So Terrelle Pryor is going to Ohio State, as has been long suspected.
Not sure this is a bad thing for Penn State. They have a quarterback for next year. They have a QB for the year after that. Drop Pryor into Happy Valley and you immediately have a QB controversy, probably with players taking sides, etc. There will be some of that in Columbus this fall. Wit Pryor, the Penn State story wouldn’t be about football. It’d be about a QB controversy and Joe’s contract.
On “Pardon the Interruption” tonight, Mike Wilbon said if he was a sportswriter around Jeanette, Pa. he wouldn’t have even covered today’s press conference, and that the media shouldn’t bother with these things. I understand what he’s saying, but check the ESPN.com story linked above. Last time I looked, there were around 2,300 reactions/comments. It’s easy to say people are insane about this stuff (because they are), but it’s the kind of insane that moves product.
One quibble with the ESPN.com story. It’s this paragraph:
“His decision comes six weeks after the Feb. 6 national signing day when seniors normally sign their binding national letter and four days after the Jeannette Jayhawks made WPIAL history by winning the PIAA Class AA state boys’ basketball championship. In December, the school won the state football title. No other Western Pennsylvania school has pulled off that unthinkable double.”
This isn’t wrong, but it’s a little deceptive, since a Pennsylvania school, Steel-High, has not only pulled off that “unthinkable double,” but did it this year.
IN OTHER NEWS: We taped the second edition of our webcast, The Low Post, Tuesday at Millersville U. The original plan was to do it in Pucillo Gym, but as you may have heard, Hillary trumped us. We moved to Brooks Hall, the gym where MU played hoops many moons ago. We were in and out a while before Hillary actually showed up, but I was surprised how quiet the Ville was. Less traffic than usual, I thought, and only a few people on the sidewalks holding up signs. You’d think just Starkie and I being in town would have created more commotion than that.
