PRYOR FOR HEISMAN!!!
by Cpiritual27 on Jul 17, 2009 12:41 PM EDT
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Is it just me, or does anyone else think Terrelle Pryor's mythically legitimate candidacy for the 2009 Heisman Trophy is quite possibly the greatest farce of the upcoming season? Yes, we all get it: he was THE hotshot recruit a few ago, and subsequently landed with the most overhyped team in the country. There's your name-brand recognition, which, as well all know, is roughly 91.7% of the battle (think Graham Harrell's snub last year). But what about, I dunno, the stats? Analysis ensues:
| NAME | CMP | ATT | YDS | CMP% | YDS/A | TD | INT | RAT |
| Terrelle Pryor | 100 | 165 | 1311 | 60.6 | 7.95 | 12 | 4 |
146.5 |
| NAME | CAR | YDS | YPC | LONG | TD |
| Terrelle Pryor | 139 | 631 | 4.5 | 38 | 6 |
Hey, ya know, that's pretty good for a true freshman, and I doubt that (on the surface) anyone will debate this. But what if you dig deeper? Here are TP's stat lines against USC, PSU and UT:
(@ USC) Passing: 7-9, 52 yards, 0 TD 0 INT, Rushing: 11 rushes, 40 yards, 0 TD
(PSU) Passing: 16-25, 226 yards, 0 TD 1 INT, Rushing: 9 rushes, 6 yards, 0 TD 1 (barely) fumble
(Fiesta Bowl, Texas) Passing: 5-13, 56 yards, 0 TD 0 INT, Rushing: 15 rushes, 78 yards, 0 TD
So, um, yeah. There's all that. He didn't lead his team on a single TD drive through ELEVEN quarters (granted he did not start the USC game) against these three teams, and when they did finally score? He was a WR.
It's great that he rolled up some "nice" stats against Troy, Minny, MSU, NW and Illinois. I'm sure those were some super confidence-building wins. But Heisman worthy? Hardly. He wasn't even the best QB on his team against UT, and his coaches were obviously so worried about his skills as a passer that they had to give Boeckman 13 passes.
So forgive me if I'm not in agreement with the MSM on this one. I'm sure he'll be better, but let's be realistic: he has brand new skill players to work with, serious deficiencies as a passer, and competition with a field including Tebow, Bradford and McCoy. Moreover, he'll be facing stiff (read: better) "competition" in his own conference, against guys like Clark, Royster and Benn. They'll have the stats, but he'll have they hype.
But that's the funny thing about hype. The more and more you build yourself up, the farther you have to fall. And from seeing OSU and their fans do this to themselves for the past few years, well, we all know that it's like a train wreck. Tough to watch, but you just can't look away...
So best of luck to young Pryor, and here's to hoping you and the OSU faithful never forget the following:
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This is funny, I imagine his voice quivering and tears welling in his eyes.
Pryor: “I really want to be like a great quarterback. People tell me I can’t throw and this and that, and I’m not that good and I’m overrated and all that.”
Herbstreit: “Who?”
Pryor: “A bunch of people. Michigan players e-mail me and stuff.”
Herbstreit: “Come on, are you serious?”
Pryor: "Yeah man.
Via Mgoblog
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
i imagine TO cutting in the middle of a Presser...screaming...crying..."that's my Quarterback....sniff sniff...and it hurts when you say stuff about him.."
"I'm not affraid to compete"
~Robert Bolden
Nittany Point of View
Never. Gonna. Happen.
I bleed Blue and White.
by Horse N Buggy on Jul 17, 2009 1:23 PM EDT reply actions 11 recs
And a rec for you, sir!
"We heard all that talk all week about the SEC and their speed, but we knew personally that they weren't nearly as tough as us."
-Tony Hunt
THAT. IS. AWESOME.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Jul 17, 2009 1:46 PM EDT up reply actions
The FAILsman?
Black Shoes. Basic Blues. No Name. All Game.
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth."
PLEASE
upload this somewhere, and give us a URL. This just HAS to be available for mass e-mailing to…oh, like….everyone!
Well done, Sir!
+1 to you.
'People are about as happy as they decide they want to be'
by Pete the Streak on Jul 17, 2009 7:33 PM EDT up reply actions
It has one
http://sites.google.com/site/bsdtee/_/rsrc/1247851296136/Home/terrelle%20heisman.jpg
You right click on the image and then drag it up to the tab.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Jul 17, 2009 7:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Gracias, RR
'People are about as happy as they decide they want to be'
by Pete the Streak on Jul 18, 2009 9:09 AM EDT up reply actions
Very nice!
I like the technicals, too. A hint of 3d, nice little tilt. Very fine work dude.
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
Typical elitist snob attitude.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Jul 21, 2009 12:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Barely
"We heard all that talk all week about the SEC and their speed, but we knew personally that they weren't nearly as tough as us."
-Tony Hunt
Barely barely.
(How comes no one’s made that joke?)
