WR Terrelle Pryor ('10 Rose, '11 Sugar MVP)

[Buckskin86]

The Pryor Watch

By: Jon Mahoney 11/12/07

RISE will track the progress of the nation?s top athlete, Jeannette (Jeannette, Pa.) football and basketball star Terrelle Pryor, every other Monday until he makes a college decision. In this week?s installment, Pryor and Jeannette open the WPIAL playoffs and Pryor makes his first official college visit.

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[pianobuck46]

I think I just heard Tom Lemmings on "Generation Next" report that Pryor has verballed to tOSU. If so, what a great get.

BB73 EDIT - piano didn't hear Lemming correctly - don't get excited

:gobucks3::osu2::gobucks4:

 

[Oh8ch]

I think I just heard Tom Lemmings on "Generation Next" report that Pryor has verballed to tOSU. If so, what a great get.

I feel pretty strongly that Lemming will not be the one to break the Pryor commit when it becomes official - particularly if it is to OSU. He is wrong about as often as he is right.

 

[Mrknowitall]

If flemming is right that would be a great get for osu. But we won't know for a fact untill later. I think he should stick to one sport at osu and his main sport is football. Hopefully flemming is right though!

 

[bucknut11]

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It's amazing how few touches Pryor has gotten this season. According to the stats in the Rise article, he equals out to a per game average of roughly...

5-of-7.5 passing for 113 yards and 1 TD
6 carries for 86 yards and 2 TDs (1 TD every 3 carries)


Imagine if he'd actually get to play in the second halves...

 

[MannyAlexander]

Lemming's show is new on Thursdays, so you saw a re-run from last week. He didn't say that TP verballed, by the way, but maintains that we lead.

 

[pianobuck46]

Yep--just heard it. Previous post my bad. Thanks!

:gobucks3::osu2::gobucks4:

 

[MD Buckeye]

It's amazing how few touches Pryor has gotten this season. According to the stats in the Rise article, he equals out to a per game average of roughly...

5-of-7.5 passing for 113 yards and 1 TD
6 carries for 86 yards and 2 TDs (1 TD every 3 carries)


Imagine if he'd actually get to play in the second halves...

1 TD every 3 carries lol. Good God lol

 

[osugrad21]

Pittsburgh Gazette


WPIAL Football Playoffs: Class AA's Long-distance rivalry renewed
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
By Mike White, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The game features two of the top athletes in the state in Jeannette quarterback-defensive back Terrelle Pryor and Aliquippa receiver-defensive back Jonathan Baldwin. As juniors, both were selected to the Post-Gazette Fabulous 22 all-star team for football and the Fabulous Five for basketball.

 

[EastSide]

Jeannette has forced the mercy rule on every team this season. Under the rule, the clock runs continuously in the second half when a team goes ahead by 35 points or more.

from the above article.
I think it will be another day at the office for Pryor!

 

[Buckskin86]

Pryor paving a path toward greatness
By Barker Davis
November 14, 2007

JEANNETTE, Pa. ? Terrelle Pryor is rocking the mold in the nation's cradle of quarterbacks.

Western Pennsylvania has long been famous for its pipeline of Hall of Fame slingers. From George Blanda (Youngwood), Johnny Unitas (Mount Washington) and Joe Namath (Beaver Falls) to Dan Marino (Oakland), Joe Montana (Monongahela) and Jim Kelly (Pittsburgh), no other region has spawned such a high-profile parade of stars behind center.

But it's been awhile since the Pittsburgh metro area produced a true quarterback prodigy.

Enter Pryor. There's a high school legend growing in Jeannette, a burg boasting just more than 10,000 inhabitants about 25 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. And like most legends involving high school recruits, Pryor's tale is not immune to the occasional bit of hyperbole.

"They call him 'HD,' because Terrelle is like some kind of dazzling new technology. He does things nobody's ever seen before," a Jeannette resident said. "I once saw Terrelle vault 8 yards into the end zone over two defenders from [Greensburg] Central Catholic."

According to Jeannette coach Ray Reitz, it was only a 5-yard leap over one Central Catholic player, "but it was still the most amazing thing I've ever seen on a football field."

Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel and Buckeyes' basketball mentor Thad Matta both watched that slaughter live. In that game, Pryor torched Central Catholic's Chris Hayden-Martin, who is considered one of the top 25 cornerbacks in the nation.

"I told our kids at the end of it that [Pryor]'s the best player I've ever seen, and I've been coaching since 1971," Central Catholic coach Muzzy Colosimo told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

With his enormous stride and gliding running style, Pryor doesn't look that fast on film. But he runs a sub-4.4 (40-yard dash), routinely provoking scouts to compare him to Tennessee Titans quarterback Vince Young.

Think of Pryor as video-enhanced Young, a bigger, faster, stronger [305 bench press] version of the player who carried Texas to the 2005 national championship. College coaches aren't allowed to officially comment on recruits, but one of Pryor's suitors authored this anonymous analysis:

"In more than 30 years of coaching and recruiting, I've never seen a kid with his upside. He needs to work on the mechanics of his delivery, but he's got amazing tools. The Vince Young comparisons are appropriate. Both are gliders, but I think Pryor actually has more upside. Compared to where Young was coming out of high school, Pryor is just as elusive and explosive as a runner, but he has a longer frame and superior touch on shorter passes."To his credit, Pryor just shakes his head at all the comparisons and recruiting madness swirling around him.

"It's flattering when people compare me to Vince Young, but it's way too soon," said Pryor, who is leaning toward Ohio State but likely to take official visits to West Virginia, Tennessee, Florida and Texas. "I just want to be myself and make a name for myself.

Pryor paving a path toward greatness?-?-?The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

 

[NuclearBuck]

"It's flattering when people compare me to Vince Young, but it's way too soon," said Pryor, who is leaning toward Ohio State but likely to take official visits to West Virginia, Tennessee, Florida and Texas. "I just want to be myself and make a name for myself."


Attitude is everything. It is always refreshing to find a young player who doesn't have an ego twice the size of his talent. This is one grounded kid. It goes without saying that it would be nice to have him under center, doesn't it?:)

 

[OmahaBeef]

"It's flattering when people compare me to Vince Young, but it's way too soon," said Pryor, who is leaning toward Ohio State but likely to take official visits to West Virginia, Tennessee, Florida and Texas. "I just want to be myself and make a name for myself."


Attitude is everything. It is always refreshing to find a young player who doesn't have an ego twice the size of his talent. This is one grounded kid. It goes without saying that it would be nice to have him under center, doesn't it?:)

Imagine Pryor and Saine in the backfield. It would be (will be) lots of fun to see those two run some option plays.

 

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Pryor's visit a treat for fans

By George Guido
FOR THE VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

It's good to stop and think how fortunate we are in the Alle-Kiski Valley to see some great athletes pass through before they achieve national stardom.

That sets up a tantalizing situation Friday night when Terrelle Pryor and the Jeannette Jayhawks visit Highlands Golden Rams Stadium to face Aliquippa in the WPIAL Class AA semifinals. Pryor has played more than a dozen basketball games in the Valley area the past several seasons, but this is one of the few times local football fans can see Pryor as the nation's No. 1 football recruit and a possible future NFL player.

Fans attending that game might also see an 80-year-old WPIAL record broken. Jeannette needs just 13 points to break the all-time WPIAL team scoring record for a season of 615 points set by Mount Pleasant Hurst in 1927.