Stanford-bound WR Tai-ler Jones says UGA was too late
Gainesville — A little more love might have kept Gainesville High School star Tai-ler Jones a little closer to home as he played his college ball.
The speedy receiver, who ranks as one of the state’s top junior prospects, ended the speculation about his future by choosing Stanford as his college choice during a Thursday afternoon press conference at the school in front of excited friends, family and coaches.
Jones, who boasts a 3.6 GPA and a robust 25 ACT score, chose the Cardinal from among his six finalists, including Georgia, Cal, UCLA, Notre Dame and North Carolina. He totaled 32 scholarship offers overall, including Georgia Tech.
The lifelong UGA fan he said he likely would have chosen the Bulldogs had they made a scholarship offer a little sooner. The Dogs became the 31st school to offer the 6-foot-1, 178-pounder when they did so in late March.
“In the end, their offer did come kind of late,” said Jones, who caught 81 passes for 989 yards and 12 touchdowns as a junior to help the Red Elephants go 12-1 and reach the Class AAA state quarterfinals.
“In my opinion, because it came so late, I wasn’t what they were looking for in a receiver. So I kind of checked them off and went with a school that really wanted me and really showed the love.”
Jones said Georgia coaches had told him a scholarship offer was forthcoming after his first game of the season last fall. Jones admitted being puzzled, however, even after his sparkling performance of eight receptions for 158 yards and a score in a win over Chestatee.
“I think if UGA had gotten in a little earlier, I think he probably would have been staying home,” said Andre Jones, the player’s father and a member of Notre Dame’s 1989 national championship team.
Jones becomes the school’s second blue-chip junior prospect to spurn the nearby Bulldogs despite the school being the alma mater of Georgia athletics director Damon Evans.
Georgia is 0-2 for Gainesville’s 2010 prospects with offers from the Bulldogs. Red Elephants quarterback Blake Sims has committed to Alabama. Neither of the players’ commitments will become binding until they sign national letters-of-intent next February.
Georgia’s latest loss, however, will be a big gain for the Cardinal, who compete in the Pac-10.
Red Elephants offensive coordinator Todd Wofford called Jones “probably the best route-runner in the country.”
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scott
April 16th, 2009
3:41 pm
The Cardinal!
scott
April 16th, 2009
3:41 pm
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Diamond Dawg
April 16th, 2009
3:49 pm
Must not care too much about playin big time football.
Dawgilama
April 16th, 2009
3:51 pm
WOW!! Patterson and Jones…???? Stanford has done a nice job of getting quality WR’s. I certainly can’t blame either kid for choosing Stanford…Good for them! Does Stanford have a decent QB?
Smart Kid
April 16th, 2009
3:52 pm
Hey John Hollis, way to keep up the highest journalistic standards we’ve come to expect from the esteemed pages of the AJC. It’s the Stanford Cardinal, not Cardinals. It’s not nit-picky, it’s just a fact. As to the Jones kid, good for him. It’s a great school and with that education in his back pocket, he will always land on his feet. However, it just drives home the fact that football isn’t that important to him. Stanford is the west coast equivalent of Duke when it comes to getting kids ready for the NFL. His chances of being a success in life have gone up dramatically, but his chances of getting paid to play football just took a nosedive. Probably a smart move overall for him. Congrats.
Dawgilama
April 16th, 2009
3:56 pm
Interesting Note:
The projected starting QB for Stanford is 6-4 225 lb. Andrew Luck from Houston, TX. He threw for 352 yds and 5 TD’s at their Spring Game.
Sounds like Jim Harbaugh has a pretty good thing going…..
JQ
April 16th, 2009
3:58 pm
“Smart Kid” you are not! The name is the singular. Only for a brief period, approimately ten years during the 70’s mainly, it was plural. Otherwise, it is singular and refers to the color, not the bird. Congrats to you for popping off without knowing “a fact”.
dawes
April 16th, 2009
4:01 pm
he much not have any class if he had he announce that he was going to georgia
RK
April 16th, 2009
4:12 pm
Former Atlantan, Stanford guy here. Stanford football’s on the rise from not that terrible a place. Ask Bills starting QB Trent Edwards or Rams star A.J. Otogwe how they feel about the ability to get guys in to the NFL. Hell, even their walk-on punter is now a receiver for the Dolphins (Greg Camarillo). Programs go up and down.
Aj
April 16th, 2009
4:18 pm
just read where he said that UGA was his first choice, but that they waited to long to offer and he had already made up his mind. He said that UGA was the school he followed growing up and always wanted to play there. the article is on totaluga.com, Let a good one get away!!
