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Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Cooking up some ball on The Flats
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Well, Sedric Griffin is not in South Carolina; he’s here. So that’s good.
Spring practice No. 6 is underway at Georgia Tech and Griffin, a linebacker as you probably best know of him, is participating. At the end of practice Monday, linebackers coach Brian Jean-Marie didn’t like something Sed had to say in a drill, and among other things told him he could return to his home state if he had any more to say.
Sed’s here, though.
So is Josh Nesbitt, although the quarterback is working with a yellow — not red — vest on over his practice gear. I don’t know for sure, but that likely means he’s off-limits for contact later. Check that. In 11-on-11 work later, with contact, the yellow jersey is off, and he’s fully engaged.
Other players wearing red vests, like A.J. Smith (elbow), Tyler Evans (shoulder), Cord Howard (right leg) are working on the side, whereas Nesbitt is out there with the rest of the players. Dunno what that yellow jersey was all about. We’ll see.
No sign — again — of WR James Johnson. Hmmm.
Jarrard Tarrant has been working at CB today in front of Mario Butler. Hmmm.
Greg Smith has gotten some work with the first string A-backs.
Talked to Jeremis Smith today. He’s not trying out for tight end. Somebody asked last week. He is, in fact, working out to get ready for what he hopes will be a prosperous pro basketball career. After graduating in a little more than four weeks, he’ll move to Portland for a month or more to work out with some sort of guru. No football for Jeremis.
While on the topic of other athletes/sports, it’s going to be interesting as coaching changes continue to see which players who’d already signed letters of intent to various schools are released, and where they end up.
Tech has one signee, Iman Shumpert, and coach Paul Hewitt wants to sign at least one more. He recruited G Ty Taylor very hard out of New Jersey before Taylor signed with Marquette. But Marquette lost coach Tom Crean yesterday to Indiana, and there is plenty of speculation that Taylor will request a release from his LOI.
If that happens, it’s just about a lock that Tech will resume its pursuit of the young man. Others, like the kids from Indiana who’ve requested releases, will be interesting to watch. We’ll see.
It’s a bit warmer out here than I anticipated. That’s what I get for paying attention to local weather forecasts.
Center Trey Dunmon appears to have over-heated, unless I’m missing my guess as to why he’s sitting in the shade in full gear with his head down.
David Brown looks like a heat casualty as well.
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