Days could miss Tech spring game
Greetings
Some notes from post-practice interviews Wednesday.
1. Quarterback Synjyn Days may not play Friday night in the spring scrimmage. Days injured his left wrist on the final play of practice Wednesday. Days and fellow backup Vad Lee had been receiving most of the practice reps and were slated to get most of them in the scrimmage.
Coach Paul Johnson was not specific regarding how Days’ snaps will be allocated if he can’t play. It could be more for Tevin Washington or for early enrollee Dennis Andrews or walk-on transfer Tim Byerly, or all three, as well as walk-on Darryl Dickey.
“As far as the game goes, it’s not a concern as much as it is he’s made a lot of progress this spring,” Johnson said. “You’d like to see him have a chance to play.”
2. Guard Shaquille Mason may not play either with an undisclosed injury. It was hoped he would return for Wednesday’s practice, but he didn’t participate. That would leave the offensive line with 10 available bodies for Friday, including walk-ons. If someone gets hurt Friday, the likely option would be to flip-flop players from team to team.
3. Johnson on inside linebacker Jabari Hunt-Days: “I think he’s had a good camp, a good spring. I think he’s improved, I think he’s worked hard. He’s doing some good things.”
On the likelihood he’ll see playing time in the fall: “Oh, yeah, definitely. He’s going to have to. He’s going to play.”
4. Asked if any A-backs had made progress closing the gap with Robert Godhigh, who has been the top performing A-back in the spring with Orwin Smith out, Johnson said “I think Deon Hill’s done some good things.”
Johnson also mentioned Tony Zenon and B.J. Bostic but said there’s not a lot of separation.
5. Wide receiver Jeremy Moore has pushed his way into the first group, splitting reps with Jeff Greene and Chris Jackson.
“He’s probably been the most consistent, probably had the least amount of efforts and played hard,” Johnson said. “He’s made some catches. He’s done some good things, made some plays.”
Efforts are demerits for not giving full effort on a play.
“I think you’ve got Jeff and Darren (Waller) and Chris and Jeremy competing and we’ll see how it comes out,” Johnson said. “They’ve all got to learn to play harder.”
6. The most improved player on defense? Johnson said several players have improved and added that “(defensive end) Anthony Williams has caught my eye.”
7. Asked the same question, Washington said named outside linebacker Jeremiah Attaochu, inside linebacker Quayshawn Nealy, nose tackle T.J. Barnes and also the secondary.
“I think those guys are a lot hungrier this year, more physical with our receivers,” he said. “Those guys come out and just compete every day, try to make plays on the ball, put the defense in a position where they feel like nobody can come out and throw on them.”
“Jeremiah, he’s always 100 miles an hour,” Washington said. “Sometimes you want to tell him to slow down. … He’s got a high motor. He’s always going.”
Washington said Barnes’ focus and attention to detail have improved.
“As far as with the defensive line, if they’ve got a stunt on, he’s making sure he’s in the right gap, making sure he’s doing his job, just trying to take a lot of personal responsibility for what he has to do.”
8. In case you weren’t aware, the spring game is Friday at 7:45 p.m. Free to the public. Parking information here.
Thanks for reading. I’ll have another post up later this morning.
Hope you all can make it out to the spring game Friday night.
Ken Sugiura, Georgia Tech blog
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GT Lee
April 19th, 2012
12:00 pm
WREK will be broadcasting the baseball game…if it’s on air it will probably be on 106.5 (but I doubt it will be covered)
5150 UOAD
April 19th, 2012
12:01 pm
I follow many players on Facebook and I can tell you there are many that have photos of themselves with girls and beers. Most re underage too. I have give one player HELL about posting those pictures. I told him he can’t be so STUPID.
GT Lee
April 19th, 2012
12:03 pm
sorry that should have been 106.7….the GT website shows no coverage of the spring game
DawginLex
April 19th, 2012
12:05 pm
Ken your filters suck
5150 UOAD
April 19th, 2012
12:05 pm
I have give? LOL I have Given one player hell………….I will not say the name but he needs to THINK about posting photos. A. Murray did the same crap last year when he was at FSU. JUST STUPID to post a damning photo.
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
12:06 pm
@ George……..I know that looking at the overall picture, this is a a moot point, but don’t you wonder what truth seller was listening to yestahday in that courtroom? Granted, in principle, what he said on the blog last night was correct, but he definitely didn’t get the facts right. If he is some kind of reporter, then he sure gave an at least partially incorrect report on what was done.
WnE
April 19th, 2012
12:06 pm
CPJ needs to boot Drummond out of “The Program”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsFBYq_h_J0
Here’s why:
When Muttville had that LB that tried to hide the criminal charges that he had in another State (Md.); when CMR finally found out that the SA tried to HIDE the Criminal Charges, he was then booted from the Mutt FB team.
Daniel “Lattimer” Drummond already lost 1 yr. of playing due to an NCAA Suspension, and then he tried to HIDE THIS INCIDENT from the GTAA , the incident occurred LAST JULY, that would be July 2011 before last season.
