Busy week for Roddy Jones
An interesting week for former Georgia Tech A-back Roddy Jones. Wednesday night, he was at the Fox Theatre as a finalist for the Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup. Thursday morning, he’ll be a guest host on 790 the Zone’s Barnhart & Durham show. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, he plans to be in WREK’s broadcast booth for the Georgia Tech baseball team’s games at Russ Chandler Stadium. He’s also got his MBA classes. And then he’s hoping to get a phone call from one of 32 NFL teams telling him they want his services.
“I’m excited about what this weekend’s going to hold for me,” Jones said prior to Wednesday’s awards ceremony.
To answer the first question, Jones did not win the award, created to honor a sports professional and a student-athlete for their character, leadership on and off the field and contribution to sport and society. The winner was Aleca Hughes, a former Yale ice hockey player who started a foundation to honor a teammate who had died from leukemia.
“This is probably at the top,” Jones said, referring to the list of honors he has received. “It’s a national award named after Coach John Wooden, which is an honor in itself. Coach (Vince) Dooley being here (as chair of the selection committee) and all the different finalists from different places, it’s definitely an honor.”
Former Tennessee coach Pat Summitt was also on hand to receive the professional Wooden Citizenship Cup. Coach Paul Johnson, A-backs coach Lamar Owens and team chaplain Derrick Moore joined Jones’ family in support of him.
As for the draft, Jones said he had received phone calls from a few teams to confirm his health and to make sure they had the right phone number for the draft weekend, a good sign.
“Even if they’re just calling to get my cell phone number, it means they want it,” he said.
Jones’ likely route to the NFL is as an undrafted free agent, a path many Tech players have taken to reach the league. That would most likely happen Saturday afternoon after the seven rounds of the draft conclude.
Ken Sugiura, Georgia Tech blog
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George Stein
April 26th, 2012
6:31 pm
Cris Carter seems to think Stephen Hill is going to be a star. Must be thanks to Terrance Mathis!
WnE
April 26th, 2012
6:31 pm
re:
Big Crimson 75
April 26th, 2012
6:23 pm
Somewhere WnE “bumped” into CPJ @ some type of Tech function & Johnson blew him off(not literally).
How else can the hatred be explained!!
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OK Bama guy, imagine if your school had a bunch of fans like these with such LOW STANDARDS for Bama FB?
Imagine what your posts would sound like if you HC was supposed to be an Offensive Genius and yet was 1-11 vs. Top-50 Defenses over the last 2 seasons.
What kind of comments would you be making if Bama was
1-3 Auburn
1-3 vs. LSU
1-3 vs . Arky
0-4 in Bowl Games
In the last 4 years.
After all that Crim-75, I’m willing to bet that a lot of your posts would read exactly like my posts read.
George Stein
April 26th, 2012
6:31 pm
Seriously, FLJ!
Supersize that order, mutt
April 26th, 2012
6:32 pm
UOAD, back in the 50s and even into the early 60s, Tech sent kids like that (the ones who didn’t have the grades initially) to “prep schools” like Baylor and McCallie (sp?). I doubt that many kids would want to go that route anymore, but Tech has done both that and accept JUCO’s in the past.
5150 UOAD
April 26th, 2012
6:33 pm
WnE
WnE
WnE
Shut the F Up
Man the F Up
&
Show the F Up.
George Stein
April 26th, 2012
6:34 pm
“OK Bama guy, imagine if your school had a bunch of fans like these with such LOW STANDARDS for Bama FB?
Imagine what your posts would sound like if you HC was supposed to be an Offensive Genius and yet was 1-11 vs. Top-50 Defenses over the last 2 seasons.
What kind of comments would you be making if Bama was
1-3 Auburn
1-3 vs. LSU
1-3 vs . Arky
0-4 in Bowl Games
In the last 4 years.
After all that Crim-75, I’m willing to bet that a lot of your posts would read exactly like my posts read.”
None of this explains your stalking of a recruit or of an offensive line’s Twitter feed.
FL Jacket
April 26th, 2012
6:34 pm
Yeah BC75…you’d hate to have to answer about the losses…were if the wins…would mean WnE’s standard is being UNDEFEATED
WnE
April 26th, 2012
6:34 pm
re:
Supersize that order, mutt
April 26th, 2012
6:29 pm
George, like I said, that’s what a GOOD father WOULD do.
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With all those 4* sons of former GT players, unfortunately we have more than our fair share of “good fathers”!
Supersize that order, mutt
April 26th, 2012
6:35 pm
@ WnE…..I would bet good money that no Bama fan would express his grievances on a PUBLIC forum that would be read by Auburn and LSU fans. If he did, I’m sure some good man would take him out in the woods and off his azzz (no offense meant, 75). Consider yourself lucky here that you can get away with saying the crap that you say and only be called on it in the same public forum.