CardinalRules07
April 16th, 2009
4:23 pm
Anyone ever hear of a guy named John Elway? He’s Stanford class of 1983. Overall 1st round NFL AND MLB draft pick. If you’re good, you’re good, doesn’t matter where you go to school.
Luck to Patterson, TOUCHDOWN! Luck to Jones, TOUCHDOWN!!!!
got a great ring
JQ=DUMB
April 16th, 2009
4:28 pm
Hey – JQ, actually, Smart Kid had it correct. If you could go back and read, you will see that Smart Kid states “It’s the Stanford Cardinal, NOT Cardinal(S). thanks for being sharp!
Paddy
April 16th, 2009
4:29 pm
AJ..UGA waited too long??? It is April ‘09. There is no rush to sign now. He got the offer he wanted from UGA, his dream team, then chose Stanford. Don’t think we are getting the full story. Congrats to him. He is going to a great school.
The Voice of Reason
April 16th, 2009
4:30 pm
This is a good move for Tai-ler. Not only will he not be in his father’s shadow at Notre Dame but it allows him to establish himself as the character guy Goddell wants in the NFL.All of these football factories producing athletes with no character are about to see their use fall to the wayside. Not all NFL players come from the SEC, ACC, Big 10 or Big 12 and playing in one of those conferences does not guarantee placement in the NFL. If you can play it does not matter where you go. They will find you. Just ask Terrell Owens, Ben Rothlesberger, James Harrison, Brett Farve, Jerry Rice just to name a few non football factory players.Oh yeah did not ex-Falcon Bob Whitfield attend Stanford. Just asking for those who thinks the kid is really not worrying about making it to the next level.
2BT
April 16th, 2009
4:35 pm
Diamnond Mutt – 1980 is 29 seasons ago! But keep living in the past and slamming kids for not wanting to go get their asses kicked by the Florida’s, the Bama’s, the LSU’s, and the Ga Tech’s of the world (all of whom have won titles since 1980 by the way!)
UGA man
April 16th, 2009
4:39 pm
Wish him the very best but it is going to be tough with his head at Stanford and his heart at UGA. His intuition was probably correct though. He will do well and UGA will also.
Steve
April 16th, 2009
4:39 pm
Hate we lost him, but there more “fish in the sea”. The Dawgs are in trouble number wise, with only 11 schoarships to give with Durham being Rsh. because of injury. I’m sure Curran and Jones will come out early (Rsh Jrs. – so they will have been here 4 years), and we’ll probably have a couple leave for various reasons. Still, thats only 15 this year – so more great recruits for other schools. This does show however, that Richt and Co. are doing a great job keeping young men in school once they arrive on campus.
smartenoughtousewikipedia
April 16th, 2009
4:49 pm
On November 17, 1981, school President Donald Kennedy declared that the athletic teams be represented by the color Cardinal in its singular form.
It’s Cardinal. No plural. Ever.
Reggie Ball Fan 4 Life
April 16th, 2009
4:52 pm
2BT,
The only team LSU spanked from Georgia last year was the Jackets. Bama finally beat us again (first time since when?). GT dominated us with a 3 point victory (first win since when?). Florida owns us just like we own GT.
The “Georgia Tech’s” of the world are which teams? Teams that encourage chop blocks, play on blue turf fields in December, and what else? Oh yeah, these teams also give fans 4 hot dogs, 4 cokes, and 4 GT baseball caps just for coming to a game!
richard
April 16th, 2009
4:52 pm
He also said he is going to continue to take official visits to other schools, this story has far from ended. Stanford has already lost Young and Jefferson to simular situations.
The Ole Ball Coach
April 16th, 2009
4:56 pm
Congratulations to Tai-ler and Stanford ….Best wishes you will do well.
jaxdawg
April 16th, 2009
5:07 pm
He’ll be a dawg in the end. He’ll succumb to the pressure from the home state fans and follow his heart. If not, oh well, we’ve got plenty of talent in Athens!
eBuzz
April 16th, 2009
5:09 pm
Smart move. Values education, not that UGA hasn’t come a long way since the Kemp-Dooley years (except during the Harrick years).
rj
April 16th, 2009
5:14 pm
Shouldn’t the headline read ” he passes on playing for the school his father played for”. Anyway this kid says he has always loved UGA but they offered too late and he didn’t feel they wanted him that badly. My understanding is that he talked to UGA’s coach last nite so it sounds like UGAwas trying to convince him that he was in fact wanted. Whatever, trust me if you have always loved one particular school, UGA, UF, ALA, GT or whomever, if you get that offer you will go there. It sounds to me like he just didn”t get the “love” he felt he deserved or sought. It is time to quit treating these spoided brats like an entire University’s athletic program will fall apart if an unproven recruit does not pick that school. Let’s get some sanity back into this recruiting process. Let the kid go wherever he wants, but lets also hope he can be man enough to just say “this is where I want to go and that is it.”
