Georgia’s Jarvis Jones says he’s not considering an early exit for NFL
ATHENS – The Georgia Bulldogs received a lot of accolades following Saturday’s 24-20 win over Florida. Weekly awards and national recognition have been rolling in for individual player performances in the the game.
But probably the biggest treat as far news for Bulldogs fans is Jarvis Jones’ assurance on Monday that he plans on hanging in college for a good while longer.
Jones, who was named SEC Defensive Player of the Week, for his performance against the Gators, met with UGA beat reporters early Monday afternoon to discuss that and his recent nomination as a Butkus Award semifinalists. The Butkus annually goes to the player deemed to be the nation’s best linebacker.
As a redshirt sophomore — he sat out one season after transferring to Georgia from Southern Cal — Jones (6-foot-3, 241 pounds) is eligible to enter the 2012 NFL Draft. As was inevitable with the season he’s having, Jones was asked he was considering that option.
“Not at all,” he said without a moment’s hesitation. “I’m going to be here as long as I can. I mean, I love the university, I love the guys here, I love being in Athens. Most of all, school’s going to come first. And I love my coaches, too. Right now I don’t feel like I’m ready to play in the NFL anyway. I’ve still got a lot to learn.”
Jones looked pretty well-versed against the Gators this past Saturday. The outside linebacker and pass-rushing specialists recorded four sacks — the second-most in a single game in school history — five tackles overall and forced a fumble that Georgia recovered and led to an eventual touchdown.
In addition to the SEC award, which he shared with Arkansas’ Jerry Franklin, Jones’ performance also reaped him the Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the Week, the Rivals.com SEC Player of the Week and the College Football Performance Awards National Player of the Week honors.
“It’s been great,” Jones said. “I think I’ve dealt with it well. It was a big game and I expect it was for the rest of the guys around me. It was Florida and we hadn’t beaten them since ‘07. So we’re proud and walking around with our heads held high right now. But we’ve got to keep pushing and getting better every week.”
Jones now leads the SEC with eight sacks in eight games and is ranked fifth nationally. He helped anchor a defense that held the Gators to minus 19 yards rushing and a single offensive touchdown. In fact, Georgia’s defense has allowed just six touchdowns in the past 24 quarters.
Here’s a few other news and notes stemming from the Bulldogs’ victory in Jacksonville:
- Georgia senior left tackle Cordy Glenn was named the SEC’s Offensive Lineman of the Week. The 6-5, 348-pound native of Riverdale graded out at a team-best 82 percent with three “intimidation” blocks while starting his 41st consecutive game for the Bulldogs. A captain for the third straight contest, Glenn was a part of an offense that racked up 185 yards on the ground and 354 total yards as the Bulldogs have now scored 20 or more points in every game this season. Glenn also helped give quarterback Aaron Murray time to direct a comeback from a 17-3 early deficit. Georgia finished 3-for-3 on fourth down conversions in the game, scoring touchdowns on a pair of them.
- Also on Monday, senior cornerback Brandon Boykin was included among 15 semifinalists for the Jim Thorpe Award, which is given to the top defensive back in college football. The SEC has seven semifinalists on the list claimed the last two winners of the award (Eric Berry, Tennessee, 2009; Patrick Peterson, LSU, 2010). Georgia has never had a Thorpe winner. The award is named after history’s greatest all-around athlete, Jim Thorpe. Thorpe excelled as a running back, passer and kicker on the offensive side of the ball, but also stood out as a defensive back. A native of Fayetteville, Boykin has started in 32 career games, including the last 16 for the Bulldogs. For the year, he has recorded 31 tackles and his seven pass break-ups, 5.5 tackles for loss and two interceptions are all second on the team. Boykin has also totaled two quarterback hurries and a forced fumble this year, is the SEC’s active leader and fourth in conference history with 2,393 kickoff return yards (24.42 average) and has returned four punts for 43 yards this season.
- CBS is now considering the Georgia-Auburn game for its national broadcast on Nov. 12. The SEC’s primary television rights holder exercised its six-day option on Monday, meaning and it will wait until Sunday to decide what games it wants to televise the next weekend. CBS will choose between Georgia’s home game and Alabama at Mississippi State, Florida at South Carolina and Tennessee at Arkansas. The game could also be played on ESPN2 at 6 p.m. or ESPN at 7:45 p.m.
