The news of the day on Friday from the NCAA should have been cause for a party within the athlete department at Ohio State.

The NCAA notified the school it found no evidence the school failed to properly monitor its football program or evidence of a lack of institutional control.

Apparently, having its coach lie to NCAA and cover up illegal action, at least in the eyes of the NCAA, of its high-profile football players does not constitute failure to monitor or lack of institutional control.

Congrats to the Ohio State athletic department. It's obvious getting rid of Coach Jim Tressel is all it took. Terrelle Pryor leaving probably didn't hurt either.

As for the NCAA? Let's see if the governing body hammers the Buckeyes with its upcoming ruling. Friday's news probably means it won't be as bad as many thought, but who knows. The NCAA continue to confuse.

- Mark Podolsi

Within minutes of the story breaking early Tuesday night, news of Terrelle Pryor was all over the Internet. By the end of the night, Pryor's name had been trending on Twitter twice, both times misspelled and in different ways.

Both say a lot about how information travels these days.

Pryor announced through his lawyer that he was leaving the Ohio State football team. I first saw it on Twitter a little after 6 p.m. via a retweet from my colleague Dominic Anselmo. The race was on for our whole department - getting a story up on our web site, digging up photos, getting a hold of writers, putting together a depth chart of the remaining quarterbacks and keeping an eye out for other developments.

We posted updates throughout the night. Chasing the story and seeing readers' reactions on our web site was exciting. Seeing Pryor's first name misspelled two ways in Twitter's trending topics wasn't. That tells me that for some people, it's more about winning the race than being right.

- Howard Primer

I'm sure Terrelle Pryor wouldn't mind hiding out for a few days to get away from scrutiny, controversy and criticism, but the onslaught of college football preseason magazines hitting the stands won't allow that, from a figurative standpoint.

I picked up one of my favorite preseason mags, the Sporting News, the other day and guess who's on the cover? TP!

I'm sure there are plenty more ready to hit the shelves with Pryor on the cover. Unless a few magazines are oozing cash, it's doubtful any of these preseason mags are going back to the printers.

Unless you're related to the Pryor family or are the president of TP's fan club, most Ohio college football fans won't have much of a choice when prepping for the college football season. Pryor is gracing the cover of a boatload of mags.

For the Pryor haters out there, TP will be around in Ohio a bit longer. For those unfortunate souls, that saying of there's no such thing as bad publicity doesn't apply here.

- Mark Podolski

Kudos to Buckeye great Chris Spielman, who had the guts to call it like he sees it this week when talking about Jim Tressel and Terelle Pryor.

The ex-OSU linebacker is miffed by what he believes was special treatment by Tressel, who resigned on Monday, when handling Pryor the past three seasons.

Spielman sounded off on the matter in an interview with WBNS in Columbus.

"I think (Pryor) has played his last game," he said. "I don't know if you guys have heard this. I've heard through players, former players, that (Pryor) operated and was allowed to operate by his own set of rules. Being late to meetings. Being late to practice. Not showing up for workouts. I don't know if that's true or note true. If it is I'm so disappointed in the leaders of the team that allowed that go on, that allowed a player not to show up without either confrontation, physical or verbal first, physical if necessary."

Spielman said there was an easy solution to stop Pryor's reported set of rules.

"...If he was two seconds late for a meeting, bye, bye. That's how I would operate."

- Mark Podolski