I cannot wait until a current player (not Reggie Bush) is brought to light for violations while in school. The school will be punished, and Goodell will ignore it. People will forget about his hipocrisy, and it will carry on. I, however, will just laugh at the double standards he seems so oblivious about.

This is a lot of bull first what did Pryor do
wrong in the first place sell his own ring. second they were planning to let Tressell
slide right in there if no one spoke up. You could see that by the BS job they
gave him anyone could do that job again is playing God that why all college player
should leave as soon as their eligible. Their just exploiting the kids anyway

Pryor has a voice in this matter! The manly thing to do was say no thank you to the NFLPA.

Manic, Manly, yes, and, I'll even add courageous but in reality pretty stupid. You don't get hired by a company, enter into a Union, and then turn around and tell the Union "No Thank You" when they ask you to do something. Especially when you have no clout and are a virtual newby. Nilch!

Years ago if you tried that with a Union you would end up "sleeping with the fishes" or at the least need medical attention.

No, let it play out and don't be too judgemental.

This whole mess is not black and white. There are probably so many grey areas we don't know about that have a bearing on all the "whys and wherefores".

Let's hope it ends soon and as we expect.

First, Goodell has invested a great deal of effort, sweat and blood into this new initiative of not allowing college players to break the rules in college and then use the NFL as an escape vessel. You can agree or disagree with that but this is the NFL's plan. They won't allow players like Pryor a free pass into their league.

I was under the impression that due to the lateness of TP's application to the supplemental draft he was not really eligble. Goodell could have just said "see ya next year in the regular draft". But, considering the Lockout and TP's request, it was allowed to go forth with the provision of the 5 game suspension being accepted by Pryor and his agent. I don't see where a request to make an exception is using "the NFL as an escape vessel" nor do I see it as a "free pass" when the answer could have been, and in my opinion should have been, NO. I really feel there are other circumstances involved. Mainly a possible law suit if he were not allowed to enter the supplemental draft. That's the last thing the NFL needed after going through months of negotiations with the NFLPA. Secondly, I believe certain money issues wanted Pryor in now rather than later and put pressure on the Commissioner.

I just don't see that "any request" is construed as circumventing any rrules when there are options involved. Sort of like asking your boss for a raise when there is usually a cost of living allowance put into a contract for service. You can't really blame anyone for trying.

Question: If Terrelle Pryor would have said after finding out he was being voluntarily suspended 5 games by Ohio State, "I'm going into the regular NFL draft and leaving Ohio State", would the same punishment apply? Perhaps? He certainly would have been eligible at that time. Remember the Lockout was just on the horizon. No one knew if we were going to have a shortened or NFL season at all. I'm not saying he didn't deserve some sort of punishment except for the fact that I think Goodell is treading on very thin ice. Hence the Appeal as I believe is being driven by the NFLPA and not directly by Pryor.

Let's hope the appeal is denied, all parties are satisfied, and we can finally put this matter to bed.