Alabama quarterback Jackson transferring to Georgia State
Quarterback Star Jackson is leaving Alabama for Georgia State.
It might be overstating things to say Georgia State just acquired the key weapon to defeat Alabama this season. But the fledgling football program probably just took a significant step forward.
Star Jackson, the Crimson Tide quarterback who had been considering transferring to the first-year Panthers, apparently has finalized plans to do just that. The Mobile (Ala.) Press-Register reported that Jackson was in Atlanta this weekend looking for an apartment and will enroll at Georgia State.
“He got his release [from Alabama] and everything,” Errick Lowe, Jackson’s former Lake Worth, Fla., high school, said.
Georgia State will start playing football this season. But because the school is not yet an official NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision team, Jackson is not required to sit out a season and can play immediately.
Easily the Panthers’ highest profile game next season will be in Tuscaloosa Nov. 20 against the defending BCS champion Crimson Tide. Georgia State’s coach, Bill Curry, is a former Alabama coach. One of his assistants, defensive backs coach Anthony Midget, was on the Lake Worth staff when Jackson played there.
Jackson, who played five games last season as a redshirt freshman, is leaving Alabama because of a lack of playing time. He was No. 3 on Alabama’s depth chart after spring football, behind Greg McElroy and A.J. McCarron. But No. 3 at Alabama could easily be No. 1 at Georgia State. The 6-3, 209-pound Jackson threw for 3,500 yards and 32 touchdowns in high school and was rated as the nation’s No. 11 quarterback, according to Scout.com.
Team-wise, he goes from the nation’s No. 1 team to one that has yet to play a game.
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English
June 1st, 2010
10:28 am
Think about the story line. “Alabama releases Star and loses National Championship bid in a loss to start up Georgia State.”
Not likely but it’s a reporters dream story.
Go State!
WRS
June 1st, 2010
10:29 am
Yo Dawg,
Thomas Darrah was a walk-on. Big deal if he transferred.
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tGSU
June 1st, 2010
10:36 am
I have said since the announcement of the GSU football program that the Pantehrs will have a highly competative program within 5 years. This is yet another step in the right direction. Georgia State and Atlanta have a lot to offer and with the ever growing talent base in GA, recruiting should not be a problem.
woooooooooo!
June 1st, 2010
10:47 am
Also wondering how the possibility of the Falcons getting a new stadium would affect State.
Bishop
June 1st, 2010
10:51 am
Just another step toward our invite to Conference USA.
SecIsFootball
June 1st, 2010
11:32 am
bill_in_atl….just another chance for someone to slander coach Saban. We have attrition just like every school. I guess you think we should keep players on athletic scholarship who can no longer contribute due to medical reasons huh? Oh…let me guess…they are fake injuries so he can get them off scholarship? I am pretty confident that will be your response. Those who take a medical hardship still get to continue their education for free. Those who can still play but wont play at BAMA are told they can transfer to where they can play if they would like. Seems pretty fair to me. Those who break team rules (see Robbie Green) are not tossed off the team unless it is a bad offense (see Jimmy Johns). I assume Saban is a jerk for letting them know up front that they are burried on the depth chart and should consider their options. Star Jackson was given a chance to change positions several times but chose to stay at QB. He is now given the opportunity to transfer where he will probably start immediately. A lot of SEC schools are oversigning but it is easy to pick on Saban since his practice has not put Alabama back on top.
TommyJack
June 1st, 2010
11:39 am
Pulling for GA ST to have a nice program…doubtful in 5 years…..Bama ought to be ashamed of this one. We all schedule cream puffs, but this one is over the top.
bill_in_atl
June 1st, 2010
11:56 am
A lot of SEC schools oversign. This is true. However, UGA is not one of them. Therefore as a fan of UGA I sort of have the right to criticize the practice, wouldn’t you say?
For what it’s worth as much as I can’t stand UF they don’t seem to oversign and force players out the door like Bama does. (As expected, Vandy is another who does not oversign.)
Not sure how you can call my comments slanderous considering they are all true and I’ve made it clear he isn’t doing anything illegal. You might want to open a dictionary once in a while.
I can see you don’t like to hear me enlighten others about these true facts. Why is that? And I’m still waiting on the names of all those walk-ons who got awarded scholarships this year.
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June 1st, 2010
1:07 pm
Go State! Couldn’t be more excited!!!
BAMA1
June 1st, 2010
1:32 pm
Yeah Bill in Atl.: The dawgs are just sooooooooo good in everything they do. Recruiting, I just give up man…………..if you are that damn dumb.
BAMA1
June 1st, 2010
1:34 pm
I guess the fact is Bill…………… more people just want to go to Bama, not UGA…therefore they are getting whatever they can. You know good and well you would like the talent level at Georgia to be as it IS IN ALABAMA. GOOF
Bammer 4 Life
June 1st, 2010
1:40 pm
tiger7_88 –
he was 3rd string you moron. He wants to play, cant blame him. Get a life you pathetic loser barner.
bill_in_atl
June 1st, 2010
1:47 pm
Since Mr. SecIsFootball failed to answer that last simple question I’ll answer it for him.
