If Georgia Tech offers Atlanta RB this weekend, he ‘would commit’
Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson wants a RB in this year's class (AJC)
One of the Atlanta area’s top running backs will likely find out this weekend if Georgia Tech will offer a scholarship.
And if they do?
“If they offer me, I would commit,” said Miles Jones of Allatoona High School. “It would be like a dream to play football for Georgia Tech. It’s a great school for academics, and it’s close to home, so my friends and family would get to come to all the games.”
The 5-foot-10, 203-pound Jones will make an official visit to Georgia Tech this weekend. On Wednesday, Jones was visited at school by Brian Bohannon, who coaches Georgia Tech’s running backs.
“Coach Bohannon said that Georgia Tech really liked me,” Jones said. “He said he’s not the guy who will make the final decision about a scholarship offer; that would come from the head coach, Paul Johnson. I’ll get to spend some time with Coach Johnson this weekend, and I guess we’ll see what he says.
Loading ...“Coach Bohannon said that they want a running back in this recruiting class. He asked me if Coach Johnson offered me, what would I say? He told me to go ahead and think about that because they might want a quicker decision than normal because it’s getting late in the recruiting process. But yes … if they offer me, I would commit.”
Jones is waiting for his first offer after a breakout senior year at Allatoona, rushing for 2,142 yards and 30 touchdowns. He got a call from Maryland on Tuesday night, and also has serious interest from Middle Tennessee State and Elon, among others.
- The quarterback on Chattahoochee High School’s state championship team from last year has decided to transfer from Middle Tennessee State. Timmy Byerly, who was red-shirted this past season, told the AJC that he both requested and was granted a release from MTSU. “Overall, it was not a good fit for me,” Byerly said. The 6-foot, 216-pounder still wants to play QB and will enroll in another school in January. He will take an official visit to Georgetown next weekend, and also has interest in Villanova.
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slydog
December 1st, 2011
11:36 am
@Rodney Dangerfield
Your brain is as dead as that fat comedian you are trying to portray.
1. This argument is about talent, not character
2. Roddy Jones has been on campus 4 years; Crowell for 2 semesters, including a 9 week summer
3. Roddy Jones grew up in a two parent home in an upper middle class neighborhood. His biological father and his older brother (Air Force Academy) were in his face daily about taking advantage of opportunites. Crowell grew up in a situation that is exactly opposite. To top it all off, people glossed over his “insecurities” because he was talented.
4. If Crowell does not “mature” sometime between now and the start of next season, then I will pull my support, as far as football, but never as a human being. The mentality of “us vs them” or I will take this guy over that guy, shows you have a bias standard, if any.
DAWGMAN
December 1st, 2011
11:39 am
Wow, another good get for Tech. No wonder they can’t beat UGA
slydog
December 1st, 2011
11:41 am
Last I checked, accounting was accounting, finance was finance, calculus is calculus, marketing is marketing, statistics are statistics. The academic superiority issue doesn’t fly. Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are classified as drop-outs by the way. Does it really matter who is teaching the course if SACS has to approve the objectives?
tn jack
December 1st, 2011
11:43 am
Sly —- whoa there fella. You do sure seem to know an awful lot about college kids. Stalk much?
Karmer — you sound like my 6 year old little girl “Daddy, he took my toy first”. Grow a pair and grow up. I don’t ever look or care about anything to do with your school. I definitely don’t have the time to stalk and worry about what recruits you are getting, or really ours other than what I read on the AJC.
Diablo69
December 1st, 2011
11:52 am
This dude had me when he trucked that DB on the second clip. He looks like another Orwin Smith.
Rodney Dangerfield
December 1st, 2011
11:58 am
Never knew I would get so much flack for liking a guy that works hard, started a record amount of games at GA Tech and is currently working on their MBA over a kid that smokes weed, busses hedz, and is always injured in high school and college. I am willing to place a bet right now that Roddy Jones will gain more yards against UGA in his career than Crowell will gain against Tech in his career.
GTBob
December 1st, 2011
12:01 pm
Does it really matter who is teaching the course if SACS has to approve the objectives?
You are arguing that all teachers/professors are equal because the coursework is similar? Really?
Myallatoona
December 1st, 2011
12:07 pm
. If Crowell does not “mature” sometime between now and the start of next season, then I will pull my support, as far as football, but never as a human being. The mentality of “us vs them” or I will take this guy over that guy, shows you have a bias standard, if any.
