Terrelle Pryor tears himself away from college life

Western Pennsylvania. We will take no credit for him.

 

Well if football and men's basketball programs kept all the money they brought in they would be "for profit" businesses. But anybody who is paying attention knows that those two sports pay for damn near every other sport on campus at most schools.

 

Well except for the fact that there's no way in hell an 18-year-old kid is physically or emotionally ready to play in the NFL.

 

I asked this question a few pages ago and nobody responded. But for those who say that Pryor, Newton, et al, are being used by the NCAA without being compensated, I will ask again.

How much was Terrelle Pryor worth to an NFL team as an 18-year-old high school grad?

How much is he worth now?

I think we know the answer.

 

Do you believe they shouldn't be able to make money off their name? Autograph shows, sponsorships things like that. that doesn't come out of the University coiffures.

 

I guess my point is why should they have to wait? It doesn't cost the University a dime. How is it fair to restrict what a person can earn off their own name?

 

The worry there is that it would quickly become "If you sign with us, we have a booster who pays $3,000 for the autograph of every 5-star recruit who signs here."
"Sorry, coach, but OTHER SCHOOL has a booster who pays $4,000."

 

There's the thing. It's like that line about pornography.

I may not have the distinct line drawn in the sand, but I know that memorabilia-for-doobies is on the wrong side of that line.

 

What if it's in brownie form, and not a doobie. Probably more in the grey area then .....

 

Oh, it'll be on the wrong side of the line. You just won't get there for about an hour.

 

Hence the practice squad and developmental concept: The players make money and get NFL-style training, but the teams don't feel obligated to use them because of the limits of a 53-man roster. And I don't know about Pryor because his skills are more college game than NFL, but I'd bet anything a team would have taken Matt Barkley out of high school, with at least a second-round pick, and given him the two-year apprenticeship to have him ready for the starting spot at age 20/21.

 

Nope. High school football players, the cream of the crop, can't see the NFL with a telescope. In no other major sport is there anything close to this much of a gap.