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Pryor could salvage Lions? ?Bloody Wednesday?
02/11/2008
You couldn?t have scripted Wednesday any worse than it went for Penn State. And, you couldn?t have scripted it any better.
For the roller-coaster ride that was the Nittany Lions? recruiting season of 2007-08, perhaps a more fitting National Letter of Intent Signing Day saga couldn?t have been written.
Penn State?s signing day started by officially losing out on its top target at wide receiver. It continued with the loss of a speedy running back to a Big Ten rival. It ended by losing the last in a long line of offensive tackles that told its coaching staff, ?Thanks, but no thanks.?
Somewhere in between though, there?s another player who didn?t pick Penn State ? who didn?t pick anybody for that matter ? and can make Bloody Wednesday go away.
Terrelle Pryor is still a free-agent, and a darn good one.
The top-ranked quarterback in the nation is so good, a swarm of media, Steelers quarterback Charlie Batch, ESPN and four of the town?s 14 policemen packed into Jeannette High School?s gymnasium Wednesday to listen to Pryor decide not to decide. The kid with more public courtships than Paris Hilton couldn?t decide on his suitor. More like, wouldn?t decide.
And so, the most epic recruiting story ever lives on, long past what so many figured would be the final pages.
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