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It's a pretty well known phenomenon in pro baseball. Scouts and front office stake their rep on a guy, pay out a huge signing bonus and that guy is promoted. It can often result in a guy being promoted above his level. From a behavioral econ perspective, it's clearly promoting a sunk cost.From being around players (college & pro)
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Tack on "who the son of" & "this booster contributes so look out", politics of college sports and yeah.
Was randomly reminded of Jay Jones, and decided to look him up. After he was on Last Chance U, he was apparently in contact with CGC and the new staff to talk about coming back to Tech. I guess it didn't work out:
He was trashing CPJ, he basically said the same things Collins did just not as PR speak. So actually doesn't surprise me.Didn’t he trash Tech on the show? Cant remember what was said exactly, but seem to remember he did. Interesting he tried to come back after that.
Thanks for sharing. There’s so much that goes on like this that many people don’t hear about. Then you hear about the player saying things like the coaches just didn’t give him a fair shake. No, you did it to yourself.Best story about this kid. His freshman year he was working with the OL and Coach Cook tells him to get in and run a certain set of plays. He straight up refuses to. Everyone looks at him like "Wtf...?" And he says "coach I can't go in, I'm taking mental reps only today". His nickname became "mental rep" and he never ever got out of coach cooks ****list (rightly so).
no chance JJ contributes meaningfully above JuCo
Best story about this kid. His freshman year he was working with the OL and Coach Cook tells him to get in and run a certain set of plays. He straight up refuses to. Everyone looks at him like "Wtf...?" And he says "coach I can't go in, I'm taking mental reps only today". His nickname became "mental rep" and he never ever got out of coach cooks ****list (rightly so).
no chance JJ contributes meaningfully above JuCo
Best story about this kid. His freshman year he was working with the OL and Coach Cook tells him to get in and run a certain set of plays. He straight up refuses to. Everyone looks at him like "Wtf...?" And he says "coach I can't go in, I'm taking mental reps only today". His nickname became "mental rep" and he never ever got out of coach cooks ****list (rightly so).
no chance JJ contributes meaningfully above JuCo
Well, in his meager defense, Johnson never referred to it as the triple option, but as the spread option. So he could be technically correct though just as obtuse. Makes one wonder how he got into Ga. Tech.What the kid said on Netflix was that he was lied to by the staff because when he got to Tech they were running the 3O and that surprised him.
So the kid basically said he was a moron because who didn't know that Tech ran the 3O back then?
So he never watched a game on TV or went to a game in the stadium or talked to another qb on the team before he committed? Yeah he's a moron.Well, in his meager defense, Johnson never referred to it as the triple option, but as the spread option. So he could be technically correct though just as obtuse. Makes one wonder how he got into Ga. Tech.
I haven't seen the show, but in the video it shows a clip of a tweet from him claiming that CPJ falsely[sic] claimed that the 3 main starters before him (Justin Thomas, Tevin, Nesbit) had 2500 yards throwing in their careers (this is accurate) while throwing about 12 times a game. Jones then said that the stats were more like 500 yards throwing per starter. Needless to say, I don't think it was ever going to work out.Didn’t he trash Tech on the show? Cant remember what was said exactly, but seem to remember he did. Interesting he tried to come back after that.
If you were a QB who loved to chuck it deep, Johnson was your man. Ask Thomas.I haven't seen the show, but in the video it shows a clip of a tweet from him claiming that CPJ falsely[sic] claimed that the 3 main starters before him (Justin Thomas, Tevin, Nesbit) had 2500 yards throwing in their careers (this is accurate) while throwing about 12 times a game. Jones then said that the stats were more like 500 yards throwing per starter. Needless to say, I don't think it was ever going to work out.
If you were a QB who loved to chuck it deep, Johnson was your man. Ask Thomas.
We started incorporating some back shoulder/stop route throws off the go route depending on the DB's positioning. JeT and Smelter were MONEY on those.
We actually had those before we used them a good bit with Washington as well. Nesbitt had a cannon but not really the touch to do that throw.