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Miscellany

Granted, because there’s so much written about Terrelle Pryor, some things are going to fall through the cracks in this feature.  There’s only so much random stuff I can remember about Terrelle Pryor.  I’ll see what I can do, though.

• BuckeyePlanet gets a big ol’ assist in helping with this.  You could piece together about 60 percent of the story by the recruiting services alone, but BuckeyePlanet will fill in the rest.  The hard part with following the Pryor story on BuckeyePlanet is that there was about 6-10 people covering his recruitment who knew anything and about 40-50 cliffjumpers or people resorting to really bad attempts at message board humor.  But still, BuckeyePlanet and the people who run it are the balls.  Give them money.  Wade over at BuckeyePlanet (username: wadc45) might be the most important person that covers Buckeye football that you know nothing about.
• On the theme of being an all-points athlete, he’s probably a better golfer and tennis player than you are.  If he had specialized in anything else, he’d be world-class at it.
• Name an award and Terrelle Pryor probably won it.  He won whatever award this is.  He won the Pete Dawkins MVP Award for his performance in the Army All-American Bowl.  He was named the 2007 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Male Athlete of the Year for 2007.  He won a HS Maxwell Award for the QB position for his senior year.  He was named the Pitt Post-Gazette’s High School Football Player of the Year for 2007. Named USA Today Offensive Player of the Year for 2007.  Was named National Player of the Year by Scout.  That said, Terrelle Pryor did get hosed on this award.
• In the two years I look at, Terrelle had three run-ins with the law.  In October 2007, he confronted a guy who inappropriately touched a female friend of his.  When security was brought in and asked Terrelle to leave, he asked for a refund since he had only been there five minutes.  Told he would not get it, he called the security guard a “rent-a-cop” and refused to leave without his refund.  When the police were called, Pryor cooperated.  He also got into some jawjacking with South Lafayette fans after more than a few of them came to a basketball game against Jeannette wearing red sweatervests, saying that Tressel would be his daddy.  Lastly, during the state quarterfinals game against North Central, Terrelle and his team got into a scrape that compromised his eligibility for the state semifinals.  No suspension came from it, though.
• The Jeannette football workout facility is definitely worth reading.
• It might be a cliche to say that some people obsess about athletes so much that they know what they eat for breakfast.  My mom would say this about her brother and his obsession with the then-Brooklyn Dodgers.  Actually, because of the obession about Terrelle Pryor, I actually know now what he has for breakfast. Yes, the cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast: fruity pebbles.  Ew.
• Mike Farrell gets the award for the absolutely creepiest write up about Terrelle Pryor.

Pryor is a 6-foot-6, 225-pound thing of beauty. He has long arms, a muscled torso and he can jump out of the building.

• Notre Dame also gets an award for absolutely screwing up Terrelle Pryor’s recruitment.  They wanted him as a defensive end initially, until realizing that a guy like Terrelle is, at the least, a wide receiver or safety.  By that time, it was too late.  Further, a certain head coach that met with Ray Reitz came off as so pompous and arrogant that Reitz was tempted to throw him out of his office.  Any guesses?
• Terrelle Pryor became the leading scorer in Jayhawk history during his senior year, surpassing Mike Dent.  Mike Dent signed to play football with West Virginia.
• During his senior season, Pryor barely made it to the second half of most games because of the mercy rule.  In WPIAL AA play, a mercy rule comes into effect when a team is up by 35.  Afterwards, the clock runs continuously.  I think the only game Terrelle Pryor played during his senior season (ignoring the state title run) where they didn’t mercy rule their competition was against Aliquippa, who had Jonathan Baldwin (a Pitt signee), in a game the Jayhawks won 70-48.  It was the highest scoring game in area history.  The Jayhawks set a state record for total offense.
• The Pitt Post-Gazette labeled Pryor as the best player in area history.  You might not have known, but lots of good players have come from Western Pennsylvania.  Joe Montana, Joe Namath and Lavarr Arrington, anyone?
• The fact that Terrelle Pryor exceled at two sports was fodder for much conversation.  SI said he was the best two sport star since Joe Mauer, currently with the Minnesota Twins.  Ronald Curry, who played football and basketball for North Carolina before becoming a wide receiver for the Oakland Raiders, was also brought up frequently.  The more accurate point of reference, however, was the tale of Tom Clement.  Clement was another two sport star from Western Pennsylvania who was given the choice of playing basketball for Dean Smith at UNC or quarterback for Notre Dame.  He chose the latter.
• I didn’t feel like mentioning it earlier, since I didn’t think it was too important.  Memphis’ and USC’s respective hoops program tried to use the post-signing day delay to encourage Pryor to play basketball for them.  Naturally, nothing came of it.
• Pryor was a popular enough figure in the area to have action figures made after him.  Do want.
• In a sign of probably things to come, Terrelle Pryor and his mom sent Joe Daniels a get well basket in March as he was battling cancer.

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