Class of 2018 OLB Ja'qurius (Jack) Smith (FL) Decommitted from Syracuse/To Purdue

[bnoro]

He intends on signing with su so unless hes academically ineligible id say good boom

He intends to sign with SU. But SU didn't send him papers. Soooooo...

 

[DoctorBombay]

More like no boom.

Well played.

 

[rackman18]

Wouldn't SU let him know that they were no longer interested in him and they were moving on?

 

[Whitey23]

Today's events give new meaning to this tweet. Maybe he is in denial. We've seen it before on signing days.

 

[SUforme]

Today's events gives new meaning to this tweet. Maybe he is in denial. We've seen it before on signing days.

Like last year with a certain RB who blamed everyone but himself.

 

[CuseLegacy]

Wouldn't SU let him know that they were no longer interested in him and they were moving on?

Not necessarily. Sometimes they just stop contact but the kid isn't wise enough figure it out.

 

[reedny]

He intends to sign with SU. But SU didn't send him papers. Soooooo...

could mean he's not academically qualified, not that we've moved on.

 

[dasher]

Not necessarily. Sometimes they just stop contact but the kid isn't wise enough figure it out.

Seems rather cowardly and unprofessional to me.

 

[bnoro]

could mean he's not academically qualified, not that we've moved on.

it could. just reading between the lines.

 

[CuseLegacy]

Seems rather cowardly and unprofessional to me.

I don't agree with it but it seems to be typical manner of backing off a commit.

 

[rackman18]

Seems rather cowardly and unprofessional to me.

I don't know how many times on here we say that sometimes these 17/18 year old kids don't know what's going on. So for a school to just stop communicating to me is just not right and disrespectful way of doing business.

 

[Finwad32]

I don't agree with it but it seems to be typical manner of backing off a commit.

I absolutely loathe the practice, and I don't know that it's being done here. But, industry standard is to cut off communication. I think it's disingenuous and cowardly, it's also what everybody does.

 

[longtimefan]

Wouldn't SU let him know that they were no longer interested in him and they were moving on?

Maybe the offer was contingent upon his taking care of academic matters? If the coaches let him know, and he hasn't handled his part of the bargain. . .

All conjecture, of course.

 

[dasher]

I don't agree with it but it seems to be typical manner of backing off a commit.

I don't care if it's typical. It's not the right way for a adult to act.

 

[Trueblue25]

He intends to sign with SU. But SU didn't send him papers. Soooooo...

Oh. I chose, subconsciously, not to read that way.

 

[Trueblue25]

I don't care if it's typical. It's not the right way for a adult to act.

Absolutely agree.

 

[PhatOrange]

Did he officially visit here? I don’t recall. That’s sort of a red flag. but I thought we had a coach at his school recently, like within the last two weeks. If we did I don’t think we cut off contact cold turkey.

 

[CuseLegacy]

Did he officially visit here? I don’t recall. That’s sort of a red flag. but I thought we had a coach at his school recently, like within the last two weeks. If we did I don’t think we cut off contact cold turkey.

Lewis was there on 12/8. That could have been an evaluation visit where they are checking out academics with his coach. But if his academics were an issue I would think his HS coach would have discussed that with him.

 

[PhatOrange]

Lewis was there on 12/8. That could have been an evaluation visit where they are checking out academics with his coach.

Yup That’s what I would think. If we were in school visiting on 12/8 this is academic related to not send him the papers.

 

[bnoro]

Did he officially visit here? I don’t recall. That’s sort of a red flag. but I thought we had a coach at his school recently, like within the last two weeks. If we did I don’t think we cut off contact cold turkey.

He did not OV.

 

[jgeorge322]

Jack smith has a 9 minute interview on two4seven done today.

 

[sdhall01]

Jack smith has a 9 minute interview on two4seven done today.

What's the summary?

 

[jgeorge322]

What's the summary?

Said he was 10000% to cuse. Plans to visit in january. Will sign in february. Handled it rather well. If he doesnt have a commitable offer though, someone should let him know...

 

[orangepassion]

I will say he did visit WKU in September and never visited Syracuse

 

[Trueblue25]

One of the cooler names in the group... would hate to lose him