Wes Neighbors just got awarded a football scholarship two years after he signed with Bama out of high school. This kid had offers from LSU, Vandy and Tech, but he decided to sign with the Tide. That’s great, but then why are we talking about him? Maybe it’s because he got put on a “Bryant Scholarship” instead of a football scholarship so that he didn’t count against the limit of 85. Now that he’s practiced for 2 years with the team and he’s ready to contribute as a RS-Soph they are forced to move him from a Bryant to a football scholarship.
This is common practice at Bama. Does this sound like an unfair advantage to you? It should because it is. The NCAA needs to put an end to this kind of practice or they need to let everyone do it. Currently they don’t allow it anywhere else as far as I know.
Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE the idea of the Bryant Scholarship in terms of allowing a lot of kids attend Bama who may otherwise not have the chance, but it shouldn’t be manipulated by Saban (or any other football coach) for the purpose of gaining a competitive advantage, which is precisely what is taking place.
bill_in_atl
June 1st, 2010
1:50 pm
BAMA1, I’d like to thank you for illustrating what we’re dealing with. Well said.
Jeff
June 1st, 2010
1:52 pm
Realist you are a dumbass!!
woooooooooo!
June 1st, 2010
2:01 pm
‘Bama doesn’t have more talent than Georgia.
They’re just doing more with what they have.
Everyone knows that Saban inherited a bare cupboard.
Yes, the last two classes have been good, but there’s still half a roster of players who are being coached up beyond expectations.
You give Saban the Georgia roster and it would be obscene what he could do.
Scooter
June 1st, 2010
2:33 pm
bill_in_atl,
Perhaps your Dawgs should focus on doing a better job of recruiting their 25. They sure have done a crappy job of recruiting defensive players. They could have signed 50 a year, but if they were as bad as the ones they have, it would not have mattered. The unfair advantage comes when there are 10 other schools in the SEC that have coaches that are better at evaluating talent than UGA seems to be. If I cheered for them every Saturday, I would be as bitter as you seem to be. I feel for you. Better luck in the future!
bill_in_atl
June 1st, 2010
2:44 pm
And now Scooter arrives and dances around the subject. Well played Scooter!
Only problem is that your grasp of the facts seem to be slightly askew. CMR has a better track record than most in the SEC, so that game’s not working. Then regarding the comment about signing 50, that would be a violation of NCAA policy so that can’t happen. Finally regarding the poor evaluation of talent at UGA all I can say is that UGA has 31 NFL defensive players listed on rosters at the moment. That’s 10 more than Bama does and overall it’s 48-24 UGA.
The good news? You can always take another shot Scooter. It’s free! Have at it.
bill_in_atl
June 1st, 2010
2:44 pm
Meant to type 48-34 UGA fwiw.
Scooter
June 1st, 2010
2:56 pm
Well, Bill, I guess I would begin by pointing out UGA had trouble stopping every offense it faced the past two seasons. They then fired their defensive staff, except for the primary recruiter (good move!). I would then add that all SEC schools face a new policy reguarding over-signing. After that, I would look at the NFL numbers and single that out as a questionable argument, considering the fact that the one you are attacking (Coach Saban) has only been at Bama for 3 years. His players would not be in the NFL yet. I know that one was tough for you…More acomplished in 3 years than CMR has done in a decade. Now, you can take your shot. It is still free, and you can pull out more useless stats to defend your school and attack Coach Saban and his 2 BCS Championships.
bill_in_atl
June 1st, 2010
3:08 pm
Now we arrive to contradictions. You say UGA is no good at recruiting talent, but you praise UGA for keeping the guy that in charge of recruiting talent.
As to the SEC rule regarding oversigning, it limits to 28 in any one year but it does nothing to stop coaches like Saban from ending up with 95 players either returning on scholarship or signed where he MUST then find a way to get rid of 10 before August. Isn’t that true Scooter? (And that rule was due to the embarrassment of Nutt signing 37 at Ole Miss knowing that half couldn’t qualify and again had nothing to do with the real problem in question.)
And just wondering, are you a Saban fan or a Bama fan Scooter? Hard to tell considering your last comment. For the record CMR was 32-8 his first 3 years at UGA with 1 SECC, Saban was 33-8 (if you include several vacated wins that the NCAA stripped for cheating) with 1 SECC as well. Of course I give credit to Bama for also winning the MNC.
bill_in_atl
June 1st, 2010
3:10 pm
Oh.. and scooter… 28 x 4 = 112. And 112-85 = 27. (Thought I’d save you some time, although I may be making a mistake to assume you understand what those numbers mean.)
Scooter
June 1st, 2010
3:25 pm
Well, Billy the Kid, the comment about Rodney Garner was this thing called sarcasm. Obviously, it was way over your head…sorry about that…I’ll aim lower. I’ve been a Bama fan my whole life. I admired Coach Saban at Michigan State and LSU. I am a huge fan of his now. The vacated wins came as a result of a textbook system (and a poor one at that)that was in place long before Coach Saban arrived on campus. I dearly hope that Coach Saban’s best days are not behind us, and they appear to be for CMR. As for the math, I assume you arrived at 27 because you were figuring your IQ. I could be wrong. Perhaps it is the number of UGA players that would make the rosters of other SEC schools. Finally, might UGA consider having at least 86 or 87 on scholarship at the end of spring practice each season so, as they face attrition, they could enter a season with someone to snap the ball to? Another lesson to the rest of college football about great recruiting by UGA.