You may want to just pull your support now. Crowell will not mature drugs have an affect on that.
slydog
December 1st, 2011
12:08 pm
@tn jack
Was that meant to be an insult? It’s called paying attention to detail. No twitter, no facebook, no recruiting service memberships. Between radio, television, newspapers, and blogs, it’s not hard to put two and two together. You have to teach yourself how to think critically. School does not do it for you. Thanks for insulting my intelligence.
tn jack
December 1st, 2011
12:12 pm
No problem slydog, glad I could help
So you can gather from reading a blog story about a kid from GT that he grew up in an affluent neighborhood and can make a relative comparison to one of your own players and his family’s status in life? Trust me, critical thinking isn’t a problem for me. Thanks for your concern!
collegefball
December 1st, 2011
12:12 pm
‘09 GT grad thanks.
And are you guys serious? Our “cake athlete major” (singluar) is a nationally recognized business management program. UGA’s “cake athlete majors” (plural) are sports management, african american studies, landscape architecture, and exercise/sport science. UGA literally has majors tailored to hide athletes. I’m not even saying it’s the wrong thing to do – it’s annoying losing to teams each year made up of kids who couldn’t last 2 years at Tech. I’m just saying there is a very logical reason UGA has a higher athlete grad rate than GT. And you’re kidding yourself if you think otherwise.
This also leads to the JuCo affect. Whens the last time you remember GT getting a JuCO transfer? I can’t remember a single one off the top of my head. That’s because it’s near impossible for them to be accepted into GT from a JuCo. Think about that when you have John Jenkins clogging up the middle of your defense for the next few years.
slydog
December 1st, 2011
12:17 pm
@GTBob
Yes, I am. How much harder is a subject or course, when the same books are written by colleagues and distributed by the same 2 or 3 publishers? The department heads, ruled by SACS, determine what is taught.Well, one professor may, and I mean may, deviate and make students do more home work or projects, but it’s still Calculus. It’s up to the student to go further into the subject matter. At the end of the day, a college or universities job is to produce well trained drones for corporations. We are comparing UGA to Tech, not Atlanta Metro College and Harvard.
slydog
December 1st, 2011
12:19 pm
@tn jack
Roddy Jones’ father and brother were interviewed twice in one day, about 3 months ago, on 790 the zone. Do I really need to justify this to you? Geez, stop being so picky. If you want to win, then you have it. You won.
slydog
December 1st, 2011
12:20 pm
@collegefball
If African American Studies is a cake major, then what is History?
tn jack
December 1st, 2011
12:23 pm
I do not live in the coverage range of 790 the zone (atl I am guessing? I live out of state), so I do not have the same background info to draw a comparison, and do not spend a lot of time researching the background of players. My apologies. I never said I wasn’t reasonable
Still, regardless of the background, you would think IC would appreciate the opportunity to get a good education at one of the best schools in the Southeast while working towards a potential NFL career, even more so than someone who grew up affluent.
slydog
December 1st, 2011
12:27 pm
@tn jack
I 100% concur. But too many times, we copy our environment instead leading our own lives. I’m giving him a year. Bad habits either die or consume you.
GIVE ME A BREAK
December 1st, 2011
12:27 pm
I’ll take Miles over a back that can’t get off of the bench. He’s a Yellow Jacket all the way, bring him in. ” GO JACKETS “
collegefball
December 1st, 2011
12:32 pm
@ JM doggy – to UGA and Richt’s credit, they don’t seem to follow the Bama’s, Auburn’s, and LSU’s in blatant oversigning.
@ Slydog – SERIOUSLY. I mean come on. Did you go to UGA? One of the schools (guess which one) was recently found to have the football team with the highest SAT scores in the country. Higher than Stanford, higher than Duke, higher than WF. Think about that for a second. So Tech has the highest test scores of any other team/school in the country, yet UGA has a higher grad rate. And you don’t think classes at Tech might be harder?
