-gratification. I doubt it's at all about "just doing your thing..." as any animal does that already.
 
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I'm starting a new drinking game for this season.

Every time an announcer mentions Time Tebow and Terelle Pryor in the same sentance...you have to drink.

I will be purchasing a 30 pack before every game to ensure i have enough fluids.
 
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bdaythug;1221021; said:
now when fall practice starts, is there gonna be cameras and filming involved for the media? or is college not allowed to be showed or something?
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From an Ozone article:

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Between August 3 and August 19 members of the media will have access to the OSU football team eight times. Of those times, three are photo opportunities. Cameras will be allowed as players arrive for check in at the team hotel on Sunday, August 3, for the first three periods of practice on Monday, August 4, and of course on media day on Thursday, August 7.

The Buckeyes will conduct a night practice at Ohio Stadium which will be open to the media and to public on Monday, August 18. The time for that event has not yet been announced. No other practice session is currently scheduled to be open to the public or the media.

The remaining media availabilities are scheduled for August 12 (defensive line), August 14 (offensive line), August 16 (post-scrimmage interviews with Coach Tressel and selected players) and August 19 (linebackers). Those events take place after practice at the media suite at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.
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Tlangs;1221027; said:
I'm starting a new drinking game for this season.

Every time an announcer mentions Time Tebow and Terelle Pryor in the same sentance...you have to drink.

I will be purchasing a 30 pack before every game to ensure i have enough fluids.
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Only if we can get Pryor to do a vasectomy on a BP member(pun). I have had it done so someone will have to take one for the team! :biggrin:
 
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Tlangs;1221027; said:
I'm starting a new drinking game for this season.

Every time an announcer mentions Time Tebow and Terelle Pryor in the same sentance...you have to drink.
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You'll be passed out drunk by halftime every week (or in a car driving to Wyoming).
 
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No Pryor restraint for sports phenom
By Eric Heyl
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, August 3, 2008

Your first impression when you see the price of the wristbands is that someone misplaced a few decimal points.
No. The asking price is indeed $349.

If that doesn't seem a tad overpriced to you consider this: Purchase this particular pair of wristbands, and you won't even be their original owner. This is strictly secondhand stuff.

You can get a pair of unopened Under Armour wristbands at Dick's or a similar sporting goods store for as little as $7.99.

Ah, but those wristbands were not worn by, and do not bear the signature of, one of the greatest football players to have yet to suit up for a college or professional game.
The merchandising of Terrelle Pryor has begun in earnest.

The former Jeannette High School star quarterback will not play in his first collegiate game for the Ohio State Buckeyes until at least Aug. 30, when the team opens its season against Youngstown State.

But you wouldn't know that from all of the Pryor merchandise being peddled on eBay, the popular Internet auction site.
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No Pryor restraint for sports phenom - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Article published Sunday, August 3, 2008
Buckeyes want to get a look at prize recruit
Teammates curious about Pryor
By MATT MARKEY
BLADE SPORTS WRITER

COLUMBUS - Preseason camp is college football's purgatory. It is tortuous exertion in unbearable heat, normally accompanied by humidity that weighs on the participants like a cement jacket.

Players are not customarily eager or anxious or excited about the walking through those gates to get this ordeal started, but a number of the Ohio State Buckeyes used those very terms to describe their feelings on the eve of the start of their training camp.

Tomorrow they get their first in-person, up-close, live-action look at Terrelle Pryor, the quarterback of the future for the Buckeyes who might just be good enough to revamp the playbook of the present.

"He's a special player, a special talent, and since I haven't seen what he can do on the field yet, I'm kind of eager for camp to get started," Ohio State senior quarterback Todd Boeckman said. "I think everybody is looking forward to seeing what he can do, and we're excited about that."
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http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080803/SPORTS16/808030351
 
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