{"id":1110,"date":"2011-01-04T07:16:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T14:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2011-01-04T07:16:09","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T14:16:09","slug":"dan-wetzel-pryors-acts-expose-charade-of-college-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/pennstatehoops-com-has-ceased-operations\/dan-wetzel-pryors-acts-expose-charade-of-college-athletics\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Wetzel: Pryor\u2019s acts expose charade of college athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terrelle \u201cThe Truth\u201d Pryor is my favorite college football player and it isn\u2019t just the way the Ohio State quarterback can shred defenses.<\/p>\n<p>Pryor is a godsend to anyone who believes the business of college athletics is little more than a smoke-and-mirror show of situational ethics, selective enforcement and tightly controlled public relations designed to dodge taxes and make millionaires out of administrators.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps no player has ever exposed the system and its handlers more clearly than Pryor leading into Tuesday\u2019s Sugar Bowl against Arkansas. He may not have consciously planned to do what he\u2019s doing \u2013 although I suspect he has a clue \u2013 but he\u2019s become a WikiLeaks in shoulder pads; a \u201c30 For 30\u201d special in real time.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/rivals.yahoo.com\/ncaa\/football\/news;_ylt=AvuNKgFzBM10cdbqM70cNi8cvrYF?slug=dw-pryor010311\">Pryor\u2019s acts expose charade of college athletics &#8211; College Football &#8211; Rivals.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrelle \u201cThe Truth\u201d Pryor is my favorite college football player and it isn\u2019t just the way the Ohio State quarterback can shred defenses. 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