OT: Josh Jackson (Va Tech)
Fred Jackson confirmed that his son's fate will be decided in the next few days. Although he is still currently on the team, Fred said that a decision is coming soon. Josh is wrapped up in some sort of academic scandal. Those that are close to it are saying that he will be shown the door. This will be a major blow to the Hokies as he is the third starter departing. 2 for academics and 1 major injury.
Fred’s gonna whoop his ass
It's gonna be the ass whooping of the century, only worse.
First time I met Coach Jackson he yelled at me for not t wearing a belt (it was early, I was in a rush), so yeah his reaction to cheating or fraud should be interesting.
He used to wear some killer cowboy boots though
It won't be pretty for Josh. I am sure you didn't do it again Dr.
I did not!
And beverages will be served?
What a waste. Sorry, but it can’t be THAT hard to stay eligible at Va. Tech or most other schools. Unless you are a Cardale Jones level moron, which I doubt here...
Not usually one to get in a way of a good joke, but didn't Cardale Jones get his degree? Regardless from where, that's Good on him.
Just shows how easy it is at certain schools
Yes, he did. My point exactly...
A young man got a degree from a big ten university. Good for him!
Josh has the study habits of a Cardale Jones, but faster.
Or even worse, Tate Forcier.
But faster never gets old
It ages well, but older
This one caught me at the right moment for a chuckle.
Here's the Gobbler Country article - LINK
There isn't information on the specific issue, but in the middle of the piece, an interesting assessment of what is known:
Look, there isn’t much to say on the particular situation that we can openly say just at the moment; but the buzz is not good. We will see how things shake out, but Virginia Tech is serious about certain things, and “academic issues” tend to be one of those “certain things”.
I know something else former coach Frank Beamer was serious about.
Something else Va Tech is serious about:
lulz "It's a marinade"
Something about his face tells me this "Marinade" is delicious!
he looks terrified.
Never, ever make me laugh that hard in a room full of strangers again.
Josh must have spent a little too much time hanging around the program during the Tate Forcier Era...
Man, you hate to see a kid waste talent like that. I know there is a MAJOR time commitment (almost no life outside football), but they have tutors and study groups. As a former student athlete in college (not Div. 1), I know coaches are monitoring things. According to his profile he's majoring in Psychology--which wouldn't seem extremely hard (as compared to engineering lets say).
You clearly did not study Psychology in college.
Ya, psychology is way harder. WTF was he thinking?
What a shame. Start making better decisions my friend.
A new QB on the transfer market, you say?
+1
Sidebar: Is up/down voting a thing on the new site yet? Or can I just not figure it out?
A fine question
Absolute value seems to have replaced up and down. Not sure if it is a feature or a bug.
Where is Brandon Peters???
I don't know EGJ - but your avatar is hotter than both those girls combined.
out of the picture, per usual
I really wish Michigan was still playing VT, would have been a fun home and home.
It's like the UNC academic scandal, but even faster and stronger.
FYI..
Bruce Feldman just tweeted that these reports are inaccurate.
Hope so, I used to live in Saline, so would love to see a Saline Hornet do well and graduate from Va. Tech.
Plus a lot of friends from the Air Force are Hokies and I would prefer for them to be happy rather than sad.
Good for Virgina Tech. Schools like UNC (and the whole South) tend not to have academic scandles because there are no academics and they are a bunch of cheaters. Va Tech is far enough North to have some ethics and enforce some academic standards. Sucks that JJ is caught up in it.
Your perception of VA Tech's academic quality is off by a fair bit. VA Tech might not even be in the top ten of southern schools. UNC, Duke, GA Tech, UVA, Vanderbilt...that's 5 schools that are much better academically and 4 are south of VT. Schools like NC State, Tennessee, Wake Forest, Miami and others are in the same ballpark and quite possibly better than VT as well. That's just off the top of my head. All of those schools but 1 (UVA) are further south than VT.
As for how clean the football program is, I think you're off there as well. VA tech only started cleaning up its act in the late 90s after hitting a pretty low bar. According to wiki, they had 22 football player arrests in 15 months in 1997. With that much bad press, they had to do something and they tightened things down...supposedly. Remember the Vick brothers? I doubt Mike was a saint who magically became a piece of excrement after he left Blacksburg. It took two years for Marcus to finally get permanently kicked off the team. Was academic cheating part of the Beamer era"? I don't know, but I think there is enough evidence to be skeptical of claims that the program was (or is) anything close to squeaky clean.
That's fair. In general the South should feel bad because of slavery, Jim Crow and overly tan guys who wear pink button down shirts and big rings from their hate groups. ...and their their football recruiting and academic standards are symptomatic of their general lack of morality. I'm just sayn'...
Wow. Those are massive generalization about the south. Did one of the pink button down shirt racists sleep with your fat ugly northern wife? Not trying to generalize an entire group of people, but ya know, I’m just sayn’...
The pink shirt bit was a generalization.
Oh, that wasn't ironic.
So you weren't being funny, just being an asshole. Got it.
He’s like Everett Golson, but younger.
I miss the old site. Am I still supposed to be getting the joke late-90’s Fab 5 site on my iPhone? Must be cached. I’m getting the new site on my iPad.
I'm seeing the same thing on my iphone as well as Chrome. Explorer works ok though.
Fred: "He is ____________ like ____________, but ___________".
It's the quote that keeps on giving the whole year!