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ARdawg
November 1st, 2011
9:48 am
BurytheBone
They are some tricky buggers. Sometimes it takes quite an imagination to get your point across
bucket
November 1st, 2011
9:49 am
I hope Jarvis stays at least one more year even if he changes his mind after next year. I know the reason that a person goes to college is to get an education and/or job skill that enables them to make money to support themselves for the rest of their lives. Therefore, you can’t blame a guy who leaves early when they know they can make millions in the NFL. However, if you look back over the last several seasons, we have lost just enough of the early departures every year to really put us behind the 8 ball. Stafford and Moreno; Curran and Jones; Green and Houston. I am hearing that several of the NFL eligible players have made a pact to return next year. As a Dawg fan I hope that is true.
WDE
November 1st, 2011
9:49 am
Vince if playing Bama or LSU is for the SEC crown darn skippy I want a shot at them. If memory serves the last time we had LSU in the Dome they were heavily favored and we won….we can’t win a SEC title unless we get to play for it.
Vince
November 1st, 2011
9:51 am
I want us to win them all to–with a passion. I’m just afraid we don’t have the coaching to pull it off.
Mobile Dawg
November 1st, 2011
9:51 am
Lex, you need to call the blog police, Beast hasn’t lived up to the bet, at least on the posts I’ve seen. I do respect the Beast, but a bet is a bet. When you peel all the layers away from a man, his integrety is all he has left. Come on Beasteatenbyadawg, or whatever it was.
UGA Insider
November 1st, 2011
9:52 am
Good point Vince. The two teams I saw Saturday are not very good, either of them. UGA was just a little luckier.
Thomas Brown
November 1st, 2011
9:54 am
DISNEYdawgs.com take on LSU or Alabama
Not 1 win in entire Aaron Murray career over any ranked team today, or any team with a winning record today.
Not 1.
LSU or Alabama
DISNEYdawgs.com
Contractor
November 1st, 2011
9:55 am
This is exactly why I was so upset/mad when he chose Southern California over us out of high school. Watching tape and games on him I knew he was a beast of a player. It’s sad it took him getting hurt to get him back to Georgia, but I am so glad it all worked out to where he landed in our Linebacking Corps. He plays with an attitude and has the heart of a true Bulldog that gets the jb done. Proud to say he’s on our team and rooting for him very much to knock out the rest of the season and get on that Finalist list and win the Butkus Award. Keep up the awesome work Mr. Jones.
DawginLex
November 1st, 2011
10:01 am
So Thomas Brown doesn’t want to play big bad Bama or LSU because of his inane stats and drivel
Boy, you sure can tell the folks who never competed in athletics.
You’re dam right I want us to play them
I don’t care what anyone says, thinks blah blah blah
To be the best, you have to beat the best
You don’t know where you are or what you have until you play the best.
Losers quit and shy away from competition
DawginLex
November 1st, 2011
10:03 am
mobile
Technically, the bet is not over. It was a bet based on better record, not just head to head with florida.
WDE
November 1st, 2011
10:04 am
Vince I’ve watched Bama and LSU a good bit their talent level is greater across the board at most positions they are well coached, we would be at least two touchdown underdogs……I repeat want the chance to play one of them in the SEC title game….otherwise not till next year.
RedandBlackDawg
November 1st, 2011
10:10 am
Vince,
So what would be your choice. Do we just say, give the SEC championship to either LSU or Bama. and not even play the game. How about this scenario:
S.C. loses this weekend, and UGA beats, Auburn and Kentucky, and wins the SEC East.
LSU and Alabama play this weekend and of course one wins, but the winner has a key injury to an offensive player and it will have a direct affect on their ability to score points. UGA decides to play in the SEC championship, because they have earned the right to play in it. UGA plays and loses the game but shows they can play with the team, even in defeat. UGA actually rises in the polls and finishes out the season with a good bowl win, that catapults them in spirits and each player looks forward to next season, and will be much improved. Let’s even take out the injured star for the other team, and our defense has a great game, and the game ends close. Any DAWG fan would be satisfied with that scenario. The DAWGS will not feel any added pressure for this Championship game because, nobody expects them to win. Suppose the DAWGS keep the game close and respectful, or by something short of a miracle, given the fact that we are such a young team, actually win? Does that get them back on the national radar and help recruiting for the next year and probably a few years after that?
I am reminded of a saying, my Drill Instructor used to yell at us, in basic training. “Losers Never Win, and Winners Never Quit”. I for one, am darn proud of what this team of youngsters has accomplished. I have the time to sit around and pick apart every little thing I can find, that I would like to see improved, but unlike some others on here, I choose to accent the positive. These kids are playing hard, want to win and serve the support of DAWG fans. There will be time, to plug in some holes and solidify others after the season is over and recruiting becomes serious as signing day approaches. Right now, UGA does have a few problems, but has anybody noticed how, these DAWGS always seem to find a way to plug in another young body, and cover the injury, and if needed, replace an individual that is not performing as well as he should? This is a team, very much together, and playing like a team. They will establish a legacy for themselves, and in a few years, we will all be saying how great this young group of men played and look how far UGA is up in the food chain of football, in the SEC and country.
