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Thread: OT: Terrelle Pryor Ruling
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08-18-2011, 05:54 PM #1Regular 1st Stringer
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Pryor will be suspended after he enters the NFL
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/68...rst-five-games
The NFL said that Pryor can play in preseason games after he is drafted and signs, but he is not eligible to practice with his new team or play in a game until Week 6 of the season. Pryor will be allowed at his new team's training facility for meetings and to work with coaches during the time he is ineligible, however.
"... Pryor made decisions that undermine the integrity of the eligibility rules for the NFL Draft," the league said. "Those actions included failing to cooperate with the NCAA and hiring an agent in violation of NCAA rules, which resulted in Ohio State declaring him ineligible to continue playing college football.
"Pryor then applied to enter the NFL after the regular draft. Pryor had accepted at the end of the 2010 college football season a suspension for the first five games of the 2011 season for violating NCAA rules. Pryor will be ineligible to practice prior to or play in the first five games of the NFL regular season after he signs."
What's next? Suspending Willis McGahee depending on the result of the Miami investigation? I'm just really flabbergasted by this.
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08-18-2011, 06:37 PM #3Steve Flacco, Apparently
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He tried to cheat the system by declaring for the supplemental draft despite the fact that he could have declared for the regular draft.
Further he's only entering the league to avoid a college suspension, the NFL doesn't want to allow college players the option to simply avoid NCAA discipline by jumping to the pros.
The CFL has a similar rule they instituted after Ricky Williams used his first year long suspension to go play CFL ball.My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. -Hank Aaron
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08-19-2011, 10:35 AM #5Pro Bowl Poster
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OT: Terrelle Pryor Ruling
If anyone didn't think Goodell was completely clueless and in over his head as NFL commissioner, how could you possibly support him now?
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Re: OT: Terrelle Pryor Ruling
Did you think ruling was too strict or too lenient?
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08-19-2011, 10:45 AM #7Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: OT: Terrelle Pryor Ruling
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08-19-2011, 10:52 AM #9Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: OT: Terrelle Pryor Ruling
It's completely different. Jamal Lewis was allegedly involved in an illegal activity involving drugs. He was CHARGED while he was an NFL player regardless of the date of the transgression. Pryor has allegedly broken NCAA rules and is thus suspended by the NCAA. There's a big big big difference.
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08-19-2011, 10:55 AM #10
Re: OT: Terrelle Pryor Ruling
In theory, I am ok with that. Too often, players break rules to the detriment of the college game and escape all punishment by going to the NFL.
That said, in practice, you have to be consistent. Someone brought up a good point on the radio this morning: If you are going to suspend Pryor for what he did in college, how exactly does Pete Carroll waltz into a multi-million $ job in Seattle?
That is where I have the problem; it is inconsistent.
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08-19-2011, 11:00 AM #11Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: OT: Terrelle Pryor Ruling
Bullshit. The NFL is an organization made up of 32 employers. It is up to the individual employer if they want to hire someone with past transgressions. If I committed academic fraud, say, in college and I found a company willing to hire me anyway why shouldn't I work there without punishment?
The NFL isn't about morals and what's right and wrong. It's a source of employment. And if they are willing to employ, then god bless them.
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08-19-2011, 11:04 AM #12
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Yeah, I don't like it, either. He's overstepping his bounds, but they've got Pryor by the short and curly's. If he bitches too much, they can just say, "Okay, no problem, see you next April."
I agree with your point about Carroll, and more to the point, Reggie Bush. Where's his suspension for costing USC a national title?Never get in a fight with a pig; you both get muddy, and the pig likes it...
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