Dean’s List UGA – 3.5
Dean’s List GT – 3.1
Highest Honors for UGA grad – 3.9
Highest Honors for GT grad – 3.55
It’s simply harder to be accepted / stay in school / graduate at Tech. And it’s clearly not because the students/athletes are less intelligent. Unless that’s what you’re trying to claim?
http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/paper-trail/2008/12/30/athletes-show-huge-gaps-in-sat-scores
GATORS
December 1st, 2011
12:39 pm
You dawg fans seem to hop on every article on every school. Don’t you have an SEC championship to lose?
collegefball
December 1st, 2011
12:39 pm
Scratch that previous comment about SAT scores higher than Stanford/Duke/WF. Looks like it might only be public schools – not private (don’t give out that info) and I’m not sure which of those weer actually inlcuded. Here’s what it says though (actually an ajc article):
“Georgia Tech’s football players had the nation’s best average SAT score, 1028 of a possible 1600, and best average high school GPA, 3.39 of a possible 4.0 in the core curriculum. But Tech’s football players still scored 315 SAT points lower on average than their classmates.
At the University of Georgia, the average football SAT was 949, which is 239 points behind the average for an undergraduate student at Georgia — and 79 points behind Tech’s football average. The Bulldogs’ average high school GPA was 2.77, or 45th out of 53 teams for which football GPAs were available. Their SAT average ranked them 22nd.”
tn jack
December 1st, 2011
12:40 pm
collegefball fan, yeah, I think Richt has actually done an excellent job relative to his peers when it comes to oversigning in keep that number down.
sly, yep. I think sometimes it’s hard to get away from the demons that may have been present in your life. That is just as true for a college kid as it is for anyone.
arrogantdawgs
December 1st, 2011
12:44 pm
We should compare salaries between Tech and UGA grads. Almost always will the Tech grad come out on top. I’m not a fan of either school. These are just facts. UGA will always be second-class.
slydog
December 1st, 2011
12:59 pm
@collegefball
SAT scores? You get kudos for learning how to memorize and take a standardization test. You know as well as I know that SAT scores IS NOT a measure of intelligence or an accurate measure of who can complete college coursework. Is it harder to be accepted at GT? Probably, but not if you are a resident of Georgia ( the standard is lower). Who gets more applications for admissions? I’m willing to bet it’s UGA. So they have to be selective, right? It’s almost as if you are implying that any dummy can get into the flagship university. This is about football, not academics. CPJ or CMR could give a rat’s ….. if those players graduate or not. If CPJ could get certain players, the athletic association at GT would make certain it happened, unless he / she is just too far below the bar. UGA has denied football players admission based off academic records too, you know. And no, I am not going to Google the information just to prove it.
bitter dawgs fan
December 1st, 2011
1:07 pm
go tech he looks like a winner——-lissen dawg and bee fans the fight is with bamma and fla st
—not with each other except that last game each year.——–ps—-tide troll lives in a single wide
bitter dawgs fan
December 1st, 2011
1:09 pm
slydog—–and tide troll—— are room mates in tuscooloosa,they share a single wide and 10 cats
collegefball
December 1st, 2011
1:26 pm
You’re either blind or ignorant. You latch on to SATs and say they aren’t a measure of intelligence? Are we to believe that GPAs also are not an accurate measure of intelligence? Where again GT players were #1 with a 3.39 average GPA in HS while UGA players were #43 (out of 53 schools who published the info) with an average of 2.77. Are you trying to tell me that you can’t conclude from those numbers that GT football players are not more intelligent than UGA players?
The JuCo evidence alone is enough to prove my point without all the other info. Look at Auburn last season. They rented (and I mean rented) Cam Newton and Nick Fairley for one season from JuCo and suddenly turned into a national championship team. 8-5 in ‘09. 14-0 in ‘10. 7-5 in ‘11. JuCo players make a huge difference to college programs. And unless they took and passed the exact coursework needed for admission they can’t transfer into Tech. And let’s be honest, if you’re that good at football and are in a JuCo, it’s because you didn’t meet entrance requirements at a school the previous year and youre not concentrating on classes. I can look up the entrance requirements for JuCo transfers at Tech if you need me to, but trust me when I tell you it’s essentially impossible for us to accept one who’s planning on playing football. And look at UGA. John Jenkins is a BEAST. With our troubles at NT, he could single-handedly be the difference between an 8-4 and 10-2 season next year at GT. Jalen Fields (4* DE from ‘10), Jakar Hamilton (5* S from ‘10), and the 6′6″ WR whose name escapes me…Outlaw maybe? GT didn’t even have the oppurtunity to recreate these guys. UGA, Bama, Auburn, and UF and cherry pick them all they want b/c of joke admission standards for athletes.
collegefball
December 1st, 2011
1:29 pm
Ugh…
“recreate” = “recruit”
tough trying to work and post on here at the same time…
Al Bundy
December 1st, 2011
1:42 pm
This kid is good and will be a great pick for some school, but we have enough undersized running backs with average speed. We need some defensive linemen that can put pressure on a quarterback, a secondary who can tackle and a quarterback who can complete more than 40% of his passes not counting his interceptions.
