James johnson quits

getwrecked said:
That's a pathetic rationalization for a classless act. Sure, we all have feedback in our jobs, but not all of us have to listen to that feedback (from people who claim to be "supporters") in front of millions on TV. If you want to give them feedback, call them or send them an e-mail. Booing is merely a lazy, classless form of feedback that reflects poorly on the Institute that the person claims to "support".

Have I ever wanted to boo at a GT athletic event? So many times I have almost chewed my tongue off. But I have more respect for my school than to do it.
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Haha. Since when has our fanbase ever been classy? I seem to remember multiple incidents of trash being thrown on the field in recent memory, and a lot of people still supporting it even after the fact. I seem to remember one specific incident of a water bottle actually hitting the ref, and it becoming legend overnight.

EDIT: Coincidentally, that last post happened while I was typing this one. I rest my case.
 
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Ish said:
Booing is feedback. We all deal with feedback in our jobs, football coaches and players should deal with it too.
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18 year old kids that play to go to school and make our university money by doing so should not be getting booed, it is not the same as in your JOB that you get PAID for.

i dont understand why that is such a hard concept to grasp. boo at professional sports events, not amateur events, that is totally CLASSLESS in EVERY CASE
 
That's a pathetic rationalization for a classless act. Sure, we all have feedback in our jobs, but not all of us have to listen to that feedback (from people who claim to be "supporters") in front of millions on TV. If you want to give them feedback, call them or send them an e-mail. Booing is merely a lazy, classless form of feedback that reflects poorly on the Institute that the person claims to "support".

Have I ever wanted to boo at a GT athletic event? So many times I have almost chewed my tongue off. But I have more respect for my school than to do it.
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Please, spare me your righteousness. I don't care. Booing isn't the devil's work...and can you explain how the act of booing shows disrespect for the institution? I'd like to hear it considering it's basically your entire argument.

18 year old kids that play to go to school and make our university money by doing so should not be getting booed, it is not the same as in your JOB that you get PAID for.

i dont understand why that is such a hard concept to grasp. boo at professional sports events, not amateur events, that is totally CLASSLESS in EVERY CASE
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If I recall correctly this whole topic started because someone mentioned James Johnson getting upset that people were booing HIS PROFESSIONALLY PAID COACH. What's the big freaking deal?

anyway, "18 year old kid" is an oxymoron, right? Most of the "kids" are in their early 20s when they play college ball. Let's not make it sound like people booing college football players is akin to booing little league football. Please.
 
BuzzCzar said:
18 year old kids that play to go to school and make our university money by doing so should not be getting booed, it is not the same as in your JOB that you get PAID for.

i dont understand why that is such a hard concept to grasp. boo at professional sports events, not amateur events, that is totally CLASSLESS in EVERY CASE
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A bunch of my friends got below a 3.0, and the state of Georgia took away their scholarships. I'm sure they would have preferred to just have been berated by their parents and peers.
 
gth816f said:
A bunch of my friends got below a 3.0, and the state of Georgia took away their scholarships. I'm sure they would have preferred to just have been berated by their parents and peers.
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but the football players give and give and give, and they don't get anything in return! I mean besides a college diploma from one of the finest universities in the nation, but who wants that?
 
gth816f said:
A bunch of my friends got below a 3.0, and the state of Georgia took away their scholarships. I'm sure they would have preferred to just have been berated by their parents and peers.
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Ha good point! And lets not forget that they are getting "paid" in the form of a free ride at the 8th best public university in the country!

Booing is bad, but I will admit, I took great pleasure in booing Suggs (or Gailey for playing him) back in the day. It wasn't his fault he sucked so bad, but God, he was painful as hell to watch!
 
If booing is the fans way of giving feedback to the team. Then consider JJ's comments on it as feedback to whatever fans were doing it to get a life, grow up, and quit being an imbecile. And, consider that my message of feeback as well. You're right, people in the public arena have to deal with it. Well, then moronic fans that do it should just learn to deal with it too when a player calls them out for it.
 
Jacket59 said:
If booing is the fans way of giving feedback to the team. Then consider JJ's comments on it as feedback to whatever fans were doing it to get a life, grow up, and quit being an imbecile. And, consider that my message of feeback as well. You're right, people in the public arena have to deal with it. Well, then moronic fans that do it should just learn to deal with it too when a player calls them out for it.
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Maybe JJ should have been a little more concerned with catching footballs than worrying about why the fans are booing his millionaire football coach who just so happens to be steering the team to another 7 win season.
 