Peter
April 16th, 2009
5:20 pm
HA HA HA………….
“Diamond Dawg Must not care too much about playin big time football.”
He must REALLY care about getting an excellent education……..He will make the NFL if he is talented enough, and if not…….. he just made a much better career choice !
Heck you didn’t even spell “playing” correctly……
yellowblood
April 16th, 2009
5:27 pm
I wanted him to go to ug@y so I could look at his firm butt…
aj
April 16th, 2009
5:43 pm
Paddy, I hear ya! I am just tellin you what I saw. I agree, if you get the offer you always wanted who cares when it came in 1st or 35th if that is your school then go!! I just hope that brown and charles are ready to play come fall that would be nice. But good luck to Mr. Jones at stanford i think he will do well.
Denver Dog
April 16th, 2009
6:11 pm
Not to belittle the player, but maybe he took the offer he had at the time. How does he have an offer when it is not even correct for him to have one yet? I hear that he would have had one considered one from Tech, but the person taking the offer to him got stuck on one of the outstanding traffic patterns designed by the North Avenue Vo Tech genuises. Most of whom life at home with parents and use computers in the basement of the parents home. Hence, they were number 36 or in other words not considered, AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope that the young man does well at Stanford. One good thing for him playing in the Pac 10, he will only see one real defense a year.
Denver Dog
April 16th, 2009
6:16 pm
Hey EBUZZ, you forgot to mention those outstanding scholars you had at Tech during the Cremins years, and the Ross years, and the O’leary years, oh yeah, there is a study in academic integrity. I think that Tech had a bigger academic fraud issue than that at Fla State. You just have the AJC to sweep it under the carpet. Maybe you can figure a way to make it go away with that slide rule on your belt, that beanie on your head, or the thumb stuck in your mouth. Call your mommy you might have an boo boo on you arm. Cry baby Cry
Hal Vernon
April 16th, 2009
6:37 pm
Why do you rednecks insist on being jerks when a kid decides to someplace other than UGa? Give the kid credit. He’s going to a school that is Top 10 in the nation from an educational (and most important) perspective and is on the upswing under Harbaugh. Why must you all be so shallow? Grow up.
SEC1
April 16th, 2009
6:37 pm
I respect his decision. He was obviously looking out west based on his choices. Stanford is an excellent school – best of luck to him…
Dan Halen
April 16th, 2009
7:01 pm
I’m takin’ my UGA diplomy right back to the library an’ puttin’ it back on the roll in stall 3 on the secont floor where I got it from!
Rebel Rouser
April 16th, 2009
7:15 pm
Deep down if he really wanted to be a Bulldawg…it wouldn’t have mattered when they offered….if he doesn’t bleed red and black from the get-go then he wasn’t meant to be at Georgia…he’ll get a good education and can spend the rest of his life on the left coast surrounded by free love, and bleeding heart liberals….
SugarHillDawg=Nerd Tormentor
April 16th, 2009
7:15 pm
Before Ramble On (Beavis) and M(Butthead) get on here and stink up this thread, I would just like to say I hope Tech has a successful Spring game and no player breaks a heel OR nail during the game!!
Reality Check..
April 16th, 2009
7:23 pm
Good luck Mr. Jones, You picked an excellant school.
Rick S
April 16th, 2009
8:04 pm
You have got to be kidding- Stanford? This kid must have had a brain cramp and has no desire to play big time College Football or NFL! Good luck pal!
BillWalsh
April 16th, 2009
8:23 pm
Stanford…the mightiest program in college football. This clown will get lost in the shuffle like a random Jones would. Not so sure you’ll have John Elway throwing to you…see ya.
Small time football gets players ready for the small time.
JP
April 16th, 2009
8:24 pm
Good Luck to him! UGAY fans are hilarous…and stupid!!!!
mcdawg
April 16th, 2009
8:37 pm
don’t blame the kid-have you ever been to Palo Alto? i would send my kids there-ND was the school that really lost out
theTruth
April 16th, 2009
8:41 pm
Good luck Mr. Jones, Stanford is one of the best schools in the country for academics and they are a rising football school as well.
tony
April 16th, 2009
8:56 pm
We will continue to lose our top recruits as long as Mark Richt keep mismanaging the team. These kids are smarter than what Richt thinks. They know he is a poor decision maker.
