Buckeye critics piling on, and hitting close to home

Around this time last week, Ohio State coaches were talking about remaining patient with Terrelle Pryor, revving the hyped sophomore in the slow lane until his experience catches up with immense physical gifts and they feel comfortable turning him loose at full speed. After Pryor's two-interception, two-fumble debacle in last Saturday's loss at Purdue, though, clearly "patience" in Columbus has run out, blowing the lid off a long-simmering cauldron of frustration: The Columbus Dispatch openly wondered if Pryor's turnovers in OSU's two losses were the biggest difference in 5-2 and 7-0; nearly half of the respondents in an online Dispatch poll voted for Pryor to be benched despite a stark lack of depth behind him; and coach Jim Tressel was forced to defend his quarterback, which he surely couldn't have imagined five days ago. Fellow sophomore DeVier Posey, trying to stick up for his classmate, insisted to reporters today that Pryor was bound to improve be...