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."