June Jones Ability to Evaluate Talent

Dwan · Post by **Dwan** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:08 pm

SMU was one of the first schools to offer Jessie Scroggins, a QB from the Los Angeles area. SMU offered him around March of 09 and at the time, he was considering SMU. It is now June and he has offers from Flordia, Tennessee, LSU, Washington, Colorado, Arizona State, Arizona and USC is close to offering him. He will probably end up being a 5 Star recruit with close to 30 offers.

BUS · Post by **BUS** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 4:59 am

The door is open so come on in.

JJ knows what he is doing.

Stallion · Post by **Stallion** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 9:46 am

except SMU was not the first to offer-Washington and WSU were the first plus Nebraska offered immediately thereafter. Probably the real reason he blewup around March 12 was that he was the MVP of a Scout camp in Las Vegas

Alaric · Post by **Alaric** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 2:16 pm

Stallion, I hope you pay closer attention than this in your law practice...

Dwan wrote:one of the first schools to offer Jessie Scroggins.

Dwan · Post by **Dwan** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 3:15 pm

we offered before UW....but that is not really the point

Stallion · Post by **Stallion** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 3:46 pm

Report dated March 12, 2009

"He already had an offer from Washington, but here in the past few days Washington State offered and then June Jones at SMU offered," Lakewood passing coordinator Anthony Tucker said. "Then on Wednesday, Nebraska came through with their official offer."

He was named MVP of the Scout Las Vegas 7 on 7 Tournament held on March 7-8, 2009

When interviewed at the Tournament by video he lists offers from about 5 schools not including SMU. Within a month of the Tournament he had a bushel of offers

http://recruiting.scout.com/2/846661.html

This Rivals site says Nebraska also offered before SMU so that would be 3 teams. The point is he blew up after being named MVP. Just like the WR Julian Wilson from Oklahoma after he ran a sub 4.4 at an Oklahoma camp. I'm not Nostradamus but I predicted Wilson would have 10 offers within 2 weeks after that showing. He did.
http://smu.rivals.com/content.asp?SID=1174&CID=933434

Charleston Pony · Post by **Charleston Pony** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 4:18 pm

I wouldn't use this guy as an example of Jones' ability to evaluate talent. I think the real test is in how many 2 star guys actually develop into legitimate D-I players...or 3 star guys turn into NFL talent. Let's hope he and his staff are better than all those who have come before them.

Corp · Post by **Corp** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:39 pm

Stallion wrote:Report dated March 12, 2009

"He already had an offer from Washington, but here in the past few days Washington State offered and then June Jones at SMU offered," Lakewood passing coordinator Anthony Tucker said. "Then on Wednesday, Nebraska came through with their official offer."

He was named MVP of the Scout Las Vegas 7 on 7 Tournament held on March 7-8, 2009

When interviewed at the Tournament by video he lists offers from about 5 schools not including SMU. Within a month of the Tournament he had a bushel of offers

http://recruiting.scout.com/2/846661.html

This Rivals site says Nebraska also offered before SMU so that would be 3 teams. The point is he blew up after being named MVP. Just like the WR Julian Wilson from Oklahoma after he ran a sub 4.4 at an Oklahoma camp. I'm not Nostradamus but I predicted Wilson would have 10 offers within 2 weeks after that showing. He did.
http://smu.rivals.com/content.asp?SID=1174&CID=933434

Point, Set and Match!

Insane_Pony_Posse · Post by **Insane_Pony_Posse** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:56 pm

Corp wrote:Point, Set and Match!

Not really....."a point"?.....yeah maybe.....the "match"?....hardly!

Dwan's first post said SMU was "one of the first schools to offer"
and that is in fact true....Dwan already stated that (whoever was 1st,
2nd, 3rd) wasn't his point anyway.

ALEX LIFESON · Post by **ALEX LIFESON** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:09 pm

For the life of me, I don't understand why someone would spend so much time and effort, to constantly discredit the team he says he is a fan of.

Stallion · Post by **Stallion** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 3:07 am

The point is that if you are waiting to reach SMU's goals of being Top 25 by June Jones finding Gold Chips in the pumkin patch that nobody else found then you are going to be disappointed. It boils down to SMU needs to outrecruit its competition and its rivals. Its great to be one of the first to offer a player but the bottom line is outrecruiting your competition for the top talent. When that starts happening expect SMU to have a chance at reaching its goals.

jtstang · Post by **jtstang** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:38 am

There is only one rival, TCU (and I'm not even sure they consider it a rivalry anymore--a true rivalry is after all a two way street), and how on earth are we going to out recruit TCU at this stage without winning first with lesser recruited players? Catch-22.

Dwan · Post by **Dwan** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:45 pm

man....tough crowd!

I was just saying that Jones was in early on one of the top players in the country and that is a sign that he knows talent. Not saying this is going to be the case with all of our recruits.

San Antonio Mustang · Post by **San Antonio Mustang** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 5:26 pm

I am on your side on this Dawn. I got your point.

mrydel · Post by **mrydel** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 5:43 pm

San Antonio Mustang wrote:I am on your side on this Dawn. I got your point.

Did that just Dwan on you?

June Jones Ability to Evaluate Talent

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