Article Critique 2

Jason Enes
MC 299
Article critique 2
I chose an article out of Sports Illustrated called All Eyes on Terrelle. This article is about what the number 1 high school recruit in the nation has to go through during the recruiting season.
Terrelle Pryor is a quarterback from Jeanette High School in Jeanette Pennsylvania. He was named the number one high school prospect before this past football season began. He is being recruited by Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State and Oregon and what makes this article unique is that when national signing day passed earlier this month he chose to announce that he had not signed with any school.
The article also gives the reader an idea of what that is an athlete with the skills of Terrelle has to go through like dealing with recruiters and the constant phone calls and interviews from the press. It also states that he is such a celebrity in his small town of Jeanette that everyone knows him and tries to give him things to show their appreciation.
This article caught my attention because I had not ever heard of him and I wanted to see what the hype was all about. This a newsworthy story because national signing day was a few weeks back and he was the only person in the top ten high school recruits that did not sign with a school. The audience would be anyone who is interested in football and who follows the recruiting of high school athletes.
I don’t think that the article is balanced because they only give one side of the story. Everything that is mentioned is only about Pryor and how great of a player that he was but all the questions that were posed were definitely answered in great detail.
The one thing that I would do differently would be to maybe find another example of a situation such as this and give the reader an idea of how much this actually happens. I also would probably leave out the part about his family life I don’t necessarily know that it added anything to the actual story. The quotes and stats that were used were effective in showing the reader how good of an athlete that Terelle Pryor is.
If I were writing a follow up story this one would be perfect. Because once he finally signs with a school you can go and pick his brain into what his thought process was and find out what in his mind set the school he chose up better than the others.