NCAAs 'Pryor'ities: BCS Move To Mothership Keeps Ohio State QB Eligible

First of all, this writer despises Ohio State with a passion. His hatred for the Buckeyes burns very deep, equally as much as it does for Oklahoma, Texas, Notre Dame, and USC ... basically any program worth its salt in college football.

He hates their fans, their condescending attitude towards other fan bases, the "my Dad is bigger than your Dad" mentality, making high school juniors out to be the next Peyton Manning on internet message boards, the whole lot.

He loathes Ohio State because when it loses yet another BCS game, the fans want to run a head coach in Jim Tressel that produced your only debatable National Championship in the modern era. If it’s not Tressel, they want coordinators canned.

For years, Ohio State was the paper champion. Overrated ‘Rivals Babies’ players churn in and out of Ohio State more-so than any other program in the country.

The players look the part, the 6-foot-6, 250-pound quarterback that can run a 4.4 in the 40.

Can these Maurice Clarett’s and Andy Katzenmoyer’s really play?

Ohio is one of the top high school football producers in the country. That is hardly debatable. For every ‘Rivals Baby’ paper chump that comes out of Ohio, you can find just as many great players. Much like any other state like Texas, California, and Pennsylvania.

Ohio State is up there in arctic country during this time of year. Big 10 football is different. For example, you have very average teams like Iowa and Michigan State making improbable runs from out of nowhere. Iowa’s came in 2009, a BCS bowl appearance, while Michigan State caught Wisconsin on a horrible day and looked like a Rose Bowl threat into deep in November.

Current quarterback Terrelle Pryor was the King ‘Rivals Baby’. At times in his college career he has looked amazing, usually against slow talent in the Big 10. Other times he has looked average against defenses that can actually run.

NFL scouts have this monster ranked below 6-foot-nothing, 100-and-nothing southpaw Kellen Moore of Boise State, a team that deserves to be in the BCS much more than Ohio State.

It was announced two days before Christmas that Pryor, leading rusher Daniel Herren, and No. 2 receiver Devier Posey were among five players suspended for receiving extra benefits. However, the act is not severe enough to warrant suspension from the Sugar Bowl on ESPN for millions of dollars.

Don’t get this writer started on Bristol’s influence on this decision. Then you have Mothership Walking Incorrect Fact Mark May say that if Ryan Mallett of Arkansas did what Pryor did, he would be suspended for the Sugar Bowl against Ohio State.

Leave it to Bristol to run out the scripted reply to this great tragedy while Big Daddy walks to the bank.

When this news broke yesterday, the Mothership treated it as Terrelle Pryor had suffered a tragic accident.

Pryor will probably go to the NFL despite being maybe a third or fourth round pick. Pryor’s measurables will make him a popular late bloomer. Some idiot, or genius depends on how good Pryor really is (this writer thinks he can do some things no other NFL quarterback has done. It’s a different game in the 21st century, view it as much), will probably “reach” to get him.

As in the case of former Florida paper gem Tim Tebow, the SEC’s "Great White Hope", it only takes one idiot to make him a first round pick. Or again, genius depends on what happens.

Pryor has faced resentment for some reason since he has been quarterback at Ohio State. Even with Bristol blabbermouth Kirk Herbstreit doing everything possible in order to set Pryor up for Heisman success in 2010. The sports writers on these shows on the Mothership that haven’t the slightest clue what they are saying half the time and couldn’t wait to give the Heisman in October to Michigan quarterback Dennard Robinson.

This was pre-Cam Newton, seems like ages ago. In reality, it was a shade over two months ago. Light years in 21st century media, nearly 24 hours, 7 days a week live SportsCenter. Which is why this writer believes Newton had the single largest impact of any player in one single college football season in the history of the game.

How Pryor is not in the same discussion with Stanford’s Andrew Luck and Washington’s Jake Locker, both white quarterbacks, is beyond me. Even a lefty that plays in snow in October on a blue field is more ballyhooed in the NFL Draft process.

This is the A.J. Green situation Part II at Georgia. Green, arguably a can’t miss wide receiver prospect, got four games for selling his own jersey for around $1,000. Green declared himself eligible for the NFL Draft, more than likely seeing all the million of dollars university presidents are making from his talents. Good for you A.J. Go get paid, kid.

You have a situation with Pryor, a man who has Miami Heat villain LeBron James on his cell phone on speed dial and probably has a LeBron ring tone for it, where instead of merely texting a friend in James he sold his own awards to collectors for around $2,500 so his mother could pay rent and buy food.

Rumor has it, Green’s situation was similar. That has not been confirmed.

