Not much right now. Boy, there isn’t much right now. I guess the quiet is good. Considering the programs getting the most attention for the past few weeks have been WVU and Ohio State, quiet is definitely preferable.

That seems to be what is still up for discussion.

Kevin Gorman talks to the top player in the WPIAL about what he has learned from the Terrelle Pryor stuff.

“I learned that at every college there’s something going on,” Hopewell star Rushel Shell said. “It’s just a matter of if you get caught.”

Now that’s cynicism I can get behind.

That brings us to Shell, the record-setting running back ranked No. 10 in the nation by Scout.com and No. 33 by Rivals.com. The 5-foot-11, 205-pounder, who should shatter the WPIAL career rushing record and is a good bet to break the state mark this fall, counts Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, Pitt and Virginia Tech among his leaders, which change weekly.

Ohio State was considered Shell’s favorite last summer, when he wore a Buckeyes replica jersey with Pryor’s No. 2 to a WPIAL football media event. That was before the NCAA investigation involving players trading memorabilia for cash and tattoos, before it forced coach Jim Tressel’s resignation and Pryor’s premature departure.

The possibility of probation has soured Shell on the Buckeyes.

“Early in the recruiting process, they were up high, in the top two or three,” Shell said. “But I don’t want to go to a school where everything is uptight.”

Seeing Pryor become the scapegoat has shown Shell how fickle fans can be. Ohio State followers cheered the star quarterback as he led them to Big Ten titles and BCS bowl victories and chastised him for bringing a black eye to their Buckeyes, all while turning a blind eye to his behavior in between.

“No matter where you go, in-state or out-of-state, everybody will embrace you when you pick their school,” Shell said. “And they’ll do the opposite if something goes wrong.”

Yes, and? That shouldn’t be a shock to anyone.

As for Pitt and their boosters, well, they get a letter.

Graham said each booster receives a letter outlining NCAA rules and “what the boundaries are.” That procedure was in place before he arrived in January, but he said he follows up with a personal card “asking them to please (refrain from offering inducements that are against NCAA rules).”

“A lot of people don’t know what is illegal,” he said. “We have to be proactive because most people want to do things the right way. In this day and age the way it is, you have to constantly be proactive and educate, educate, educate, educate. Educate your players, educate your players’ parents, educate your boosters, educate your fans, educate the staff over and over and over again. Maybe that’s the high school teacher in me, but that’s what I believe.”

The sad reality, is all you can do is educate. You can’t risk alienating boosters by overregulating and restricting them. Same with the players. You can put more controls in place for the players to make monitoring and tracking better. That only works, though, if the player is obvious or lazy about breaking the rules — like Terrelle Pyror.

Then there’s the Joe Starkey column noting how both Dave Wannstedt and Bill Stewart left their jobs less than graciously — in no small part because the ADs tried to pretend it wasn’t a firing.

Which brings us to Lesson No. 3, one every athletic director should take to heart: When you decide to fire a coach, by all means, fire him.

Maybe this goes back to not wanting to make a “nice guy” look bad by abruptly severing ties when, in fact, it is the most humane thing to do. The overseers in these situations — Pitt AD Steve Pederson and West Virginia AD Oliver Luck — couldn’t let go. They allowed the resentment to fester.

They still haven’t admitted their coaches were fired.

It also had to do with the fact that both coaches loved the school, region and were “great ambassadors” respectively.

They just didn’t succeed in the job they were actually hired to do.

I never got the feeling Wannstedt and Stewart grasped the fact they were underachieving. Talking to Wannstedt over the past few years, you’d think Pitt was a perennial national power, not a perennial car care-company bowl contestant. Though both men inherited programs fresh off a Big East championship, neither managed to win an outright title in a league that went from underrated to pitiful during their tenures.

When you cede the conference to Cincinnati and Connecticut, you have failed.

That is not debatable.

I can’t disagree with that. Both could point to respectable seasons and how close they came to things (and technically both can claim a share of the Big East title this past year). But there was always something that went awry. A tough loss. One mistake too many. An injury not overcome. Never there, but they always took solace that it wasn’t their fault (in their own minds).