Filed under: Ohio State, Bowl Games
Terrelle Pryor's sure put himself into a nice pickle.
The guy who isn't ready for the NFL now may have to go the NFL. Either that or he sits out the first five games of the 2011 season courtesy of an NCAA suspension for benefiting from selling items he earned while benefiting The Ohio State University.
Rest assured, though, it's not Pryor's fault. Not his fault whatsoever. He didn't know he couldn't sell his paraphernalia, ranging from a Big Ten championship ring to a trinket of gold pants given by the University for beating Michigan. He sold them, you see, for the most noble of causes: to help his family.
That's the word from Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith, who also lavished gushing praise on Ohio State's compliance department as it saw its marquee player given the NCAA hammer. It was only on "this particular bylaw" -- which in NCAA vernacular probably is Bylaw 9, Paragraph 12, Subset 4, Provision 5.2 -- that the university did not give enough information. For all the other 783,209 bylaws, Ohio State was spot on.
Seriously.
"For everything else we were top of the charts," Smith said. "This one, we did not do as good a job."
And Santa will have absolutely no problem getting into all those chimneys from Zagreb to Zambia.
Source: http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2010/12/23/poor-terrelle-pryor-and-ohio-state/
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