Terrelle Pryor Among Suspended Ohio State Players: NCAA Suspension Reaction

Even if Terrelle Pryor comes back to Ohio State for his senior year, you will not see him starting at quarterback to begin the season. Pryor and four other Ohio State players have been suspended for the first five games of the 2011 NCAA Football season. Along with their starting quarterback, Ohio State will be without receiver DeVier Posey, running back Daniel Herron, Solomon Thomas and Mike Adams. Just to review how this effects the Buckeyes; they will play five games without who was slated to be their 2011 starters at quarterback, running back and one each of the wide receivers, defensive ends and offensive tackles.

Why they were suspended

Evidently, running an inventory blowout of your belongings is not a good idea when you are still currently playing college football. Pryor and the suspended Buckeyes sold items such as their Big Ten championship rings, jerseys and awards. They also were given improper benefits from a local tattoo parlor.

They needed suspended

As many ex-college players and college sports analysts have stated, the kids deserve to get paid. With how much time it takes to play college football or basketball and everything that it entails, it is nearly impossible for the student athletes to have a job. That is, even if the University allows them to get a job while they play for them. I'm sure I don't even have to mention how much money these college kids make the universities. However, the rules are the rules. Since, the rules say they can't have these "fire sales" or get free tattoos, punishment is in order.

Does the punishment fit the crime?

Quite simply, the punishment makes no sense whatsoever. First off, five games is outrageous. All that does is make these kids want to go pro now. If they go pro, then they don't even get punished by suspension. You can't suspend somebody that isn't going to be there.

Secondly, why weren't they suspended for the January 4th Sugar Bowl against the Arkansas Razorbacks? Since when do suspensions get pushed back? That's right; we wouldn't want to hurt our bottom dollar on our BCS games now would we?

I don't really care what reason the NCAA finds to cover up why the suspensions were for five games at the start of the 2011 season. I think that anybody with reasonable intelligence can tell that whatever reason they have said or choose to come up with in the future, is full of something with a raunchy smell to it. A proper suspension would have started right away and been a max of four games, but more like two or three games.

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