Next time you get the urge to boo think about the possibility of a recruit sitting in the stands and the affect it has on him and his parents It did not bode well for 2 GT recruits this year. both turned the page on GT. Booing a ref / bad call or the other team is one thing but booing your own team at the college level can never be good. Blue chip Recruits are very cognizant of the fan-base-personality / how many seats are empty at home games and empty tailgate parking lots. (send an email to Giff and ask him )

And for the dip **** that compared job critiques to 65,000 fans booing ... perahps your entire company should participate in your next review by verbally abusing you in one collective rally on the front steps of your companies HQ. Now that would be a fair comparison. Ah?

now blast away...
 
gth816f said:
A bunch of my friends got below a 3.0, and the state of Georgia took away their scholarships. I'm sure they would have preferred to just have been berated by their parents and peers.
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are your friend up at 6am sweating their A$$ off? are they running up and down steps and working out, and having their meals planned and traveling around when they might have to be studying?? your ignorant response doesnt apply to the situation at all!

btw, if these guys fall below eligibility then they also have consequences

and as far as a "free ride" that is the HOPE as long as you get a 3.0 - you are not required to do anything extra

the athletes HAVE TO do things to keep their scholarship besides studying, like busting their a$$ for hours a day, please reevaluate your statement

you guys act like its free, it is NOT, and we benefit for FREE from their efforts.
 
BarrelORum said:
Are you making a statement or is that a question?:laugher:
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Statement.

Assertion.


Matter of fact, I might bring a Dasani bottle to practice this Saturday. You know, just in case. Maybe gauge my range from the upper deck north.
 
BuzzCzar said:
are your friend up at 6am sweating their A$$ off? are they running up and down steps and working out, and having their meals planned and traveling around when they might have to be studying?? your ignorant response doesnt apply to the situation at all!

btw, if these guys fall below eligibility then they also have consequences

and as far as a "free ride" that is the HOPE as long as you get a 3.0 - you are not required to do anything extra

the athletes HAVE TO do things to keep their scholarship besides studying, like busting their a$$ for hours a day, please reevaluate your statement

you guys act like its free, it is NOT, and we benefit for FREE from their efforts.
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Well, all my friends with management majors kept their HOPE(EDIT: not trying to take a shot at MGT majors, but I can see your response now about how the athletes have to do the same thing, and it is simply not true when most of them are MGT majors). It's the engineers who tend to have the problems, and while it's a different type of work to be sure, they do bust their asses studying and working constantly, probably equal in hours to what the student athletes do tallying up practice/games/etc. I'm not trying to demean what our student athletes do at all, but to suggest that they are doing this all for free and getting nothing in return is, to quote you, an ignorant response. Go to the kids working two jobs just to afford tuition to a community college and ask them if they would want an athletic scholarship to Tech and see what they would say. Also I don't know what you mean by us benefiting for free from their efforts...if you have a way of obtaining free season tickets/parking or a way of circumventing the athletic fee, I'd love to hear about it(not that I would do that because I like to contribute to Tech).
 
gth816f said:
Well, all my friends with management majors kept their HOPE. It's the engineers who tend to have the problems, and while it's a different type of work to be sure, they do bust their asses studying and working constantly, probably equal in hours to what the student athletes do tallying up practice/games/etc. I'm not trying to demean what our student athletes do at all, but to suggest that they are doing this all for free and getting nothing in return is, to quote you, an ignorant response. Go to the kids working two jobs just to afford tuition to a community college and ask them if they would want an athletic scholarship to Tech and see what they would say. Also I don't know what you mean by us benefiting for free from their efforts...if you have a way of obtaining free season tickets/parking or a way of circumventing the athletic fee, I'd love to hear about it(not that I would do that because I like to contribute to Tech).
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so you are saying that the athletes dont have to study or do their coursework?? they do, they have to do it IN ADDITION to the other stuff. get it? and while FB players might be mostly mgt majors, that is not necessarily the case for the athletes that compete on other sports teams.

also, if you wish to stay home and watch on tv, that is free. also, the institute benefits while the money comes from the AA, so there is that too
 