I think now is the time for all true UGA fans to get behind their team, and not be so darn critical. Some supposedly dedicated DAWG fans that comment in these blogs, can’t wait for each game to end, win or loss, to point out all the negative crap about the team, game and anything else they can. Me personally; I don’t give a darn about all of that, because I see improvement in this team each week. The DAWGS won, they performed pretty well in most areas, and they don’t need any of the negative commentators on these blogs to point out all of their little faults or supposedly faults. A “W” is just that in the record books and if it gives them a chance to play in a better bowl or in the SEC Championship game, either support your team, and if you can’t do that, change your allegiance and find a team you can.
GO DAWGS and GATA
CHDawg
November 1st, 2011
10:10 am
Looking back up the list makes me wish I had a dollar for every fake Georgia fan posting garbage on these blogs.
ARdawg
November 1st, 2011
10:14 am
Vince
We still are not very cohesive (or good) as a team. We started out very bad and sloppy and I had hoped to see progress as the year progressed, it hasn’t happened. The defense is no doubt much improved but, the offense is stagnant, special teams are worse. We still have time to improve but to answer your question H3LL yes, I want to see the Dawgs playing whomever in a SECCG. Bring it
gdawginkalamazoo
November 1st, 2011
10:18 am
Our program stunk last year. We played flat against Boise. Our O and special teams handed the game to SC. The way you start rebuilding is by winning the games that you are supposed to win. And get better doing it. Richt is doing that. Grantham is showing why he is getting paid the big bucks. If Bobo picks up his share of the load, and the Florida game showed a lot of promise on the play calling, then we are looking pretty good the rest of the year. I don’t care what SC does or doesn’t do now. All we can do is win the games that we play. If we don’t end up in the dome then that’s our own damn fault for screwing up against SC. If we do then great, we either win or lose can’t ask the kids for much more than getting back on track. Anybody can get beat on any given Saturday, that’s why you play the games.
Everybody does realize that we have major talent that will be coming back and coming in. We are a young team right now. I will gladly take 11-3 record this year. Sure as hell beats 6-7.
ARdawg
November 1st, 2011
10:26 am
zoo
Ain’t it the truff!
Predicting the Dawgs make it to the Dome is a stretch and predicting a win in the SECCG at this juncture would be wayyy out there. We just need to do what we can do and that is take down AU and KY, let the rest take care of itself. No matter who the West champ maybe, if the East champ is UGA, I don’t see our bunch backing down from any of them.
I wouldn’t be in the least embarrassed of the Dawgs made it. Afterall, you’d have to be pretty demm bad to outshine SC east in last years game for embarrassed
Mobile Dawg
November 1st, 2011
10:27 am
Most everyone would like to see the Dawgs in the SECCG, for the kids, for the program, for the coaches. But, and it’s a big but, have you ever heard the term “be careful what you wish for”, “sometimes unanswered prayers are the best”. This team isn’t ready to compete for Championships yet. Maybe it’s best if USC wins out, yes it’s disappointing but it might be for the best.
However, if we get there I would definitely be hoping for the best….Good day Dawgs, Mobile got to get some work done….
Mike Bobo
November 1st, 2011
10:30 am
Nerds would rather post garbage on UGA blog than actually break bread with their fellow pocket protectors on a blog discussing their own team.
Mobile Dawg
November 1st, 2011
10:30 am
Either way, you definitely are the odds on winner. Take care all, gotta go.
BurytheBone
November 1st, 2011
10:43 am
I say lets tee it up we have nothing to loose and everything to gain. CMR knows how to get his team to peak at the right time.And if we win. Then who should we fire/hire then Thomas “not” Brown? If our defense continue’s to get better and plays the way they are playing. All bets are off.
BurytheBone
November 1st, 2011
10:52 am
RIGHT ON RedandBlackDawg, I say win out and let the hair go with hide!!! Thanks to all the players who left everything on the field this weekend. I SAY ITS GREAT TO BE A GEORGIA BULLDAWG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ARdawg
November 1st, 2011
10:54 am
“IF” we made it to the SECCG, we could definitely compete. Win, maybe not so much but there aren’t many teams this year that can beat an LSU or Bama. They are that much better than the rest but, just appearing in the game would make a big difference in this young team next year
Evil Genius
November 1st, 2011
10:54 am
Shoot, I was sacked six times by Stanfill.