1. He should have replace Martinez long time ago. Our defense has been mediocre since VanGorder left.
2. He redshirt Knowshon Moreno knowing dawn well he was the best rb on the team.
3. He knew D.J Shockley had the strongest arm and was more mobile than David Green, but D.J gets benched. Then when D.J gets his shot, they wins the SEC with a mediocre defense.
4. He let’s his best ever QB(
Jacket Steve
April 16th, 2009
9:15 pm
Smart Kid, you’re obviously not very smart. Have you ever heard of Jim Plunkett and John Elway? Those are just a couple of Stanford players in the NFL. While Stanford isn’t a football powerhouse they do produce NFL talent. If this kid wants to play at the next level and has the skills, he’ll be just fine. Thank goodness for him that NFL scouts are much smarter than you.
FLDAWG
April 16th, 2009
9:24 pm
Congratulations young man, you made a good choice. I wish you the best…unless you play UGA at some point.
Tony, how do you take a player like Greene out. DJ was a great QB no doubt, but you don’t just yank Greene. Don’t forget Greene also won an SECCG. The situation with Greene and Shockley was much like that of Garrison Hearst and Terrel Davis. Hearst just kept putting up great numbers and Davis never really had a shot until he went to Denver. I can’t fault Richt for not starting DJ over Greene.
john '90
April 16th, 2009
9:29 pm
To all of you armchair critics, there is no mistake in the article posted at 3:31. Double check it. All references are “Cardinal” Aside from that, I wish the young man well. UGA will find the needed receivers. Grady College Grad.
Vandy
April 16th, 2009
9:30 pm
I respect his decision, Stanford is a darn fine school…..wish he could’ve been a dawg. I dont really get why he would be so offended if the coaches took their time with an offer….they DID offer a scholly afterall. But, I think it hurt his pride a little and maybe he wanted to get a shot in at CMR for not offering sooner.
Good luck at Stanford.
jarvis
April 16th, 2009
9:33 pm
tony sucks.
skilet
April 16th, 2009
9:36 pm
Typical! Why does UGA wait so long to offer these kids? How many life long Dawg fans did UGA loose last year because they offered too late?
Matt
April 16th, 2009
9:44 pm
Does it occur to anyone that UGA may have felt that they weren’t going to get this kid or they see a flaw in him somewhere? Or maybe they feel secure in who they already have? We can’t get every single kid who comes out of the Athens area. It’s not feasible.
Jethro Tull
April 16th, 2009
10:01 pm
Way to go dumba$$es!! (georgie)
Congrats Tai-ler!! Great engineering school you picked. Best wished to you in your CFB career.
Old man fan,
April 16th, 2009
10:04 pm
I love college football, but I stopped judgeing a university by how good the ball team is years ago. He’s gonna get a great education at Stanford.
dbc
April 16th, 2009
10:05 pm
Tony, are you really that illiterate? Give the kid credit for going for education and football combined. If he’s that good he’ll excel, not once, but again after his pro career is over.
gtforever
April 16th, 2009
10:11 pm
Great School! Smart kid! Good Luck!
Dawg92
April 16th, 2009
10:12 pm
Congrats to the kid and all but come on already. UGA offered in MARCH! Just how early does a team have to offer kids? No offense to the young man but he needs to realize that Coach Richt does it the RIGHT WAY. If you get an offer from Coach Richt, it will stick. Something that coach Meyer and coach Saban and coach Nutt can’t say. I respect the way Coach Richt does business and I think that when this young man grows up a little more, he will too.
BobDog
April 16th, 2009
10:13 pm
All the best to you Tai-ler. Stanford is a great school in a great part of the country.
bamabelle in ga
April 16th, 2009
10:16 pm
hey Reggie,
when was uga’s last nat’l championship. shut up.
Recruitnik
April 16th, 2009
10:16 pm
UGA screwed the pooch. Mark Richt really screwed up here and he knows it. He and Bobo tried so hard to convince tai-ler that they wanted him, but their actions showed otherwise. CMR you need to not be like larry coker. You can’t ignore your instate talent like you have done. I mean freaking gainesville, ga. You know the area CMR and so does Rodney Garner and so does Bobo. UGA should be embarrassed that two of the best players in the state that are less than 45 minutes away from athens are leaving the state. Shame on your CMR for being a fool in how you are dealing with our instate talent. This is a notice to all uga fans. CMR is losing the state due to a big failure of recognizing what we have in our state.