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Jul 21, 2009 5:27 PM EDT up reply actions
because it's barely a joke
/obvious
"In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
Barely obvious
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Jul 21, 2009 11:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Awwwllll, there! there!, little ramburglar
/tiptoeing trepidatiously, careful not to poke the bear…
You’re still the King of Threads. Everyone knows that. Horse has dropped some fine work and even you in all your Workingman’s Glory can concede that, can you not? Note the shading and the placement of the heels upon the plaque. Is it not within the realm of your extensive compassion to throw the Horse a bone and appreciate his work here?
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
Not until he makes my Daryll Clark Amish photo his avatar.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Jul 21, 2009 5:26 PM EDT up reply actions
How about this instead?
I bleed Blue and White.
by Horse N Buggy on Jul 21, 2009 6:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Good enough
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Jul 21, 2009 6:18 PM EDT up reply actions
oddly, that reminds me of Bubb Rubb
just don’t run that stopsign ahead, Daryll, otherwise Madeira might put you away for life.
by The JuggerNitt on Jul 22, 2009 12:52 PM EDT up reply actions
McCoy is going to have a disaster of a season
and/or Teboy or Bradford are going to have to have once in a century seasons for McCoy to not win it this year.
OMG BIG 12 SKILLZ!!!1!!
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Jul 17, 2009 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions
OSU has some unique stats
Barely fumbles and pile-on tackles
"The sea was angry that day, my friends." G. Costanza
This is the critical year.
Will this be the first of Pryor’s three Heismans, or will Jimmy Clausen win his 3rd?
Well, it's obvious that there's going to have to be 2 Heismans this year
"The sea was angry that day, my friends." G. Costanza
Didn't they change the name?
Aren’t they giving out the Pryor Trophy now? And I thought he already had like 6…
by Jeff Junstrom on Jul 17, 2009 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions
"and when they did finally score? He was a WR"
I was talking to my OSU friend about that play and he and I thought that OSU would have had much more success with Boeckman as the QB and Pryor as a WR last year. Then he got a little sad and said “I wish TP would have gone with PSU.”
"The sea was angry that day, my friends." G. Costanza
his decision to go to O$U is the best thing that could have happened to us. Now we get wear stuff that says “Too Country” on it!
"If you let the men in you've got to let the women in. I don't want a bunch of women walking around in my locker room when guys take showers". Joe Paterno
"Too country"
has got to be one of the greatest phrases ever to describe PSU. Thank you TP.
"The sea was angry that day, my friends." G. Costanza
Becaause isn't Jeanette, PA a really happening urban center?
"If you let the men in you've got to let the women in. I don't want a bunch of women walking around in my locker room when guys take showers". Joe Paterno
TOTALLY...
off – the – wall thought when I read this NJ Lion; but…
My thought turns the student section this yr for the tO$U game, and rolling with the “Too Country Theme.”
If they could easilly find/buy WHITE jean overalls (or spray paint them white) same with white straw/cowboy hats. The ENTIRE student section dawning this “TOO COUNTRY GARB”…I think this would be H I L A R I O U S; and “hope” the meaning would become known to the broadcasters/sideline reporter.
What say you?
"...goon-a-la-goun-ga...gung-ga-la-gun-ga...he said; there will be no money exchanged..."
by BlueWhiteLife on Jul 18, 2009 2:21 PM EDT up reply actions
I wish I were a student, but since I am not only too country but too old.....
I am sure one of the kids here will take your advice and get it started! Dawson? Adam?
"If you let the men in you've got to let the women in. I don't want a bunch of women walking around in my locker room when guys take showers". Joe Paterno
It would be extrememly hard to organize that into a meaningful event
but if there’s one group that could pull it off it’s the PSU student section. I would add spray painting straw hats white to that list as well. And if anyone can arrange to sneak in a farm animal, you are a god among men, but lesser than Zug.
I most likely will not be at the OSU game
since my ticket contact will not give those up. But all this “too country” talk the last year has me jonesing to get one of those huge ridiculous styrofoam cowboy hats in blue and white to wear to a game.
BWL, I think the drawback to your plan (which I think would be rad), is that only the 50 BSD regulars would even know what it’s all about. But if Guido thinks a 60s day is the way to go, no reason we can’t have a day celebrating our too country cow college. Ok students, get on this.
"The sea was angry that day, my friends." G. Costanza
Oh, it's far bigger than BSD
I’ll grant that BSD is the first hit when you Google it, but there’s a lot of coverage of the ‘too country’ comment on the interwebs.
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times?!?! You stupid monkey!
by leeharvey418 on Jul 20, 2009 7:36 AM EDT up reply actions
I just clicked your Google link
and the 3rd result I got was about a country music festival in Pryor, OK.
Pretty funny stuff, those internets.
"The sea was angry that day, my friends." G. Costanza
I still want to believe that Sean Lee can win it.
If Tebow & McCoy each get slighty less than half of the first place votes & Lee gets every second place vote, he’ll get the trophy.
I think it would be a good campaign to get this to all the voters – “Even though it’s supposed to be the best player, everyone knows it’s really the best offensive player. As a statement, no matter whom you’re voting as the best, why not put Sean Lee in second to show that a defensive player should be included amoung the leading vote getters.”
