For Terrelle Pryor and Others, Big Skills Plus Big Egos Equals Big Problems

 Over the past few decades, with recruiting becoming a bigger need for successful college programs, but also providing year-long news and months of speculation, some recruits get more press before they even don their college jerseys than their past generation may have gotten over their entire careers.
With publicity comes “stardom,” even though they’ve really done nothing to be famous for at this time in their lives. Think Paris Hilton in shoulder pads. With stardom comes a sense of entitlement, a sense that they are better than everyone else, and the notion that therefore, the rules that govern everyone else don’t apply to them.
They think they are “owed” extra privileges and extra chances when they screw up and that they owe nothing to their team, because, after all, the team is…
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