Dawg fans take a look at where we sit with our top instate talent:
Ogletree has uga #4. Mack Brown has uga #2. No offer for storm johnson (idiots), no offer for ambles (i know he is a bad guy and cmr and his holier than thou attitude can’t handle bad guys), garrison smith was a uga lean, but now he is thinking of heading out of state. TJ Stripling now has uf in the lead. Whitaker which everyone thought would be an early commitment is now looking out of state very hard. He may still end up in athens, but it will be more of a fight than it should have been. Da’rick Rogers has uf in the lead bigtime. Juwan James will be heading out of state as well. UGA will get a number of out of state talent and they have smaller numbers most likely in the 16 to 18 range for commits, but this poor instate performance this year reminds me of what happened 3 years ago when we lost all that top talent to gt and to out of state schools.
Saban is kicking CMR’s butt in georgia this year. Get used to it dawg fans.
Georgia Grad
April 16th, 2009
10:19 pm
Anyone who cares about UGA should read the book “Behind the Hedges.” Adams has fired all of the key administrators and replaced them with flunkies from the state legislature. Fundraising is way down, and Adams has played shell games with season tickets by raising minimum contributions and cutting student-ticket availability in half. Academics have suffered accordingly. The BOR has been stacked by Sonny Perdue in the same way Gene Talmadge stacked it 70 years ago. This kid is bright, and he is making a smart move. Hopefully, the next governor will clean house and restore some respectability to the University of Georgia.
Denver Dog
April 16th, 2009
10:21 pm
Hal Vernon what are you reading. The UGA people are wishing the guy good luck. Jacket Steve, you are doing a good job of referencing great players from the 60’s and 70’s. I realize they only teach “math skills” and Tech, but you would be more effective if you communicated those gentlemen as past Stanford and NFL greats.
If anyone wishes a kid going to play football bad luck, they have plenty of problems without worrying about the kid. I trust that there is a Tech blog, however, I have never gone looking for it, as I find the UGA blog the one for UGA people. Maybe there is not a Tech blog and that is why you goof ball or on this one. If I lived in Ga, I doubt that I would spend much time on this, but I’m 1800 miles away and this is how I get my information. So why don’t you guys go to your own blog and talk about your school. It is bad enough that the hillbillies from UT get on this. Even the Gator people have some class, but you Tech guys act like total social degenerates. Go home, if you have one
Baba O'Riley
April 16th, 2009
10:26 pm
I’m sure Tony Ball will try to sway this kid at the 11th hour by promising a jersey number letting him choose which game will be a blackout.
Eddie
April 16th, 2009
10:27 pm
Hey Matt—Why would you actually make a rational and sound statement on this blog? We made our decision as to when to offer and he mad his decision as to where to go. In all likelihood, the sun will still come up in the morning. Good luck young man and GO DAWGS!
hallcountyobserver
April 16th, 2009
10:33 pm
georgia probably didnt offer sooner because jones wasnt one of their top wr recruits. i saw jones play numerous times this past year and unless he gets a lot and i mean a lot stronger and physical he wont even get off the line of scrimmage against a big time db. dont look at his stats against the weaker competition. look at how little he did against flowery branch and in the playoff games.
Obama's Teleprompter
April 16th, 2009
10:34 pm
Tai-ler? What kind of name is that? Tyler is a gay name anyway but then you make it the hip-hop spelling? He’ll fit in with the rest of homos on the west coast.
Jimmy in Gainesville
April 16th, 2009
10:39 pm
Why is Georgia so slow in offers this year? Are they asleep? Is Willie Martinez now in charge of recruiting. IF Georgia had offered earlier … lots of recruits are saying this and will be saying this.
Georgia missed a winner here … to see him play is to see a true athlete. I’m real sorry we missed this one due to slowness. How many more are we going to lose?
BS Patrol
April 16th, 2009
10:39 pm
You doggies are not really trying to compare Ga to Stanford, are you? I doubt there are two players at Ga that could pass Stanford entry requirements. Kid made a smart decision.
Dawg92
April 16th, 2009
10:41 pm
Georgia grad and recruitnik are miserable human beings. CMR is a great coach and a better man than those douche bags will ever be. Folks like them make me want to puke. We really don’t need “fans” like you.
Tech sucks
April 16th, 2009
10:45 pm
Good luck to him.
It could be worse. He could have gone to Tech.
