Terrelle Pryor not returning to OSU

• OneBuckeye

  

  WebFire;786249 wrote:Did TP play defense?

  
  Agree, defense and failure of recruiting there is why he got fired, not getting TP certainly set them back because they had to go with Threet that year but he was not the reason he got fired.
• queencitybuckeye

  dokken;786246 wrote:Cowherd just said how it's interesting how Rrod got fired because he didn't get Pryor and Tressel lost his job because he got Pryor.

  
  Cowherd would be right only if one assumes that having Pryor would have gotten Dick Rod substantially more wins.
  
  IOW, Cowherd is wrong as usual.
• derek bomar

  

  OneBuckeye;786158 wrote:Hard to tell from the tweets, but I believe that he never drove it to the meeting. Hence why there is no pic of him getting out of it.

  
  the news said the tags are registered to his mom
• dokken

  Are temp tags registered? Were they Pennsylvania temp tags or does mom travel to Columbus to get a 350X?
• Writerbuckeye

  

  The car is his. The O-Zone photographer has a photo of the car; WBNS TV stalked Pryor and verified the tags are registered to his mom; the O-Zone photog also has a photo of Pryor getting into the car, which he is not publishing but keeping only to verify his statement that it is Pryor's car.
  
  Here's my problem with this particular vehicle: it's about a $16,000 vehicle and his mom is a nurse, from all I've been made to understand. How is it unreasonable that a nurse could buy her soon-to-be senior son this car, with the agreement being he'd take over the payments after he's out of college?
  
  I come from a family that probably had about as much money as Pryor and my family could swing that setup.
  
  I'm not defending him, by the way. Just raising a question.
• FatHobbit

  

  Writerbuckeye;786307 wrote:Here's my problem with this particular vehicle: it's about a $16,000 vehicle and his mom is a nurse, from all I've been made to understand. How is it unreasonable that a nurse could buy her soon-to-be senior son this car, with the agreement being he'd take over the payments after he's out of college?
  
  I come from a family that probably had about as much money as Pryor and my family could swing that setup.
  
  I'm not defending him, by the way. Just raising a question.

  
  I don't think him having this car is the issue. It's the amount of relatively expensive cars he's been going through. And he didn't seem to learn anything from all of this.
• queencitybuckeye

  Only an idiot would be driving anything with temp tags given the current situation, whether everything is kosher or not.
• dokken

  I just have this weird feeling that if or when Pryor gets taken down, he will take down Thee University of Ohio State with him.
• jhay78

  

  LJ;786198 wrote:I honestly think Tressel's passion for "helping kids" is what got him fired. He should have just put the hammer down on Pryor the first time he fucked up, but he just coddled him the whole time, allowing his stupidity to continue and it has snowballed to the point that he isn't just stupid, but is being arrogant about his stupidity. What he doesn't realized is that daddy isn't there to protect him anymore. Honestly, if Tressel had just put his foot down with Pryor the second he stepped on campus, he could've been the best QB to ever play at OSU. Now he may be the most tarnished

  I honestly think Pryor being handed the starting job in 2008 over Boeckman (who led th '07 team to a NC game) went a long way at giving TP a bigger sense of entitlement.
• enigmaax

  FatHobbit;786320 wrote:I don't think him having this car is the issue. It's the amount of relatively expensive cars he's been going through. And he didn't seem to learn anything from all of this.

