SMU Should Offer John Stephen Jones a Preffered Walkon

mrydel · Post by **mrydel** » Fri Dec 08, 2017 6:17 pm

Chandler Morris is getting attention from Ohio State. Not sure if and offer had been made but the interest is there.

Stallion · Post by **Stallion** » Fri Dec 08, 2017 7:12 pm

Ohio St. actually got a commitment from Lake Travis' QB Mathew Baldwin-he ain't half as good as his predecessor Charlie Brewer but they got him up to almost a 4 star now.

Stallion · Post by **Stallion** » Fri Dec 08, 2017 8:26 pm

Highland Park v Mansfield Legacy on Ch. 21 7:30

tristatecoog · Post by **tristatecoog** » Fri Dec 08, 2017 11:30 pm

HP wins 37-35

ponyboy · Post by **ponyboy** » Sat Dec 09, 2017 12:15 am

It was Mansfield Lake Ridge. Great game.

smusic 00 · Post by **smusic 00** » Sat Dec 09, 2017 2:55 am

Mrydel, my understanding was that Jones had been offered a preferred walk-on spot. I do believe that will morph into a full scholly now that his grandad got their buddy the head gig, though.

mrydel · Post by **mrydel** » Sat Dec 09, 2017 7:44 am

smusic 00 wrote:Mrydel, my understanding was that Jones had been offered a preferred walk-on spot. I do believe that will morph into a full scholly now that his grandad got their buddy the head gig, though.

You could be right. My info comes from an uncle of a kid who goes to school with Chandler. Either the kid or the uncle could have said it wrong, but the uncle, who is a former UA tight end, was strongly sure that a full scholarship was there. My guess is the kid could get into UA either way and not have a lot of financial burden.

Post by **PonyPride** » Sat Dec 09, 2017 7:17 pm

Per his Twitter account, Jones had been offered by Arkansas.

PonySnob · Post by **PonySnob** » Sat Dec 09, 2017 7:21 pm

docabel · Post by **docabel** » Sun Dec 10, 2017 12:13 pm

PonyPride wrote:Per his Twitter account, Jones had been offered by Arkansas.

Morris came down after the game to offer the scholarship to JSJ. Starting to smell like Jerry had quite the influence on getting Morris to UA.

redpony · Post by **redpony** » Sun Dec 10, 2017 12:21 pm

who cares? I suspect he would have gone to arky with or without cm being there. at least he is rich enough to afford a good doctor to pull all the splinters out from his riding the pine while there.

mavsrage311 · Post by **mavsrage311** » Sun Dec 10, 2017 12:25 pm

docabel wrote:
PonyPride wrote:Per his Twitter account, Jones had been offered by Arkansas.

Morris came down after the game to offer the scholarship to JSJ. Starting to smell like Jerry had quite the influence on getting Morris to UA.

He definitely did. Jerry even commented on it (while pretending to give a rats @$$ about SMU)

Bergermeister · Post by **Bergermeister** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 7:33 pm

mrydel wrote:He has a full scholarship offer from Arkansas already.

That's quite a surprise! :wink:

Charleston Pony · Post by **Charleston Pony** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 7:55 pm

Not a bad use of a 'ship...kind of like when SMU offered both Bhop and his brother in hoops. In this case, Arkansas likes GrandDaddy's money so keep the man happy! Every school has it's share of scholarship players who never see the field. Doesn't really matter whether Jones ever earns any playing time. How many minutes did Ryan Hopkins play for SMU?

White Helmet · Post by **White Helmet** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 8:26 pm

It worked out well when we got that Williams kid in basketball. His granddaddy was helpful...