Terrelle Pryor Enjoys Flirting
While leading his East squad to a 33-23 victory over the West in the US Army All-American Bowl, Vince 2.0 was seen sporting the Buckeye leaf sticker you see above (thanks again to crafty readers Lane and Joe).
I didn’t get to see much of the game, but evidently future Buckeye DeVier Posey was the culprit that placed the sticker in the first place. Still, Pryor took pleasure in pointing the sticker out on television, taunting both Buckeye fans and fans of other schools in what could be. When interviewed while receiving the MVP trophy, he maintained that he’d like to finalize his decision in February, so we’ll have to wait it out.
Meanwhile, the New York Times caught up to the super-recruit and he dished the positives and negatives on the key schools recruiting him including this contradictory gem on whether the Vest would install the spread upon his arrival:
“I believe him because he said he would, but I really don’t know.â€
As most have pointed out, his immaturity seems to be matched by skill on the field — then again, he’s only a high school senior. No telling what would have come out of my mouth to a news reporter at that age.
Can any of you provide a report on how he and the other Buckeye recruits looked today?
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Etienne Sabino started at OLB for the East squad and was in on a ton of plays.. He was overshadowed by stud LB Arthur Brown on the East, but Sabino made a ton of plays and showed that he has potential to be in the mix from day one
JB Shugarts started at Left Guard for the West and had some trouble with pass protection,.. in my opinion it was partially due to the fact that he is naturally a tackle (6′7, 300) and there is definitely a different skill set to interior line positions. He improved throughout the game, but never stood out too much.
Mike Adams started at Left Tackle for the East and protected Terrelle Pryor’s blindeside all day long.. opening up big holes and keeping lineman at bay. This kid is a stud and has a real chance to be starting at tackle next year if Boone leaves early.
Lamaar Thomas played extensively at RB/WR for the East. He had a couple long runs and a bunch of Mo Wells-type plays getting caught in the backfield. The kid is REALLY, REALLY fast/quick and will be dynamic in a shot-ginn kind of situation.
Michael Brewster would’ve started at Center for the East squad, but he was injured.
DeVier Posey played WR for the East squad and hooked up with Pryor a couple of times. Posey has looked great ALL week in practice and will be a dynamic playmaker in our offense.
Jake Stoneburner played TE for the East Squad and I didn’t see him get too involved in the offense.. but this is not exactly a game for tight ends.
Those were my observations between watching this and college basketball.
Brian – I agree with your observations. I thought Adams and Thomas stood out from the rest of the future Buckeyes. Adams is a force and Thomas could be a nice complement to the power running of Wells although there’s still two kids named Saine and Herron that he’ll have to compete with. Posey didn’t do a whole lot compared to some of the other WR’s (Floyd specifically) but I’m not worried about him in the least. He showed what he can do all week, as you mentioned.
Good point on Shugart’s. He was playing out of position plus he’s on a whirlwind tour right now with the game, finals and early enrollment at OSU on his plate. Hopefully, he’ll lose those janky earrings when packing for the trip up north.
I watched the whole game and, well, Adams looked awesome (and I mean Orlando Pace-type awesome) on the line (I obsess about line play, so that’s all I really look at). Shugarts looked pretty good as well for the West. Posey and Stoneburner were largely ignored, though Posey did have a reception jarred loose and incomplete by some UCLA recruit for the West. Posey and Thomas started the game for the East as the return guys, which didn’t last. Thomas looked very good and broke open a 40yder or so, aided in large part no doubt by exceptional blocking up front and the threat of Pryor, who I think was QBing that series in question. Buchanan got no playing time, and I don’t know why (the Georgia-bound Walsh looked putrid for most of the game, missing two XPs and a makeable field goal). Jenkins (future Buckeye, I say hopefully) didn’t play much, I don’t think. Didn’t see much to note of Sabino, who did miss a tackle on McGuffie during a kickoff. Easily the goat of the game was Michigan-bound Cissoko, who was picked on w/o mercy by a future ND receiver and even muffed a fair catch.
With Pryor, though, I was impressed with how he handled pressure from the West (and that Oklahoma-bound Washington guy was in the backfield a whole lot). Even when forced out of the pocket, Pryor looked kind of unimpressed with the pressure, bided time on the rollout and found an open receiver w/o much hesitation (this was the play where a catch for Posey was jarred loose), just like Vince Young of days yore. Very casual and very impressive.
Saw the flirting with the Buckeye sticker, and apparently Pryor arrived at the game in a Michigan sweatshirt, which proves he is enjoying all the attention. Flirt away, after February most of the country won’t be so high on him, as he’ll have made the vast majority very upset.
Buchanan didn’t play because of a bone spur
Thanks for the reports, guys. Either Pryor comes to Columbus and gets to play for a few national titles or he goes to Ann Arbor to for three years of late November pain.