Congrats TJ
April 16th, 2009
11:08 pm
I want to give congrats to you TJ. You are making the right choice to attend a great school, but you made the wrong choice leaving a great HS. Good luck playing the weaker competition this year in AAA. The best competition you would have had this year would have been competing against two of the better receivers at your old school.
gp295
April 16th, 2009
11:14 pm
He choose the school that was a good fit for his talent, let it go. There are many talent kids in georgia.
SEADawg
April 16th, 2009
11:21 pm
Recruitnik:
You are so completely wrong that you are actually a parody. I particularly liked how you started out saying “We” and then said “get used to it Dawg fans” (excusing yourself from the group.
Look, id10t: Go look at the recruiting rankings. UGA has been top 10 for 7 of the 8 years that CMR has been here, so… you’re WRONG. Go read the articles on CFN.com about recruiting in the Southeast, and see how flattering they are to Richt about keeping in-state talent, and then admit that you are WRONG.
No, I peg you as either a bitter GT fan who is trying to sow the seeds of discontent among the fanbase, or one of those morons that think that because you sometimes buy tickets to a game, and you read a lot of articles about college football, you are somehow entitled to have your opinion respected the same as a guy who not only has been living and breathing college football for the past 35 years of his life, but also has managed to put up 6 of 8 ten win seasons in the most difficult conference in college football.
Guess what? (and this goes for all the fans who want to complain about Martinez, too.) SHUT UP AND GO AWAY. YOU ARE NOT SMARTER THAN THE PROFESSIONALS, REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU MIGHT THINK.
Real fans DO NOT WANT you to sully our names, ok? So shut up or go cheer for somebody else, you bandwagon jumpers.
As to Mr. Jones, congratulations on selecting an excellent academic school. While I disagree with you- I personally think that offering you while you are still in your junior year of high school can never be considered to be ‘late’- I think that is rather irrelevant. As a fellow Georgian, I wish you the most success in the Pac-10, and I will be cheering for you… that is, unless you happen to play UGA in a bowl!
Dawg1
April 16th, 2009
11:22 pm
Wish the kid well out at Stanford. It’s a fine school.
Could care less what the ‘haters’ think. Rather sad that they have no life, except to drop in, take their shots and leave. But… The one’s who claim to be Dawg Fans who ‘cry’ about losing a kid because UGA didn’t offer early enough. Your kidding right? This kid isn’t even in his Senior Year yet. Your the same one’s who were fretting that UGA wasn’t finishing strong and what happened? Picked up one of the Top Tight Ends in the countery, one of the Top Wide Receiver’s on Signing Day and one of the best Defensive End’s in the South East. UGA will be fine..
lamar
April 16th, 2009
11:48 pm
Have you guys noticed that some of the kids are going for low quality teams? It is because at a school like this they stand a better chance to get to play! I guess this kid did’nt want to take the hits that the SEC”S defenses put on receivers! At least he will play for a school that dont have any competition, THE PAC10?? GET REAL! A BUNCH OF WIMPS! GO DAWGS!
copper
April 16th, 2009
11:51 pm
lets see, uga was his favorite and would have chosen them had they offered earlier…i mean uga did offer and the kid hasn’t even finished his jr year of high school. Sounds more like this guy is making an excuse for not wanting to go to uga…if he really wanted to come to uga (he has an offer from them) he could have more than come.UGA can’t be the 1st to offer each and every kid that they offer…imo , he got an offer from uga and decided to go elsewhere. Stanford is a great school, hope he has a good time. UGA misses out on good football recruits every year, but they’ll find some that will want to come and play in athens and have a good time playing there.
Ted Striker
April 16th, 2009
11:57 pm
Stanford’s a fine choice. However recruits often change their minds, and I don’t blame UGA one bit for doing due diligence. If a player is serious about a school, he’ll be serious about it whether they offer him early or late. Peer. E. Odd.
Recruitnik
April 17th, 2009
12:09 am
seadawg,
you need to STFU and read a post. do me a favor and actually read my comment and refute what I said.. if you think that past recruiting classes means this year they will do fine instate then you have no clue.. guess what saban is kicking cmr’s rear in recruiting in the state of georgia and so will meyer THIS YEAR.. You want to read articles on the past go ahead, but I am focusing on the 2010 class and you need an education. So read my post, let it soak in from someone who knows something about recruiting which you have no dang clue about adn finally figure out what happened 3 years ago? You don’t remember.. do some research. CMR has done a bad job so far on our top instate recruits. You don’t believe it? Then you have your eyes close and your head in the umm sand….