FL Jacket
April 26th, 2012
6:36 pm
SS…Baylor and McCallie are prestigious K-12 private schools in the Chattanooga are.
Big Crimson 75
April 26th, 2012
6:36 pm
wne — I lived through it.
Check the Shula years.
Still loved my University // Still supported my Coach(as bad as He was……….and He was REAL bad).
Do you recall Roddy Jones’ game in Athens as a Frosh???
@ least give that up to the Guy —- wne
Supersize that order, mutt
April 26th, 2012
6:36 pm
WnE……maybe you have forgotten that Bobby Dodd’s son went to the University of Florida. And what other former players do we have whose sons are playing elsewhere? I’m not saying we don’t, but name some….hell, name ONE
Supersize that order, mutt
April 26th, 2012
6:37 pm
@ FLJ….yes, I know
FL Jacket
April 26th, 2012
6:37 pm
Obviously WnE didn’t read the story of Anthony Jennings, who’s dad played at uGA. He’s not going to be playing at uGA yet there’s no fuss…
George Stein
April 26th, 2012
6:37 pm
I guess WnE thinks Cap Burnett is a terrible older brother.
5150 UOAD
April 26th, 2012
6:37 pm
SUPER Cremins got a few Bball players from PG high schools. Post Graduate work. Tech just got Iron Head Heyward’s son after his PG work. We had PG guys at Riverside Military Academy too. It is a quarter/semester for them to PLAY BALL and Work on the Books.
FL Jacket
April 26th, 2012
6:38 pm
Urban Meyer’s daughter was a volleyball player at GT
George Stein
April 26th, 2012
6:39 pm
Facts, guys. Y’all are blowing his narrative!
Supersize that order, mutt
April 26th, 2012
6:39 pm
Hell, it would be hard for ANY son to go to a school where his father played. He would have a standard (whether good or bad) that he would be held to before he even arrived on campus. And another one…..Vince’s son didn’t go to UGA either. Was that such an embarrassing thing?
FL Jacket
April 26th, 2012
6:40 pm
BC75…funny how the fanbase feels more remorse about Mike Shula than they do Mike Dubose, Dennis Franchione, or Mike Price…
George Stein
April 26th, 2012
6:41 pm
Peyton Manning went to Tennessee. Archie Manning is a horrible father!
Supersize that order, mutt
April 26th, 2012
6:41 pm
George hit the nail on the head. WnE CLAIMS he analyzes and only reports the truth. He wouldn’t know a fact if it grabbed him in his pocket (tribute to you there, UOAD…..LOL)
5150 UOAD
April 26th, 2012
6:41 pm
It seemed like the UGa Baileys played at UGa forFREAKINGever cause the Whole family played at UGa but TECH got at least 1 family member played at TECH.
Supersize that order, mutt
April 26th, 2012
6:43 pm
OK, it’s time for dinner here. But one more thing before I go …..
@ WnE…….SAY SOMETHING ABOUT RODDY JONES!!! WHAT DO YOU THINK OF HIM???
I will await your answer when I return from dinner.
5150 UOAD
April 26th, 2012
6:44 pm
FLJ Nicki Meyer is a very nice girl. She was my niece’s Camp Coach 2 years ago at the Tech Volleyball summer camp.
Big Crimson 75
April 26th, 2012
6:45 pm
Believe it or not WnE — GT has always been my #2 school!!
Growing up in GA — hating UGA — GT was a great alternative considering Bama never played them.
Sean Jones, Ken Swilling, Marco Coleman, Colman Rudolph, Jimy Lincoln, Bobby Rodriguez(my favorite), Emmett Merchant, William Bell, Kevin Tisdale, Willie Clay, Calvin Tiggle, the Williamseseseses, Ron Rodgers, CJ Williams(I use to buy X from him!!!!!), the Muyers boys, Goose Godsey………………..
Support your School man!!!
Would you rather be a pup WnE??
FL Jacket
April 26th, 2012
6:46 pm
5150…Nicki Meyer might be one of the prettiest gals I’ve ever seen
BLT
April 26th, 2012
6:47 pm
WnE, most people don’t like to be called “douchebag”. Having said that could you change your name to “douche nozzle”?
WnE
April 26th, 2012
6:47 pm
re:
Big Crimson 75
April 26th, 2012
6:19 pm
……….and what’s wrong with JUCO’s wne??
Terrence “Mount” Cody is not what College Football is all about??
He’s not a great American story??
______________
I have no problem with JUCOs and I never have.
The rest of these guys here that are acting like they are your “friend” have made many derogatory towards JUCOs that get Recruited by other schools mainly SEC Schools and mainly Bama.
These Tech putzes are not your firends, they merely act like they are so that they can live vicariously through you because Bama’s recent success is one way to goad UGA fans, and since CPJ cannot beat uga, they act as if they are Bama fans.
Real GT fans hate Bama damn near as much was we hate uga!