GTatUSC said:
I think its presumptuous of many of you to assume he's weak at heart or mind for deciding not to come back. There could be a number of reasons for him choosing to do this and in my opinion is more of a testament to his character to do what he feels is best of him rather than being bullied by fans/coaches. Theres also the fact he chose not to transfer though he could of and decided to finish off as a Yellow Jacket. We're all part of this Institute, players or not, and I think its a fine choice by him to remain true to Tech and finish out his degree. We've all had a dream we gave up for more important life choices and it may be what he did here.
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Well said. :biggthumpup:
 
wreckingball said:
Next time you get the urge to boo think about the possibility of a recruit sitting in the stands and the affect it has on him and his parents It did not bode well for 2 GT recruits this year. both turned the page on GT. Booing a ref / bad call or the other team is one thing but booing your own team at the college level can never be good. Blue chip Recruits are very cognizant of the fan-base-personality / how many seats are empty at home games and empty tailgate parking lots. (send an email to Giff and ask him )

And for the dip **** that compared job critiques to 65,000 fans booing ... perahps your entire company should participate in your next review by verbally abusing you in one collective rally on the front steps of your companies HQ. Now that would be a fair comparison. Ah?

now blast away...
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Uh, if blue-chip recruits are cognizant of the fanbase's personality how do SEC schools get any of them? They boo, cuss, berate, send death threats, etc, etc...

By the way, when are you gonna man up and explain yourself. Not much more annoying than posters with an obvious axe to grind.
 
Jacket59 said:
Count me as one that thinks this is a major blow. I think James is the kind of guy you want. He's one of the Nate Curry types that works hard, represents the team well in the classroom and a lot of charitable functions, and is a big contributor (WHEN NOT INJURED). James was really good when he was healthy. He made a lot of catches over cornerbacks in traffic.
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All true.

I always thought JJ was an above average WR who was overshadowed by CJ. When CJ left, I expected a big year out of JJ and it never came. :dunno:

Good luck in the future JJ.
 
Wow, I mean this thread is almost too much. JJ was injury prone, and has tendonitis and decided to give up football. Hope he gets his degree but don't think we'll miss him much on the field, especially with his evident attitude towards the new offense. Other than that, people boo. I don't like it when college players are booed, but it happens. Not sure what the hell any of this has to do with grades though, except that it's Stingtalk.
 
wreckingball said:
Next time you get the urge to boo think about the possibility of a recruit sitting in the stands and the affect it has on him and his parents It did not bode well for 2 GT recruits this year. both turned the page on GT. Booing a ref / bad call or the other team is one thing but booing your own team at the college level can never be good. Blue chip Recruits are very cognizant of the fan-base-personality / how many seats are empty at home games and empty tailgate parking lots. (send an email to Giff and ask him )

And for the dip **** that compared job critiques to 65,000 fans booing ... perahps your entire company should participate in your next review by verbally abusing you in one collective rally on the front steps of your companies HQ. Now that would be a fair comparison. Ah?

now blast away...
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Good lord, you guys put way too much hostility in booing. LIke those who boo are renouncing their allegience to the Tech program.

It's not like when people boo they're saying "I hate you Georgia Tech football, which is embodied by the 85 scholarship athletes playing on the field! I hate your freaking guts!"

It's more like, "damn, this sucks. oh well, BOOOO". I mean, what do you want? People to clap? Applaud Chan Gailey on the jumbotron when we're getting our taints handed to us? Silently lament him? what?

If we're down by a couple of scores and show no heart: BOOO
don't even show up and play well in the first half in a meaningful game? Yeah, that's a boooo.
Your HC/OC shows the same vanilla offensive sets for 6 years in a row without changing? you know what's coming.

This is how sporting events work.
 
If you want to boo a ref, go ahead. If you want to boo the other team, go ahead. But booing your home team is just plain stupid. If you're upset with the lack of results on the field, stop showing up to the games.

Think about it this way. When you boo the team, these could be your classmates. These could be the kids of the alumni sitting two rows over. Yes, some of these kids are here as nothing more then a stop over to the pros. But most of these kids will never play a snap in the NFL. They play because they love a sport and they want to represent our school.

Yes, they get a free ride. If you could call it that. At this point, however, football season is closer to having a student job to pay for school. If these kids don't produce both on the field and in the classrooms, they could have their free ride gone.

I look at the team as my team, my personal team. I have learned, the hard way, not take the losses as personally as I did when in school. I would assume that I am nowhere near alone in this feeling. So booing the team, essentially, is booing myself. You can be cool with getting down on yourself. I would rather be supportive of the kids who play a game for our amusement and their education.
 
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