Right Jason but then again maybe you failed to witness that glimpse of fate today, a rare look at a future when the great creator RR unleashes his spread on a helpless Tressel with Pryor either tossing out to that scrambling speedster McGuffie or optioning casually up the middle himself delivering his own brand of twisted terror to buckeye fans.
It was Pryor’s idea to put the leafs on his helmet.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=25494154
neat, thanks for the update, since all I had to go with was the NBC commentary to learn who put the sticker there. It’s probably still Pryor maximizing all available attention, but it was still sweet to see it there in all its glory (sweeter perhaps because it was on his own volition), a la Terry Glenn’s sticker placement with the Cowboys: http://static.flickr.com/106/287817466_b1d7a6c7fa_b.jpg
Wonder how much Terry got fined for that. :)
Don’t rule out Oregon as a possible location for Pryor to display his talent. The coaching staff and team have mastered a very creative brand of the spread offense. IT IS A THING OF BEAUTY! Just ask Michigan… who, by the way, has lost to Oregon in their last two meetings.
Both Ohio State and Michigan have a big learning curve to catch up with what Oregon is already doing. Does Pryor want to wait? Oregon is ready and Pryor is a perfect fit!
Pryor is a man whore already. However, this whole teasing the fans and University Coaches is hilarious.
To the michigan fan; you guys are always deluded and have no sense of what is going to happen. RR is not going to lead the meatchickens to a national title.
He might win a Big Ten Title, but that will be a while. In fact, don’t expect to win more than 9 next year.
And the oregon dude; your team is crap without Dixon playing the entire game.
Go quack at Erickson’s squad in AZ. Everyone down there thinks you guys are total panty waists.
Correction… the team was #@!$#! without Dixon. Injuries to the second and third string QBs plus poor play from the fourth string backup freshman force Oregon to eventually utilize their FIFTH string QB. The same QB that after a few weeks of prep led the Ducks to a crushing win over South Florida in our bowl game. The same SF team that was once #2 and beat West Virginia. You tell me what team could dip into their roster that deep and find any success. USC struggled only going to their second stringer this year. Dixon was great, but the future looks bright in Eugene.
Beating USF (even if you only used 9 guys, playing ironman) proves nothing.
Great updates fellas (or ladies) I had the game DVR’d, but had to erase it to make room for tonight’s National Title win. This is why I truly enjoy writing for 11W, because the readers give us so many updates and “head’s up”
It is good to see Michael Adams dominate all week, I think Boone maybe gone and he will fit right in. Lamaar Thomas was a nice surprise too.
I will stand by my opinion that if Terrell goes to Michigan, his first two years will be wasted while RR gets his system and players into place. Then he will have an unbelievable junior year and contend for a Heisman, right before he goes to the NFL.
I like the looks of Oregon’s offense, but Terrelle likes the attention and he will not get the National attention out in Eugene. Plus he may know about the coach’s wife and her drinking problem/verbal abuse of local sportswriters.
I obviously hope TP becomes a Buckeye, but I hope he doesn’t come to Columbus thinking he is bigger than the program, we saw what happened the last time we had a player who thought he was larger than the program.
Corey,
I agree with your take on Michigan and Pryor. He would spend a lot of time waiting around for the pieces to fall into place. I fail to see how OSU would be any differenct. There performance in tonight Championship Game was uninpsired and their offense lacks the type of creativity that Oregon offers… and that Pryor can deliver. He will get attention whereever he goes. In fact, he might just get more because a trip west would be such a great story… taking on USC year in and year out in a great and competative conference. Game Day was in Eugene twice this past season and Oregon/Dixon were at the forefront of the National football discussion. Despite Pryors antics with the media (I hope) his ultimate goal is to succeed on the field, when he plays to his ability on the big stage, they will come!
So the best you could do to criticize Oregon was to note that the coaches EX-wife had a run-in with a local reporter. Wow! At least you were willing to illude to Ohio State’s very own Maurice Clarett — now THAT is a mark on a program!
I have another take on the Pryor sticker incident. He played with it all game long in the proper position on the lower left. When they went to commercial, they showed him pointing to it on the top middle. Commentators finally made reference to it much later saying it was a joke by another teammate. What they don’t mention is that on the next series, the sticker is back on the helmet on the lower left and remained there the rest of the game.
I have a bet with a buddy who thinks he’s going to Michigan b/c of Rodriguez. Not going to happen and I’ll explain why:
1) It’ll take multiple seasons for Michigan to adopt Pryor’s style of play. Too long for him to wait.
2) Pryor is an athlete going to the NFL. Which NFL team runs the Rodriguez offense?
3) Pryor needs to come to a school that will develop him into either a top notch NFL QB or develop him into a Chris Gamble type athlete. He has a decision to make, that’s for sure.
4) If he settles on OSU, he’ll have great confidence in knowing we just had an offense developed around a Heisman winner with similiar play. What’s nice about that offense is that it’s a mix of his style and where he needs to be to be an NFL QB.