I don't care
April 17th, 2009
1:03 am
Kid is a whiner! You get the scholly offer and say it’s to late. If it’s your dream school you would have waited till signing day to get the scholly.
dawg3fan4
April 17th, 2009
1:04 am
I want to wish this kid the best of luck playing for the Cardinal, go kick Southern Cal’s butt. As for Richt waiting to offer I would rather he wait and miss out on a player or two here and there then offer everyone who might be good real early and end up getting commits from guys that with a little more time to review our coaches decide are not the top guy they want. Richt has said many times he does not offer until he is certain. Once UGA offers and the player accepts Richt will not take away that offer if someone better comes along. This has worked out great for Richt in the past and I believe it will continue to work out. BTW with AJ Green and Marlon Brown (much higher rated than Tai-ler) I think we will be pretty good the next two years until Green turns pro and by then we will have a chance to bring in another big time WR.
Recruiting Skeptic
April 17th, 2009
1:24 am
Maybe Georgia didn’t offer earlier because their coaches didn’t think he was worth offering. He had to transfer from a AAAAA school to a AAA school that throws the ball a lot to get attention, and the numbers he put up were against inferior competition.
He was the No. 3 receiver at the school he left, and a senior ahead of him was not recruited by major schools. Either the coaches there completely missed on his talent, or maybe he’s not quite up to the hype he’s generated. He would not be the first high school prospect who was over-valued by the alleged talent experts.
From both academic and athletic standpoints, he is probably going to the right school.
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Recruiting Skeptic - Please Assist
April 17th, 2009
2:01 am
Do you know where the other 2 WR’s received their scholarship offers from for 2010? Tks. Your insider information is great..
LBS
April 17th, 2009
2:11 am
I hope he does well at Stanford and would have loved to see him in red and black. It seems like he misunderstands UGA’s commitment to the recruit. We don’t give offers to 20 different receivers and then only take the first 2. When we give an offer we are saying “we want you and no one else.” That’s real love.
LBS - Look Up Rivals ReCap
April 17th, 2009
2:22 am
Please check facts UGA offered 6-8 different WR and they will fill those three slots on a 1st come 1st serve basis. That’s not love, that’s business. College football is real business.
DanDawg
April 17th, 2009
6:41 am
Maybe the young man will wise up between now and signing day and realize he made a junior decision. Sorry, but that excuse about UGA offerring late is lame. Once you receive and Offer from UGA, you are a Dawg for life. I don’t know if Standford will hold if injured.
Crimson Crush
April 17th, 2009
6:42 am
LOL at Dawg fans who feel compelled to trash every kid that chooses to go somehwere other than Athens . Just a hint for you clueless bashers , Stanford as of late has been drawing better talent to their football program .
Any of you Jawja fans who are interested in learning how to use Google might want to see if you can find out the name of the talented Georgia WR who chose Stanford over the Dawgs and signed his LOI just this last FEBRUARY . Acting like this is something “new” , never heard of , and that Jones is some sort of idiot for not choosing to play for Richt is hilarious.
By the way , Coach Saban says thanks for the outstanding young men Georgia is sending to Tuscaloosa too . LOL
dawgfan1911
April 17th, 2009
7:04 am
I am very happy for this kid, however, he must understand that every college has a timeline as to when they offer players. I think Stanford fits him better and I must say that if Georgia didnt offer him early, he wasnt high on their list of receivers to recruit for next year. Everyone that has received an offer from Georgia is rated high on their needs and want list. This guy is no better than a Isreal Troup who looked great in high school. With that said, good luck to Mr. Jones.
lakerat
April 17th, 2009
7:11 am
What a bunch of crap – the kid hasn’t even played his senior year, and he says his offer was “too late” – just another self absorbed wanna be!
Not that I care, but he did make a good choice in Stanford for future reference AFTER football – maybe they will teach his parents how to spell (but what do you expect from a ND grad?) – Tai-ler???????
GeezusDawg
April 17th, 2009
7:20 am
He’s a high school junior and UGA waited too long???????
I guess we can expect offers to start rolling in to 8th graders in the not-too-distant future. Stanford is a great school and he should do well, but his excuse about timing is a bit ridiculous (IMO).
Bank Walker, Texas Ranger
April 17th, 2009
7:22 am
Congrats TJ, check the recruits that have come out of that region the past 2-3 years, Mr. Jones is getting all the competition he can handle. It’s not like he went to Buford.