Hoopster
December 1st, 2011
1:43 pm
This kid hasn’t gotten alot of pub because Allatoona has only played football for 2 or 3 seasons and not many D1 programs have seen it or the talent there.
Calhoun
December 1st, 2011
1:46 pm
Crowell is weak and plays like a p***y. I bet he never takes another hand off at UGA.
john
December 1st, 2011
2:25 pm
This blog has gotten out of control. He looks like he could be a good fit at A back with his elusiveness and speed. I don’t think he’s quite big enough to be a B back yet. I definitely like his fire and that he wants to be there. It’s really hard to tell which 18 year olds are going to pan out and for that matter its even hard to tell which college players are going to pan out in the NFL. It’s easy to get excited about recruits committing but lets let them get on the field before we judge their success.
gt4ever
December 1st, 2011
2:25 pm
WnE or whatever your name is…… Nobody recruited Eddie Lee Ivory but GT…. I think he worked out pretty good…. and there are many other examples of players that are not well known from the recruiting ranks that make a BIG impact on college football… So just stop talking about things you have no clue! The NFL is full of no name players, I mean, good grief guy get a GRIP!
john
December 1st, 2011
2:28 pm
I agree gt4ever Brent Grimes at Shippensburg, Jared Allen at Idaho State, Demarcus ware at Troy, Matt Forte at Tulane, The Burner Turner at Northern Illinois, the list goes on and on. How come UGA and GT never recruited any of them?
Gerald
December 1st, 2011
2:30 pm
GT needs to change their coaching staff. The guys from Navy, Notre Dame, and the ACC aren’t cutting it in recruiting – especially recruiting Georgia – when they are going up against all these SEC powers (plus Miami, Clemson and FSU). The idea of GT losing a 3 star tailback – their “top recruiting target” – to 6-6 N.C. State is laughable. Even George O’Leary recruited better than that. Bill Curry, Bobby Ross, and Chan Gailey recruited much better. And Al Groh … what’s he done? The defense is only slightly improved – going from atrocious to below average – and Groh has had no impact in recruiting.
Tech needs to shake up their coaching staff so they can get better players. See if Rodney Garner wants to come over and be DC/recruiting coordinator. The defense won’t get any worse, especially since they’ll have better athletes, and Garner will also get 4 star tailbacks and OLs on the Flats. Garner isn’t truly a Dawg anyway … he is an Auburn product. Plus UGA fans hate Garner and scapegoat him all the time (while never giving him credit for the team’s success). Bring Garner to GT where he can finally start back moving up the head coaching ladder and will be appreciated.
gt4ever
December 1st, 2011
2:34 pm
Exactly John…..
I personally don’t think CPJ and his coaches are doing a good job at recruiting…. Not because of how many stars, but how they are evaluating… We are not evaluating good enough to compete… Period!
4sure
December 1st, 2011
2:39 pm
Johnson needs to seriously look at the Byerly kid. AirForce and Navy wanted him last year, why he ended up at MTSU is a mystery but now GT has a second chance. Sounds like he actually wants an EDUCATION if he’s visiting Georgetown. Why not keep local smart football players in the STATE??
Gerald
December 1st, 2011
2:41 pm
gt4ever:
You are right about the stars. Virginia Tech really doesn’t land very many 4 and 5 star recruits, or at least they didn’t before joining the ACC and winning it every year. Oklahoma State: how many 4 and 5 star recruits do they have? Oregon … ditto. Spurrier is even winning at South Carolina in the SEC without very many big time recruits (fewer elite recruits than Clemson gets for instance). This staff just isn’t evaluating the recruits like previous Georgia Tech staffs – including Chan Gailey – did. If the ACC ever gets back to being as good as they were in the 1990s, when Bowden was at FSU, Mack Brown was at UNC, and Virginia was a lot better, I don’t see how CPJ is going to manage more than 7 or 8 wins a year at Tech.
john
December 1st, 2011
2:49 pm
Were never going to win the head to head recruiting battle with UGA. We’re going to have to find more diamonds in the rough. Maybe Miles Jones will fit the bill. Gerald, Spurrier did get Lattimore who was one of the top prospects and Clowney who was too so hes getting some names. I though Al Groh would be able to land us some big name defensive recruits though. Who knows, maybe he will.
