So y'all just going to let me keep putting "Skull Sesssion" in the display headline without calling me on it? Thank you to the benevolent, concerned citizen who corrected me via email. I fired all of my haters. My readers deserve better.
GET THE MAN HIS FANCY PAPER. Ohio State's ludicrous and draconian five-year dissociation of Terrelle Pryor ended last week. Pryor offered his first words from within the university's grace Monday afternoon ahead of the Cleveland Browns' "regular practice" Saturday in the Shoe.
From cbs.com:
That ban expired recently and now Pryor can’t wait to return to Columbus where he plans to finish his degree in criminology, forensics and ballistics.
“I’m going to finish school,” Pryor, who is six credits away from graduating, said in an interview with 92.3 The Fan. “I want to get my degree and finish that. I need to be a role model for my son.”
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“I’m not only going to go back to the campus and be in the football facility but I want to raise money somehow and get a scholarship going,” Pryor said. “I’m going to try to make a scholarship fund where I give a scholarship every year to Ohio State. It’s something I want to do."
Aside: Ohio State fans afflicted with Browns mental illness (like me) might be thinking of attending Saturday. Don't waste your time. It will be hot, and "free" is $100 overpriced.
I'm surprised Pryor doesn't have enough Criminology credits to graduate given he played three years under crime lord Jim "The Vest" Tressel, who remains at large and was last seen cooling his heels in SoCal with Ed O'Neill and an energy drink tycoon.
Seriousness aside, criminals across America are praying Pryor doesn't finish that degree. None of them stand a chance fleeing from him in the open field.
A career in law enforcement will have to wait, though. He's one-half of the war machine that will propel the Browns to the Super Bowl.
From clevelandbrowns.com:
Terrelle Pryor ran down the sideline with his head slightly cocked backwards, carefully tracking a deep ball during the Browns’ third day of training camp. He launched himself forward, hauled in the pass and tucked it into his chest for what was one of several standout plays on the afternoon.
“That was my first — there’s been a bunch of good balls thrown to me this camp so far — but we haven’t connected. I caught a couple but it was out of bounds or something happened,” he said Monday.
“I like to run deep, run past guys, so it is what it is. It’s football, I’m an aggressive guy, I like to get the juices flowing, I like to get the team up so a big play, let’s make a big deal.”
Pryor also received tutoring from Randy Moss, which is ironic since they called Moss a "Young Terrelle Pryor" throughout his playing career.
ENERGY GURU WILL ALLEN. No matter how much a man earns in a professional football career, there will come a time when "the cheering stops." Some men are more prepared than others.
Huber Heights' Will Allen didn't want to end up as a guy who peaked in his youth, so he took advantage of a new NFL program helping players find new careers after football.
From theundefeated.com:
Throughout his college career at Ohio State, Allen heard and absorbed horror stories about players whose lives had crumbled after the cheering stopped. Divorce, bankruptcy, homelessness – so much could go wrong so quickly with retirement, Allen learned. So as soon as Allen entered NFL training camp, he also started the process of training for his post-football career, always reminding himself to stay on the lookout for anything that could help him in that goal. Allen put aside a portion of his game checks to savings. In the offseason, he attended business management seminars. And he read. A lot.
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Accepted into the NFLPA’s externship program, Allen, who’s pursuing a career in the energy field, was placed with two energy companies after the 2014 season. Allen enjoyed his work so much that he applied again following the 2015 season. In his second externship, Allen worked on Capitol Hill under a congressman who’s heavily involved in energy issues.
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“It’s about exposing guys to what they would have to do in those jobs. Everybody knows you can’t play this game forever. The NFLPA is doing something to actually help guys get ready for the moment when they can’t.”
Football — particularly the NFL — needs more stories like this.
Once Allen completes his program, I doubt he will look far for a job. Enemies can say what they want, but Buckeye fans take care of former players in the business realm.
URBAN, LIKE SANTA, IS ALWAYS WATCHING. Part of what made Urban Meyer an elite head coach from the beginning of his career is he understood the importance of recruiting.
But those recruiting skills were honed over the years.
From coachingsearch.com:
"We just had a big Friday Night Lights thing the other night, and instead of just evaluating — you know the guys can play,” Meyer said on SiriusXM College Sports Nation, “but I want to see, more than anything, and I challenge our staff, are they jumping to the front of the line? We’re a very aggressive hard-working embrace. We call it the grind. You’d better embrace the grind if you come to Ohio State.
“Not everybody wants to do that, which is fine. There’s other places they may not go as hard. That’s something me and my staff have gotten better at over the years.”
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“That’s something, early in my career, I was probably average at,” Meyer said. “You’d be enamored with stars or, ‘We have to (get) him, because this other school is recruiting him.’ We do watch who is recruiting people. I personally look at recruiting rankings, because I think it’s kind of fun to watch that, but it’s not how we make decisions. It’s how do you fit in the culture."
I would not have guessed Meyer cares about recruiting rankings. It slays me to envision him getting mad online over an arbitrary offseason shakeup like the rest of us.
STAY YOUNG FOREVER, STUDENTS. A cool thing about America is once you haul your trash to a designated area or receptacle, you're disavowed of all ethical responsibility.
Student move-out underway here in the neighborhood. pic.twitter.com/GwaLK6fiT3
— Univ Dist History (@UDHCMH) August 1, 2016
I bet that couch could tell some stories... and I wouldn't want to hear any of them.
DON'T GET YOUR RIDE SWOOPED. Most people don't think about their car getting stolen until they come out of Speedway holding a 99-cent coffee and the fleeting realization their car isn't where they thought.
Hopefully, they have good insurance.
From mydaytondailynews.com:
For Ohioans, the vehicle stolen the most was the 2003 Dodge Caravan. Other vehicles stolen the most in Ohio last year included the Honda Civic, Ford Pick-Up, Chevrolet Impala and Jeep Cherokee.
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TOP 10:
- Dodge Caravan
- Chevrolet Pick-Up (Full Size)
- Ford Pick-Up (Full Size)
- Jeep Cherokee/Grand Cherokee
- Chevrolet Impala
- Honda Accord
- Chevrolet Malibu
- Honda Civic
- Toyota Camry
- Dodge Pick-Up (Full Size)
Dodge Caravan!? Damn, thieves are ruthless. Can't even drop your kids off at soccer practice without worrying about your car getting hot wired and sold for parts on Craigslist.
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