Here's to Ohio State welcoming back Terrelle Pryor


By Kyle Kensing Posted on July 27, 2016 Tuesday marked the expiration of a five-year ban the NCAA levied on former Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor. Five years. That’s just one shy of matching the duration of Napoleon Bonaparte’s exile to the island of Elba. Seems excessive for trading some memorabilia for tattoos, doesn’t it? Alright, so the tattoos (nor the $14,000) did not land Pryor his five-year ban. His failure to comply with the NCAA spurred the punishment, which included barring from the 2011 season. That campaign resonates through recent college football history as one of the great what-ifs — not so much for that season itself, though. Sure, the Buckeyes would have been better with Pryor behind center and, all due respect to Luke Fickell, Jim Tressel on the sideline. But shortly before playing Florida in an anticlimatic Gator Bowl, the NCAA handed down a bowl ban for the next season. What if the organization acted more swiftly? Or if Pryor had complied with NCAA investigators? An undefeated Ohio State leap-frogs Alabama for a berth in the BCS Championship Game to play a beatable Notre Dame. Pryor’s indiscretion and its fallout had a ripple effect, to be sure —…

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