Ohio State will not lose a dime for these suspensions next season or this season when the acts occurred. Due to the fact that the Mothership is due to make millions as the BCS games move to basic cable this year, a slap in the face to the people that struggle every day to buy groceries, pay rent, and can’t afford basic cable, Pryor can play on pay-per-view college football in the Sugar Bowl.

Next season when Ohio State uses backups to dismantle Akron, Toledo, Colorado, and Michigan State next season at home, the Miami game on the road is tricky, Ohio State will still be a BCS contender when it goes on the road and faces Nebraska.

Its 2011 alignment with the millions of dollars is on track.

Why is this being allowed to continue to happen?

Seriously. Could somebody with relevance please answer that for me?

Give me a break.

He hates Ohio State with a passion, yet here is a kid that has done everything everybody has asked of him during his time as an amateur athlete except this situation to help out his family while white presidents and cable network executives pocket millions and millions of dollars of his talents.

Yet if the Mothership gave him an award for Sugar Bowl MVP, he couldn’t turn around and sell it to a collector for $500 so he could enjoy it and actually live a somewhat normal life.

The acknowledgement of the why the rule is in place is noted and not debatable. Any booster could drop $25,000 for an award rather than the $2,500 for numerous items Pryor allegedly received.

This is slavery all over again, just inconsiderate of race.

Ban me. Hate me. Cuss me. I don’t care.

I will never watch another second of college sports ever again. I will never care about the life of an 18-year-old after seeing his videos ever again. I will never again watch as another cent is made off their talents while they receive no compensation.

Somebody needs to do something. If you take a serious look into the situation and see the dollars these guys are rolling in and you don’t think it’s slavery … what is?

Pryor did what any decent human being would do—he helped out a family member. Lack of money is the thing that stresses out human beings more than anything

Trouble with this whole process is Caucasian players, Hispanic players, and all other races and creeds of players are just as used as African-American players.

Here’s to hoping Auburn quarterback Cam Newton, whose father was allegedly seeking up to $200,000 for Newton’s verbal commitment just 12 months ago, sells his Heisman Trophy before the BCS National Championship Game.

Here’s to hoping the NCAA finds out about it on Jan. 9 to watch Bristol’s Mothership go into panic overdrive. It already has watered us down with Newton this season and Oregon so you are convinced that the best two teams are in the BCS National Championship Game on ESPN 

This writer won’t be watching. I will worry more about 18-year-old American soccer players because when they can turn pro whenever they want to, they are free to sign with whichever European club they please.

It’s called free agency. The NFL Draft process ought to be outlawed. If the Dallas Cowboys want a two-trillion dollar payroll, so be it.

Wake up, sports fans. Pay $100 for one ticket to a Ohio State, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, USC, or Michigan game and then try to convince yourself you are not the problem, but part of the solution.

Ever notice how I never refer to the Southeastern Conference with examples?

Completely different subject. Completely different sport. Players are bought and paid for in that neck of the woods, and the NCAA is looking the other way*.

(* - Until two years after when the NCAA has already made it money off Newton and can then take his Heisman because it’s the “right thing to do”.)

The whole product is giant sized *.

National championships that can be debated for eternity. Even in 2010, you can’t honestly tell me Auburn and/or Oregon is far better than Wisconsin or TCU, even Boise State. Except, Auburn rolled through a watered down SEC and Oregon beat up on a paper tiger non-conference slate (Rocky Top) and a deplorable Pac-10 where Arizona is considered a good team.

Mark Cuban, put your money away—it's no good here.

These professionals don’t get paid. They created these mythical legends in medium-sized towns all across America that chiefly weren't privileged with professional sports. Then, they hamstrung them when they were winning in recruiting by limiting everything under the sun and to top that all off, they ripped 30 or so scholarships away in the process from these programs.

Suddenly, football is then relevant in places like Eugene, where 20 years ago Oregon was a joke. Boise State and TCU are examples of what parody in modern-day college football can bring.

These players that would sit on rosters at the 12 best programs in the country are spread out all over the place these days.

Though, not enough to allow Akron to hang with Ohio State next season with or without Terrelle Pryor.

If a crime is punishable and is against the rules, so be it. Fine. Just be consistent. Either it's serious enough to warrant an immediate suspension or it’s not.

Don’t appease the college football nation’s capitol by not spending Pryor because they need television ratings after moving the games to basic cable.

Pretty soon, non-conference games between Ohio State and USC will be on pay-per-view. Big time programs already have their weak non-conference slate on pay-per-view. Obviously, the practice is paying well because they continue to do it and more and more programs are starting to see the light.

Maybe when that inevitability takes place will people finally wake up and realize what they are contributing to.