Shaw nervous and excited about leaving Tech for Ga. Southern
Jaybo Shaw has always wanted to be a teacher and coach, like his dad, Lee, the head coach at Flowery Branch High School.
And if he happens to one day replicate what his most recent coach has experienced, well, he says that’d be fine too.
“If I could win the ACC and have the success that coach Johnson has had I’d be happy with that,” Shaw said.
Shaw, who confirmed on Monday that he was transferring from Georgia Tech to Georgia Southern, said he is leaving because he wants to earn a degree in education, something Tech doesn’t offer.
Tech and Georgia State tried to work out a joint program that would help him one day become a teacher. But it didn’t work out. So he decided that he would be happier if he could get a degree in his chosen field.
“I’ve always been around football,” Shaw said. “I’ve known I wanted to be a coach since I started playing sports.”
Once he made his decision he only told a few people, but word got out two weeks ago.
He didn’t confirm it then because Johnson was out of town at a coaching clinic.
Once Johnson returned, Shaw said they talked and Johnson granted him his release.
Shaw then spoke to new Eagles’ coach Jeff Monken, a former Tech assistant who will install the same spread-option offense in Statesboro.
He’s in the process of applying to Georgia Southern and wants to get down there by the summer so that he can get to know his new team.
Shaw will have two years of eligibility remaining. He played a lot as a freshman in 2008, passing for 321 yards and rushing for 200. But a broken collarbone sustained during August set him back last season and his playing time was reduced to a few snaps.
He said he’s not worried that the Jackets will be without him and starter Josh Nesbitt (ankle surgery) once spring practice starts on March 29.
“They’ve got a lot of talent with Tevin [Washington] and David [Sims] and Jordan [Luallen],” Shaw said. “They’re good enough players that they are going to succeed.”
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Big daddy
March 4th, 2010
5:32 pm
Jaybo may come in and have the starting job because of our situation. There was a time when he would have had a better chance against Nesbit than some of our former QB’s. Im glad we can at least get a guy with a good head on his shoulders that has experience running the TO. We do have a couple of incoming freshman that Monken signed that look pretty impressive that may give Jbo a run for his money.
puppydawg
March 4th, 2010
5:57 pm
Blewitt Must Go, regarding you comments about the Steg, that’s pretty hilarious considering your team plays in the McDome on the worst campus in America.
Spike
March 4th, 2010
6:03 pm
Any more QB transfers? And why did he go to Tech in the first place if it does not offer a degree in education? Didn’t he figure that out before he decided to go there? Oh, and thanks for the pics in the game last year, Jaybo. 30-24.
ugadogsfan_365
March 4th, 2010
6:09 pm
now tech fans in the future when you decide to talk trash abt a uga player who may have gotten a dui or a traffic violation remember that the guy who is wanted by the marshalls for pulling a gun over an altercation between CHILDREN and also escaped a federal prison sentence for moving weed while in school played for gtech dang reuban houston lol, and didnt joe hamilton get popped on tech campus with weed right after he got a coaching job, and lets not forget pacman jones was a tech committ before he flipped to uwv and we know how he turned out lol lol lol
stw
March 4th, 2010
6:31 pm
This dawg just wants to wish the kid well.
RickyBobbyonFire
March 4th, 2010
6:32 pm
Good Luck, Jaybo, and Georgia Tech may miss you more than most fans realize. There will be a huge drop off from Josh to the new #2, whoever that may be, in terms of talent and experience. Hopefully, as next year may be a rebuilding year, the backups will get more snaps than in the previous two years. The importance of timing and rapid reads in CPJ’s system makes it even more imperative.
RickyBobbyonFire
March 4th, 2010
6:41 pm
Those who make snide remarks about Shaw transferring fall into two camps: the Tech fans who sound like jilted lovers and the UGA fans who are just happy to have any kind of distraction from their own program’s problems. To be sure, the “education-degree” excuse sounds disingenuous–you can essentially teach with any bachelor’s degree in Georgia with the addition of a few education classes–but it is frankly none of our business why this young man wants to transfer. College football fans who have nothing better to do in March (!?!) than to obsess over players’ personal lives really need to get lives themselves. It sounds like a great opportunity for Shaw to play in his kind of offense with a familiar coach (Moncken) at a good school. And education degrees are a heckuva lot easier to get than the kind of degrees Georgia Tech offers.
RickyBobbyonFire
March 4th, 2010
6:43 pm
stw: you are the kind of dawg fan I’d love to have a beer or a cold glass of iced tea with.
red5.ws
March 4th, 2010
6:55 pm
60-39-5
oldfart
March 4th, 2010
6:56 pm
I know I was still drifting on an undecided major at 20 and had no real plan. I only have good wishes for Mr. Shaw and his family. I don’t really care about any underlying reason and respect his decision, after all it is his own life. I suspect many of the posters on here were slinging hash or worse at age 20 and never passed through the arch with the exception of tailgating on game days when they received unwanted tickets from the boss to the SW Louisiana State game.
These kids aren’t pros people, some of them actually know they will not be pros and plan for life after college, many of them do not. There are too many from both schools that don’t graduate, don’t make it in the pros, and now assist you in recycling. Encourage all of them to get a degree they can use later.
MidTown
March 4th, 2010
7:18 pm
BobinBuford,
Sold out 4 times. Which I believe is 2 more times than GT sold out 9,000 seat arena.
Holds 10,500 which is about 2,000 more than GT.
YellowJacket
March 4th, 2010
7:20 pm
Who’s got a job?
messin with sasquatch
March 4th, 2010
7:42 pm
funny how doggs love attention. win more sec games if you want some credibility.
thought this was about a football player with life goals beyond the game. who wants to contribute. who has the character to make a decision when faced with some hard realities.
of course, not interesting to fans whose players ride scooters without a license, the wrong way.