English
June 1st, 2010
3:31 pm
Go Georgia State! What’s up with the UGA talk here? This is between Alabama and GSU.
Go Panthers!
Yep
June 1st, 2010
3:35 pm
Isn’t Star Jackson that chick on “The View?”
bill_in_atl
June 1st, 2010
3:37 pm
Since you didn’t get it, 27 is the number that the SEC now allows its members to oversign in a 4-year period.
I notice still no response on the Bryant Scholarship situation. And no mention of all these actual walk-ons who won scholarships from Saban this year.
dawgfan
June 1st, 2010
4:06 pm
Early prediction:
Alabama 88 Georgia State 3
At the beginning of the 4th quarter, Bama takes volunteers from its student section to play the rest of the game, hence the late field goal by State.
Dawg
June 1st, 2010
6:36 pm
Yo WRS,
The big deal is that another school now gets him, and yes he was scouted and offered by other SEC schools as well as a few other smaller schools. He wanted to be at Alabama so bad that he decided to go and walk-on, and only after Alabama told him that he’d have a shot to play did he actually turn other offers down.
You make it seem that the kid sucked and just decided to play college football at Alabama. Again, the big deal is for a smaller school, JSU, to now get someone who worked in Saban’s system and can bring his experience there.
Clyde
June 1st, 2010
7:16 pm
I don’t think white Alabama fans wanted another Andrew Zow
The real GSU has 6 championships
June 1st, 2010
10:56 pm
She looks great since she had that lipo………..
Crash001
June 2nd, 2010
3:35 pm
Keep it real – it is racist why Star left. Scooter, I am a BAMA fan and played four years in the early 80’s and witness what Walter Lewis went through? He did not start until his senior season. Example – Walter would lead us down the field but when we got inside the ten yard line, he was always taken out of the game. What is that other than racist? Unless you want to tell me that Don Jacobs was better, than I would know you are clueless to Alabama football. All the African American QB’s you mention were better than who started in front of them. The school has only had four or five at best that played at UA. I can tell you four or five that were Mr. Alabama in football coming out high school, which played QB but was recruited to play some other position, “Jarmacus Russell, Chris Nickson, Larry Smith, Pat White and the kid at the Navy Academy”. Two of them are playing in the NFL at the position of QB. With the talent at Alabama at age 46, I can play QB but does that make me better?
All the facts
June 2nd, 2010
9:15 pm
Bill in ATL- I have enjoyed reading your comments about the Bryant Scholarships and their use at Bama. Just for fun, lets not argue that they exist and whether or not you are correct on thier use, but lets set the record straight that they are available only to the sons and daughters of those who played for Coach Bryant. That is a limited number of current college students. You conveniently did not mention the situation that UGA (and all Georgia schools) works with on the HOPE scholarship. Every sport on the UGA campus has the ability to recruit any athlete with a “B” average to a tuition paid scholarship that is not available to any other SEC school. This is a great advantage for the Georgia schools, much more so than the Bryant scholarship has ever been used at Bama. How convenient that you only provide the info that seems to support your point of view. You may consider checking your book of facts to see how many current UGA athletes are on the HOPE scholarship that allowed them to be in Athens. As a high school principal in Georgia and a lifelong Bama fan, I have experienced both. Good try and good luck to your Dawgs.
EagleDawg87
June 4th, 2010
5:10 pm
OK so Star Jackson is going to be a Panther. big deal, anybody heard anything out of Ryan Perrilloux at Jacksonville State ???What about Antonio Henton’s transfer to Ga Southern from Ohio State ? Last thing I heard he left Spring camp last year. Now Star may be one under the teflon dome , and bring some excitement to the new Panthers. Now a lot of good folks have come out of the wilderness west of the Georgia-Alabama Border. Two that come to mind immediately being Vince Dooley, and the great Erskine Russell (GATA !). So we’l see how this works out; anyway Go Eagles and Go Dawgs !
bill_in_atl
June 8th, 2010
4:14 pm
All the Facts, There is only one example I can think of where a kid “committed” to UGA and went on a Hope Scholarship. That’s Reuben Faloughi. He didn’t actually get offers from any other schools. He was a ZERO star guy on Scout and unlisted on Rivals.
He’s worked his tail off and is up to 2nd team now and guess what? He’s been awarded a football scholarship. You want to know why that’s possible? Because CMR doesn’t have 5 more kids he has to kick to the curb before August just to be in compliance.
You FAIL.
panama
July 6th, 2010
10:00 pm
It’s and exciting time to be a Panther. 58 Days away and countung folks.
http://www.panthertalk.com/forums/forum.php
panama
July 6th, 2010
10:00 pm
It’s and exciting time to be a Panther. 58 Days away and counting folks.
http://www.panthertalk.com/forums/forum.php