I have hated Georgia ever since.
Bless your Heart, Thomas Brown
November 1st, 2011
11:32 am
I really enjoy reading up on the Dawgs on the AJC and getting the latest news, but as for Thomas Brown, my god you are just depressing my man. Do us all a favor and root for somebody else. Your negative outlook is draining and exhausting. Just smile and enjoy life bro!
Mr. Krinkle
November 1st, 2011
11:38 am
JJ you are a DGD!
Where is that BEAST FROM THE EAST doucher?
Vandy is going to be the NAIL in the rear for your beloved CWM! Bad Hire
Mr. Krinkle
November 1st, 2011
11:40 am
Thomas Brown is TECH troll! Please do not stoke the fire!!!!
Alabama Dog
November 1st, 2011
12:04 pm
Hope he stays. We’re losing too many key players to the NFL before they’ve run out of eligibilty. If he stays, the Dawgs could truly have a great team, and perhaps challenge for something big! For the most part, the ones that leave early, are ready. It’s been terribly frustrating having these talented players, knowing they won’t stick around for 4 years.
Terry
November 1st, 2011
1:07 pm
Georgia would have just, as much chance at winning, against LSU, or Bama as they would losing, that’s the reason they play the game, we have one thing this year, we didn’t have last year, and that’s a Defense, if Georgia can get their special teams going, and our Offense clicking the sky’s the limit.
Dawg_Central
November 1st, 2011
2:27 pm
He might not thinking about the NFL right now……but after the season if the money comes…….he goes…….and i would’nt blame him a bit…..Go Dawgs !!
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damngooddawg!
November 1st, 2011
3:07 pm
Is anyone besides me tired of Scott Howard? He’s still doing color instead of broadcasting the play by play. And that screeching he does when he gets excited. Also I never thought I’d miss Loren’s sideline coverage, but Chuck D is a true simp. Sorry…..but that’s my take.
Driver 8
November 1st, 2011
3:09 pm
JJ was similarly low-key when he transferred to UGA and during the ensuing year. A former 5 star recruit who originally chose USC over UGA, I recall him saying that the limelight was unimportant to him and he simply wanted to spend the transfer year getting healthy, getting better and getting ready to play in 2011.
Sounded like a very mature guy then and sounds like that now. He carries himself quietly letting his on-field play do his talking for him. A huge talent and a great character guy as well. We were very fortunate that he decided transfer to UGA (Lil Kiffey may have given him a push). For that we should be grateful.
G-Dawg
November 1st, 2011
3:56 pm
Jones is prime example for GA HS kids being courted by all the prime time universities. USC was the sexy choice at the time, but not the right choice. I hope future UGA recruits look at his position. Jones came back home..and has shined all year!! Sometimes these current successful colleges like Bama, LSU, USC, etc…stockpile talent…and its possible to get buried in teh depth chart. Its important to look at schemes and depth chart when choosing a school. Just shows how a just a couple of key recruited playmakers can significantly change a program for the better!!
Gary
November 1st, 2011
5:29 pm
Finally a talented college player who recognizes there is a big difference between having a few big games in college and a pro career. I wish more of our players the last few years had recognized that and stuck around their senior year. I know Georgia would have benefitted from their leadership and the kids could have had another year to learn the game and improve their draft stock. There will always be the exceptions like AJ who everyone knew had the talent to play in the pros, even as a freshman, but that happens rarely. I guess some guys just really hate going to class is all I can figure. Thanks for making the smart decision, Jarvis. Damn good Dawg.
Chris
November 1st, 2011
5:46 pm
jarvis is now my favorite player. I already loved what he did on the field but a guy who wants to come back to school and admits he has more to learn has his head on strait. I love ya Jarvis!!! Keepin be a model for your teammates! and about Isaiah come on man you have so much talent and i love ur style of play (when ur on the field) we need you stop smoking dope. It cant be worth losing the chance to be an all american and 10 years pro. Just start hanging out with better people!!!
Typical Dawg
November 1st, 2011
7:21 pm
Yeah… right. My little niece is not considering an early exit for NFL either. Of course, she’s only in fourth grade. JJ is not a draft prospect on anybody’s radar. What a goofy article.
MountainDawg
November 4th, 2011
2:09 pm
Jones had a whale of a game vs. UF. If he can stay healthy, he should finish with 12-15 sacks. I’m hoping the Dawgs get an early lead & allow the 3rd & 4th string players to get some reps…helps to build depth.