DIAMOND DAWG
April 17th, 2009
7:25 am
If he really wanted to go to uga then what does it matter when they offered? Keep it real, he didn’t really wanna come in the first place. Stanford???????? lol Go get em buddy!!!
dawgfan
April 17th, 2009
7:39 am
Recruitnik – you should just focus on the 2020 class start scouting pee wee ball talent. You sound like a pro but you obvioulsy are a complete idiot. THIS year’s class just signed in Feb & Next year’s class will be the 2010 class. Games are played on the field and if you win at UGA consistently as CMR has & you’ll get your share of talent. The 2010 recruiting class will come down to how we well our coaches & players respond to last year. To say bama or anybody is kicking our ass in recruiting in April is a joke. As for Jones, I think his comments about UGA offering too late are b.s. – looking at the schools he was considering, it would appear that his real preference was a top “academic” school. It’s not like we broke his heart or anything. As we saw this past fall with these kids it all won’t play out until Nov/Dec anyway. The UGA offer is still there and if he really wants to follow his heart and come to UGA i am sure we’ll take him, but personally, when a H.S. jr says “UGA didn’t show me enough love”, I’d say good bye and hope you get a great education at Stanford.
Dawgs97
April 17th, 2009
7:46 am
Hard to bust on a kid for choosing Stanford, one of the best academic schools in the country. If he chooses say Tennessee, I’m going to make fun of him. And while Stanford may never collect the all around talent to truly compete for the Pac Ten Title or the National Title (maybe the Pac Ten one day, that’s about it), they’ve still put guys in the NFL.
No, I would have loved to have had an amazing scholar/athlete like Tai-ler at UGA, but this Georgia fan says we’ll be just fine and congrats to a kid who has the desire to go to a school the academic level of Stanford, where he’ll still have the chance to play for a BCS conference school.
Bank Walker, Texas Ranger
April 17th, 2009
7:48 am
Congrats TJ, judging from the signings out of that region, I’m sure Mr. Jones is getting all the competition he wants. Its not like he went to Buford. I miss those great in state recruiting battles……between Buford H.S. and Gainesville H.S.
david
April 17th, 2009
7:49 am
Show you the love? It is embarrassing to watch grown men have to kiss butt in order to get a kid to play football for them. Not just picking on Jones. We are placing these young kids on bigger than life pedestals and forcing college coaches to show “admiration”.
dap01
April 17th, 2009
7:55 am
Was there a deadline at Stanford? Was there a national signing day that UGA did not know about?
What is with the “show love”? What is with the Hyphen Name?
Cracker
April 17th, 2009
8:02 am
Stanford is a really good school. It is not like choosing between UGA and Tech. Stanford has chicks too. Good for him…
Mutts-R-Stupid-especially-journalism-majors
April 17th, 2009
8:17 am
Is the Stanford quarterback, Andrew Luck, the son of Oliver Luck, the former WVU quarterback? If I recall correctly, Oliver played for Houston in the NFL. He was a very smart person, earned a law degree and played in the NFL, so I suspect his son is pretty smart and athletic also.
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April 17th, 2009
8:18 am
Well he will certainly get a better education than he would have at UGA, but damn Stanford football isn’t exactly the place to get your name out there. Unless it’s “Tailer Jones was injured in a game vs. the thuggish playing style of USC”.
DBOY JONES
April 17th, 2009
8:26 am
To Bank Walker Texas Ranger,
Gainsville doesn’t play in a region filled with talent. 1st of all they are AAA and second they play in way N. GA. I seen his tapes and look at the little slow white boy CB(No offense to anyone)that he goes up against week end and week out! No comparision to Dekalb Co or Fulton Co or Clayton Co schools where alot of the Athletes play. He chose the right school in Stanford. Personally I don’t think he is all that good. Ambles is much better in my opinion.
Dawg Drool (BaseballVol13)
April 17th, 2009
8:29 am
Reggie Ball & ALL other puppies fans,
When has any other SEC team, no wait a minute! ANY fricking team in the COUNTRY, lost to Vandy and Kentucky in the SAME year?????
Artie
April 17th, 2009
8:39 am
Can’t say that he won’t get a better education at Stanford!!!
John13
April 17th, 2009
8:39 am
Stanford has been dedicated to upholding academic standards for acceptance even for athletes. A 3.6 usually isn’t good enough for getting into UGA.. I got news for you, a 25 ACT is NOT “robust”, but subpar for general students. I understand that athletes get in with under 1,000 on the SAT, but don’t insult the regular students that couldn’t get into UGA this year by giving credit when it isn’t due.
foxdog
April 17th, 2009
8:41 am
I wish him luck, but the “they didn’t offer me in time or show me love” is BS and lame as he!! and getting OLD. It is a year until signing day. And, “they didn’t show me the love” is a dumba$$ statement by a seemingly intelligent young man. They might like you, but your mama and daddy love you (I hope).