Pryor Watch

The soap opera that is Terrelle Pryor's recruiting process has been full of more twists and turns than an episode of As The World Turns. Here's a little breakdown of all the drama in Terrelle's world.

First thing a big time recruit needs is a mentor and who better than Eastern Michigan quarterback and NFL journeyman Charlie Batch. Charlie has been really leading the recruiting process for Pryor, contacting schools and influencing Terrelle's decisions.

The school on the top of Pryor's list seems to be Michigan. We all know of the courtship between Pryor and RichRod at Michigan. It began with RichRod apparently calling Pryor before talking to his West Virginia team. Now on the table for Pryor is Michigan, Penn State (kind of), Ohio State (who can deny the sweater vest), Oregon, and now LSU.
Penn State is in the running simply because of location, but the fact that Pryor canceled his trip to Happy Valley for this weekend doesn't bode well for the Nittany Lions. Instead of making the trip to Penn State, Pryor is going to Michigan for the unofficial visit, one that my be his last before signing because his basketball team plays games the next two weekends.

Obviously the Michigan faithful are happy about this one. Over at mgoblog they're ordering readers to make their voice heard by showing up to the Michigan basketball game (oh did we mention Pryor is a D-1 basketball recruit?) to help Pryor make his decision.

Others in the mix are Ohio State, Oregon, and most recently LSU. Oregon already has shown that a quarterback with Pryor's run-pass talents can succeed in its spread offense. Jim "the vest" Tressel has said he wants to alter his offense to accomodate talent like Pryor. Just this week Les Miles came into the picture and Pryor said he "liked a lot of what they were saying."

It seems like his visit to Ann Arbor this weekend will be huge for Pryor's decision because he won't be likely to visit Oregon or LSU if things go well. His sweatbands are still on Ebay though so there's still a chance Ohio State, Penn State, Oregon and LSU fans. So start bidding.