DE Wilford Journet

[Spydaman70507]

According to MagnoliaPreps.com DE Wilford Journet Has left Copiah-Lincoln C.C football team and has no plans to enroll at Auburn University

[NOCajun]

(Note to Coach Bustle and AD Walker): HINT HINT!!!

[CajunT]

_ According to MagnoliaPreps.com DE Wilford Journet Has left Copiah-Lincoln C.C football team and has no plans to enroll at Auburn University _

That is because he didn't have a chance in _______ to make into Auburn. My friend, you do have mandatory academic standards, and Wilford couldn't cut it in JC and he didn't graduate high school until summer of his senior year. He has no chance making into a four year institution. If he does, the NCAA should begin an investigation immediately!

[BrockMeaux]

_ That is because he didn't have a chance in _______ to make into Auburn. My friend, you do have mandatory academic standards, and Wilford couldn't cut it in JC and he didn't graduate high school until summer of his senior year. He has no chance making into a four year institution. If he does, the NCAA should begin an investigation immediately! _

Bingo.

[Hammer58]

_ That is because he didn't have a chance in _______ to make into Auburn. My friend, you do have mandatory academic standards, and Wilford couldn't cut it in JC and he didn't graduate high school until summer of his senior year. He has no chance making into a four year institution. If he does, the NCAA should begin an investigation immediately! _

When ar efolks around Lafayette gong to start holding these hish school coaches and principals accountable for the poor academic abilities of their stud athletes? While I believe it starts with the athlete and his family these coaches and principals are also complicit in allowing these obviously athletically talented but academically underachieving kids to continue to play ball and rack up victories all the while knowing they will not cut it at the D1A level if at all in college. This is not an isolated incident but an all too common trend in Lafayette. You may not be able to force a kid to learn but you sure can hold them to higher standards if they want to play ball or participate in any other extracurricular activity. Its time to hold the administrators and coaches accountable.

[Boomer]

_ That is because he didn't have a chance in _______ to make into Auburn. My friend, you do have mandatory academic standards, and Wilford couldn't cut it in JC and he didn't graduate high school until summer of his senior year. He has no chance making into a four year institution. If he does, the NCAA should begin an investigation immediately! _

Guess that means he starts for McNeese down the road!!!!! the all-Acadiana prop team!!!!

[Sonsissymia]

_ When ar efolks around Lafayette gong to start holding these hish school coaches and principals accountable for the poor academic abilities of their stud athletes? While I believe it starts with the athlete and his family these coaches and principals are also complicit in allowing these obviously athletically talented but academically underachieving kids to continue to play ball and rack up victories all the while knowing they will not cut it at the D1A level if at all in college. This is not an isolated incident but an all too common trend in Lafayette. You may not be able to force a kid to learn but you sure can hold them to higher standards if they want to play ball or participate in any other extracurricular activity. Its time to hold the administrators and coaches accountable. _

exactly.

[CajunShocker]

_ exactly. _

Exactly not.

If he couldn't cut it in the classroom, it is no one's fault but his own. Don't blame his high school football coach.

If people would start taking some accountability for their own failures and stop trying to find someone else to blame, our children would be better prepared for what life throws at them.

[CajunShocker]

_You may not be able to force a kid to learn but you sure can hold them to higher standards if they want to play ball or participate in any other extracurricular activity.

We do. That's why he is not an Auburn Tiger.

[RaginCajun77]

The problem is many of these high school students would do better if they were held accountable. If you care about playing football enough you will earn a 2.0 or a 2.25 GPA.

[Cowboy Up]

Guess that means he starts for McNeese down the road!!!!! the all-Acadiana prop team!!!!

You guys have a lot more problems with your own football program than to worry about ours. It has got to really hurt to get your collective butts constantly kicked by everybody you play - - including a bunch of academic underachievers that UL passed on!!

OOOH!! That's got to hurt.

[Hammer58]

_ Exactly not.

If he couldn't cut it in the classroom, it is no one's fault but his own. Don't blame his high school football coach.

If people would start taking some accountability for their own failures and stop trying to find someone else to blame, our children would be better prepared for what life throws at them. _

The individual is responsible. But the adults who know better also share some responsibility. This athletically gifted kid graduated from Acadiana yet could not meet the academic eligibility requirements to play D-1A ball. How then was he eligible to play high school ball? Something is wrong when we are passing kids and maintaining their eligibility to play high school ball but then when they graduate they are revealed to be lacking academically. Those teachers, coaches and administrators know the true academic status of that kid but somehow he gets grades just good enough to keep him on the playing field in high school. These adults are not doing this kid or any others like him any favors and the LHSAA is spineless for refusing to raise the standards and only requiring a 1.5 GPA to maintain eligibility.

The really sad thing is that this kid could really play ball. But that chapter is now probably closed for him. So what happens to him now? I wish him the best and hope he can make a good future for himself. But he is starting off behind the eight ball now that he can't rely on athleticism and apparently doesn't have a solid academic foundation to fall back on.