  
  And never buying? Thought I saw a blurb today that said the salesman said Pryor looked at/test drove a lot of cars but never bought one. Could be true and no big deal (though you'd think a dealership would catch on pretty soon). Or, it could be that "test drive" is the cover for "drive whatever you want for free and when you are done with one come back and get a different one". It'll be interesting to know how long each "test drive" lasted. I was under the impression that the NCAA already looked into a freebie weekend where he drove a car home and that was cleared.
• dokken

  Pryor just needs to relax right now and get his head straight. He has got to prepare for finals next week.
• Scarlet_Buckeye

  

  Writerbuckeye;786307 wrote:Here's my problem with this particular vehicle: it's about a $16,000 vehicle

  
  I gotta believe a Nissan 350Z is much more expensive than $16k...
• 77Legend

  

  Imagine if he would have never chose OSU. Would all of this be coming down like this?
• LJ

  

  Is it still and improper benefit if a car dealership lets an athlete drive a car on an extended test drive (a weekend) not because of who they are, but because the dealership can easily find them if anything goes wrong?
• derek bomar

  

  Scarlet_Buckeye;786368 wrote:I gotta believe a Nissan 350Z is much more expensive than $16k...

  
  idk what year it is...but you can go to kbb if you want to find out
  
  http://www.kbb.com/whats-my-car-worth/
• wildcats20

  

  Scarlet_Buckeye;786368 wrote:I gotta believe a Nissan 350Z is much more expensive than $16k...

  
  Yeah, try double(almost) that.
• LJ

  

  Scarlet_Buckeye;786368 wrote:I gotta believe a Nissan 350Z is much more expensive than $16k...

  
  A fully loaded one with 45k is $22k at a dealership. KBB keeps locking up, but that would be about right for a basic 350z with some rims and more miles
• LJ

  

  derek bomar;786373 wrote:idk what year it is...but you can go to kbb if you want to find out
  
  http://www.kbb.com/whats-my-car-worth/

  
  news said it was a 2007
  
  The newest it can be is a 2008, it switched to 370Z in 2009
• DeyDurkie5

  

  I don't know who the bigger fail is, dokken or gibby on this whole matter.
• WebFire

  Writerbuckeye;786307 wrote:The car is his. The O-Zone photographer has a photo of the car; WBNS TV stalked Pryor and verified the tags are registered to his mom; the O-Zone photog also has a photo of Pryor getting into the car, which he is not publishing but keeping only to verify his statement that it is Pryor's car.
  
  Here's my problem with this particular vehicle: it's about a $16,000 vehicle and his mom is a nurse, from all I've been made to understand. How is it unreasonable that a nurse could buy her soon-to-be senior son this car, with the agreement being he'd take over the payments after he's out of college?
  
  I come from a family that probably had about as much money as Pryor and my family could swing that setup.
  
  I'm not defending him, by the way. Just raising a question.

  
  Do you really believe what you are typing? What was TP's reason for selling his stuff?
• dokken

  Someone said in a previous thread Pryors mom was worthless and dad was nowhere to be found. He had to live with his high school coaches.
• Writerbuckeye

  

  WebFire;786415 wrote:Do you really believe what you are typing? What was TP's reason for selling his stuff?

  
  Tattoos, cash? I have no idea. But this particular car could easily have a reasonable and legit explanation. It's why I raised the question. I also said I'm not defending him...far from it.
  
  I want the truth -- not some witch hunt just because you or others don't like OSU, Pryor or whatever.
• dokken

  So let me get this straight. Pryor had to promise the team that he would be back next year?
• WebFire

  Writerbuckeye;786441 wrote:Tattoos, cash? I have no idea. But this particular car could easily have a reasonable and legit explanation. It's why I raised the question. I also said I'm not defending him...far from it.
  
  I want the truth -- not some witch hunt just because you or others don't like OSU, Pryor or whatever.

  
  Didn't he say he did it to support his mom. Talked about how poor she is. Then he said he would "suffer" (financially) through another year of college football after making his pledge to Tress.
  
  But you think his mom would buy him a sports car at $20k +?
• FatHobbit

  

  WebFire;786459 wrote:Didn't he say he did it to support his mom. Talked about how poor she is. Then he said he would "suffer" (financially) through another year of college football after making his pledge to Tress.
  
  But you think his mom would buy him a sports car at $20k +?

  
  Good point. I agree that all of the original excuses are complete bullshit.