The Monster of Rochester, Jarron Jones, is still being recruited hot and heavy by major programs despite his soft verbal to Penn State. A source tells The Fizz, it was Jarron’s parents who encouraged him to commit to PSU with hopes the media would leave their son alone. Jones never at any point chose Penn State and, as his coach tells us, still hasn’t made a decision. Did Jones actually make things tougher on himself?
High-profile recruiting is a crazy landscape. Media (including this site) and fans dissect the choices of teenagers trying to make important life decisions.¬†Consequently, the process can become a wild one for many high school student athletes. It’s completely understandable if a player’s family wanted to protect him from the onslaught of attention and daily queries.
For example, there was the almost-Orange man David “Boom” Perkins. The South Bend prospect was poised to commit to SU once he visited, but never made it up to CNY. Instead, Perkins wound up choosing Notre Dame as soon as he picked up an offer from the Irish. Boom chose ND despite having a tremendously strong relationship with the SU coaches and an almost non-existent one with the Irish.
Jones was never as close to choosing the Orange as Perkins, but his recruitment has also been equally tough to figure at times. If his family did advise him to give a soft verbal to Penn State simply to shut off the media, Team Jones may be rethinking that decision. Although Jones wasn’t doing so maliciously, his soft verbal may have created more of a media frenzy that he’d otherwise be dealing with.
Once media (and presumably coaches) caught onto the fact that Penn State had no more of a chance to get Jones than any other school, fans of other colleges in the running seemingly grew twice as excited about Jones than they would have been. Media began asking a flurry of questions again, the answers have been few and far between, and when they’ve come have just muddied the waters.
Based on recent reports, it‚Äôs all the way back to square one with Jones. Nobody knows where he‚Äôll wind up going to school, and the source tells The Fizz that‚Äôs because Jarron still doesn‚Äôt have much of an idea either. No one could blame him for indecision. He still has an entire senior football season to play, there’s plenty of factors at stake and an overwhelming amount of information being thrown at him.
An 18-year-old being bombarded with this questioning and having his head swimming is completely understandable. Had he just admitted he had no front-runner in the first place, he may have had an easier time narrowing down his school choice, and be actually dealing with less fan and media pressure than he is right now. Either way, here’s hoping Jones eventually makes a decision that is right for him and feels satisfied in doing it.
Posted: Andrew Kanell
9 responses to “Did Jarron Jones’ Soft Verbal to PSU Make Life Tougher On Himself?”
i think the best thing for the fizz would be to get dirt on the kid and his family
then just trash him and start talking bad about his family and their intentions.
I look forward to the article
That seems like an over simplification of the Ishaq situation, no? Thanks for reading as always big guy.
-DA
you just need to be prepared to jump. He gets close to announce and you have to be ready.
I am sure you are though.
Where the hell are the alumni football players. Dwight Freeney and Keith Bullock and Art Jones and some of the other NFL SU Grads… This Kid is awesome and would be such a great addition and is as good or better than Ishaq… GO SU
I hope SU and Doug pull out all the tricks they can to get this kid. I think him going to SU gets the program to the next level, and maybe even helps push them towards #15. 3-4 years of an animal DT, with Shafer’s attacking defense, kinda allows SU to take the same path VTech did to their best success: a top five defense leading to wins leading to offensive players going there leading to playing for the title. I think he more than anyone else they are recruiting could get SU towards Big East champions.
That said, I think SU has a tough selling job for him. Maybe he just wants to leave NY, which is understandable for a college bound kid. IE, I don’t understand why ASU doesn’t pick up every kid from Ohio-Penn-the Northeast who has any skill. That would be tough to turn down. Additionally, SU *has* to win this year to have a shot with this kid. 1-4-2-3-4-8 wins in the last six years equals what top schools get in two years. They need to show that last year was a step, and this year is another, despite the harder schedule and knowledge that SU is improving. Any slip at all and he’s not going to go to SU. I think everyone believes Marrone has SU on the right track, and even going 7-6 with this schedule, that’s still a positive given the trade of @USC for hosting Maine. Fans will understand that, the midlevel recruits will understand that, but a top level recruit won’t feel the same way, and would rather go to a more choice football program. I think that’s a risk with Jones. He might still choose to go somewhere else even if SU goes 9-3 and wins a bowl, but I’m pretty certain he will if SU doesn’t surpass last year’s result.
Kev
Fizz…. Why all these articles about Jones?Let this thing rest. Why no insight by the Fizz on Devin Fuller the 5 star QB from NJ with offers from Alabama, Florida, Notre Dame, who told Scout he was interested in SU but had not really heard much from the SU coaches.
This is the third or 4th 4 star recruit to say communication with the Cuse was an issue. You run 50 million articles on the same topics and subjects… count the Jarron Jones David Perkins articles.
I want to know what is up with the stated poor communication with these 4 star guys that everyone at the Fizz is lusting over.
There are 50 million angles that the fizz could be covering, but you are presenting a very small picture…. Why?
If you need some tips on some story lines, hit me up and I can clue you in on some of the 50 million that fizz followers might be interested in!
bill fuller isnt going to syracus either, but you are right.
would be nice to have articles about kids serioiusly considering syracuse.
instead were on the david perkins/jarron jones rotation.
If you gentlemen do not care for the material on the site then why do you continue to follow? I’m not trying to be rude or get into an argument with you, I guess I just don’t understand. Start your own website maybe? I think we end up landing this kid. I just have this gut feeling he comes here. We will see.
Buck,
constructive criticism is how you grow and get better. The fizz is good but not great. My hope is that it will be responsive to it’s followers and get more creative and informative in it’s reporting.
If you complain about your president or government is your suggestion then to run for office yourself?