It says a lot about someone's character to bounce back from a mistake, especially someone at his age. We've all seen too many stories about kids in college or high school making mistakes and never trying to correct them. If Jerome gets his degree, he won't be one of them.
Well, he's no longer enrolled at UConn, so it will have to be from somewhere else. Words from Coach P, via Dez : http://courantblogs.com/uconn-footb...pasqualoni-addresses-jerome-junior-dismissal/ “Yeah, the message is that we have program policies, we have a very, very high level of expectation of our players in many areas and one of those areas is behavior – whether it be on campus, off campus, in the meeting room, on the practice field, at the game we’re not going to accept anything but appropriate behavior,” Pasqualoni said. “It was a violation, for me, it was a violation of what’s expected here in the football program and we can’t accept it.”
Nice to see that there are standards and expectations and if you don't live up to them, there are consequences.
Just saw this tweet...thought it was VERY interesting: Robert McClain (@bobbymac36) 2/16/12 2:39 PM “@desmondconner: UConn Coach Paul Pasqualoni Addresses Jerome Junior Dismissal bit.ly/wIAqsn”wow what happened now. I can't imagine Coach P's rules are any more strict than these guys had to follow under Edsall. In fact I actually thought from reading quotes in Dez's articles from P's first spring practice and last year that it was a slightly looser environment for these guys. I hope Jerome gets his degree as he stated earlier on twitter he wants to do.
Susan Herbst is an action oriented President demanding decisiveness from her troops. Don't discount the impact she has had in stressing that athletes adhere to a higher standard of academic performance and good character. She is lasered in on those issues and all the coaches are listening.
Any CT HS coaches here on the board care to get into what else if anything Coach P said? Matt Walker (@walkdesign) 2/16/12 5:21 PM @desmondconner Pasqualoni spoke to us CT coaches a few weeks ago and stressed eliminating "distractions" and kids who were a headache was #1
Like others have said, I hope Jerome follows through on his twitter post and gets his degree. Mistakes are made, big and small, the key is learning from them. As for the football impact, it is not a huge loss based on his performance last year. There is always the hope with another year of experience, he could have improved, but he had a lot of trouble in the passing game again. And he was not great in the run game either, took some poor angles and has trouble wrapping up.
Consequences, but I would like to think UConn is there for the kid's education. If it was serious let P state WTF happened. Let the kids know whats what. I don't think its a significant dent to the team, but JJ had his moments (consistency was an issue though)
I hate hearing things like this. Losing the football is one thing, but getting kicked out of school and losing your scholarship is another. Hope he is able to finish up somewhere and get a degree.
He didn't get kicked out of school.....I read it as they suspended him from the team and HE left the team/school