Vick=Dog killing Thug
March 4th, 2010
8:12 pm
Good luck Jaybo !!!
footballfaninga
March 4th, 2010
8:19 pm
Oh great run that high school offense and set GA. Southern back some more… you couldn’t give Hatcher another year to get his recruits in-house after cleaning up the mess of VanGorder.
Pitiful is all I can say.
Martin Calloway
March 4th, 2010
8:31 pm
Good luck, man. You were a class act at Tech.
Erk Russell
March 4th, 2010
8:39 pm
“We’re Georgia Southern. Our colors are blue and white. They call us the bald eagles and we call our offense the Georgia Power Company. (Our snap count is “rate hike.”) We practice on the banks of Beautiful Eagle Creek and that’s in Statesboro, Georgia, the gnat capitol of America. Our weekends begin on Thursday. The coeds outnumber the men, three-to-two. They’re all good lookin’ and they’re all rich. Y’all come to see us.”
Erk Russell
Bald Eagle
March 4th, 2010
8:58 pm
Jaybo, you are going to love it in Statesboro. There is nothing like it on gameday. When you ride to the stadium on Saturday and the boys on the bus begin to sing. Then you pull up to gates with the horns honking, and fans lined up to get you pumped. Then just before the game, Freedom takes flight.
Some think our fans are too critical on the message boards. But what if there were no postings on that board? Some schools message boards are not as active as GSU. It is really only because our fans are so passionate, and they love Georgia Southern Football.
And then someday you will understand when you leave, what they mean by those “Statesboro Blues.”
Wiggy
March 4th, 2010
10:00 pm
The only thing UGA has going for it is it’s Vet. hospital. We took a sick bird there this week. The town streets are as nasty as the the campus on game day. The streets also stinks. How in the world can you be so critical of Ga. Tech. Look out your back door at the filth. This high school offense beat your butts year before last, and for one dropped pass would have done it again last year. Maybe you will beat Tech and Fla. in the same year. Not!!!!!
old eagle
March 4th, 2010
10:26 pm
Here’s hoping things work out for Jaybo in the ‘Boro. Hopefully there will be a teaching job or two left in the state in a couple of years. Enjoy the laid back atmosphere and the exceptional quality and concentration of hotties on campus. I always loved seeing warm weather coming in the spring and all the oiled tanned bodies laying all over campus. Ahhhh…. the good ole days……
MESSENGER
March 5th, 2010
6:13 am
REUBEN HOUSTON was NEVER ordered by the Court to have to play against The Georgia Bulldogs in 2005. But, on the 1st opportunity to put Reuben Houston into the game, Georgia tek certainly ceased the moment and played him against UGA. Played and played and played Reuben Houston the whole entire game.
CONVICTED FELON REUBEN HOUSTON, you recall just had granted an interview with the AJ-C, and had ADMITTED that he was in the van with his child on his lap, with the 90 lbs. of drugs ON GEORGIA tek’s campus, leading them to where they could SELL THE 90 LBS. OF DRUGS.
Bryan McClendon a wide receiver, now UGA running backs’ coach, caught the pass from DJ Shockley with 3 minutes to go for UGA to prevail 14-7 ANYWAY.
LAST NIGHT REUBEN HOUSTON is AGAIN sought on FELONY CHARGES. This time taking a gun to his neighbor’s house and holding them at bay for 5 minutes over the same child he had on his lap before jumping from the van to elude Georgia tek campus police, GBI, Georgia State patrol and Fulton County Sheriff’s office in hot pursuit.
It seems there was a dispute among kids, and therefore Reuben Houston went over to square the situation with that child and his family.
CONVICTED FELONS are NOT ALLOWED TO CARRY A GUN.
LAM.
Reuben Houston is on the lam from now 3 more FELONY CHARGES.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
Contact police do not approach. Anyone seeing former Georgia tek FOOTBALL PLAYER who played against UGA almost the entire football game in 2005 before Tim Jennings intercepted the pass at our goal line with 1 minute to go from the best UGA football player for 4 years in a row, Reggie Ball.
YELLOW FUZZ
March 5th, 2010
11:02 am
ANYONE SEEN PAUL’S JOHNSON
Obama
March 5th, 2010
1:43 pm
CPJ looks pretty goofy in that photo. Big ole belly, 1980’s haircut and my grandmothers sun glasses.
G
March 6th, 2010
10:08 am
After seeing the women, getting mugged, and playing in a high school stadium on that ugly campus…I would leave too!
billdawg
March 6th, 2010
7:41 pm
Seems most everybody forgot the subject of the original article, one “Helluva” quarterback! He is a man, man enough to make up his own mind about what is best for Jaybo. Hope it turns out well for him and GSU. Go, Eagles! You got a winner!
Education Degree
March 7th, 2010
6:50 pm
Hey Jaybo. You’ll get a degree from southern,just not an education. But you will play instead of pine. Good luck
dsahm
April 20th, 2010
4:28 pm
Trust me, Jaybo went to Tech the same reason his little brother is going to South Carolina; to play against UGA. For some reason, the Shaw family has a serious chip on its shoulder about UGA. This is fact.
http://www.thestate.com/2009/05/03/772562/connor-shaw-uscs-next-great-qb.html
Another fact is that Jaybo is transferring because he was humiliated when he got the chance to play against UGA and the prospect of being thrid string when they play them again is too much to bear.
Transferring after two years because Tech won’t help him be a teacher??? C’mon folks, seriously.