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Jeremiah Masoli and some sad Tech What-Ifs?


Just imagine. Your 20 years old, athletic, and the big man on campus playing college football for a top 25 BCS bowl team. What do you do with your talent? You go and throw it all away for a seamlessly stupid reason. It just happens. But it just drives me nuts when guys do this kind of thing. It makes me feel for these guys and wonder what will happen to them. I still wish despite never caring about Ohio State that Maurice Claurett would break through with an NFL football team even after he tried to beat the system and enter the draft as a true freshmen. The reason I care is because I feel its an injustice to the football world not to see what these guys really could accomplish with there talent. I would've really liked to have seen the kind of year that Jeremiah Masoli could've had this year at Oregon. But alas he has been kicked off the team for yet another attempt at burglary. Just thinking about it reminds me of some instances where this happened at Tech. So now here are two what-ifs for me just off the top of my head that I really feel could have changed the history of tech football. If you think of more leave them in comments.

Bryron Hanspard

Once upon a time there was an athletic running back named Byron Hanspard. God told him to go to Tech over the likes of schools such as Notre Dame and we rejoiced. He went on to have the best year any Tech running back ever had and was on his way for maybe an even better year. Unfortunately God told him not to go to school and he ended the year with a 0.0 gpa. Man I remember watching this guy play and just being amazed by all the talent.Great speed, great size, and he was in the perfect system to shine. What if he had just taken care of business and come back for 1 more year.

Robert Johnson

Introducing the Captains first big splash recruit! Robeeeeeeeeerrrrt Joooohhhhhnnnsooon! I still haven't forgotten all the excitement that this JUCO 5 star brought when he commited to Tech. Remember? Do you? This was supposed to be our Vince Young.(Actually at the time he was our Micheal Vick because Vince Young was terrible)Unfortunately he found his way on the Captains bad side and although he earned back that respect through hard work he never got to play the position he came to Tech to play. QUAR-TER- BACK. Sadly a lot of people didn't think he could do it. I still wish he could have. He was a gamer and a natural athlete. What if RJ9 had had just 1 season leading our vaunted air raid?

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