Al Bundy
December 1st, 2011
2:53 pm
I think Gerald is right in more ways than one. VT, SC and others don’t get a lot of 4 and 5 star recruits but their staff is obviously better at finding those hidden gems than GT. I strongly agree GT needs some major changes in the coaching staff starting with defense and going all the way through recruiting.
GT FAN
December 1st, 2011
3:04 pm
Tech has 3 exceptions it can give in football every year. UGA has 10.
slydog
December 1st, 2011
3:04 pm
@bitter dawgs fan
The nerve of you trying to compare with tide roll. Stay out of this conversation. It didn’t involve you. Scroll back to the first page and then catch up. Otherwise, grow up and quit the name calling crap.
Now, back to you, collegefootballfan, you sir are ignorant and live in the”matrix.” Since you love Google so much, I’m sure you will find ample evidence that GPA’s and SAT scores DO NOT ACCURATELY MEASURE INTELLIGENCE or the ability to complete college coursework. Every academic professional and official in the world knows that. So to imply, based off a limited standardized test and GPA, that Tech players are “more” intelligent is, well, dumb. I can teach a chimpanzee how to memorize. High School subject matter and how to pass an SAT. Say it ain’t so? Who is more intelligent, a nuclear power engineer with 10 years experience or a farmer in Zimbabwe, who has been farming his entire life? How would the farmer score on the SAT? Does that make him stupid or, in your words, less intelligent than the engineer? If you can say yes to those questions, then the world you live in is not very bright and, frankly, biased and full of bigots.
slydog
December 1st, 2011
3:07 pm
Tech should have taught you that there is no such thing as smart or intelligent people, people are smart or intelligent at what they do. Just because you know Calculus and Forrest Griffin does MMA, does not mean you are smarter or more intelligent. Now get back to football talk and stop making yourself look silly.
john
December 1st, 2011
3:10 pm
I went to ESPNs class rankings and both USCe and VT have had a top 25 recruiting class every year except one since 2006.
GT FAN
December 1st, 2011
3:11 pm
Sly, why are you attcking so many people on here? Why are you taking it personal when he is just pointing out facts. They may be meaningless to you but to him they may mean something.
We all get it, that the DAWGS are the best team in the world and UGA is put on a pedistool by most of its fans.
Oh by the way GT’s recuiting class this year will be as good as Chan’s 07 class.
slydog
December 1st, 2011
3:23 pm
@GT FAN
First of all, if you check the blog, collegefootballfan wanted to pepper me with facts, not the other way around. No UGA is not the best team in the world. I’m not a part of the kool-aid drinker clan. CMR should have been fired and I still feel that way. Get your facts straight sir. If they mean a lot to him, then fine, but the personal insults were off base. Once again, the first volley shot by your fellow alum. So he’s pointing out facts, huh? Those are statistics, which can be interpreted many ways. Go GT. Like I said on PAGE 1, I am a Georgian first. Did you get those facts?
wrecked
December 1st, 2011
3:28 pm
GTFan, You are delirious, Tech top rated recruit is a 2 year project, will be typical PJ class with few if any d-1 caliber football players.
GT FAN
December 1st, 2011
3:30 pm
@SLY- I have read all the post on here and just thought I would stir the pot a bit. Take it easy. No reason to get upset.
GT FAN
December 1st, 2011
3:32 pm
@wrecked
I do seem to remember that NSD is still a long way off and teams still can sign recuits, right?
wrecked
December 1st, 2011
3:35 pm
Big time tech fan,You really can’t be serious. Orwin Smith would be on the depth chart and would play if there were injurues. For the rest too small to play at georgia, now Georgia southern would be a different story. Most of those you have listed should be playing 1-aa ball.
Crowell is heads and shoulders above anything Tech has on its depth chart. Best way to comapre gailey with PJ recruiting is to look at the number of all acc players each recruited. thus far Pj has recruited 3 in 4 years. Chan recruited many more.Tech is in big time trouble talent wise, if you didn;t see it vs UGA then you don’t watch the games.
GT FAN
December 1st, 2011
3:38 pm
@ wrecked,
I guess you are in the know and you rank all the recuits? Have you seen any of the play? Or you must be an NFL talent scout and just know who is D-1 and who is not! Help me out with this because I want to be in the know like you.