Breaking: Jeremy Johnson Apparently Transferring To Baylor... UPDATE: Maybe Not

by Dr. Charley West on Aug 16, 2010 3:22 PM EDT in Mountaineer Football

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You never know with these situations, considering its an 18 year-old likely making a very rash decision, but those words sound pretty definitive.

We all understood that bringing in two very highly rated QBs was always going to be a juggling act, but there's no way a proper judgment can be made in only two weeks, neither by our coaches or Johnson. In interview after interview, Johnson praised the way the WVU coaches used Pat White, then immediately bolts as he's being used like Pat White. And speaking of White, while he did get minutes, he was clearly the #2 quarterback as a redshirt freshman. And I think we're all glad he stuck it out for that season and a half -- obviously, a lot longer than the two weeks Johnson has given his career at WVU.

Someone needs to teach recruits, if it's even possible at this point, that almost no one is an instant star. It takes years of hard work and perseverance, not running at the first sign of adversity. I guess Johnson didn't get that. Luckily, Pat White did.

UPDATE: OK, that didn't last long.

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Someone needs to explain to Jeremy the difference between being funny and being a jackass. At the same time, someone needs to explain to me the benefits of not taking an 18 year old's Facebook page as gospel.

Still, if a joke -- and I have a hard time believing that it was originally meant as such -- it was a very poor one.

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BTW, props to Boogie Allen's response.

by Dr. Charley West on Aug 16, 2010 3:26 PM EDT reply actions

And Boogie is a guy that can make the argument that he never never got a fair shake himself.

by The 25314 on Aug 16, 2010 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions

one of the "insiders" on BGN

said he wasn’t at practice today…leading credence

by WVUIE97 on Aug 16, 2010 3:33 PM EDT reply actions

from Caridi's Tweets:

Stew says freshman quaterback Jeremy Johnson is dealing with home sickness. Says he’ll advise in a day or two what will happen.

Stew says he’ll have older players talk with Johnson to help out. Says it’s not unusual for a freshman to be home sick.

Says Johnson was in the Puskar Center in the afternoon and did not practice.

by WVUIE97 on Aug 16, 2010 6:01 PM EDT up reply actions

The role of luck

Sure, Pat White hung in there through a year redshirting and part of another platooning with Adam Bednarik, but what if Bednarik hadn’t gone down in the 2005 UL game? Maybe Pat becomes the guy anyway, but not as quickly and not with the hero’s mandate he shared with Steve Slaton for leading The Comeback. If Pat weren’t the guy by season’s end, it’s easy to conceive him transferring to The Land of More Snaps.

I’m not comparing Jeremy Johnson to Pat White; instead, I’m enjoying how lucky the Mountaineers were that Pat’s career worked out how it did. Because of that, I’m finding it difficult to get worked up over the meager does of bad luck represented by Johnson’s apparent transfer.

by bicklefischerkane on Aug 16, 2010 3:58 PM EDT reply actions

2010 season-specific corollary:

It’s a little more imperative now that Geno stay alive; now just one true freshman separates these Mountaineers from the great quarterbacking beyond.

by bicklefischerkane on Aug 16, 2010 3:59 PM EDT up reply actions

Glad poor Coley can stay with the slot receivers.

by bicklefischerkane on Aug 16, 2010 4:30 PM EDT reply actions

the facebook was invented so college guys could creep on college girls, not so middle aged men could creep on college aged men. that’s what myspace was for. i don’t like the new paradigm.

by The 25314 on Aug 16, 2010 4:40 PM EDT reply actions

Well done

one of the funniest posts I’ve read in a long time.

by WVU-SC on Aug 16, 2010 6:23 PM EDT up reply actions

I like this kid.

I hope he has this kind of joking attitude for the 4 or 5 years he is at WVU. That will lead to lots of humor during press conferences and facebook postings.

Maybe he will also jump on twitter with some jokes.

Speaking of twitter follow me @5thyearseniorwv.

Leave no doubt tonight! Leave no doubt tonight! No doubt! They shouldn't of played the Old Gold'n Blue.

by 5th Year Senior on Aug 16, 2010 4:50 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

Are you serious?

You all are funny. You actually believe him? He writes on there that he is a Baylor Bear. Why would he mention a specific school? Then writes another post that he’s just teasin’? It’s called damage control.

Whoever this person is he is as good as gone.

by WVUColumbus on Aug 16, 2010 9:35 PM EDT reply actions