Then, when the votes are tallied, Lee is the suprise winner cause he gets every second place vote & ends up with more points than anyone else.
Born and raised in the shadow of Mount Nittany
Who knows...
Maybe one year far in the future there will be no real good candidate for the Heisman, and a Penn State linebacker gets the award (by then called the Clark Trophy). I’d rather have a PSU linebacker win it than a PSU QB.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Jul 17, 2009 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Now THAT'S what I'm talkin' about
I bleed Blue and White.
by Horse N Buggy on Jul 17, 2009 5:39 PM EDT up reply actions 8 recs
The ClarkMan :
college football’s most revered hunk o’ hardware.
'People are about as happy as they decide they want to be'
by Pete the Streak on Jul 17, 2009 7:30 PM EDT up reply actions
and now the worst hunk o' hardware is in the same post!!
"Want a donut go to dunkin donuts, want a linebacker go to Penn State." - Chris Carter
Cocaine’s a hell of a drug.
Penn Staters belong at Penn State. The problem with a lot of kids is they just don’t know they are Penn Staters yet. -jesse. @ BSD
by TheK-GunNeedsReloaded on Jul 18, 2009 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions
George Perles
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Jul 19, 2009 5:14 PM EDT up reply actions
I like how it has 76 blank plates for the score of the game
Such optimism that this piece of junk is gonna be around till near the end of this century!
"The sea was angry that day, my friends." G. Costanza
I envision
If they run out of room, they’ll start writing game results in no order at random places on the trophy. Add to the feel of the POS.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Jul 19, 2009 11:36 PM EDT up reply actions
No
They’ll just build upwards like they do with the Stanley Cup. In 100 years, after going 1198-2 vs. Michigan State, the trophy will be about twenty feet tall, but will probably collapse under the weight of it’s enormous amount of suck and poor design.
by dawsonPSU10 on Jul 20, 2009 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions
I enjoy how in the next 100 years
we will win roughly 12 games a year against MSU
I didn’t know anyone wanted to lobby for an even EASIER schedule than we already have, but 12 games a year against MSU would be something…
by The JuggerNitt on Jul 20, 2009 11:48 AM EDT up reply actions
Aren't we like 8-4 with them since we joined the Big 10?
Did the LG Trophy start right when we joined the BT or did it start later?
I think all time we lead the series 13-12-1. We had only beat them once prior to us joining the BT. Curiously, I think they are the next youngest member of the BT.
yup, took Chicago's place
before I came to MSU I always thought Northwestern took Chicago’s place.
by The JuggerNitt on Jul 22, 2009 12:53 PM EDT up reply actions
The trophy that smashes all others
+1 for the green
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
I don't know how you did this
but I LOVE IT!!!
"The sea was angry that day, my friends." G. Costanza
He has secret Amish powers...
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Jul 17, 2009 11:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Didn't you know
the Amish invented PhotoShop…and quilts
I bleed Blue and White.
by Horse N Buggy on Jul 18, 2009 12:46 AM EDT up reply actions
"Too damn country in the 717!"
We could form a rap group…
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Jul 18, 2009 2:20 AM EDT up reply actions
I love this idea
I’ll bet you could even convince Shady McCoy to do a cameo. He’s the only one I’ve ever seen rep the 717 on his eye-glare stickers, so I’ll continue to think of him as a Central PA-er, and not as an auslander who scaled that famed Western Wall.
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
I thought the Amish invented electric fireplaces
"The sea was angry that day, my friends." G. Costanza
Who was it?...
Wasn’t it RUTS that put up the Wisconsin post-game post and said ‘years from now they will no longer give out the Heisman… they will give out the Clark, and it will look like this’?
I believe we are witnessing history here.
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times?!?! You stupid monkey!
by leeharvey418 on Jul 18, 2009 12:09 AM EDT up reply actions
No, that was Mike
He also stated that he wanted to have Daryll Clark’s children. I fully agree.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Jul 18, 2009 12:41 AM EDT up reply actions
Well
I would fully agree, as long as it is Mike having the children for me.
Ben and Alex... first commits for 2024
Easy way out
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Jul 18, 2009 9:59 AM EDT up reply actions
I believe the adjective was COUNTRIFIED.
My recollection was that Tyrell used the phrase ‘too countrified’ to describe Happy Valley.
I’ve been to Jeanette, and it is truly urban, for the greater North Huntingdon area. They have this one-mile stretch of Route 30 that is lined TOTALLY with fast food restaurants! Every one you can think of. Awsome.
Speaking of awsome, Tyrell was almost as impressive as Austin Scott his senior high-school year, and we hope that his ‘push’ passing technique will carry the Eyes past USC this September.
Then he can come up country………..
Elizabeth, the only person on earth working at the same job longer than JoePa.
by joefromboalsburg on Jul 19, 2009 6:28 PM EDT reply actions
heisman trophy
Tyrell Pryor might not even be as good as kevin newsome (PENN STATE FRESHMAN ) go state put Pryor on his asssssss again.JOE PA will never DIE.
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