The attempt at DECEPTION by a SA that had already suffered a SERIOUS 1-year punishment from the NCAA should be enough for CPJ to boot him off the team and out of GT’s FB Program.
Anything less than dismissal from GT’s FB program by CPJ means that GT’s smug, elitist segment of the GT fanbase can no longer talk about the “Factorties” and how they discipline their SAs.
Either CPJ is lying that GT didn’t know until now, after he finally pled guilty or the SA tried to hide the charges.
Both scenarios look bad for GT, one the SA needs to get booted for his attempt at deception or the the HC has tried to hide an incident involving a SA from the Media.
GT fans no longer have the “moral high ground” to stand on anymore.
My simple question is how can the the local beat reporters that follow GT Sports not find out about an incident that happened last JULY, even without a conviction or Plea the CHARGES are still public information.
This kind of stuff makes intelligent CFB fans wonder, “what else is CPJ hiding from the Media”?
An ugly trend is starting to develop under CPJ’s “watch”, the AD preps him for NCAA investigators defying specific instructions from said Investigators, and Asst. Coach is caught sending out illegal Text messages and has to be canned, and now we find that either the FB player or the HC has tried to hide criminal charges from the GT FB community.
There was also an incident that CPJ “covered up” where a starting OLB in either 2009 or 2010 beat up a student on campus and his 2-game suspension was “masked” by CPJ as an “undisclosed injury”.
If we at GT are going to have a HC with “SEC caliber ethics” then we should at least get an SEC quality product on the field (LSU, Arky, Bama, or Auburn-2011).
CPJ ins’t the saint that many of his BLTs have made him out to be!
WnE
April 19th, 2012
12:08 pm
That should be Auburn-2010, the Scam Newton year.
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
12:08 pm
@ WnE, if you are talking about the Robert Hall incident, then all charges against him were DROPPED.
Creepy
April 19th, 2012
12:08 pm
5150 – It is very creepy that your follow college kids on Facebook and feel the need to play facebook “police” to what they post. What a sad existance
George Stein
April 19th, 2012
12:08 pm
I think he got the general framework of what happened correct, SS.
All I can think of here is that a lot of kids go with their parents to Lake Lanier during the summer, and Drummond was so selfish that he would risk harming those people. This whole thing angers me to no end.
FL Jacket
April 19th, 2012
12:08 pm
5150…tell him not to make the same mistake that Matthew Stafford made!
http://drunkathlete.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/matthew_stafford_6.jpg
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
12:09 pm
How the hell do you figure Drummond tried to hide it from anyone. This is a matter of public record; you can’t hide anything in the public record.
GT Lee
April 19th, 2012
12:10 pm
Got your Precious shined up yet, Gollum?
George Stein
April 19th, 2012
12:10 pm
I agree that he should be removed from the team, WnE, but I am in awe of your ability to consistently take everything back to Johnson.
FL Jacket
April 19th, 2012
12:10 pm
GS…
That anger can be projected at lots of people though. DUI on watercraft gets enforced fractionally less DUI in an automobile…so where there isn’t enforcement…
Creepy
April 19th, 2012
12:11 pm
5150 – I’m Chris Hanson with Dateline NBC, have a seat. Mind if I ask you a few questions?
Hmm....
April 19th, 2012
12:13 pm
I wonder how this will effect Drummond’s Engineering career?
FL Jacket
April 19th, 2012
12:13 pm
Creepy…you forgot the “Hi there…”
George Stein
April 19th, 2012
12:13 pm
Agree completely, FLJ. Ultimately, though, Drummond made the decision and he is accountable for that.
FL Jacket
April 19th, 2012
12:14 pm
Oh lord…the trolls have found there way back in here
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
12:15 pm
I want gollum to come tomorrow night and bring his preciousssssss with him so all of us can see it
George Stein
April 19th, 2012
12:16 pm
According to the Tech website, he’s a management major, Hmm…, so it won’t affect his engineering career. It may make it more difficult for him to find a job after he graduates, though.
Hmm....
April 19th, 2012
12:16 pm
Does this mean the Drummond won’t be designing the next Nuclear Power Station or the next Hybrid Car?
FL Jacket
April 19th, 2012
12:16 pm
I would suspend him 2-4 games, more so for the not telling his coaching staff immediately.
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
12:16 pm
I wonder how this will effect hmm….’s life on this earth, not to mention his job at Wendy’s
5150 UOAD
April 19th, 2012
12:17 pm
WOW I am CREEPY for talking to players on Facebook? I chat with them. What is WRONG with that? I give advise and the photos of players doing BAD things shouldn’t be posted. That is just WISE. Cooper Taylor is having fun at Richmond.
Here is what I get from facebook players……………..Emmanuel Dieke
14 seconds ago ·
Spring game tomorrow!!#trippy nation
Gotiss is neat to follow being that he is an Aussie and the post are funny as hell.