Bear Bryant was the cheating-est scumbag to ever walk a college sideline and most of the NCAA rules are due to his shenanigans while he was at Bama, every time Bryant came up with a new way to cheat the NCAA had to add another chapter to their rules book, that’s WHY that book is damn thick.
That’s how real GT fans feel about Bama!
FL Jacket
April 26th, 2012
6:48 pm
BC75…
When you say CJ Williams…I immediately think of the Seat Cushion game!
5150 UOAD
April 26th, 2012
6:48 pm
FLJ she has legs up to her…………and some big brown eyes.
5150 UOAD
April 26th, 2012
6:50 pm
WnE
WnE
WnE
Shut the F UP
Man the F Up
&
Show the F Up.
PuZZie go sniff Hewitt Fan’s Jock.
Big Crimson 75
April 26th, 2012
6:51 pm
Fl Jacket — I saw waaaaaayyy too many games lost during the Shula yrs that should not have been lost.
Bama’s fringe fan-base was to blame for Dubose.
We just had to have a BAMA man. We coulda had Beamer or Butch Davis, instead We chose DuBose b/c Tu-freakin-lane was showing interest in him!!
Francionne had 2 respectable yrs, 1 really good year.
Shula was a bad hire, I don’t care what the circumstances were — the Guy didn’t belong on the Sidelines.
FL Jacket
April 26th, 2012
6:53 pm
BC75…
Being a Dolphins fan…I’ll always hate Saban for what he did to the Dolphins and for what Bama did to Mike Shula. But business is business right?
WnE
April 26th, 2012
6:56 pm
re:
FL Jacket
April 26th, 2012
6:37 pm
Obviously WnE didn’t read the story of Anthony Jennings, who’s dad played at uGA. He’s not going to be playing at uGA yet there’s no fuss…
____________
Different situation!
Jenning’s father is not indifferent to UGa.
UGA is only giving out ONE QB scholly for this class and the kid from Camden co. committed a LONG TIME AGO.
Jennings, the son said he understood that UGA was only taking one QB, his situation is different because Jennings’ father never told CMR, “I want my son to go somewhere other than UGA because I want him to have well rounded college experience”.
Carl Lawson Sr. told CPJ that to his face.
Weak reply.
Big Crimson 75
April 26th, 2012
6:57 pm
business is business & Shula deserved the axe.
5150 UOAD
April 26th, 2012
7:00 pm
WnE
WnE
WnE
Shut the F UP
Man the F Up
&
Show the F Up.
5150 UOAD
April 26th, 2012
7:02 pm
Bi Cri 75 I know B Curry didn’t beat UGa while at Tech and didn’t beat Auburn while at Bama but don’t you think the fans were a LIL mean with their treatment of him?
BLT
April 26th, 2012
7:05 pm
WnE, how about “Summer’s Eve”?
5150 UOAD
April 26th, 2012
7:10 pm
SUMMER’S EVE? That is what WnE puts a dab of behind his ears.
5150 UOAD
April 26th, 2012
7:11 pm
for you guys that know High School players………
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i didnt know that WnE
April 26th, 2012
7:27 pm
stalked vad too? wtf maybe he was trying to get his man love paul johnson jealous.
hey weenie lover. it didnt work. now what?
back to ‘unsolicited’ evoking of your bbf paul’s name i guess.
too bad you dont practice what you preach.
Supersize that order, mutt
April 26th, 2012
7:30 pm
UOAD ????
Curry beat UGA twice while at Tech…..with John Dewberry, that JUCO transfrer from UGA.
Supersize that order, mutt
April 26th, 2012
7:33 pm
Well, I was gone for 45 minutes and WnE has STILL NOT SAID ANYTHING ABOUT RODDY JONES !!!
I guess if he subscribes to the mantra never to say anything at all if you don’t have anything good to say, which means that he doesn’t have anything good to say about Roddy. Except, of course, since he says bad things ALL THE TIME about Johnson and everybody else at Tech, that would mean that he is really just a chicken-sh!t azzhole. But then, I think we all already knew that. He has just verified it once again.
George Stein
April 26th, 2012
7:35 pm
“These Tech putzes are not your firends,”
Says the guy who was just telling us that he doesn’t engage in name-calling.
George Stein
April 26th, 2012
7:36 pm
“Carl Lawson Sr. told CPJ that to his face.”
Source?
Supersize that order, mutt
April 26th, 2012
7:37 pm
LOL @ George……..BINGO !!!!
Supersize that order, mutt
April 26th, 2012
7:39 pm
George, you’re asking WnE for FACTS. You should know better than to do that.
George Stein
April 26th, 2012
7:39 pm
It’s almost too easy, SS.
Supersize that order, mutt
April 26th, 2012
7:43 pm
Damn filters. What’ simple word now is being blocked?
George, it’s really SAD. I don’t think he has any idea just how silly his posts are.