OSU Insider: TV reveals Pryor's growing comfort
by Doug Lesmerises Wednesday October 22, 2008, 10:29 PM
COLUMBUS --
Terrelle Pryor wanted to know how he did.
After the Ohio State freshman quarterback finished an interview Tuesday, when he sat with senior teammates
Malcolm Jenkins and
James Laurinaitis and took questions from
Kirk Herbstreit as part of the buildup for ABC's primetime broadcast of Saturday's Ohio State-Penn State game, Pryor asked an OSU spokesman if he handled the interview well. He was reassured that he did.
As he grows on the field, Pryor's also figuring out everything else that comes with being a quarterback at Ohio State. Last week, that included facing some of the first real questions about his abilities behind center. The tale that will certainly become part of his legend if he reaches his potential -- telling coach
Jim Tressel on Friday to pull him against Michigan State if he didn't move the ball -- stemmed from becoming aware of those questions and growing frustrated by them.
"Last week I think was a tough week for Terrelle," OSU quarterbacks coach
Joe Daniels said Wednesday. "I think there was a lot of things floating around, both in and out of print. I think it was a tough week for him and I think he grew up a lot.
"It was the stuff that was in the media -- should
Todd [
Boeckman] play, shouldn't Todd play, the stuff with that. You think it doesn't affect a kid, but it does because it affects the other people around him. It affects the students, it affects the average fan.
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