Jordan Luallen the Ex-Tech QB now at Cincinnati is a GREAT young man. he does Mission work and has a beautiful Girlfriend. He is the kind of kid you would want to know about.
WnE
April 19th, 2012
12:17 pm
Super Size, I’m NOT talking about Robert Hall, the public found out about that, Hall was a DE.
This was an OLB, that beat up a student in some sort of altercation, this was no domestic violence situation involving a BF-GF.
I go back and look at an old roster and see if I can come up with a name.
This wasn’t Robert Hall smacking his GF around in a small apartment where all of Hall’s FB player-roommates-teammates claimed that they didn’t see or hear anything when questioned by the Atlanta Police.
FL Jacket
April 19th, 2012
12:18 pm
Why did Jordan Luallen end up transferring again? Lack of PT? Jaybo Shaw’s emergence at the time?
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
12:19 pm
Yeah, I’m sure a player’s friends’ testimony would be considered more important than any physical evidence of violence, which apparently didn’t exist.
George Stein
April 19th, 2012
12:19 pm
No, it won’t affect that, either, Hmmm….
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
12:20 pm
@ Hmm….., it’s going to affect your job at Wendy’s if you don’t get off the blog and get back to work. It’s lunchtime, bubba, and your customers should come first.
DawginLex
April 19th, 2012
12:20 pm
Is there an honor code at GT that would affect his academic standing?
George Stein
April 19th, 2012
12:20 pm
He said stuff about wrong fit. Johnson said he probably wasn’t happy with his spot on the depth chart. I think he’s at Cincy now.
FL Jacket
April 19th, 2012
12:20 pm
Tell you what Hmmm…
Let’s just completely insult and denigrate the entire student body who go to Georgia Tech’s top-30 business school…because they aren’t Engineers.
George Stein
April 19th, 2012
12:21 pm
There is, Lex, but I’m not sure how this affects that.
FL Jacket
April 19th, 2012
12:21 pm
“It’s lunchtime, bubba, and your customers should come first.”
A sandwich TOSSED is better than a Customer LOST…
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
12:21 pm
@ FLJ, what do you expect from trolls who probably didn’t even finish HS?
5150 UOAD
April 19th, 2012
12:21 pm
Here is Drummond’s FB page….Tell me he is a BAD GUY.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1329840443&sk=wall
FL Jacket
April 19th, 2012
12:23 pm
5150…
DD’s character isn’t in question…his decision-making is. He made a decision that carries criminal and personal consequences.
5150 UOAD
April 19th, 2012
12:23 pm
FLJ a FEW things were in the transfer. He was not going to play much and didn’t want to do a position change and he wanted to be MUCH CLOSER to home.
FL Jacket
April 19th, 2012
12:24 pm
5150…In 2009 the QBs were Nesbitt, Shaw, and who else?
FL Jacket
April 19th, 2012
12:26 pm
So he transfers to Cincy to wait behind Tony Pike and Zach Collaros?
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
12:27 pm
@ FLJ, TW would have been in the mix in 2009, since he’ll be a senior in 2012
WnE
April 19th, 2012
12:28 pm
re:
I would suspend him 2-4 games, more so for the not telling his coaching staff immediately.
__________
C’mon FLJ!
GT already has a less serious punishment cycle following a positive drug test than does UGA, do you want GT to also have a less strict punishment for a FB player trying to hide criminal charges from his HC.
When the UGA LB that hid the charges from another State was found out he was booted from the Team and yet you want GT to only suspend for 2 to 4 games from a “repeat offender”?
You sound like the Arky Fans that wanted to give Petrino a 2nd chance.
Do you want GT to become a “win at all costs” FB factory?
5150 UOAD
April 19th, 2012
12:28 pm
FLJ I am not making excuses for him. It was STUPID and he needs to accept the responsibility for his actions. Was he STUPID? Yes. Is he a Bad kid? No. I poke fun at UGa players because when i read their posts they seem like DUMB BUTTS from the get go. Most TECH players do not post BS. I would say Chaz Cheeks is not too bright on his posts.
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
12:30 pm
@ WnE…..Tech’s policies meet those required by the NCAA. If UGA’s policies are stricter, then so be it. That definitely does not put Tech in the category of Arkansas
5150 UOAD
April 19th, 2012
12:31 pm
FLJ ask him.
Jordan Luallen
Back to my roots…going to be wearing 10 next year! Can’t wait to rep for my family CG and UC!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1163400682
A very CLASS Young Man. I miss his Character on the Tech Team.
George Stein
April 19th, 2012
12:31 pm
“GT already has a less serious punishment cycle following a positive drug test than does UGA, do you want GT to also have a less strict punishment for a FB player trying to hide criminal charges from his HC.”
How is this even relevant?
5150 UOAD
April 19th, 2012
12:32 pm
WnE………………Are you going to meet US at the GAME tomorrow? Come out in public you PuZZie.